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Twin cities usually grow up together. For Hong Kong and its dark alter ego Shenzhen, the relationship is something more akin to step-twins. Shenzhen was virtually decreed into existence: in 1980 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping clicked his fingers and invited the people of dynamic, British-owned Hong Kong to...
In some ways, this is a moment like the first decades of the 20th century, when biplanes, automobiles and skyscrapers looked like portents of a magnificent new world in the making. The essential task for many artists then was to align themselves with the dynamic forces of that world, to...
Much of Shanghai's so-called urban renewal stems from similarly short-sighted greed. In the mid-'90s, China's largest metropolis went on a building blitz. Across the muddy Huangpu river, a futuristic realm called Pudong materialized, filled with hubris and towering skyscrapers. Shanghai's suburbs expanded into the...
Answer: it just opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. "Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries" is a wonderfully informative show, assembled at the highest level of quality, full of protein, no fat. It is installed with perfect taste and simplicity--as it...
There were no cars in 1901, of course, and fewer tourists, and the ghastly Centre Pompidou, which rises like a colorblind child's Lego castle above the charming boulevards around the Place de la Bastille, was mercifully unbuilt. But the long avenues were the same, and the bridges and the...