Jazzmen raise the tempo for New Orleans’ revival band
Financial Times April 27, 2006 The city’s music festival drives a springtime effort to lure back the visitors Budding branches on mansion-lined Saint Charles Avenue are not the only sign […]
Category Archives: Arts
Film’s image fades, eclipsed by digital
January 26 2004 Financial Times Kodak has signalled the beginning of the end for 35mm photography as a product for the mass market. Amy Yee asks what will be left […]
Mohawks celebrate dizzy heights of NY construction skills
Financial Times 4 September 2002 An exhibition near Ground Zero charts achievements of the native Americans who shaped the city’s skyline. On the morning of September 11, ironworker Herby Kirby […]
Ancient Art From Sichuan Twists Chinese History
The Asian Wall Street Journal May10, 2002 A summer’s day began like any other day for a group of Chinese brickworkers in the village of Sanxingdui, in Sichuan province. They […]
Scribbles From the Underground
The Asian Wall Street Journal 8 February 2002 During the dark years of China’s Cultural Revolution, the writer-artist Mu Xin was imprisoned in an abandoned air-raid shelter in Shanghai. His […]
Dancing Into the Future — Cambodia Restores Its Lost Culture
The Asian Wall Street Journal 28 December 2001 Traditionally in Cambodia, dance is the stuff of gods. For centuries, Cambodia’s folklore has been preserved in narratives enacted by prancing apsara, […]
Modern Chinese Painting Flies Like a Heavenly Horse
The Asian Wall Street Journal June 15, 2001 During the early 20th century, in a relatively short period of time, China’s longstanding imperial traditions crumbled and gave way to the […]
China on Its Toes – Dance and Allegory at Guangdong Modern
Wall Street Journal Asia May 25, 2001 Four dancers from the Guangdong Modern Dance Company are framed in squares of light on the floor of a dark stage. In silence, they pivot on their […]
Held together by the strings
Christian Science Monitor April 3, 2001 PROVIDENCE, R.I. Marconi Hernandez isn’t so different from most urban teenagers. The ninth-grader at Mount Pleasant High School in Rhode Island plays basketball and […]
Focused on China’s Fringe
The Asian Wall Street Journal January 21 2000 Atmospheric intimacy — often viscerally intense — is the hallmark of the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan. This time, he’s found it in […]
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