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Büchel's Training Ground, Art Basel Miami Beach
Hauser & Wirth�s sprawling Christoph B�chel installation Training Ground for Training Ground for Democracy, 2007, is a scaled-down version of the aborted piece destined for MassMoCA. The ensembles includes original Florida voting booths, children�s toy hand grenades, half-eaten pizzas, Arabic propaganda films and a pile of burnt papers. It sold for $250,000 to the Flick Collection and is to be installed at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin. �More collectors want the really ambitious works. It isn�t necessarily about scale,� said Jeffrey Deitch .
You will get through this
Deck the halls. Eat, drink and be merry. In theory, the coming weeks are about good times, using up vacation days and gathering with loved ones to, presumably, roast chestnuts. But life gets in the way. Schedules are hectic, if not impossible. And amid it all, you're forced to consider thorny business-related matters such as party-date protocol and gift-giving etiquette that can make or break you, professionally speaking. We asked some experts to help sort out a few dilemmas. YOUR DILEMMA: I would like to throw an environmentally conscious event. Although I don't want to be wasteful, I also don't want to look cheap. OUR ADVICE: Although it's not easy being green, it is more feasible than it used to be. Sarah Finlayson, creative manager of catering company Blue Plate (312/421-6666; www.blueplatechicago.com), offers party packages with biodynamic wines, organic and sustainable produce and dishware made of environmentally friendly bamboo.
Our Chanukah gift guide for the weird odd special people in your life
Chanukah is less than two weeks away and Black Friday, the shopping day after Thanksgiving, is upon us. If you've been racking your brain trying to come up with gift ideas or putting off writing up your gift list, consider some suggestions from our inaugural gift guide. For the. . . .
. . . Saba and Savta Who Have Everything
Not another T-shirt from Acapulco, my closet is already overflowing, I beg my children and grandchildren. Not another book, I have a dozen stacked up that I haven't gotten around to reading.
So what can you give saba and savta, grandpa and grandma, who've been living in the same place for 35 years, have a house full of tchotchkes and every conceivable kitchen gadget?
I don't want the latest iPhone, videogame or computer attachment.
Maine town mourns 2d soldier
Once again, the residents of Lee gathered yesterday as they had just five months ago, hands clasped in front of them, women dabbing eyes, and men staring stolidly ahead. About 450 residents - just about half the town - filled wooden bleachers and rows of fold-out chairs in the Lee Academy gymnasium to pay their respects to the village's second fallen son this year, killed, like the first, by a roadside bomb in Iraq on his second tour of duty. "We are a small town," said Joan Scrivner, 78, of Lee, a retired school lunch cook. "And to lose two of our boys - well, it just seemed like it couldn't be possible." And yet they sat yesterday staring at the flag-draped coffin of Army Sergeant Blair W. Emery, 24, killed Nov. 30 in Baqubah, as the sobs of a widow and the click of the honor guard's heels echoed in the gymnasium.
CN, Pogo to air special shows on Children's Day
MUMBAI: On the occasion of Children's day on 14 November, Cartoon Network and Pogo have planned a special series of programmes. Cartoon Network will air three Barbie movies from 11 am - 5 pm while Pogo will present a Tiny TV Children's Day programming extravaganza from 9 am - 2 pm. Children's Day Barbie specials on Cartoon Network kick off with animated movie Barbie As The Island Princess. The movie revolves around Rosella (Barbie) who as a young girl is shipwrecked on an island and raised by many of the animals that inhabit the location. One day, a prince named Antonia discovers Rosella and her animal family and invites them to visit his kingdom and explore his country. What no one knew was that a trap is being laid in order to rob Prince Antonia off his powers.
What Thanksgiving means to me
What do you get when you mix five Jersey girls, Scotland and a Chinese restaurant? A: My most memorable Thanksgiving in 1971. When I started Trenton State College in 1968, my goal was to get my teaching degree. Period. This changed sophomore year when my then-boyfriend, in search of a "cheap date," took me to the International Student Festival on campus -- free entry, free food. The students talked about this golden opportunity called "Semester Abroad," where you could live in another country, see the world and get college credits. Voila -- a new second goal emerged: to be an exchange student. September 1971, my senior year: Nixon was president, the Vietnam War was raging, "All in the Family" had made its TV debut, "Maggie May" had constant play on the radio, and I arrived at Hamilton College of Education in Scotland.
Vidya Balan likes being called demure Indian
MUMBAI: Vidya Balan, who was recently seen in a glamorous role in 'Heyy Babyy', is happy being called a demure Indian girl. "That's my USP and why should I shy away from it? Even if I tried to be a floozy, I'd be a disaster. Even when I played a radio-jockey in Raj Kumar Hirani's film, I wore kurtas, skirts and other desi accessories. I'm not like a hip radio-jockey from Australia," Vidya said "I'd have been happy to be born 40 years ago and live my life in a sari," she added. Amitabh Bachchan once said you can't take your eyes off Vidya when she is on screen. "It's humbling. Even if he had just noticed me I'd have been complimented beyond description. But to have him say such wonderful things about me is unbelievable," said Vidya, who worked with Amitabh in 'Eklavya'.
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