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LITTLE ROCK, Ark | Saturday September 10, 2011 3:52 pm EDT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters)-for decades, Mable Rose Jamison Vogel towed trunks of art and documents-bits and pieces of a remarkable chapter in American history-across the country where she moved.

Created by Japanese-Americans while they were held in captivity in Arkansas during World War II, the paintings, sculptures, carved wooden bird pins and even a belt made of a cord orange told stories of daily life in a dark era in American history.

Vogel was one of his art teachers, encouraging them to decorate their surroundings. Their efforts helped preserve the tales of tens of thousands of Americans who were forced into camps by the US Government after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

This weekend, "The Art of Living" exhibition opens in downtown Butler for studies of Arkansas in Little Rock. with more than 100 artifacts collection and additional pieces by Twin Sisters Kazuko Tanaka and Yetsuko Saguchi Vogel, interned at Rohwer.

"There has been a wave of interest in this story," said Nathania Sawyer, producer of the exhibition. "This collection presents a very deep as these people were using art in your everyday life."

The Government operated 10 fields during the second world war in Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and California. Several other States had temporary camps.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, military leaders feared that Japanese Americans on the West Coast represented a national threat. The Government forced 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans living along the Pacific coast in which President Franklin d. Roosevelt called "concentration camps" in sparse areas. More than half of them were American citizens.

They could little time to solve the business affairs or sell or store their belongings. They were instructed to bring only what they could carry, including dishes and bedding. Once at camp, families lived in cramped single-room quarters until the end of the war. They worked the land, and children attended school. Each camp had its own Police Department and Mayor.

Art was a popular pastime and an escape from life under appalling conditions. In some fields, jazz bands became popular.

The Japanese Americans in Arkansas collected and made of materials for his art. A landscape painted in denim collection was dropped. Cardboard and box tops were used as screens. Wire and wood discarded were transformed into sculptures. Tow became woven carpets.

Sawyer "Jamie Vogel was so diligent in preserving the history," he said. "She was very interested in these students and people who were doing art in the refugee camps. Over the years, she lent him, put on exhibitions across the country and keep the story alive. It provides a very deep and as these people were using art in your everyday life. "

Jennifer Carmen, an appraiser of fine art and decorative in Little Rock, calls the Vogel collection "unique among collections of internment" in its broad scope to document daily life in the camp.

In June, the National Park Service assign 24 scholarships totaling $ 2.9 million to preserve these sites and to interpret the Japanese American life during this time.

In 2006, Congress established the funding programme to give up to $ 38 million after President Clinton, in 2000, recommended that the Department of the Interior to preserve this part of the story.

The first grants were awarded in 2009.

Arkansas, who received three bags this year, was the only State in the South have fields. In the last 10 years, Arkansas organized several educational events on the two fields.

In 2004, the University of Arkansas in Little Rock has created a series of events called "Life interrupted," which included a meeting of 1,300 people who lived in the refugee camps.

Star Trek star George Takei, whose family was sent to Rohwer, attended the event.

The art was in downtown Butler after decades of efforts by Vogel and his girlfriend, Rosalie Santine Gould, a former Mayor of Gould, Ark.

When she died in 1994, she left a substantial part of the collection to Santine Gould, who spent his life preserving the story of two fields in Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas, about 100 kilometers south of Little Rock.

Last year, Gould gave the collection, which was sought by many major art museums in downtown Butler.

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1 of 2. The sculpture that '' woman on a park bench '' by George Segal, part of a PS1 MoMA in New York exhibition about the attacks of September 11, 2001, is seen in a photo booklet.

Credit: Reuters/MOMA PS1/courtesy the George and Helen Segal Foundation and Carroll Janis/HandoutBy Basil Katz

NEW YORK | Fri 09/09/2011 10:04 pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters)-the September 11, 2001 attacks were more disaster witnessed in history, even to capture its impact, a new exhibition is not art, photos or music portraying that fateful day.

Works in the show, "September 11," open on Sunday at MoMA PS1 in New York, reference the towers of the World Trade Center or to a blue sky and sunshine reminiscent of that day, but let viewers make their own connections to the deadly attacks.

In fact, most 70 or more works on display at MoMA PS1, satellite location of the Museum of modern art in New York City's Queens, were made before 2001.

Selected from a long strip of contemporary artists, with some work dates back to the 1960, the exhibition is intended to shoot, memories and emotions, 10 years after planes collided with the twin towers, bringing it down and killing thousands of people, without addressing this day explicitly.

