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Written by Kate Prengel on February 29, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town downtown, Museums, Our Town

Fu Baoshi adapts to revolution The title of The Metropolitan Museum’s new Chinese painting exhibit, Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), is misleading. The painter in question did live through the establishment of the Chinese Republic, the Sino-Japanese wars and the rise of the Communist party, but Fu is far more
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Written by Renfreu Neff on February 29, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts west side spirit, Museums, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Visitors entering the lobby of the Rubin Museum of Art are welcomed with soothing Eastern music played by live performers nestled in the curved foot of an elegant spiral staircase—the building is itself a landmarked structure created by the noted French architectural designer Andrée Putman for Barney’s, its previous incarnation—that rises six levels through galleries
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