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...Great Hon'ami Koetsu--how many people in the West have heard of him? Not too many, but in the early 17th century this man was to Japanese culture roughly what Leonardo da Vinci or Benvenuto Cellini had been to Italy a century before: a wonderfully versatile master of many media, renowned equally as painter, calligrapher, potter, lacquer artist and, thanks to his close relationship with the great shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the virtual "art director" of Buddhist Japan. No artist, Eastern or Western, was ever more authoritative within his own culture; and Koetsu's work was also identified with...
DISCOVERING JAPAN'S DA VINCI HON'AMI KOETSU...
...were being made at the last turn of the century, when the idea of modernism in culture was just forming, and when some of the most admired artists bore names you'd hardly recognize today--not Cezanne, Mondrian, Picasso, but Boldini, Carolus-Duran, Zorn, Sorolla, Vrubel, Toorop and Pellizza da Volpedo...
...merely acting as custodian until a judge ruled that the tape be handed over to six of the victims' families, who had sued for its release as part of their efforts to prove that authorities mishandled the rescue and failed to heed warnings of the rampage. The Jefferson County DA then decided that the sheriff's office should make the tapes available to everyone rather than fight a protracted set of lawsuits against the various pockets of the public interested in the tapes...
...shooting of seven youths at Washington's National Zoo this week was met with terror in the nation's capital. And when a black youth, 16-year-old Antoine Jones, was arrested Tuesday for the shooting, there was little public opposition to the DA's decision to charge him as as an adult. But could such a move have been a racist act? Maybe. On Wednesday, researchers released the most comprehensive report ever to study racial disparities in punishing youth offenders, and its findings have opened lawmakers' eyes across the nation. The study, titled "And Justice for Some," was sponsored...