"There were some things that we do not want to see, I think in part because of how much we were forced to do," said the PS1 MoMA curator Peter Eleey, describing the challenge of mounting an exhibit of art about the tragedy as well documented.

The torrent of images from the September 11, said Eleey, "drastically complicated how art could answer."

Thus, he preferred to avoid showing it directly.

Trustees installed an audio recording of 1999 called "World Trade Center recordings: winds after Hurricane Floyd" by artist Stephen Vitello boiler room in the basement of the Museum.

The recording is of mysterious squealing and moans of skyscrapers as they were struck by a hurricane.

An untitled work of 2008 by artist Roger Hiorns consists of mounds of dust silver engine passenger aircraft sprayed spread on the floor in a seemingly random.

A photograph by the American artist William Eggleston a hand spinning an ice-cold drink in colorful cabin of a plane can sunny bring to mind as a normal flight turned into a hellish nightmare. The photo, "Untitled (glass in aircraft)" is the Decade of 1960.

The show also includes a light installation by James Turrell American artists and works of Diane Arbus, Alex Katz and Ellsworth Kelly. It ends in January 9, 2012.

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A black Bustier with gold accents and black band at the hem bottom pearled, worn by Madonna in her 1987 who's That Girl World Tour, is depicted in this undated publicity handout. The bodice, which should bring up to $ 8,000 in auction, will be sold by auctions of Julien's second annual auction of legends in Macau in October 22, 2011.

Credit: HandoutBy Jordan Riefe Auctions/Reuters/Julien

LOS ANGELES | Fri 09/09/2011 8:46 pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)-the art world shook last February when a report by The European Foundation of art (TEFAF) revealed that China had overtaken the United Kingdom to become the second largest art market in the world.

The art world shook again weeks later when Artprice, the industry's final word on such matters, announced that, after its revision, China surpassed the United States as the No. 1.

The Chinese investors who are buying?

Everything from "Femme Lisant (Deux Personnages)," Pablo Picasso by 21.3 million dollars, to the exclusive rights the oldest known live recordings of Elvis Presley, which will hit the auction block of 22 October in Hong Kong.

In a country where there are only 60 years there was no such thing as an art market, the appetite of fine arts, antiques and fond memories, antiquated type of Hollywood is great.

Disposable income of China has multiplied 10 times in the last 20 years, according to the list of Hurun China based of wealthy individuals. The annual study shows growth of 64 percent in average wealth over the past two years, 400-500 billionaires (most of the world) and almost a million millionaires-average of 39 years.

"More and more money (Investor) is to sit on the sidelines and looking for a place to go," says Jeff Rabin of ArtVest Partners, an investment firm specializing in art. With financial markets, going through so much volatility, arts and old increasingly seems viable investments.

In the past two years alone, the auction house Christies has growing partnerships in Hong Kong of 95 to 130, all of them Chinese. In addition, the venerable auctioneer is placing native Mandarin speakers in their showrooms in London, New York, Geneva and Paris.

WHERE ELVIS IS KING

The growing level of wealth in China began to trickle of the largest cities of peripheral regions, although the vast majority of the nation's 1.3 billion still lives in poverty.

"Sort of breaks down for those people who are quite rich and know something about art for those who are actually more farmers or industrialists and not have the knowledge or access to understand the art market," said Rabin.

But even people who cannot understand the art of high value and antiquities, have a place in the auction houses when the hammer comes down, in particular, to Western celebrity memorabilia.

Darren Julien auction Beverly Hills ' Julien is currently Planning your event "legends" next month in Macau. Items include the rights to a concert by Elvis in 1955, as well as a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe, Madonna's Gold bodice and a note signed by John Lennon.

"One person told me that they would rather have this than a Monet," said Julien, which is based on one third of its business in the Asian market. Recently, he put a basketball auction signed by Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan. The estimated value was around $ 500. Sold for $ 294,000.

Part of the appetite for Western items is due to the fact that the majority of all of China was cut of Western culture for so long, but the best of the performing arts world were from television, movies and music by United States and Europe.

"Very good movies were the American films. Was the only vista had another life outside of their own, "said Julien. "When you're buying these things, you are buying a memory".

Never mind that art and antique markets are still unregulated and opaque and purchases are sometimes mal-líquido in aftermarkets once the items have been purchased.

"If people really want something," said Julien, "they will do whatever it takes to get it".

