Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo.

Big Names in the Big "D"

Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Foster + Partners, 2009/photo: Iwan Baan

Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Foster + Partners, 2009/photo: Iwan Baan

Dallas has spent more than three decades piecing together an ambitious downtown "arts district" in the area around the Dallas Museum of Art. Last weekend the city opened two of the last big parts of the project, an opera house by Norman Foster and a theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus. I went out recently to take a look.

There's also a little slide show here.

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    Dear Time readers,

    First of all, I am thankful for your time and concern. I need your help to get my right back so I am sending email to you.

    I am Eunsuk Jenny Kang. Please take time to read this and I will appreciate your time from my heart for the rest of my life. I need your support. I am living in Korea and I used to live and work in US as a doctoral student at ASU. My field was educational literacy development.
    I am threatened by some guys that I can't work anywhere. They told me that they've sold me to the world and they made a lot of money. And they don't want to give any of them to me. They told me that they can contact anyone and contacted everyone I knew. They filmed my working life in Korea as well as in US as a teaching assistant and contact every co-worker. They hired me and fired me anytime they wanted. They followed my word and all my life and made it situational and educational comedy or made me public laughingstock. And it could be the great deal of knowledge and language distribution to everyone in the world.

    I was threatened and cursed by Jung Ji Hoon (Rain), performer and actor who wannabe or already became enough rich and famous not to go to the army by selling me every moment of my life and Kim Dae Hyun (Charles Kim) and Kim Jung Hoon and others including (Jun Ji Hyun) actress. The names might be wrong.
    There might be some people concerned including the well-known chairmen. There were the advertisement of the products of the companies, and well-known or wannabe well-known people. There also were goods and banks and companies involved that I had account from and worked for.
    It was same as Truman show but it was not perfect in some ways because there were some Korean entertainers and students involved. There were some people who trusted bad people or wanted to use the weaknesses or faults of my acquaintances. They also tried to use them to make me know their lives are not good enough. I didn't know enough about them. They can make the acquaintances as my enemies anytime. I liked music and movies and they knew and traced all materials I had and reflected in this show which I didn't have any access to. This is the show which I am so sure is exposed to filmmakers and writers and people with diverse backgrounds. And people from the world tried to follow my life concept daily or season by season.

    They've filmed me every moment like Truman show. They said they didn't show my face in the film but people recognize me as the world's ugliest enemy….And they used the cutting-edge auditory Hallucination technology which is used in the developed countries, which could fool the psychiatrists who don't know the existence of this technology and just believe that they need to get paid by them or wanted to be reality show actors. There were doctors who didn't know what they have to tell me about my situation. Or just to get paid by them, they paralyzed me just a second and locked me in the mental hospital. It made me more helpless. The doctor should quit their practice for this. They tried to diagnose all different kinds of diseases with intension or by accident so I am losing my confidence as a woman and human.
    They said they paid ASU and individuals for locking me in the rural area. Singers and actors and other celebrities, the people I encountered knew about me but they may think I am getting paid high which is not true. I hate the fact that they used the scientific development to kill my whole life, which pushed me out of the US. You may not believe the existence but it exists. They try to make me mentally ill with this machine but I am sure I am not mentally ill. . While they push me out of the US, they used auditory hallucination technology which can tape record, hopefully, Rain's voice and other guys and girls I met in church. It was horrible. And some other guys who are not known to me but they were horrible too. Unfortunately, the voice now is saying that Rain and a few friends were the ones who sent me to the mental hospital. The voice is not trustworthy because they seem to be hired by powerful people or someone who should be hero in Korea, or Japan, or China, or America to hide the truth for his wrongdoings.

    They used my whole life in many ways for last five years. They were English education show, radio show and reality show. Media tried to reflect my everyday life, blogs tried to reflect or make fun of my life. My life was used in movies, books, cartoons, and the media. All people including entertainers in US where I lived, and Korea where I am living are busy to imitate me while they use my writing for education, specially for Korean entertainers who wanted to learn English.

