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Arts RSS FeedsA Chance to Join the World · Neal Ascherson: A Future for Abkhazia - On the way to the frontier, we stopped the car for a last look at Abkhazia. A new monument stood by the road, the effigy of a scowling, whiskered Abkhaz chieftain with sword and shield. The statue commemorates the war of 1992-93 which routed the Georgian army, cost ten thousand dead on both sides, and established an 'independent' Abkhazian state....Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Lessons of Zimbabwe · Mahmood Mamdani: Mugabe in Context - There is no denying Mugabe's authoritarianism, or his willingness to tolerate and even encourage the violent behaviour of his supporters. His policies have helped lay waste the country's economy, though sanctions have played no small part, while his refusal to share power with the country's growing opposition movement, much of it based in the trade unions, has led to a bitter impasse. This view of Zimbabwe's crisis can be found everywhere, from t... An Address in Mayfair · Donald MacKenzie: How to Start a Hedge Fund - You could walk around Mayfair all day and not notice them. Hedge funds don't - can't - advertise. The most you'll see is a discreet nameplate or two. An address in Mayfair counts in the world of hedge funds. It shows you're serious, and have the money and confidence to pay the world's most expensive commercial rents. A nondescript office no larger than a small flat can cost £150,000 a year. Something bigger and in the style that hedge funds like ... Sons and Heirs · Robert Vitalis: The bin Ladens and Their Money - Steve Coll's book tells two stories: a big one about how the bin Laden family cashed in on the oil bonanza in Saudi Arabia, and a smaller one about Osama's role in the family business before he turned to holy warfare. Although well written, lucid and packed with useful detail, The Bin Ladens doesn't establish much of a connection between the family firm in Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden's jihad in Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan and America, except t... Self-Made Aristocrats · Adam Phillips: The Wittgensteins and Their Money - 'Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent': it's a notion children pick up quite quickly. It is also, of course, a remark about the limits of what we can use language to do, but Wittgenstein is unusual as a philosopher because he so often writes about the difficulties a child has growing up in a family. His wish to clarify the world as he finds it, his stress on 'perspicuous representations' and 'just that understanding which consists i... Talking Corpses · Tim Parks on 'Gomorrah' - 'When Lot lived in Sodom and Gomorrah,' Peter wrote in his Second Epistle, 'he was oppressed and tormented day after day by their lawless deeds.' Having grown up in Naples, Roberto Saviano is similarly tormented and oppressed. Gomorrah is his account of the lawless deeds of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia. Conveniently assonant as the two names may be, the crimes of Naples are not those we associate with the Cities of the Plain, and Saviano is ... On Complaining · Elif Batuman: How to Stay Sane - Flaubert the satirist buried Bouvard and Pécuchet alive beneath an avalanche of names and things and methodologies; Roudinesco the philosopher is offering us a conceptual shovel. What one immediately notices about this shovel is its close resemblance to the avalanche: Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida looks very much like a vast ledger full of entries for 'people who have become things'. (Wou... Double Thought · Michael Wood: Kafka in the Office - It's certainly an excellent arrangement,' the official says, 'always unimaginably excellent, even if in other respects hopeless.' We can easily picture, or even recall, arrangements that are excellent for some and hopeless for others, and that is what the phrase 'in other respects' invites us to do. But the larger rhythm and grammar of the sentence ask us to go beyond this option, to think both contrary thoughts at once, taking excellence and hop... It's not the bus: it's us · Thomas Sugrue: Stars, Stripes and Civil Rights - In the United States the flag has the status of a religious icon, a totem. It cannot be carried horizontally or flat, but must always be 'aloft and free'. There is a protocol for folding it, it can't touch the ground, it can't be burned except when it is worn out or irreparably damaged and then only as part of a special ritual. Military men and women salute it, civilians hold their right hands over their left breasts when singing 'The Star-Spangl... Diary · Keith Gessen: Watching the Rouble Go Down - The financial crisis - or, as we like to call it here, 'the effects of the American and European financial crisis on Russia' - has taken a little while to get going, but it's going now. Yesterday my grandmother sat me down for a serious conversation: she wanted to know if she should take her rouble-denominated life savings out of the Sberbank and put them into dollars. Everyone's a financial adviser now. Or rather, I'm a financial adviser now. Th... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 23... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 23... 'Big Ticket' Drawing Gifts - I'm usually pretty keen on small holiday gifts - as a token of affection, you can't go far wrong with chocolate. (Especially 70% cocoa, organic fair trade. hint, hint .) But ... Draw a Christmas Tree - Step by Step - I've been trying to avoid Christmas - despite the canned carols which started playing at the local mall mid-November. Somewhere around December 23 I'll start getting organized. For those of ... A New Toy: Corel Painter Essentials 4 - Oops, I mean, new tool! It's for WORK, right? (Just nod and smile like you believe me .) I've been coveting a decent software package ever since I switched to the ... Art and Lifelong Learning - Many Drawing/Sketching readers are just coming back to art after years spent focusing on career and family. It's wonderful to hear from people who have rediscovered their creative side and ... Graphite Pencil FAQ - Choosing and Using Pencils - Need to know what the 'H' and 'B' and those numbers mean? Which one to pick for line drawing, which one for shading? And can you use an eraser, or ... Colored Pencil Tips - Getting started in colored pencil drawing? Check out these colored pencil drawing tips. Also read the Colored Pencil Basics article for an introduction to hatching, scumbling and burnishing in colored ... Draw a Dragon - Step by Step - Drawing dragons is great fun, and you can really let your imagination run wild. If you aren't sure where to start, have a go at this easy fire breathing dragon ... Grids / Copying / Tracing - When I last featured an article on Grid Drawing step-by-step, some of our forum members shared some brilliant ideas for making it a bit easier. Try some of these ... Life Drawing: Drawing the Human Figure - Attending a life class is an essential part of traditional art training. Often life drawing groups are run by community centers and art groups, so that even if you can't ... Paper Review: Generic Sketchbooks - Who hasn't used a generic sketchbook? You know, those ones from the bottom shelf at the art store, just a few dollars. Some have a cardboard back and a ... Copyright © 2008, Unselfish Marketers Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |