PERVERSION | PERVERSION
Jan.18.2013
Kang Yi stripped down to a thong while a young woman gave him love bites. Performance art is almost always controversial. What was the significance of this one staged on a podium at a Guangzhou auditorium?
He said:
“It's a critique of the concept of chaotic love. I hope that my art...
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Dec.28.2012
A still-born baby would not be news. Unless the baby is a dead lamb with a human-like face. Evolution throws up such surprises. How we react to them also shows how we perceive our evolvement when confronted with other forms.
Erhan Elibol, a vet, had to perform a caesarean on a sheep in a Turkish...
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Dec.14.2012
I was introduced to the writing of Mario Vargas Llosa in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1980 in part because he had written his great novel, Conversations in the Cathedral, in Cochabamba (he was not welcome in his native Peru at the time.) My host said I therefore had to read it and gave me his...
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Sep.20.2011
And the winner is...the Emperor Elagablus!
It says much about how the authority of Rome’s emperors had been debased and the power of the military increased that a 14-year-old boy could become ruler of the known world simply because the army proclaimed him so.
Of all emperors, including even Nero...
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