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...regardless of whether or not an artist chooses personal artistic motivations over commercial pandering, how does he or she culturally translate their “Chinese art” for the international market? What’s more, there is the subtler question of how Chinese artists will be able to relate to non-Chinese viewers without having to DECLARE with every work “I am Chinese, and this is Chinese...
...Beijing and Shanghai today, the famous rhetorical question posed by a British textile tycoon before the Opium War—what if every Chinese added just one inch of fabric to their clothing?—has found new meaning as a generation of Chinese artists now ask What if every European collector bought just one of my paintings? As Zhu Qi, author of the essay Art Capitalism in China writes, showings of Chinese art have become an “assessment index of artist’s position in art scenes and of his market price...
...among the most salient being that joyous cheerful red, as if red had nothing to do with blood and sorrow but was rather the emblem of happiness.” The positioning of the fantastical next to the historical and both of them next to the possible throws into question what exactly is real. Moya examines Latin American politics and nationalism closely, especially the struggle for power between the Catholic Church and the government’s military. His well-traveled outlook on the world, however, lends his book applicability to address more than the geographically immediate subject of interest...
...There is no question that Perry’s pop confection “I Kissed a Girl” was the song of the summer—love it or hate it (and many do), the Billboard Hot 100 has been tasting cherry Chapstick for 20 weeks and counting. Even New York Magazine’s imperious “Vulture” blog had to admit the song’s success, but not without threatening to move to Canada...
...there,” Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) board member Olivia A. Benowitz ’09 says. “I just think that if we’re going toward finding a solution about integrating the art into the Harvard community, the first question is why Harvard students aren’t coming to see the shows.” Benowitz, among other students, feels that the A.R.T. needs to improve its student outreach. “If Harvard doesn’t feel like it’s the A.R.T.’s friend, then...