tag:flavorpill.com,2005:/newyork/venues/asia-society 2012-05-27T00:00:00-07:00 tag:flavorpill.com,2005:EventListing/70625 2012-05-26T15:00:00Z 2012-05-26T15:00:00Z Today   Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010) stands as one of the most important artists of twentieth-century China. Born in Jiangsu Province, Wu studied art at the National Academy of Art in Hangzhou (today’s China Academy of Art) and, from 1947, in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. He returned to China after three years and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His works were condemned before and during the Cultural Revolution because his oil paintings did not comply with the political interests of the time. In spite of this he continued to paint and emerged as a national cultural figure whose works came to be celebrated inside and outside China. He is also well known for his eloquent writings on art and creativity that sometimes led to controversies and spawned heated debates among Chinese artists and intellectuals. Wu Guanzhong created works that embody many of the major shifts and tensions in twentieth-century Chinese art—raising questions around individualism, formalism, and the relationship between modernism and cultural traditions. tag:flavorpill.com,2005:EventListing/70101 2012-06-04T22:30:00Z 2012-06-04T22:30:00Z Monday 6/ 4   An area known by three different names - South China Sea, East Sea, and West Philippine Sea - the waters surrounding the Spratly and Parcel Islands are some of the most contested in the world owing largely to the energy reserves believed to lie beneath them. China, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam and Brunei all have claims to this area.  While China has called the area a “core interest” of sovereignty, U.S. Secretary of State Clinton also explained that, “The United States has a national interest in freedom of navigation open access to Asia’s maritime domain.” Competing claims over territory and energy have become a source of international tension and threaten peaceful passage through this waterway. For the parties involved, there is little alternative but to arrive at a negotiate settlement, yet therein lies the challenge – China prefers bilateral negotiations while the other economies of Southeast Asia prefer multilateral discussions through ASEAN.  Will resolution be found and how will this conflict unfold in light of the U.S. “strategic pivot” to the region? tag:flavorpill.com,2005:EventListing/72025 2012-06-08T22:30:00Z 2012-06-08T22:30:00Z Shorts Friday 6/ 8 Highlighting some of the most exciting new voices in cinema, these seven award-winning shorts, including live action and animation, offer rich insight into the imagination and creative impulse of seven U.S.-based filmmakers. Program attended by filmmakers. Reception to follow.   Program: Radius Squared Times Heart, Uguisu, Frog in the Well, Into The New World, Corazon en Fuego / Heart on Fire, The 8th Samurai Dir. Justin Ambrosino, Together: Dancing with Spinner Dolphins Dir. Chisa Hidaka tag:flavorpill.com,2005:Giveaway/3505 2012-05-22T21:15:38Z 2012-05-24T18:18:19Z http://scty.asia/xFbAiI Tue Jun 05 17:13:00 UTC 2012