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...Japan's banks have been congratulating themselves for their recent turnaround, but critics say they should start concentrating on improving profit margins, not increasing their assets. As any bonsai artist will tell you, big is rarely beautiful...
...From the lavish grounds at Giverny (the former home of artist Claude Monet, some 75 km west of Paris) to the stately grandeur of England's Hampton Court (home of the world's oldest grapevine), ornamental gardens provide relief and refreshment for the tired, tourist soul. They've also been discovered by a new generation of fans. Increased awareness of the environment, plus a slew of popular gardening shows and coffee-table tomes in recent years mean that herbaceous borders and potting mix are as hotly debated by trendy young home-buyers as they are by seniors in straw-brimmed...
...along the lines of an exegesis. Tezuka has created a book that combines the excitement, plotting, and characterization of the best novels with the philosophy of the best spiritual essays and the beauty of the drawn arts. Among other themes, "Karma" manages to be about the role of the artist in society, the relationship between religious experience and human endeavors, the misuse of religion for the sake of power and the importance of trying to lead a moral life. Wisely putting the needs of good art before the needs of religious instruction, Tezuka avoids the didactical trap of American religious...
...artists in North Korea, self-expression is a dangerously foreign notion. Their mission is to toil as salaried functionaries in dictator Kim Jong Il's propaganda machine. They work in studios that turn out government-commissioned works in government-approved styles. The most famous studio is Mansudae in Pyongyang, a huge enterprise employing hundreds of artists, but studios are also maintained by regional and municipal authorities-and even the state railroad company. The artists work regular hours, are expected to produce a stipulated quota of works, and are sometimes enlisted in "speed-war" contests that test their ability to pump...
...separate pop culture and high art," she says. You can try all you like at "2004," but it won't get you any closer to working out if Brisbane painter Paul Wrigley's airbrushed Ashton, 2003-4, is smiling with or at the cult of celebrity. As Gold Coast artist Scott Redford likes to say (when not videotaping bikini-clad models sawing surfboards in half in a Palazzo Versace hotel suite): "I aim to adopt a strategy of immersion rather than critique. We are participants (in popular culture) rather than spectators...