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...spent many years as a struggling actor. What was that time like for you? -Lars Taner, LondonI get a little too much credit for that struggling actor thing. It wasn't like I was waiting tables for 15 years. There were only about three years of true struggle. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was doing construction work and other odd jobs to make some cash, and I rode a bicycle to auditions that were 15 or 20 miles away. But from that point on, I was making a living. If you are making a living...
...fatherhood. "Men today are far more involved with their families than they have been at virtually any other time in the last century," says Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History. In the late 1970s, sociologists at the University of Michigan found that the average dad spent about a third as much time with his kids as the average mom did. By 2000, that was up to three-fourths. The number of stay-at-home fathers has tripled in the past 10 years. The Census counts less than 200,000, but those studying the phenomenon...
Artists come to a career in art with all kinds of life experience on their résumés. Sometimes it's even pertinent. It makes perfect sense that Andy Warhol started out as an advertising illustrator. Or that the welded-steel sculptor David Smith spent time on an auto assembly line. With the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, it's not so easy at first to connect what he does now-create works that invite you to play with fields of colored light or with lenses and mirrors or with your own understandings of how you see-with what...
...1980s Eliasson and two friends formed a break-dance crew and spent four years playing Danish clubs (in silver spandex costumes whipped up by his mother). Eventually they won a Scandinavian break-dancing championship. "I was always dancing," he says. "Four or five hours a day, with a mirror in front of me. It gave me a great sense of what the body could do in space, how you could gain control of your body." He pauses. "Also, it was very cool...
...moderately prosperous family of tea merchants, Hu was thrust into the turmoil of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution soon after he graduated from Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 1964. Along with millions of others, he was sent to the countryside to "learn from the masses." After a year spent carrying bricks at a construction site in Guizhou province, Hu began a gradual rise through the ranks...