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Arts & Culture Sub-Forum?

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What do you need water for, Sunshine?
Is BP ready for an Arts & Culture Sub-forum?

Here's the opening volley (for review, reaction and comment):

http://http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/01/wang_qingsongs_photographs
WANG QINGSONG'S photographs are darkly humorous. Staged and absurd, they tend to consider the hollow promises of consumer culture in China. In Bathhouse (2000), for example, the artist sits in a pool surrounded by plastic fruit, Coca-Cola bottles and painted ladies, all of whom look terribly bored (pictured below). Later works are both grander and more subtle, such as Yaochi Fiesta (2005), a mythical scene of paradise in which scores of nude Chinese look uneasy, even ashamed. With legs crossed and mouths pursed, they appear chagrined by what was meant to be a delicious fantasy. Mr Wang, a Beijing-based artist, arranges these scenes in a warehouse-like film studio. Though often amusing, they are more than mere gags. Rather, they often feel like odd group portraits, with plenty of powerful reasons to keep looking beyond the first s[censored].

This wry approach to chronicling China?s economic and cultural changes is earning international notice. Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide, his most extensive solo show in America, has just opened at the International Centre of Photography (ICP) in New York. His work is also part of Photography from the New China, now at the Getty Centre in Los Angeles.

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Here's the ICP link:

http://http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/wang-qingsong-when-worlds-collide

This one blew my mind:
qingsong_6.jpg
 
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The Art of Technology
Local Museums Join Google's New Project

NY Culture
February 3, 2011

By ERICA ORDEN

Viewers interested in exploring the Renaissance masterpiece "St. Francis in the Desert," by Giovanni Bellini, can now examine each and every knot on the string belt of the central figure in the painting?from their couches.

A new project from Google uses its Street View technology to bring users 360-degree tours of art galleries from around the world. WSJ's Dipti Kapadia reports from the launch at Tate Britain in London. The artwork is one of thousands available on Internet giant Google Inc.'s latest interactive online resource, Art Project, unveiled Tuesday. A collaboration with 17 museums including three in New York?the Frick Collection, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?the portal offers virtual access to the institutions, allowing visitors to navigate galleries and pore over hundreds of their works of art in fine detail.

Based on the technology developed for Street View, Google's resource for exploring streets and neighborhoods, Art Project also includes 17 works?one from each museum?that can be explored on a near-microscopic level, via "gigapixel" photo-capturing mechanisms whose images contain up to 14 billion pixels.

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Google Art Project
 
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NYT Best Sellers List - 20 Feb 2011

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION

  1. TICK TOCK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
  2. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
  3. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
  4. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET?S NEST, by Stieg Larsson
  5. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION

  1. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand
  2. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Lynn Vincent
  3. THE PIONEER WOMAN, by Ree Drummond
  4. BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER, by Amy Chua
  5. DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush

HARDCOVER FICTION

  1. TICK TOCK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
  2. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET?S NEST, by Stieg Larsson
  3. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
  4. THE INNER CIRCLE, by Brad Meltzer
  5. DEAD OR ALIVE, by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  1. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand
  2. THE PIONEER WOMAN, by Ree Drummond
  3. BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER, by Amy Chua
  4. DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush
  5. CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff

PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION

  1. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen
  2. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese
  3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
  4. TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis
  5. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction

  1. SWIMSUIT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
  2. MARRYING DAISY BELLAMY, by Susan Wiggs
  3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
  4. WILD MAN CREEK, by Robyn Carr
  5. DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by David Baldacci

Paperback Nonfiction

  1. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Lynn Vincent
  2. INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz
  3. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis
  4. COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert
  5. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls
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