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...Though they were produced in murderous times, the works at the Asia Society are almost uniformly cheery, following the dictum of Jiang Qing, Mao's fourth wife and ultimate cultural arbiter, that art be "red, bright and shining." In other words: propaganda. Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu and co-curator Zheng Shengtian argue in the show's excellent catalog, however, that, didactic or not, socialist art represented a "significant cultural movement in China" - one that produced some "truly great art," especially paintings, and that such works "continue to influence Chinese visual culture." The contemporary installation artist Xu Bing, whose...
...Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...most distinguished law professors—Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and Cass R. Sunstein ’75, Obama’s erstwhile colleague at the University of Chicago—emerged as staunch backers of his presidential campaign. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached ajiang@fas.harvard.edu. —Check TheCrimson.com throughout the evening for updates...