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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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By Alice Baghdjian

LONDON | Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:46 pm EDT

London (Reuters)-the world's a stage in the country of origin of Shakespeare as organizers announced the launch of the World Festival of Shakespeare in London on Tuesday.

The 23 April to November 2012 festival, conceived as part of London 2012 Festival and described as a "scandalous and unprecedented collaboration" by the organizers, is set to join the Shakespeare fans from around the world in a multilingual and multicultural appreciation of the Bard in a technological age.

"Shakespeare's previous festivals were an ancient type of festival, but this Shakespeare Festival in the world for a new era," Deborah Shaw, Director of the Shakespeare Festival in the world.

A "big world class," allowing students and teachers around the world to share information about Shakespeare in its culture, as well as the launch of digital materials specially commissioned for schools called "Shakespeare Unlocked," means that participation in the festival is not limited to the people of Britain.

"Four years ago, we started conversations with artists, producers, educators and curators from across the United Kingdom and the world, to seed and form a festival that celebrates the Shakespeare and resets the festival can be in this era of globalisation," said Shaw.

"Any person in the world can take part in this Festival of Shakespeare through their digital projects," she said.

The release comes as the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the British Council revealed that 50 per cent of children of the world studying Shakespeare at school.

The clamp more traditional festival of performances of the work of the Bard will include a schedule of all 37 of his plays in 37 languages at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the banks of the River Thames in London. A million tickets will go on sale from 10 October.

Theatre goers can expect performances in Xhosa and Swahili, as well as theatre companies of Turkey, Greece, Albania and even a group of Maori in New Zealand.

PLAYWRIGHT IN THE WORLD

The program will also feature 23 new productions brand throughout Britain, most of which were commissioned especially for the festival.

"The festival will be a Carnival of stories-we have theater companies from warzones and underground theatre companies participate," said Dominic Dromgoole,, artistic director of the globe.

"A globe by Thames is where he began to travel cultural and imaginative these wonderful pieces. Another world by the Thames has the honour of inviting Shakespeare back home, dressed in clothes of many different people, "he said.

It is Shakespeare's representation of human qualities that lend resonance to the success of his works in other cultures, becoming "playwright of the world," organizers say.

"Shakespeare is no longer the property of English. He is the favorite playwright and artist from all over the world. People of all races, creeds and continents opted to gather around their work to share stories of how the human being, "said Michael Boyd, artistic director of the RSC.

"Shakespeare is a lingua franca deeper than any language."It can help in talking about the autocracy and the civil war-his works are a Trojan horse bright, he said.

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A woman takes a picture in a bookstore in this file photo.

Credit: Reuters/Rafael MarchanteBy Christine Kearney

NEW YORK | Wed Sep 7, 2011 1:33 pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters)-Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of September 11 because "it will take a long time so that you can make sense".

The estimation of the prominent New York novelist and journalist, who died in 2007, might have been premature. As the world marks a decade since the attacks, literary circles still awaiting a definitive work on the topic.

"The world has changed since 9/11 and our culture has changed, but I still haven't seen the book or the movie or the poem or song that captures the people we are now and helps us to redefine who we are in this new post 9/11 World," the journalist Lawrence Wright told Reuters.

Wright wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning account entitled "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11".

While editors are bringing a slew of new works, reruns of memories, survivor tales of Iraq war stories, and books of fiction, fight the 11 September and their consequences, writers are still making sense of a was changed.

Movies and television are often inspired by the playwrights and novelists. But Broadway still failed to produce a significant piece directly on 11 September and no novel dealing with the attacks was a best seller top or come to redefine the collective psyche changed.

Famous names like John Updike, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Don DeLillo all produced fiction stories. Many have written from the perspective of militant or painted the post-September 11 era with a broad brush apocalyptic.

KISS OF DEATH

"The last days of Mohammed Atta," Amis (2006) imagined the last days of a September 11 hijacker, while "terrorist," Updike (2006), centered on the U.S.-born Muslim teenager set in a decaying New Jersey. Neither of the two great prizes.

"Falling Man" of DeLillo (2007) concerned a survivor of the World Trade Center and included several chapters from the perspective of one of the hijackers. While applauded by their descriptions of the attacks, received mixed reactions.

Non-American writers have also weighed in: "Home Boy" of h.m. Naqvi (2009), "Incendiary" of Chris Cleave (2005), Joseph O'Neill "Netherland" (2009), Salman Rushdie "Shalimar the clown" (2005) and Mohsin Hamid the reluctant fundamentalist "". Some were heralded challenging Orthodox interpretation of terrorism and of the attacks.

