We have a picturesque start to Friday’s Pictures in the News
with people walking along a promenade at dusk in San Sebastian, Spain.
Some interesting images in performance and sculpture art
include South Korean performers suspended in midair to form a human net in a
performance called “Aphrodite” in Seoul; the sculpture “Ray” created by Indian
artist Subodh Gupta as part of the Jing’An International Sculpture Project
Biennial at a park in Shanghai; and a man standing inside the new Rain Room at
the Barbican center in London. The Rain Room is a 330-square-foot room of
falling water which visitors are invited to walk into, with sensors detecting
where the visitors are standing.
Elsewhere, police in Azerbaijan clashed with dozens of
demonstrators at an unsanctioned rally held in protest of a ban on the wearing
of headscarves in the mainly Muslim ex-Soviet national middle schools; one of
two north Chinese leopard cubs sits on a tree as they were presented for the first
time to public at the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin; and employees of Kingfisher
Airlines participate in a candlelight vigil after the wife of an employee
committed suicide, citing severe financial distress caused by non-payment of
salary for several months in New Delhi.