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...otherwise trite pop tune to something far more musical. This seems to be the name of the game for Buttercup: reconfiguring pop cliches in extremely inventive ways. Even their love songs are tinged with irony, infusing pop fantasy with real world bitterness. Their ability to use pop as a medium for genuine expression will keep Love from gathering dust on the CD rack...
...allows organizations that have been limited by money and geographic location to communicate freely, to organize and spread propaganda," Goldman says. "The Internet is a medium that allows anyone to publish their gripes and grievances...
...Getty began in the mind and pocket of the man whose name it bears: J. Paul Getty, the oil billionaire who in 1974 had installed his collection of Roman and Greek antiquities, French furniture and medium-level European paintings in a preposterous $17 million replica of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, overlooking the Pacific at Malibu. Those who sneered at this as the Disneyism of a crackpot Scrooge McDuck were staggered when, after Getty died in 1976, it turned out that he left his museum almost $700 million--the largest endowment ever given to a cultural institution...
Excusing the actions of the Chinese government through cultural relativism is, ultimately, patronizing and insulting to Chinese culture, not to mention a denial of the true source of China's human rights abuses. Through this medium, which Jiang and his cohorts are so happy to play upon, China is exoticized and thus exempted from the basic norms of human interaction. It is not Chinese culture, but rather the self-serving raison d'etre of the communist elite that causes the intense and brutal political repression...
...live presentations by the artists themselves), but the indication was clear: spoken-word, poetry slamming and video-art are fast making their way into the art-world's equivalent of mainstream culture. Unfortunately, though, the performance also offered a warning about the complexities of adapting literature into a visual medium...