But writers admit that the process is slow. McEwan, whose novel "Saturday" (2005) reflects what he called "a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the ... attacks," said Reuters back then could be years before a September 11 novel definitive post was written.

Others, like Florida author Andre Dubus III, whose novel "The Garden of Last Days" was extremely well received but sold sluggishly, told Reuters that the public was not ready to embrace such tales.

"My novel did very well until the word got out that he had something to do with 9/11, then kind of dropped off the radar," he laughed. "It was like the kiss of death, it was like, ' Oh I'm not reading about 9/11 '-and I can understand that."

Dubus said he never began writing "a novel of 9/11" and even cut his end of the kidnapper inevitably hitting the twin towers to "step on soil really sacred".

"We were ready to write about it? I don't think anyone was ready to read on the subject, "he said. "As we get to the 10. anniversary, I have a hunch Norman Mailer was right. We are just on the verge of being ready to look back with any degree of perspective, we need emotionally, to see it more clearly ".

TOLL ON CULTURE

Some believe that the authors were subjected to harsher reviews due to the sensitivity of the topic. Others, such as Amy Waldman, a former New York Times reporter whose new novel "The Submission" imagines a jury that chooses a Muslim-American architect to design a memorial to September 11, that is a fool to capture the only novel was to be expected.

"Why should we expect a novel to capture an experience that was so diverse in its facets and as people experienced it and how this affected America? This is a lot of pressure to put on a single writer, "she said.

Non-fiction books, especially soon after the attacks, were easier to digest for readers hungry for information. Official and unofficial accounts, even with dry titles like "the 9/11 Commission report," were sold.

History has shown that traumatic events can take decades to process, said ACLU President Susan Herman. It took decades for the United States to officially apologize for the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, a theme Treaty perhaps more sharply in 1994 David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on Cedars."

Journalists, she said, immediately had to face the post September 11 effects of time, such as the Patriot Act, a law of October 2001 has given expanded powers to law enforcement agencies in the u.s., but "individuals who are writing books, stories, games, poems really don't have the same ethical obligation".

Wright said that Americans were still trying to come to terms with September 11 and its impact on their lives.

"We are not comfortable with who we are. We are still in a period of discovery. "Certainly the 9/11 was a shock and there was about to be a lag before the people could address it convincingly, said Wright.

"In terms of artistic production of post 9/11, the escapist factor has now compensated the lighting factor. And perhaps it indicates a desire to withdraw from confrontation with the complexities of the new world that we are ".

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By Pauline Askin

SYDNEY | Thu September 8, 2011 6:11 EST

SYDNEY (Reuters)-author of winners of the United States, Ann Exploring research for his novels has always taken seriously-but never more than with her latest, "State of wonder".

Set deep in the Amazon, the book focuses on a doctor who goes in search of a former mentor engaged in research on a tribe where women are fertile until I die-but also touches on topics such as malaria, corporate greed and confront issues of the past.

Looking to educate yourself about the details of a caesarean section, observing a real operation, Exploring-which won the Orange Prize of a previous book, "Bel Canto"-just mortified when she almost fainted and was hospitalized at the hospital itself.

In Australia for the Melbourne Writers Festival, Exploring talked about research and writing.

Q: what inspired his latest book?

A: "I wanted to write a book about a teacher/student, the teacher and the student meet again as adults as equals. This is not the story of a child student, but a medical student who was so deeply influenced by his relationship with the teacher and the teacher essentially does not remember her.

"I think it's a very common thing. Teachers can't remember all of your students, especially good ones. Teachers tend to remember their horrible students who really made your life hell. Those who are relaxed and activate your homework time, you don't remember those people. "

Q: do you take your readers to Amazon on this book, why?

A: "the only thing that I love about being a writer is that I love to go outside of myself and my personal experiences and I'd like to write about things that I know nothing about because it is a great opportunity to educate me. I can think of something that I know nothing about, that I am interested, malaria, and say I'll write a book where there is malaria and gives me the opportunity of studying and researching and thinking about it. It is wonderful.

"I don't do that in my previous books but certainly in the last several books I have gone into places and characters and situations that are too far outside my experience."

Q: for "Bel Canto", you heard a lot of Opera for his research. Which special searches that you do at the moment?

