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...retrospective of more than 100 paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, curated by Diane Waldman for the Guggenheim Museum, you can almost cut the atmosphere of deja vu with a knife. Doubtless, part of this is due to the artist's prolonged success in the marketplace; Lichtenstein is a very prolific artist, and his works are in most museums. But their effect has spread far beyond the originals. His images, coming initially out of mass reproduction itself, slide back into it with the utmost ease and have done so for the past 30 years, filling memory with tiny Lichtenstein clones...
Fogg Art Museum. "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection" considers tht vital moment in the history of avant-garde painting in New York by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Barnett Newman. Through...
...movie, set in Manhattan, centers around Wai-Tung, (Winston Chao), a Taiwanese Yuppie, and his lover of five years, Simon(Mitchell Lichtenstein). Wai-Tung's unsuspecting parents, who live in Taiwan, are worried their only son will never marry, and as a result constantly suggest suitable young women for Wai-Tung. They even go so far as to enroll Wai-Tung in a dating service in Taiwan. Wai-Tung, in an effort to end his parents' badgering, describes his ideal woman as 5'9", a double Ph.D, an opera singer and fluent in five languages. Even this did not stop...
...Wedding Banquet is slimmer, more anecdotal, but has the same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung...
...Nelson N. Lichtenstein, a professor of 20th century American history at the University of Virginia, says that Harvard's lack of senior scholars in social and cultural history "become[s] a bit of a joke" in the academic community...