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...artists, curators, collectors and hip young students, as well as curious foreigners. It also houses the local branch of the Beijing Art Now Gallery, www.artnow.cn, which opened at the beginning of the year and like its parent is tasked with identifying the very best contemporary Chinese art for major museum buyers. Be warned though: while the interiors at M50 may look rough and industrial, neither the art nor the coffee and cake in the piazza come cheap...
...Museum of Contemporary Art Nestling amid the trees and ponds of People's Park, the dramatic glass Museum of Contemporary Art, www.mocashanghai.org, opened two years ago and is the first privately owned, nonprofit contemporary art museum in the city. And boy is it contemporary. Screens flickering with slick animation created from images of old Shanghai; video projections that shift from fish to pebbles to branches; a roomful of storyboards inspired by manga - when I was there, these were all part of an exhibition tying in with Shanghai eArts, the biggest digital-arts festival in the world. Call...
...date, Prawoto's commissions have included a bookshop, a museum and 10 houses in Yogyakarta (none of which suffered more than superficial damage during the quake) as well as churches, cafés and community centers in Bali and Papua. Then there was his contribution to a 2003 architectural exhibition in Siena, Italy: large Roman-style archways, made of straw instead of triumphal stone because straw happened to be the most common local material...
...When it comes to design, Mangunwijaya spoke of the need for buildings to be intimately related to their external environments. Says Prawoto: "A building is not an autonomous object but also an emotional and social being." One of his more celebrated commissions, the award-winning Cemeti Art House museum in Yogyakarta, illustrates this well. In choosing neither to reference the imported Dutch Art Deco nor the syncretic "Indies" forms that proliferate in the city center - and by eschewing the predictable Modernist box - Prawoto has made a building that resonates with sense of place while seeming up to date. Its entrance...
...addition to presenting the museum-quality pieces on the table, Mrs. Yuki directed the feast as three waitresses served course after course with chilled sake specially brewed for the house. Like a symphony, kaiseki tempo alternates between big movements and adagio interludes. The meal follows a single seasonal theme, but each course features a different cooking method. The overture was mushiawabi--steamed abalone--a luxurious opening. A subdued salad of zuiki, or taro stems, seemed to say that opulence must avoid ostentation. The clear soup arrived, an important kaiseki moment. When we lifted the lacquer lids, an aromatic tsunami swept...