A: "I went to Amazon, I do a lot of research on malaria, fertility and birth in General. In fact, I went and watched a cesarean section. I had seen a live birth before, but that was the first. I fainted at the end, not until the end when they were sewing. I deleted in such a way that, when it finally arrived about ten minutes later, they were making plans to admit me to the hospital. I really embarrassed me terribly. It was like when you have to go to the bathroom when it lies in the Symphony and you think I can wait, I can wait and I knew I was going to the weak, but I was thinking, I can wait, she is almost finished, I can wait and finally I turned to my friend and said, I have to go now, and she said the nurse, and they caught me before I hit the ground. I was sweating and convulsions, it was terrible. I have to tell anyone that is not in the area of health should always see a caesarean-is beyond disgusting, but totally worth it. "

Q: you write the outline of the books before writing and if so why?

A: "Yes, I do tend to write the scene, and then do the research and use the search for correcting me. If you do the research first so you picked up on the details that he assumes, sometimes, but when I wrote the scene (cesarean section) for example I talked about the surgeon doing such sensitive points and when you actually see a caesarean is really how they can also be wired you sewing. It was so physical. I had no idea it was physically that lasts until it was great to see that and then go back and put those details. "

Q: you indicate your books before you start?

A: "I do. I always know how the book will end before I start it. For me it's like planning a trip. It's like having a map and then there are all kinds of small details that I do not know about the trip. Like coming to Australia, I know that I'm here for two weeks and I know I'm going to these cities, but I don't know what I'll do at night, where I'm going to dinner. There are little things that you don't know, but the overview of trip that you know and that is what writing a book is like for me. "

Q: the characters in his books are all very different, the unmarried mother, the black man of middle age, a Japanese interpreter. What inspires your characters?

A: "I want my books full of different characters. It is important for me because the world is full of various people. Is so funny, people tell me why you write about Japanese or black people and I always think ... you know only white people? For me it is a natural reflection of the world and is interesting. Books entirely composed of white people tend not to be so interesting to me, or how natural at this time. As far as my books are not autobiographical reflect my interests. "

Q: your trip to Australia will inspire a story?

A: "sure could, is an inspiring place".

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By Alice Baghdjian

LONDON | Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:20 pm EDT

London (Reuters)-English writer Julian Barnes was one of the six authors shortlisted for the coveted the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, and is the favorite of bettors to win the award when it is announced in October.

Barnes's novel "the sense of a final," about an ordinary man who meditates on the absence of drama in his life, was praised as "technically wonderful" by the Panel of five judges, chaired by sponsor-turned-British author Dame Stella Rimington.

It marks the fourth appearance of Barnes in the following list of "parrot" Flaubert (1984), "England, England" (1998) and "Arthur and George" (2005). He has not won so far.

"Book of Julian Barnes is the book most obvious on the candidate list and perhaps the most expected as was also revised," Gaby Wood, judge and head of books in the newspaper the Daily Telegraph of Britain told reporters at the inauguration of the list.

"Is a small, quiet and is not only amazing but actively shocking. In purely technical terms is that the most wonderful distillation of ideas (Barnes) has been rehearsing throughout his life. It does something weird and awkward shiveringly family. "

Barnes relationship with the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's most important English-language fiction, not always been easy.

He once refers to him as "posh bingo" and berated the judges to be "inflated by their brief celebrity."

Also on the list of candidates this year are two first novelists-Stephen Kelman ("pigeon English") and A.D. Miller ("Snowdrops") — and two Canadians-Patrick deWitt ("the brothers sisters") and Esi Edugyan ("Half Blood Blues"). Of candidates is Carol Birch with "Jamrach Menagerie".

The six books were reduced from a longlist of 13 books. The prize, worth 50,000 pounds ($ 80,530) to the winner, as well as the likelihood of a huge boost in sales of the winning book will be delivered on 18 October.

The bookmakers Ladbrokes has called Barnes as favorite at odds of 13/8, while Birch and Miller are the second set of 7/2 favourite to win the award.

Two novels were appointed by his linguistic dexterity; the sound quality of jazz writing "Half Blood Blues", and for innovative storytelling using Kelman's hybrid dialect in "Pigeon English".

Susan Hill, judge and award-winning author, said "Half Blood Blues," the tale of the mysterious disappearance of a rising jazz star, black, Hieronymous Falk in 1940, it was not, initially, a novel that she would be picked from a bookshelf.

However, she described him as one of the more novels "originals, guaranteed and emotional" she had read.

"It is very different from any other novel-is a vibrant and tense about war and its consequences and what it means to betray", she said.

