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...Beijing's decision to have made this particular show the first to which it has lent pieces is probably no accident. Much of the lavish artwork produced under the Qing incorporated the varying artistic traditions of China's multicultural state, because the dynasty's Manchu rulers were hyper-conscious of their position as an ethnic minority and aware of the need to present a unified notion of what it meant to be Chinese. Emperor Yongzheng himself liked to be depicted in the garb of different ethnicities. There are portraits of him as a Tibetan lama, a Han scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Show at Taipei's National Palace Museum | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

SIGG's trendy aluminum water bottles have scored a lot of free advertising in recent years. In Touch Weekly raved about how Madonna's kids sipped from the lightweight, eco-conscious and super-cute bottles. Julia Roberts was photographed with one. Jennifer Garner was too. The Swiss brand became the must-have accessory as consumers rushed to find alternatives to plastic bottles that contained bisphenol-A (BPA), a controversial chemical used to harden plastics, which some studies have linked to diabetes, premature puberty in girls and reduced sperm count in men. SIGG's reusable aluminum bottles seemed the perfect antidote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Is Your SIGG Water Bottle? | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...blogosphere is full of people like me who hopped on board the environmental, health-conscious bandwagon, only to find out we were going in the wrong direction. "I'm feeling kind of like I did when I found out that John Edwards cheated on his wife," Kellie Sloan Brown wrote on her blog, GreenHab: The Browns Go Green. "It isn't the worst thing to ever happen in this world, but I still feel really disappointed because I thought SIGG to be a genuinely green company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Is Your SIGG Water Bottle? | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...life over and connecting with his awkward son and two stepkids. But Cleveland pretty quickly became Family Guy II, with similar characters and dynamics (Cleveland's toddler stepson Rallo is essentially Black Stewie) and the same taste for quick-fire cutaway jokes and pop-culture references (including self-conscious ones about white writers making sitcoms about black people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Guy Offers Hyper Animation, in Triplicate | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...local government can at least claim to be conscious of the challenge, the same cannot be said for the IOC and FIFA, international soccer's governing body, which chose Brazil as the host of the 2014 World Cup. Delegates awarded Rio the Olympics for legitimate reasons, and no soccer fan would argue that the city's legendary Maracana Stadium does not deserve to host the World Cup. But both organizations sidestepped the problem of law enforcement and ensuring the safety of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who are expected at those events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Rio's Crime Problem Be Solved Before the Olympics? | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

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