b. 1965, Hefei, Anhui Performance artist, painter Even before graduating from Beijing’s Central Academy of Art and Design in 1988, Sheng was among the founders of Concept 21, a pioneering performance art group (together with Zhao Jianhai, Kang...

In the semiotics of C.S.Peirce, a class of visual or acoustic signs that stand in a directly perceivable relation to the object of reference, by illustratively imitating aspects of the real object and thereby revealing similarities to or features held...

ICONS. The term icon (from the Greek eikōn, "image") is applied in a broad sense to all sacred images worshiped by Christians in eastern Europe and the Middle East regardless of the image's media; thus icons may be mosaics,...

An icon (from Greek εἰκών, eikon, "image") is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it, or by analogy, as in semiotics; by extension, icon is also used, particularly...

Among the many things I will read are cereal boxes, sugar packets, subway ads for "your dermatologist" Dr. Zizmor, advertising blow - ins, art magazines, fashion magazines (foreign too), pop-culture magazines, shelter magazines, literary magazines, magazines with staples that spear your fingers, Quest,...

SHADOWS thrown by floodlights on walls and sentryposts, those gritty traces of old frontiers where ideologies bristled at each other, lurk in the minds of too many writers of political thrillers and spy fiction. Those were good days, you can hear authors yearn...

Journalism: The posthumous publication of his book on the Korean War is confirming David Halberstam's place in the left-leaning media establishment's lexicon of saints. The truth about him is a lot more down to earth."The Coldest Winter" by idolized veteran journalist David Halberstam, killed in...

Chronic understaffing at the U.S. Park Police and a lack of coordination and training have left national icons like the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty vulnerable, according to a government report on the Park Police released Monday.The 40-page assessment by the Interior Department's...