"does not put a foot wrong. She writes about music so we can hear-not just read the words, but we can hear him and beat out your pace. "

"Pigeon English" compared by the judges, the cult classic "A Clockwork Orange Burgess" due to its mixture of Southeast London English and patois Ghanaian, was described by the Panel as "magnificent" and a "triumph" language.

Hype surrounding the publication of the novel has compared the story to the case of Damilola Taylor, a high-profile British case of the murder of a 10 year-old boy in a depleted property in London in 2000.

But focusing on these similarities undersells the novel dramatically, said the judges.

"Which depicts the novel is a boy wonder and disillusionment with a society that is friendly and hostile, but the hostility is not from the forces that you would expect," said judge Matthew d'Ancona, a political writer and columnist.

Ancona, who described Kelman as a novelist, at the height of his writing, said that the novel had the "ability to support".

"Is a series of revelations about the world we live in. It fizzes with doubts and anxieties about the way we live now and, in some ways it was a grim prophecy the London riots, "he said.

Last year's winner was "The Finkler question," Howard Jacobsen who was described as the first novel to win the prize and has sold over 250,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone.

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1 of 8. A fire helmet Squad 252 recovered belonging to deceased firefighters member Kevin m. Prior is seen in this photograph before becoming a part of the national September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, August 22, 2011. Kevin Prior, a firefighter with 252 of Brooklyn cast, can be seen in the video of the lobby of the North Tower burned after the first plane hit getting ready to go up there. In response to a mayday call sent by firefighters colleagues face breathing problems, he and five other members of the cast are thought to have been a floor above when the Tower collapsed. Prior's body was found three weeks after the attacks and buried on Long Island, but his mother was troubled that his helmet was not returned to the family and the said in a television interview. An official in the Office of Chief Medical examiner happened to capture, transmission and squad numbers recognized emblem of prior and hand-delivered the severely damaged helmet for his family grateful. The Museum, which occupies seven stories below ground of the World Trade Center site-still being built on the site of the fallen towers. It is due only to open in 2012, in the 11th anniversary of the attacks.

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NEW YORK | Tue Sep 6, 2011 4:55 pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters)-Trustees are making difficult choices in the recording of the attacks of September 11, 2001 Museum in place of the fallen Towers of the World Trade Center, with the aim of conveying the horror of the event without invading in ghoulishness.

"We are not here to traumatize our visitors," said Alice Greenwald, director of the Museum of 9/11 Memorial in New York that is about to open in his underground House on the site of the Zero point next year in the 11th anniversary of the attacks.

"Monumental artifacts are one thing, but we also have a human history to say," Greenwald said.

Some of the most potentially disruptive exhibitions are being set aside from the main exhibition spaces in special alcoves to allow visitors the opportunity to decide to see it or not.

It is here that the Trustees of the Museum were introduced material, such as images of people burning towers fall after the buildings were hit by planes hijacked by militants of al-Qaeda and a voice recording measured a flight attendant on board an aircraft moments before his death.

For museum curators, decide whether to include examples of painful final moments of some of the victims was one of its most difficult dilemmas as sought to pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed without piling more suffering for life.

It is a problem familiar to people in order to memorialize wars and atrocities.

"We are not just a Museum of history, we're also a memorial and so the tension that occurs between the commemoration and documentation is a flashpoint," Greenwald said in an interview at the headquarters of the Museum, with a view to the ongoing construction of a facility that will occupy seven solo stories in the World Trade Center site.

Greenwald is no stranger to these debates. For almost two decades, she helped create views on national Holocaust Museum in Washington writing murder of millions of people in the hands of the Nazis during World War II.

"The story of 9/11"

Greenwald and his colleagues are aware that there are numerous objects that might overwhelm a visitor.

There will be photos of the 19 hijackers al Qaeda, although Greenwald said that will be presented as "criminals".

Another difficult issue for Trustees was whether to include disturbing photos of victims who jumped or fell from Torres. Delete this photo would be a serious omission, Greenwald said. The photos are located in an alcove clearly marked with a warning and none of the people in the photo are identifiable, "she added.

"Is one of the aspects of the history of 9/11, that if you don't include it, you're not telling the story," she said.

In the choice of audio recordings of last words spoken by about victims, the Museum avoided some of the most distressing calls to the emergency telephone number 911. Greenwald "which is a form of human remains," he said. "We will include anything that feels like a moment when we should not have been there".

Instead, the Trustees chose recordings with the permission of the families of the victims that show the Greenwald called the "exceptional nature" of many of the dead in the attacks.

