Elizabeth

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on September 26th, 2010
AFP photo

What is art?

That is the question many Brazilians have been forced to ask themselves after the country’s most important alternative art show displayed nine drawings depicting the assassination of world leaders.

Each charcoal drawing shows the artist, Gil Vicente of Recife, Brazil, holding a weapon moments before assassinating a world leader.

The exhibition is titled “Enemies” and is seen in the photo above.

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Photo: Brazilian President Lula da Silva.

One drawing depicts Vicente, the artist, holding a knife to the throat of Brazilian President Lula da Silva. Others show the artist pointing a gun at Pope Benedict XVI, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Queen Elizabeth.

By Marga Ortigas in Asia on April 29th, 2010
Photos by Brendan Ager

By her own admission, she’s been called many names:  “evil”, “greedy”,  “corrupt”,  the Iron Butterfly.  And she lets it all wash over her like rain bearing down on a sunflower.

“They do not know the real me!”, she intimates with a smile.  Still standing tall at 5”8, this energetic 80-year old grandmother has also been known for her charm and her beauty. 

She takes pride in being among a select few in the world who can be identified by simply one name - “Not even the Queen of England is known just as Elizabeth…,” she offers.  “She has to be referred to as Queen Elizabeth the Second…”, a pause,  “but there is only one Imelda…”

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