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...Artists who rejected political pressure and continued to produce "art for art's sake" did so discreetly, forming an underground movement later called the No Name Group. One of the genuine surprises in the Asia Society show is a collection of works from these largely overlooked artists, such as Ma Kelu's Morning Snow, a delicate Impressionist-influenced winter scene in blues, browns and white...
...befits the subject, the Asia Society show has not been without controversy. China's Culture Ministry refused exit papers for several works, suggesting lingering unease about the Cultural Revolution. That sensitivity is not shared by art collectors, however. Some model artworks have sold in Beijing for over $1 million. One wonders what Mao would have made of that...
...1960s, Warren M. Robbins, 85, raised $13,000 and took out a mortgage to buy the former home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House in hand, he established the Museum of African Art with work purchased during his travels abroad...
Plans to incorporate an art-making component into the General Education curriculum and create a new Dramatic Arts concentration will likely be affected by the hold on faculty searches at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Greenblatt said...
Last Wednesday, Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) and the Humanities Center inaugurated their joint lecture series, “The Church of What’s Happening Now,” with a conversation with wunderkind video artist Paul Chan—which I think is hysterical...