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Monthly Archives: April 2023
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The most stimulating parts of this region are not the cities of Lijiang or Shangri-La, but the more remote Tibetan areas. Tibetans have been subject to decades of forced assimilation to Han culture, but they still find room to practice small acts of subversion. One guide told me, for example, that monks have slipped a portrait of the Dalai Lama behind the portrait of the Panchen Lama in their monastery, allowing them to pray in good conscience.
~ Dan Wang via his 2022 letter
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Along with painters like Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko is considered one of the principal artists of the New York School, which radically changed American art after World War II.
~ Elisabetta Povoledo via The New York Times
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