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...Carmelites. Through Feb. 19. Presented by Dunster House Opera Society. Dunster House Dining Hall. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $20 general; $8 students; $7 Dunster residents.Doublehung: Exhibitions I & II. Exhibition I through Feb. 11; Exhibition II through Feb. 24. Carpenter Center. Free.Quantum Grids: Cai Guo-Qiang, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, and Fred Tomaselli. Through April 16. Carpenter Center. Free.“To Delight the Eye”: French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap. Through Mar. 12. Fogg Museum.To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection...
...published on their sites. The result: knowing they were being watched, all but the bravest Web users played it safe. "The best censorship is self-censorship, and China relies on solid work by the secret police to make people censor themselves and keep the Internet under control," says Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California, Berkeley journalism school...
...Buddhist temple bell was struck by a life-size bronze cast of the artist's naked body. For whom the bell tolls ? These days in the world of contemporary art, it seems to be tolling for China - from established art stars like Zhang and gunpowder virtuoso Cai Guo-Qiang to the new generation of artists, spawned by the sprawling studio complexes of Beijing and Shanghai, who seem to show up at every international biennale these days. Curator Binghui Huangfu, director of Sydney's Asia-Australia Arts Centre, predicts that over the next 20 years the art world will be increasingly...
...Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist Li Qiang), its imperfect characters and its emotional restraint in depicting the harshness of daily life in China...
...incomplete transition from command to market economy, many among the class of workers the country's nominally Marxist-Leninist leaders are supposed to protect?the Lumpenproletariat?are experiencing the very capitalist dystopia Marx envisioned. "There's more economic development than ever before, but workers' rights are overlooked," says Li Qiang, director of the New York City-based rights-monitoring group China Labor Watch. "You can take the name Communist Party and cut it up. This is maximum capitalism...