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By Kevin Lim

Tue Sep 6, 2011 5:44 am EST

No "> (Reuters)-as the ranks of the middle class art buyers in Singapore rico grow, galleries that represents artists such as Damien Hirst-best known for work with preserved corpses of animals that cost millions-aim to bottom, taking advantage of a boom for the purchase of art.

About ten pieces by Hirst, all of them prints, will be offered for less than $ 8,000 along with thousands of other works of art accessible art fair in Singapore in November.

In line with the name of the art show, nothing goes to over S $ 10,000 ($ 8,296)-an effort to attract budding art investors unable to pay stratospheric prices commanded by more conventional auction rooms pieces or art events.

Singapore, Asia's private banking hub and home to more millionaires per 1,000 households than any other country, is also a regional base for many banks and multinationals.

A growing number of these relatively well remunerated executives that may not be the high class caught the bug of art and is no longer content to just buy beautiful paintings and sculptures to decorate their homes, but are looking for specific topics.

"I like paintings, especially with women as a subject. It can be a mother and son, faces of women or naked, "said Lou Dela Pena, a Senior Executive in an advertising firm in his late 30s.

She has 10 paintings in her apartment in Singapore and several other back in his native Philippines.

At the inaugural Architekturmuseum in Singapore last year, she bought two paintings for under S $ 5,000 each, including a drawing of a Japanese woman by Australian artist Nanami Cowdroy that had been brought by an art gallery of Indonesia ink stylized.

All galleries who exhibited at the last show s sold 1.75 million dollars (US $ 1.158 million) worth of art, making the Singapore event "the most successful first edition that we had in any market," said Show Director Camilla Hewitson.

Hewitson said art accessible, a UK firm which currently organizes exhibitions in nine cities around the world, hopes to expand into China greater in 2013 to complement their exhibitions in Singapore and Melbourne, Australia.

Gallery owners say the growing interest for art in Singapore and elsewhere in Asia is due to the rapid economic growth in the region, creating a large middle class with extra money to spend.

"The middle class everywhere is interested in quality of life and the quality of life will always have a cultural element, whether it is watching a concert, attend a trade fair or buying art," said Meg Maggio, a lawyer turned curator and owner of Pekin fine arts, a gallery of Beijing.

BUDDING COLLECTORS, NOT SUPER-RICH

Information about artists and their works are also more easily available for budding collectors that are not super rich because of the Internet, unlike in the past, when buyers were relying on consultants and owners of galleries, "she added.

Two of these people are lawyers Singapore David Chee and wife Joanna Er, both in their 20s, who have been buying art for several years and use the Internet to follow the artists whose works they bought.

Its collection includes two pieces of Chinese artist Li Hsing-lung, whose colorful Chinese brush paintings of animals are now auctioned Sotheby's and can be found in art galleries in London.

Er said the two paintings of Li are probably worth more than when they were purchased for the first time, judging by the price quoted on the Internet, although they have no intention of selling.

"There are some parts that we buy based on aesthetic that probably never will sell, and there are others that we expect will go up in value," her husband Chee said.

Some experts believe that seat own art may be even greater than the current sales show. Many potential customers feel they do not have adequate knowledge and are frightened off with what they see as the difficulties of caring for art in hot and humid climate of Southeast Asia.

Gil Schneider, a former consultant with Sotheby, recently teamed up with advertising executive Pek Jolyn and others creating a company to help novice buyers meet artists and galleries.

"For new collectors, we will conduct workshops and provide individual consulting possible selections, based on your budget and taste," Pek said.

Schneider said collectors should not be overly concerned with the deterioration that occurs over a long period of time and paintings can be repaired.

While the paper and photographs that deteriorate more quickly in Southeast Asia because of the moisture, oils on canvas are easier to maintain, do not suffer the cracks caused by changes of temperature as in Europe, he added.

It does not recommend the purchase of contemporary art, purely as an investment, and buyers should enjoy the job too as it is difficult to predict how an artist will develop.

"Dividend of art is the enjoyment to look at it every day, chatting with him and find out what the artist is trying to say."

(US $ 1 = 1,202 Singapore dollars)

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1 of 5. The granite face carved almost 90 foot tall pairs of Crazy Horse down about what will be the extended left arm and hand on the mountain carving in progress in the Black Hills of South Dakota, June 2, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Pat Dobbs/Crazy Horse/HandoutBy Greg McCune

CUSTER, South Dakota | Mon Sep 5, 2011 5:40 pm EDT

CUSTER, South Dakota (Reuters)-almost every morning for more than half a century, 85-year-old Ruth Ziolkowski rises near dawn, places his feet on the floor and gives thanks, she is part of a dream.

