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Heritage of the Brush, an exhibit of Chinese art, aims to depict major and fundamental trends in the field. While it frequently succeeds in illustrating an artistic development, and contains some terrific examples of Chinese art, this exhibit's treatment of the implications of an artistic heritage is, at best, cursory...
...other times, an artist will refer to his roots by inscribing a tribute within the actual painting. Thankfully, the organizers, Dr. Claudia Brown and Dr. Ju-hsi Chou, frequently inform the viewer of this, as in the case of Zhang Pengchong's Landscape: Brush Marks in Blue and Green (early 18th cent.) This pain ting's subtle coloring is inspired by Sheng Zhou, an artist who worked 300 years earlier...
...From an elegant window, official tassels glitter against a clear view of the sky;/ Clouds enter, and one could stoop them along with one's sleeves./ There is no predicting whether I'll return to this place again;/ About to leave, I brush past the rocks and waste a new verse...
Imagine a duet of dueling megastars: the chandelier from Phantom of the Opera and the helicopter from Miss Saigon. Or a dance number that redubs Tommy Tune's somber, doomy Grand Hotel as Grim Hotel. Or a patter song to the tune of Brush Up Your Shakespeare, in which I Hate Hamlet star Nicol Williamson celebrates the joys of humbling his co-stars. This sort of humor -- a cunning blend of insiderish wit and broad clowning -- has made Forbidden Broadway an institution. Since 1982 it has played off-Broadway, enjoying the goodwill and legal cooperation of the very creators...
...reference is apt. Like Thoreau, Iyer combines an acute sense of place with a mordant irony. The revealing detail is his specialty: he recalls "an old monk brush, brush, brushing a pathway clean . . . a sitting Buddha imparting a peace so strong it felt like wisdom . . . Yet one could never forget the world entirely. Floating up from below came the sound, plangent and forlorn, of a garbage collector's truck playing its melancholy song...