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From YouTube to the runway, a self-made model
By Guy Trebay
There was a time, not long ago, when the surest path to modeling stardom was down the runway of a top designer’s show, when it would have been unthinkable to find among the industry’s top ranks a swimsuit girl whose main claim to fame wasFULL STORY
Fit for the gods
By Ian Bartholomew
The bedrock of classical Western art, Greco-Roman mythology comes to Taipei’s National Palace Museum in a new exhibition of artifacts on loan from several French museums, including the Louvre. Many of the sculptures, paintings and murals on display in Western Mythology and Legends — AFULL STORY
Man-hating artist Kusama covers Tate Modern in dots
By Farah Nayeri
On a chilly February morning, an 82- year-old Japanese woman is wheeled into the Tate Modern gallery in London, wearing a fringed red wig and a polka-dot dress matching the balloons hanging all around. She is the painter, peacenik and performance artist Yayoi Kusama, who madeFULL STORY
Art exhibition listings
By Noah Buchan
Magnum photographer Chang Chien-chi (張乾琦) returns to Chi-Wen Gallery with a new series of photographs titled Burmese Days (在緬甸的日子). In this exhibition he turns his lens to Myanmar, a country run by a military regime and obsessed with Buddhism, where every male “enters the monasteryFULL STORY
Classical CD reviews2012-02-14
By Bradley Winterton
Despite the popularity of downloads and DVDs, the CD format continues to see a mass of new releases. In this, it’s rather like live theater — less popular in terms of numbers than its electronic challengers, but catering instead to a variety of small interestFULL STORY
Book review: Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, by A.S. Byatt2012-02-14
By Bradley Winterton
The Victorians were very interested in Norse mythology. It was a concern created in part by philology, which had, along with geology, an exceptional status at the time as an area of study that could throw light on mankind’s past. While fossils in rocks toldFULL STORY
Book review: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War , by Stephen R. Platt2012-02-14
By Dwight Garner
There should be a term in German that describes the sinking feeling you have when reading a serious book of scholarship, one whose determined author deserves praise and tenure, that no civilian reader should pick up, that will not warm in your hands, that willFULL STORY
Electronic security a worry in an age of digital espionage2012-02-13
By Nicole Perlroth
When Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film. He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the USFULL STORY
Top Five Mandarin Albums2012-02-13
1. Mayday (五月天) and Second Round (第二人生) with 23.26 percent of sales 2. Elva Hsiao (蕭亞軒) and I’m Ready (我愛我) with 11.8% 3. Ricky Hsiao (蕭煌奇) and I Miss U ... So Much (思念會驚) with 6.97% 4. Victor Wong (品冠) and Unopened Gift (未拆的禮物) with 6.16% 5. Alien HuangFULL STORY
In piracy debate, deciding if the sky is falling2012-02-12
By Jenna Wortham and Amy Chozick
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