This includes voice remarkably composed of Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, as it relays the details bloody kidnapping colleagues on the ground in the minutes before the plane crashed in the North Tower.

The Museum has acquired hundreds of items belonging to victims, survivors and rescuers.

The significance of the helmet of a firefighter horribly mangled is obvious. Other items that may be more subtle in its importance: hardened dust shoes, a wallet, a knit clothing crumpled never finished project, a doll blackened-all common items that were in the air of the relics.

The Museum has been carved out of the vastness of the World Trade Center's foundations and incorporates the slurry wall, originally built to hold back the waters of the Hudson River and that survived the fall of the buildings.

There will be an exhibition of memorial to the 2,982 people killed in the attacks of September 11 and the bombings of 1993 World Trade Center that were a prelude to the event later. The output of the Museum was designed to allow visitors to emerge at the heart of the 9/11 Memorial-waterfalls to the footprints of the fallen towers surrounded by bronze panels with the names of the dead.

"For each heart-wrenching story that you have 10 stories about the goodness of the human being," Greenwald said. Referring to future visitors of the Museum, he added, "they will go out with a lot to think about."

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By James Pomfret

HONG KONG | Thu September 8, 2011 11:04 EST

HONG KONG (Reuters)-despite global dimming economic clouds, Sotheby's expects solid demand for a batch of rare Chinese ceramics of a vintage collection after a much hyped European auction of works of the same Swiss owners fell flat in April.

The Meiyintang collection, a collection of European ceramics collected over nearly half a century by pharmaceutical magnates, the brothers Zuellig, was one of the last intact traditional important private collections of Chinese ceramics up to put the block in Hong Kong at the beginning of the year.

But the sale so hyped finally disappointed with two lots of blockbuster, a Golden Phoenix Qing vase and a Chenghua Palace sublime Bowl, languishing in unsold auction block after market players blamed excessive pre-sale estimates and requirements of choking off enthusiasm of tighter credit.

The two items have found purchasers reserved after.

Sotheby, however, hopes of a second offering of 40 Meiyintang treasures to be put up for sale in October is the stoke fresh interest despite the stock market nervousness over the worsening of the debt crisis and the U.S. economic weakness in Europe.

"From a few collectors who showed you the pieces to which I am confident that the sale will do very well," Nicolas Chow, Deputy Chairman of Sotheby's Asia, told Reuters.

"There are some people who are worried about the market, but if you look like solid assets have been moving as gold and diamonds, which I see no reason to worry about Chinese art,

"An important piece of porcelain is perhaps a little less liquid than a large diamond, but at the same time, I would say that it is at least as solid asset like that".

Between the Meiyintang (Hall between Rose beds) Imperial wares is a group of objects large, physically large, including a half meter bulbosa de famille rose vase of the Qing dynasty Qianlong (1723-1735) decorated with bright pink peaches, a Chinese symbol for auspicious longevity and interlaced branches Roses which is expected to fetch up to $ 15 million.

Another, older, white and blue Meiping Vase of Ming Dynasty Yongle (1403-1425) adorned with black fruit and floral motifs is also estimated at up to $ 15 million.

It is expected that the sale of Meiyintang the whole net of $ 55 million.

CHINA RISKS, REWARDS

Chow said estimates for pre-sales Meiyintang biscuits (Hall between the rose beds) would be less aggressive than last time. But a controversial stipulation that bidders provide pre-sales deposits bolados would still be imposed to reduce the risks of buyers defaulting on payments that imperial ceramics prices rise ever higher.

Last year, a Chinese collector bid a record $ 51.6 million pounds to a Qing vase ornamented discovered in the attic of an English House, but refused to pay in a separate instance of non-payment of Chinese art.

Since then, the Sotheby's and other auction houses demanded deposits as a safeguard against such credit risks.

"At the moment when we promoted the same and when the sale took place there were market rumors around that a large vase that had been sold in Europe had not been paid. Then, there was a degree of paranoia and caution on the part of buyers, "Chow said, referring to the sale April Meiyintang.

While market players said that Sotheby's has insisted on a deposit of HK $ 8 million (US $ 1,026 million) to the Grands Crus in spring sales Hong Kong, the amount should be less this time, Chow said, without giving details.

Despite the optimism of Sothebys, your quote fell more thirty percent since April for $ 36.22, with the luxury art market often shading economic cycles. But in the end much higher market, masterpieces of Chinese art has bucked the recession rising in value as robust alternative investments.

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