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...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...squeezed off buyers. By the following August, Basquiat was dead as well. How will the future regard him and his brethren? "Dying young is the easy way out," says Longo. "It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going." It pays to keep in mind something Zhou Enlai once said. On the bicentennial of the French Revolution, someone asked the erstwhile Chinese Communist Party leader what he thought its legacy would be. His answer: "It's too soon to tell." He should have been an art critic. --With reporting by Amy Lennard Goehner
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Among the exhibit's most strikingly bizarre objects is a gilt and silver ewer, which was entombed with Li Xian, a general during the short-lived Northern Zhou dynasty (559-581) in Ningxia. The ewer's shape is typical of the Sasanians who ruled the area that is now Iran, and whose designs the Chinese appropriated for everything from tableware to clothing. But it probably comes from Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological...