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...Jesse Cohen, Cora K. Currier, Bora Fezga, Johnny H. Hu, Benjamin M. Jaffe, Lauren D. Kiel, Kevin C. Leu, Lingbo Li, Nini S. Moorhead, Alexandra Perloff-Giles, Michelle L. Quach, Lindsay P. Tanne, Shan Wang, Heekwon Seo, Chelsea L. Shover, David J. Smolinsky, Vidya B. Viswanathan, Maria Y. Xia, and Esther I. Yi contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
...stretch. Granted, your introduction to modern art course probably didn’t cover contemporary Chinese painters. All the more reason to head to the Sackler Museum and see them for yourself. “20th-Century Chinese Ink Paintings From the Collection of Chu-Tsing Li,” which opened last Saturday and runs through Jan. 28, 2008, is the first exhibition of its kind. For the first time, it presents a comprehensive look at the development of the genre and includes many paintings that have not been previously exhibited in the West. “People will...
...their tastes - and dollars - on locals. "The foreigners already have an idea of what they expect from Chinese art, and they are more interested in works that have obvious Chinese symbols," says Shanghai artist Ding Yi, whose Mondrian-inspired geometries hardly betray his nationality. "It's very seductive," acknowledges Li Liang, the owner of Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai. "You know that if you put things up that look Chinese, they will sell well." But others worry that this impulse will only encourage soulless facsimiles with little cultural resonance. Yue Minjun's laughing heads, for instance, have spawned dozens of smiling...
...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 Bar Street. One of the best is Jazz-Ya, tel: (86-10) 6415 1227, located on Sanlitun's popular Na Li alley. This short passageway is packed with fashion stores and restaurants, but Jazz-Ya stands out because of its free nighttime jam sessions...
...Statistics Department celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a two-day symposium, uniting professors, students, and alums with a shared passion for data sets, regressions, and standard deviations. The event kicked off on Friday morning with speeches from Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, Dean for the Physical Sciences Jeremy Bloxham, and University President Drew G. Faust, among others. The celebration featured panels on how sectors of the field have changed over the past 50 years, and speakers sought to show the impact that Harvard statistics faculty have had within their discipline. The weekend’s proceedings also served...