Browsing All Posts filed under »Opening Ceremony«

Kitsch as the natural aesthetic of nationalism

February 17, 2010

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Again, I can’t claim to have watched carefully all of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in recent years. Even the highlights are usually painful. But this quote from Michael Ignatieff in 1993, with Yugoslav civil wars and a recent visit to an exhibition of Nazi “art” fresh in his mind, clarifies a few things: “There is… [Read more…]

We are more. And less.

February 16, 2010

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As a Canadian expatriate — some might say, ex-patriot — I have to say, those opening ceremonies in Vancouver were brutal to watch. If I’d watched them in a room full of friends here in North Carolina, I would have been apologizing on my native country’s behalf. And, of course, my friends here would have… [Read more…]

Wayne Norman

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