“These photos explore what the Chinese-American identity is, a coming-of-age story about the merging of two, sometimes polarizing, cultures. As I used art to understand our place and contributions in the country’s social landscape, I noticed something else.”
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The Whitney’s Curators Mount A Big Show In The Museum’s New Renzo Piano Digs Downtown
“The show they’ve created is not a comprehensive survey of American art history, but rather a thematic look at ‘overlapping narratives,’ says De Salvo, told through a selection from the 22,000 pieces in the Whitney’s wide-ranging collection.”
How Our Understanding Of War-Looted Artwork Is Changing The Art Marketplace
“There are hundreds of cases out there that are still unsolved. We are only beginning to realise that this was the most gigantic theft, aside from the terrible human loss involved.”
San Francisco Symphony Experiments With Another New Way To Bring In A Younger Crowd
“The series is just four months old, and the symphony has made some unusual marketing choices — like not putting a link to Soundbox on its homepage.”
The London Skyline Campaign Is Trying To Save The Wrong Thing
“The look of these buildings matters as does the way they fit into existing surroundings, as does their impact on the street environment. But the height of them isn’t what matters most. It’s whether they provide the homes, offices and shops that the city and its people need.”
An Actor Who Parlayed Her Dance Career Into Serious Movie Roles
Sally Forrest, who died March 15 at age 86, “began studying dance at an early age and was signed to an MGM contract shortly after graduating from high school. She had several uncredited roles as a dancer before being cast as a woman who has a child out of wedlock in the 1949 drama ‘Not Wanted.'”
A Chinese-American Artist’s Pastels Inspired The Look Of Walt Disney’s ‘Bambi’
“Inspired by Chinese landscape paintings, [Tyrus Wong] used watercolor and pastels to make sample sketches that evoked forest scenes with simple strokes of color and special attention to light and shadow. … Wong’s sketches caught Disney’s eye and became the guide for Bambi’s background artists, who were later trained to mimic his style.”