Art Review | 'Under Pain of Death': Sanctioned Killings, and the Very Many That Arenât
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The Austrian Cultural Forumâs show on capital punishment approaches its theme with timidity and indirectness.
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An exhibition seeking to ease Chinese taboos toward death has opened in Hong Kong, featuring "green" paper coffins and multimedia artwork, including a coffin "simulator" giving users a 3-minute taste of death.
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In a new book, Olivier Widmaier Picasso has tried to show that his larger-than-life grandfather was anything but cruel.
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A string of recent deaths has unearthed a deep well of resentment among the people of Indian-administered Kashmir.
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AMSTERDAM, Nov 2: Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who recently made a controversial short film about women and Islamic culture, was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday, police said.
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For one hot, bloody weekend in July, it was like old times in the nation's former murder capital. Eleven people died violent deaths over a 48-hour period. One was a hospital worker gunned down by muggers near Chinatown. Another was shot and killed in a drug-related dispute.
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A sculptor, an architect, a photographer and a writer were involved. Collisions may have been inevitable.
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The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a young Muslim of Moroccan descent has shaken Holland to its very foundations. To most people, including the Dutch, the killing and its violent
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A director's experimental film shows the world through the eyes of a painter blinded by a mugger's vicious attack. By Theresa Everline.
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Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor &mdash; the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon.
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NEW YORK Sept. 20, 2004 - Photojournalist Eddie Adams took careful portraits of US presidents and world figures. But his best known work is one that was sudden and unglamorous: the 1968 killing of a Viet Cong captive in Vietnam.
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The documentary âShowBusinessâ makes one marvel at the stamina of artists who devote themselves to a world of many miseries and few rewards.
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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.
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I recommend a couple of articles chronicling the unintended consequences of the war on drugs. One, by Ethan Nadelmann, is a global look at the damage done by prohibitionist policies. The other, by Radley Balko, is a look at a doctor convicted for prescribing opioids â and this case is in some ways more troubling [...].
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James LongleyÂs haunting, oblique film, ÂIraq in Fragments,Â presents a collage of images, sounds and characters in an intimate, partial portrait of an unraveling nation.
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Mexico's gruesome drug war and its hundreds of executions a year are the inspiration for an art exhibit of red-splattered blankets meant to represent shrouds used by hitmen to dispose of their victims.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.