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...Yes. They've had a lot of debates about that recently. In the old days, it was the empire that defined Britain. It didn't have to explain itself because it knew who it was and it felt superior to every other country in the world. With the loss of the empire, its ego took a huge battering and there was never any equivalent to help cement the people together and give them an identity...
...Yes. I think people do live a veiled life, [a life] of illusions. Culture delivers it, politics deliver it, some art delivers it, technology delivers it - it's very easy to lose contact with life as it really is. And that's why I keep returning to the human body. It's not ghoulishness. I believe that it is the central fact of human existence. And yet it's very obvious how art and religion and many other cultural things try to take us away from the body reality - for obvious reasons. Because if you accept the body, you accept...
...Your issue should have been titled "Our Tribute to Barack Obama." I especially enjoyed the "Five Faces" story. Yes, he's everything: healer, novice, radical, the future! I felt like I was watching an infomercial for OxyClean stain remover. Karl Koenig, Appleton, Wisconsin...
...DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens. Currently, the lobby's centerpiece is the compelling image of artist Vanessa Beecroft's own highly stylized wedding in an Italian chapel, with all the guests dressed in white. It's wittily complemented by Tim Noble and Sue Webster's huge flashing YES sculpture. And besides Spencer Tunick's photos of nude figures in an architectural landscape, even quirkier works are exhibited in the restaurant opposite the slinky, multicolored swimming pool. Taking a splash while contemplating an intriguing work of art - what could be more refreshing...
...told GQ she had herself been date-raped several times in her late teens and early 20s. "I was (date-raped), yes. A couple of times." But she did not report the assaults because "you couldn't do that in those days...