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Monday, March 25, 2019
Giant floating mouselike sculpture arrives in Hong Kong harbour
HONG KONG - A massive inflatable floating sculpture reminiscent of Mickey Mouse was towed into Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour on Friday, as a crowd of curious locals looked on. The 37-metre (121-foot) piece called KAWS:HOLIDAY -- about the length of three double-decker buses -- is the work of American artist KAWS, who is known for his whimsical characters which have Xs for eyes. Tugboats towed the macabre grey figure -- a character named COMPANION, floating on its back -- into the harbour and stationed it off Hong Kong’s busy Central district. Part of an art festival in the city, it will remain there until the end of the month. KAWS, whose real name is Brian Donnelly, said he hopes his work will help people to relax. “Hong Kong’s such a busy city... I thought it would be a good juxtaposition to have a work like this just floating in Victoria Harbour,” he told reporters. “I just thought about... for myself, what’s a really relaxing position, and that’s really when you just zone out and look at the sky and think about nothing else.”
Locals and visitors, some wearing t-shirts designed by KAWS, took photos and looked on excitedly as the sculpture was brought to its display site. The figure has been compared to a huge floating yellow duck that was displayed in the Hong Kong harbour in 2013. That work -- smaller than the KAWS piece -- by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman was hugely popular, inspiring special duck dishes in restaurants and even copies in several Chinese cities. “The yellow duck is more attractive, more lively,” said Fung Foon-yung, 67. “I don’t know what this one looks like, it’s just lying there,” she added, saying it reminded her of a corpse. Cheer Chen, 31, a self-described KAWS fan and Sichuan resident, said she came to Hong Kong especially to see the sculpture after missing out on its previous stops in Seoul and Taipei. “Maybe there are some things in the world it doesn’t want to see,” said Hong Kong resident Leung Kin-yee, referring to the figure’s eyes. “Inequality, human selfishness, greed.” (afp)
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Monday, March 25, 2019
Indonesia’s Widodo vows to ‘fight’ as race enters final stretch
YOGYAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo struck a combative tone Saturday at the first campaign rally of this year’s presidential race, addressing criticism head-on ahead of the historic April 17 election. “I have been silent for four and a half years” in the face of “slander,” Widodo told thousands of supporters here in Indonesia’s former capital. “But today in Yogya, I tell you, I will fight!” he said. Responding to opposition claims that he sold out the country to for-
eign powers, Widodo argued that his administration had returned assets controlled by outside businesses, including the Rokan oil field in Sumatra, to Indonesian control. The president also openly criticized his opponent Prabowo Subianto -something he had previously refrained
from doing. Stressing his own resume as mayor of Surakarta and governor of Jakarta, Widodo argued that Indonesia cannot be entrusted to someone with no governing experience. Attendees showed their support by waving fans emblazoned with the number “1,” Widodo’s number on the ballot. Most polling has shown Widodo with a comfortable 20-point advantage over Subianto, a former general who also ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 election. But a recent
survey by Kompas, Indonesia’s largest newspaper, showed the challenger gaining significant ground, prompting Widodo’s camp to try to tighten its grip on the lead. While the moratorium on largescale campaign rallies was originally scheduled to end Sunday, Widodo’s team received approval from Indonesia’s election commission to hold an event a day earlier. The poll next month will be the first time voters in the world’s third-largest democracy
elect a president, vice president and members of the People’s Consultative Assembly, the country’s legislature, on the same day. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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In this file photo taken on March 12, 2019 Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar (R) and Spanish actress Penelope Cruz pose during the photocall of the film “Dolor y Gloria” (Pain and Glory) in Madrid.
Almodovar ‘emotionally naked’ in new introspective film
MADRID - Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s new movie “Pain and Glory” about a melancholic filmmaker played by Antonio Banderas opened in cinemas across Spain on Friday, the most retrospective work in his 40-year career.
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KAWS:HOLIDAY’ ‘Companion’, an inflatable sculpture (C) by US artist and designer Brian Donnelly, known professionally as Kaws, is displayed on Victoria Harbour during the opening ceromony for its exhibition in Hong Kong on March 22, 2019.
The Oscar-winning writer and director behind films such as “Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown” and “Julieta” had long vowed never to publish an autobiography, but he admits he is “emotionally naked” in his 21st film which deals with the themes of love, mourning and reconciliation. “I felt the need to provide a very introspective look, including into my darkest parts and to mix
that with the brightest memories of my childhood,” the 69-yearold said during an interview with Spanish public television TVE on Wednesday. The movie cuts back and forth in time as it follows the filmmaker in his twilight years reflecting on the choices he’s made in life. It features scenes of a young boy discovering he is gay in a rural and deeply Catholic Spain and of two
mature men who kiss each other tenderly on the mouth. “I am master of my stories and I impose my universe with all the pride and all the arrogance that this allows. And in my universe there are two older gentlemen who kiss with passion, and after one of them returns to his life with his wife and children,” Almodovar told online Spanish newspaper eldiario. es. (afp)
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