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Northern Alliance officials continue to paint a rosy picture of a regime on the verge of collapse. Over cups of tea in their calm command posts or in small mud houses near the dozy front, they assure visitors that Taliban morale is nosediving, that desertions are widespread. Checking such assertions can be bewildering. A group of journalists spent a day looking for the sole confirmed deserter on the Kabul front, and at first they were told he could not be reached because he was at the front line working the radios, calling on his former colleagues to surrender. Many hours...
After his rural childhood, Fukuda spent some 20 years in Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial center. He again adapted his surroundings into his work, using automobile paint to accentuate his sculptures. In 1980 he fled to the peace and quiet of Curitiba, a smaller city in the interior of the country. There he continues to pursue his lifelong quest to merge his birth culture with his ancestral one. "I transmit the calmness and order of my Asian upbringing," he says. But he also keeps faith with his South American side: "Art must transmit joy and energy...
...Jill Anderson's offering, "Super Boring," is almost comically self-indicting. This too features ample negative space and a precious few broad stroke of black paint that take the form of a penguin and a personified rectangle. The image as a whole is tragically unimaginative and isn't at all visually fleshed out. Again, the commitment seems to be more to art theory than to art itself-the piece, if it speaks to its viewer at all, will surely do so in intellectual, and not aesthetic terms...
...objects are made from styrofoam, most of which has been found as post-consumer waste. The Adams House squash courts are now littered with sheets upon sheets and blocks of styrofoam as well as colorful pool noodles, not to mention a profusion of rope, screen and aerosol cans of paint and glue. “I call it slightly controlled anarchy,” Bastian says...
...domesticated lions) assured him that this lion was actually tame. Too bad Karin didn’t know the lion was tame. “The lion bounded up on me and leapt on me from behind, knocking me face first into the dirt and proceeding to paint my head playfully and lick my neck,” says Karin, who was anxiously expecting “teeth and pain...