“According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside” a Copenhagen nightclub. … Earlier this month he was involved with a controversial mural that has enraged leftwing anarchists throughout the city.”
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Antoni Gaudi Used Psychiatric Hospital As Testing Ground For His Designs
“In what appears to be an early application of art therapy, new research suggests that the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí used the garden of a psychiatric hospital as a testing ground for his revolutionary designs, with the patients serving as his artisans.”
BBC Goes Backstage With Mariinsky Ballet
“The BBC has been given access behind the scenes with the Mariinsky Ballet company from St Petersburg, which is celebrating 50 years of performing at London’s Covent Garden.”
The Neverending Campaign To Ban Slaughterhouse-Five
“Since it was published, Slaughterhouse-Five has been banned or challenged on at least 18 occasions. And the rhetoric around each case appears to be, like [protagonist] Billy Pilgrim, ‘unstuck in time’.”
Indian States Ban Film About Caste-Based Affirmative Action
Aarakshan, a “controversial Bollywood film which touches on the highly-sensitive subject of affirmative action for the Dalit community (the caste formerly known as ‘untouchables’) in the country’s education system, has been banned in three Indian states.”
Why Does Hollywood Keep Whitewashing History?
“And so, yet again, for what seems like the zillionth time, a heart-tugging Hollywood film transforms a harrowing and magnificent period of African-American life into a story of once-blinkered white people becoming enlightened. The black characters’ struggles are sensitively rendered, magnificently acted, and sometimes heartbreaking sideshows. This sort of thing just keeps happening and happening and happening.”
Working To Stop Africa’s Brain Drain
“20,000 qualified Africans leave the continent each year. Engineers, lawyers and doctors move to countries where the food is strange, the winters are cold and the people as well. Many Africans prefer to live abroad than with the HIV infection rate of 40 percent seen in Swaziland, the rape that occurs every 30 seconds in South Africa or the genocide that left 800,000 dead in Rwanda.”
New American Poet Laureate’s Books Sell Out
“Within a day of the Library of Congress’ announcement, several of Levine’s books had sold out on Amazon.com, including “News of the World” and “The Simple Truth.” Little of his work, or of any poetry, is available electronically because verse is so difficult to format for digital reading devices.”
In Australia Arts Sell Twice As Many Tickets As Football
Almost twice as many tickets have been sold to live entertainment than AFL games.
Woman Attacks Another Painting In National Gallery
“Four months after she attempted to rip the Gauguin painting “Two Tahitian Women” off of the wall, Susan Burns, 53, slammed Matisse’s “The Plumed Hat” against the wall, damaging the original antique frame. No damage to the painting, which is valued at $2.5 million, was apparent.”