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Art and China's Revolution

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Asia Society
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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Drawing/Illustration, Multimedia/Installation, Museum Exhibits, Postwar/Contemporary

Photo by Eddie C.Y. Lam / Courtesy of the Asia Society

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$10, $7 seniors, $5 students, children under 16 free, Fri. 6–9 free

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Schedule

Thru 1/11/09	Tue-Thu, Sat-Sun, 11am-6pm; Fri, 11am-9pm

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Pity China’s aging ink painters, who saw their dainty renditions of birds and flowers dismissed as frilly and bourgeois in the decades under Chairman Mao. “Art and China’s Revolution” focuses on the next generation, who churned out scores of propagandist oil paintings in hopes of generating new “model works”: exalted images reproduced in newspapers and posters, hundreds of millions of times. — Miranda Siegel

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