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Salman Thu: It can be hot or cold
Artist Salman Toor has a penchant for the evenings. In the quiet and secret night, undercurrents are surging. By depicting such a hazy night, the protagonist in the painting, who often appears in the image of urban queer (Queer), constructs a habitat full of longing, joy and freedom. living place. Tu’s first art museum solo exhibition in Asia “Night Rainbow” will open on December 17, 2022 at M Woods Art Museum, Beijing, and will last until March 9, 2023. The exhibition covers 27 recent paintings and 23 works on paper by the Pakistani-American artist. The creation of the picture is obviously self-reporting, and the protagonist in the painting looks like…
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Eight square meters in Tokyo, rebuilding a person’s life
How much space do you need at least if you want to live comfortably by yourself? Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism once calculated a “minimum living area level”, and the results showed that in order to enjoy a “healthy and educated life”, a single person should live in a room of more than 25 square meters, and the standard for two people living together is 30 square meters. More than square meters. Shinobu Yoshii, a Japanese-Chinese writer, suspects that this standard is a bit too high. In 2017, she moved back to Tokyo from Beijing and lived in a room with an area of only eight square…
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Economist Markus Brennamell: Building resilience requires an open environment
In March 1969, Markus K. Brunnermeier was born in a family of carpenters in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. In October of the same year, the Federal Republic of Germany ushered in its fourth chancellor, Willy Brandt. In order to promote exchanges between East and West Germany, Brandt put forward the slogan of “one nation, two countries”. His “New Oriental Policy” pursued “cooperation with the West and reconciliation with the East”, which was considered to be one of the substantive measures to promote the relaxation of the Cold War situation in Europe at that time. Brunnermeier’s childhood was spent during the detente period of the Cold War until the Soviet armed forces…