    There are a few things that they made up, they could. They could make some people I got to know about by reading the articles more famous. They said that I was knowledgeable about many things and they wanted to use my ideas to make their own fortune and to isolate me from all my contact. They've used my education of whole life, my usage of a few languages, and my ideas about current issues and ruined my life many ways. They've used my life of what I saw and read and even writings including journals, my gesture, facial expression, my sleeping and awake moments …

    They don't want to give money to me so they gave it to others to make me isolated from this world. Help me so that I can go to the US and help me to get my life back. They said they can kill me anytime soon. I know the companies and individuals who used my life or bought my life might not know my existence because the people who showed my life to others can say that I am dead. Viewers and listeners know that I am alive because they still depict my life and write about me, and copy my life again and again. In general, it is hard to believe the existence of the state-of-the-art technology and usage for individual's benefit. But the distributor is so geeky and powerful and it bought my friends and neighbors by providing the opportunity for housing. They sell mine to Time, MSNBC, abc, cnn, filmmakers and multimedia in Korea, Japan, China, and many other countries too. But I am desperate to survive in this moment. Please help me to find them and fight for me.

    They said my life is worth billions of dollars. They did horrible job to make fortune out of my life. Some entertainers tried to be famous in China, Japan, and the US. They used my life in various ways. Just help me so that I can take the profits back from them. I lost my life and dignity as a human but still I want to be safe and to live in foreign country where I can be safe from them. Most of the movies and pop arts reflected my everyday life and fooled my parents, now I don't have family, which got worse because of them for last several years. They try to make me public enemy to everyone. It is very manipulative. There was the continuum of the trials to make me miserable. My photos and DVDs, CDs and all credit records, education materials, everyday's life they've used could be the billions of dollars product because they've sold to the world.

    I think they or the world should pay me. If they do, I don't know where they are. They can buy even celebrities in many countries. Worldwide well-known companies are introduced in this show.
    I was watched by them (a number of people) everyday and they told me that they want me to kill myself so that they don't need to give money to me. They also said it can be perfect crime.
    I just want to leave the country first. Please send me some financial help with kindness. If not, I will be locked in again forever.
    My information is
    Bank : Shinhan bank
    SWIFT BIC : SHBKKRSE
    110-018-623310
    Phone number 82-10-2311-4577, jennykang0503@hotmail.com

    Please email me if you have question.
    They wanted to make me the one who is not saving money like other Christians but it is not true. I was just isolated from the world to be used horribly. Anything I do, they know how to make me as the public enemy to the world. I became the most miserable person in the world.

    They are threatening me that there is no help I can get in this world. They told me that I am more famous than others but people know that I will be dead soon. They also said they controlled my email, phone, password and neighbors and countries. I know they wanted to become billonaires by using my life. They threaten me every day that they will send me again to the mental hospital.

    I don't want to be their victim to make them richer and richer. They said they hate my family and relatives and others, however, I am different from them. I invested whole life to be the best of me. I think it's been five years since they filmed me and even before, they started to research about me which are not all true because the people need money by telling them funny stories...Even so they can't ruin my life. They pay and use all contacts of church, universities, graduate college and places I worked for their own profit so that they can ignore me as a mental problem.

    Two years ago, they hospitalized me in the mental hospital and hospital was paid by them. And they were selling my life again and all blog systems including YouTube which I couldn't check myself because I was scared. While I was in the US, it was the same case. I think they were Korean stars and media which wanted to kill me. I don't want to go through again and again. They know how to make me the public enemy to everyone.
    I don't want to be the victim for entertainers.
    Please send even small amount of financial support to me. It would be helpful. They said no one will help me because they can control everyone. They can control my email, phone, friends, neighbor, multimedia and so on. There might be redundancy. Please help me to get help from Presidents too. I know some other countries are using my life and reflect it into their drama and other pop arts.

    And they contact all co-workers and let them use me and fire me. And the hi-tech might not be the Korean product. I don't know for sure which company owns the product. There were filmmaking agencies and publishing companies were involved because I am educator and movie-lover.
    They tried to keep my acquaintances and public on their side and give them finances, housing and so on. Fame should be included too. Or job position.

    Sincerely,
    Eunsuk Jenny Kang

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