Since 1947, she has worked on the monument to native Americans in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where she is spearheading the effort to literally move a mountain Crazy Horse.

Ziolkowski, President nonprofit Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, "I'm tickled to death to get up every morning and go to work," said in an interview this summer.

Billed as the world's largest sculpture, Crazy Horse is only one drive 20 miles from the better known Mount Rushmore, where the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt are carved in granite.

A few miles later is the Pine Ridge reservation, a mainly arid land where more than half of residents living below the poverty line, according to government data.

Pine Ridge is where the Oglala Sioux tribe of many Indians of the Crazy Horse were placed after they were persecuted by the army of the United States, thirsty Buffalo they hunted, and had confiscated from their traditional lands.

RIVALS RUSHMORE

Unfortunate that a monument to the white leaders was carved into mountains that the Sioux considered sacred, Lakota Sioux Chief Henry standing bear's eldest invited to Pine Ridge Korczak Ziolkowski, who, in 1939, he won the Prix de sculpture world's fair in New York.

They decided to sculpt a monument to rival native Americans with Crazy Horse, a Sioux warrior who helped lead one of the most famous Indian victories over the army of the United States-annihilating much of Seventh Cavalry of General George Armstrong Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

Korczak Ziolkowski began working in granite mountain along with volunteers, including young Ruth Ross, of Connecticut. Korczak and Ruth were married in 1950 and 10 children at the feet of Crazy Horse.

"He felt that they (the Indians) have made a terrible mistake and he wanted to right some of that wrong," she said.

Many people thought was Korczak plan really crazy.

Mount Rushmore took 14 years to complete, cost $ 1 million at the time of which 85 per cent was the Government's money and used about 400 workers, according to the National Park Service.

Stubbornly independent, Korczak accepted only private donations. He sketched out a monument far greater than the Mount Rushmore, the warrior on horseback and hand stretched out.

All four presidential heads of Mount Rushmore would fit within just a warrior head at the Crazy Horse, said Pat Dobbs, spokesman for the monument. Korczak also wanted to carve completely around the mountain, while faces of Presidents are only on one side of Mount Rushmore.

NATIVE AMERICAN OPPOSITION

Some native Americans against the project. They said that Henry Standing Bear had no authority to invite a white man to carve the monument and said it was the Black Hills by using profanity and explore an Indian hero. They said that Crazy Horse, described in the history books as a quiet man, would not have approved.

Indian activist Russell means said Crazy Horse sculpture was like going to the Holy Land of Israel and sculpture on Mount Zion. "It is an insult to our whole being." he said in 2001.

Korczak worked almost alone on the mountain for years and died in 1982, 16 years before the first part of the sculpture-the giant face of Crazy Horse-was completed in 1998.

Until today the horse and hand stretched from Crazy Horse are only in rough shape. Plans are complete horse head then while Ruth was careful to not give a date of completion.

If the unfinished Crazy Horse is a monument to pure persistence or futility absolute, the project has expanded, with a visitor center, including a Museum, restaurant and gift shop and numerous events. A fundraising drive begun in 2006 compensated $ 19.3 million by the end of 2010, including in-kind donations.

About a million people trek to Crazy Horse, every year and the entry fees account for 40 percent of the revenues with the rest of giving particular, Dobbs said. On some days tourists can view an explosion of dynamite as mountain explode continues.

EMPHASIS ON EDUCATION

But the most important change was the emphasis on indigenous education. Ruth said that her husband always dreamed that an indigenous University in North America would be on the site.

It was built a dormitory, and from summer 2010, Crazy Horse provided a program for native American students, some of them, to work in the tourist centre and take classes such as math and writing in preparation for College.

One of the students, Dylan Tymes, who grew up on the Pine Ridge reservation, said he is waiting to begin their second year of college soon. TYMES said that Pine Ridge is a rough place, a "ghetto", with few jobs and many people living on food stamps.

TYMES said even some of his own family members were skeptical of the Crazy Horse memorial, but the design work and education summer he won. "If it weren't for the Crazy Horse program, I didn't think I would even be in College now," he said.

