Under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese Communist Party decreed that the Great Helmsman was 70 percent right and 30 percent wrong. “And this mixed legacy makes it hard to pin down exactly what about Mao Party leaders want to celebrate, and what about him they don’t. Who could have anticipated this? Andy Warhol.”
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How Andy Warhol Explains China’s Attitudes Toward Chairman Mao
Under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese Communist Party decreed that the Great Helmsman was 70 percent right and 30 percent wrong. “And this mixed legacy makes it hard to pin down exactly what about Mao Party leaders want to celebrate, and what about him they don’t. Who could have anticipated this? Andy Warhol.”
Theatre in a Tehran Taxi
“Iranian cabs afford passengers a degree of anonymity, paving the way for uninhibited conversations and a new play.”
Give My Theatre Its Funding Or I’ll Drive My Car Into The Presidential Palace!
“An Italian theatre manager rammed his car into the iron gates of an entrance to the French presidential palace Thursday to protest against subsidy cuts for his Paris venue, police said. The action was seen as largely symbolic since Attilio Maggiulli ‘only succeeded in lightly hitting the grills at slow speed,’ a police source said.”
When You Consume Culture, Spare A Thought For The Creatives
“Those circulating copyrighted content can be as Scrooge-like as they please, because there’s no Tiny Tim to think of. Except that there is.”
What A Disaster Was London Architecture This Year
“After such crimes against our built environment as an office tower that burns its neighbours with a solar “death ray”, and prison-like student flats that look out directly on to a brick wall, architects risk earning the same contempt as bankers and politicians.”
What We Can Learn From Wikipedia (By How People Use It)
“The internet behemoth boasts 30 million articles written in more than 285 languages, tweaked by 70,000 active editors and viewed by 530 million visitors worldwide each month. As mountains of information go, it’s Everest. Teasing out trends from the open source encyclopedia’s archives is a task few would even attempt.”
Strand Bookstore Reports Its Best Sales Day Ever
“With Strand’s announcement, it appears that literature lovers have proved with their wallets — that the good, old-fashioned print book has not yet gone the way of the scrolls and tablets.”
What Milwaukee Did In Visual Art This Year
It was a full year, as critic Mary Louise Shumacher chronicles.
Italy’s Entire Opera System Nears Collapse
“Only three Italian opera houses are currently able to pay their bills within two months.”