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...made her way to Los Angeles, she was based in Denver, where she was widely accepted by women and by the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. I was her comedy partner from 1977 to 1980. Marilyn got laughs for some raunchy material but was also political and avant-garde. We played throughout the U.S., and I'm glad to know that her work with me supported her subsequent solo success. Many people of every hue and stripe will miss Marilyn. For all her tough talk, she was one of the sweetest people in the business. Judith Blair, BOULDER, COLO...
...Contrasts Gallery A pioneer of the city's gallery scene, Contrasts, www.contrastsgallery.com, was opened in 1992, just three years after government clampdowns on avant-garde artists (and that little blip at Tiananmen Square). It's owned and run by the Hong Kong-born entrepreneur, Pearl Lam. Her aim is to celebrate the best in Chinese modern art while exploring its relationship with 5,000 years of the country's artistic tradition. You can see some of the hottest names there - Sun Liang, Yang Bo, Chen Yun, Shao Fan and Hu Youben among them. Classy, collectible stuff - if you're rich...
...command of the material is so complete, and his guidance through it so gentle, that although some of the groupings he proposes seem opaque (“Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz;” “Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties”), with a little reading and a little faith the connections soon become clear.The effortless brilliance of his modular style is that, after building up one school of thought, he can quickly dismantle it and show which pieces became part of adjacent schools of thought...
...Mumbai-based artist Baiju Parthan has also abandoned a financial sure bet - mystical paintings that sell for tens of thousands of dollars - for a more avant-garde series called Source Code, as the building blocks of digital material are known. Parthan uses software to unearth the underlying source code of iconic images, then creates mesmerizing diptychs and triptychs that reference the computer economy defining modern India. His digital gamble could very well pay off. "To have real staying power, contemporary art from India has to have universal appeal," says director of Mumbai's Bodhi Art Gallery Sharmistha Ray, who notes...
...better luck finding a table at the newly opened branch in Shin Kong Place, tel: (86-10) 6530 5997. If you're into the cultural scene, check out what's onstage at Beijing People's Art Theatre, tel: (86-10) 6525 0996. The theater includes a small studio for avant-garde plays. You could also enjoy a movie at the New Century Cinema, tel: (86-10) 8518 6778, in Oriental Plaza, a huge shopping mall in the Wangfujing area. If you still feel like meeting some friends and having a chat, head over to the lounge bars along Sanlitun...