“Mangoes don’t have an obvious connection to the Chinese Cultural Revolution; in the 1960s, they weren’t even cultivated in northern China.” Yet they’re featured with the Great Helmsman in a lot of propaganda art from the late 1960s – thanks to a convergence of the Cultural Revolution, the Pakistani ambassador, and the Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams.
Tag: 02.25.13
New Copyright Enforcement Scheme Launches This Week
“Major Internet providers will launch a system of Copyright Alerts to consumers this week, a system in which repeated users of pirated content could have their service slowed.”
Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89
After 20 years at the musical helm of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, he crowned his career with a decade as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Sawallisch described those ten years as the high point of his symphonic life, and many observers (including more than a few of the players) believe that he was the best music director the Philadelphians ever had.
Who Was Eileen Gray? Only An Architect Who ‘Defined Modernity’
“Frustratingly for those who would like to find out more about this enigmatic Irishwoman, she burned letters from likely lovers such as Romanian architect Jean Badovici and music hall singer Damia.”
Gérard Depardieu’s Unhappy Divorce From France
Lauren Collins examines the roots of Depardieu’s outraged reaction to France’s proposed tax increase on income in excess of one million euros, his feelings of betrayal, the arguments of his supporters and opponents, and the slightly ridiculous turns the story has taken.