On Thursday, the 31st of July 2008, Kishore Mahbubani – see the previous post- held a lecture at the presidential palace. His audience was the national ruling elite of Indonesia, the President himself, government members etc. And, as a courteous guest, he said some flattering things about ( and to) his host. But he also [...]
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In case you don’t expect to get fed up with it all and kill yourself when you are forty, fifty or sixty, but would love to grow really, really old, you better be Asian. At least this is what I read in The Guardian today: “The average Asian woman, for example, lives for almost 89 [...] Though I’m in a gloomy mood, I hereby declare I love mankind. But, lets be honest about it, the world would probably have been a better place without the human species. I love believers. They are my fellow men and women after all. But don’t you think the lot of them wouldn’t be so fucked up, [...] The Book It’s size is 30 x 25 cm, 280 pages and it was published by ISRY, Galeri Nasional, August last year. It’s content is strikingly apt and beautiful: short biographies on 34 female artists, a general but quite complete review of the artists’ track records and a lot of well chosen photo’s by [...] |
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