Some prominent native Americans also are joining with the Ziolkowski family for help. Five of 26 Council administration Foundation are native American heritage.

Billy Mills, a Lakota Sioux, that project and, in 1964, became the only American to win the Olympic 10,000-meter run, said that the Warrior Crazy Horse was one of his childhood idols. After Mills's mother died when he was a boy, his father spoke of crazy horse to calm the anger of the child and raise him worth self said Mills destroys many Indians.

Mills doesn't believe Crazy Horse would be annoyed about the mountain sculpture if he were alive, but it would be "use it as an opportunity to teach the world about indigenous peoples."

Ruth Ziolkowski is fine with the fact that she will not see that Crazy Horse finished in your life. But his nine children, of which two are on the Foundation Board and a third a foreman on the mountain directing work, she has a clear desire.

"If this project stop because I die, my life has been wasted," she said.

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Muslims pray in the mosque of King Fahad on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, August 1, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Lucy NicholsonBy Pauline Askin

SYDNEY | Thu September 8, 2011 03:08 am EST

SYDNEY (Reuters)-the approaching tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks is casting a shadow long for Muslims of the United States, many of whom are fearing the anniversary approaches, because they fear a resurgence of prejudice and hatred, said author Mona Eltahawy.

Egyptian-born American but said that attacks on Eltahawy New York and Washington were a shocking introduction and negative to Islam for many in the United States, compounding the difficulties for Muslims already struggling with their country's diverse, secular identities.

Despite the African American Muslims had been in the country since the days of slavery, to raise public awareness of the Muslims in General had remained low.

"Many Americans were totally unaware of what a Muslim is up to 9/11. Eltahawy "first introduction to Islam was very negative, said in Melbourne, where she attended the Melbourne writer's Festival.

"Now that we're coming to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11, is a time to say that we are here and we're not going anywhere, we're Americans and Muslims. Has been a difficult ten years and many of us are fearing this tenth anniversary because he brings a lot of hatred and prejudice ".

Eltahawy, an old news agency journalist-turned-essayist and columnist, left the security of an Office work for the risks inherent in the freelance work only at the time of 9/11.

While she did not personally experienced any hostility, that she allocated in large part to the fact that it does not use a handkerchief header or "look Muslim", the heated atmosphere — and every year since — made their question what this phrase really means.

One of his greatest struggles is to break the stereotype that equal authentic conservative.

"Identify as a progressive liberal secular Muslim. One of the messages I try to convey is that I'm just as authentic as a conservative Muslim, "she said.

"When you think Muslim women, do you think women in a head scarf or a woman like me. There is only one way of thinking that a Muslim women is, there are a variety of appearances and a diversity of voices, "she said.

But the last ten years, from 9/11 the Arabs this spring that saw the overthrow of long term Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, have been exciting and professionally satisfying.

Among some of the biggest and most interesting changes have been the emergence of social media like Facebook and Twitter, which were highlighted during the convulsions in Egypt and elsewhere throughout the Mideast this year.

Call them "a great connector", she said that such services had played a key role in disseminating information, to the extent that Twitter, she now finds his number one news source.

"Social media has given us a front row seat to revolutions in various parts of the region, but not create the revolutions," she said.

Put much weight on the role of social media risks, minimizing the participation of millions of people, he added.

"These are most definitely not social media revolutions. Say that social revolutions were removes Agency and courage of all those people who came out on the streets and fought, if it was the security thugs Mubarak regime ... or what we saw happen in Libya. "

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BEIJING | Wed Sep 7, 2011 05:05 am EST

BEIJING (Reuters)-China ordered her museums to strengthen security after a series of embarrassing thefts, including in the Beijing Palace Museum will close and, temporarily, those that do not meet standards, media reported on Wednesday in the State.

Curators at the Museum of the Palace, housed in the former home of emperors past China in the forbidden city, were red faced after several items borrowed from a Museum in Hong Kong were stolen in May.

"People who have been attracted by high profits achieved through theft and smuggling of ancient relics tend to set your goals in several museums," State news agency Xinhua quoted a warning from the Ministry of public security and administration of Cultural heritage of the State as saying.

"Police and cultural authorities should review the Museum's security systems and improve the training of the guards of the Museum. Museums should make contingency plans and emergency exercises of conduct every six months to improve its ability to deal with thefts. "

Museums that do not improve their safety before the end of the year will be closed until they can take steps to convince the Government have no gaps or shortcomings that a thief can explore, Xinhua said.

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