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...best seller. Curiously, there is no evidence that Chanel ever actually visited China or even Asia. "I expect the closest she got was something like Venice," says Valerie Steele, director of the museum at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. One can only speculate what impact a proper Asian sojourn would have had on a designer whose love of Chinese style permeates her label's products to this...
Kuraj, as Silvia di Natale notes in her remarkable first novel of that name, is a Kyrgyz word for a kind of bush that is blown across the Central Asian steppes by winter winds, shedding seeds, leaves and branches as it goes. The English-language equivalent is tumbleweed, which certainly describes the book's tragically displaced heroine, Kaja, and in a sense the work itself. The talk of the 2000 Frankfurt Book Fair, Kuraj won a yurtful of literary prizes after it first appeared in Italy in the same year. Subsequent translations have charmed critics in France, Germany, Greece...
Forging the New: East Asian Painting in the Twentieth Century
Those willing to venture past the flashier Degas show currently at the Sackler museum will have the pleasure of discovering “Forging the New,” the less extensive but no-less-rewarding exhibit currently on display. Despite the subtitle “East Asian Painting in the Twentieth Century,” the show itself is a broader survey of all kinds of art from China, Japan, and Korea. The display of pieces ranging from classic paintings to ceramics to textiles, comprising over 75 pieces of the Sackler’s permanent collection, creates a broad...
Sponsored by the Office for the Arts, this concert features performances by the Asian American Dance Troupe, BlackCAST, Fallen Angels, the Jazz Band, the Kroks, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, the LowKeys, Steppers, and Kuumba. Saturday, October 15, 9 p.m., Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall...