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Free Republic: Art Appreciation/Education “class” #10: Postmodernism Now it is time to truly finish these mini-lectures on the development of modern art with this final lecture of Postmodernism. Andy Warhol and other Pop artists may have made the first forays into Postmodernism, and some textbooks begin their postmodern sections with Pop Art. But I like to save Postmodernism for the 1980’s and thereafter. One question to consider is whether postmodernism (or at least its validity) might have come to a screeching halt on 9/11, (when thinking people realized that there were indeed evil people in the world and that the...

BRUSSELS – The US ambassador to the European Union has warned that the transatlantic dispute over the EU’s proposed lifting of the China arms embargo could escalate into something "very very serious". In an interview with the EUobserver, Rockwell Schabel said, "We feel that it is the wrong thing to do and particularly now that this law has been passed", he said referring to a law passed by the National People's Congress of China authorising an invasion of Taiwan if the island seeks independence. He said it was likely that it is going to affect trade between the two sides....