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...Another irony is that both März and Blume worked as curators in the National Gallery in East Germany. For März, 64, who sports shoulder-length gray hair and a walrus mustache, the exhibit attempts to distinguish art that stands the test of time from socialist kitsch. That meant excluding some well-known work from the period, such as Walter Womacka's idyllic couple in Junges Paar am Strand (Young Couple at the Beach), a Norman Rockwell-like painting that could once be found in many East German homes. Some critics complain that such exclusions constitute...
...Anticipating by six months France's 2004 cultural "Year of China," the exhibit offers an overview of contemporary Chinese art, with nearly 100 works by 50 artists, ages 28 to 48, along with a spectacular 80-sq-m scale model of Beijing and a fascinating French collection of Maoist kitsch. While there's nothing truly groundbreaking in sight, this officially sanctioned show leaves no doubt about how far mainstream Chinese art has come since the days of the Cultural Revolution, and provides vivid proof that Chinese artists now have the right to be just as zany as their Western counterparts...
...invisible at Harvard. On this campus, it’s all fun and games—it’s the cheeky self-celebrations of the cross-dressed Hasty Pudding, or the flock of final clubs punches humiliating themselves outside the Science Center. But in the midst of this kitsch is a small population for whom gender concerns aren’t just a way to get a laugh...
...under way or about to open in American museums. There are Himalayan bronzes and paintings in Chicago, Mongol ceramics and carvings in Los Angeles, and Japanese animation figures in West Palm Beach, Fla. If you go online before March 29, you can snag a fair example of Totalitarian Kitsch at the Sotheby's/eBay auction of Maoist artifacts www.sothebys.com) At last glance, $172.50 would get you three red plastic badges with cameo silhouettes of the Great Helmsman. And when the new and improved Peabody Essex Museum reopens in June, it will feature on its grounds an early 19th century Chinese merchant...
Cohen said the redesign process should avoid the tendency to “turn the actuality of all these individualities into an abstract kitsch memorial...