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...stick to politics. In a bid to foster unity, South Africa's ruling party has introduced 19 leather jackets in black, green and gold, its official colors. But while President Jacob Zuma sported a similar look at the ANC victory party following last year's election, the jarring neon threads aren't catching on. In a poll by South Africa's Independent Online, 86% of respondents said they wouldn...
Ankit Mehra stops in front of a Tata Nano and waits for the crowd to clear. When it thins, the 22-year-old M.B.A. student aims his camera phone at a neon green model of the world's cheapest car and takes a photo. Mehra sees the appeal of the small, sleek car that has gained almost celebrity status in India, but his heart is set on something a bit grander in the New Delhi Auto Expo showroom - the upmarket Audi Q7. (Watch a video on owning a Nano...
...Here? , runs through March 14 at Miami's Bass Museum and will be a highlight of the city's winter cultural season. Organized in four key areas - urban anthropology, artist profiles, art with texts and art within art - the show features everything from conventional paintings and drawings to illuminated neon texts and installation pieces, and is an unusual offering for the Bass, which typically shows major European paintings, sculpture and tapestries in its sleek, Arata Isozaki-designed pavilion. (See the Top 10 Art Exhibitions...
...people, that always seem to resonate for him more deeply - as in A Dead Hand, where "the stew of Calcutta," as he puts it, overpowers all other subjects. "The cracks showing through the peeling paint, the dirty shutters, the windows opaque with dust, the dead bulbs, the flickering neon, the wobbling rickshaws and beat-up taxis, all like a dream of failure, reflected just how I felt about myself," he writes, in a vintage Theroux description that doesn't quite seem plausible when applied to protagonist Jerry Delfont, who suffers from the metaphoric "dead hand" of writer's block...
...sketches that she'd displayed as models for other students. Then, Honoré recalls, "she dropped the G-bomb: 'He's a gifted artist,' she told us, and it was one of those moments when you don't hear anything else. I just saw the word gifted in neon with my son's name ..." So he hurried home and Googled the names of art tutors and eagerly told his son all about the special person who would help him draw even better. "He looks at me like I'm from outer space," Honoré says. "'I just wanna draw...