De Lanerolles are back in Sri Lanka

We always believe that the success of anyone in any field depends heavily on the partnerships that one makes and we are humbled at the response we have received and continue to receive. It is also a very costly affair and a huge undertaking to put up Sit-down three course dinner shows and we are glad that we have taken the entertainment theater to a different level.

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Anton B. Perera:

He painted the world as he found it

Many students leave their art schools without learning anything from the instructions provided. What they do learn is from the example of artists whose work they revere, or from fellow students or art books.

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Cultural scene

Ideas on post-modernism

In the previous week’s column we observed how Jameson distinguished the increasingly blurring boundaries between high culture and post-modernist cultural goods and its links to consumerism. An important observation that Fredric Jameson made was that ‘‘theoretical discourse’ should also be considered among the ‘manifestations of post-modernism’.

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