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Anita Gates

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Kenya The New York Times entertainment
17 Aug 2024
There you are in Hong Kong, making your way through the convention center and this newest iteration of Art Basel. Ah! There’s a group of bamboo and rattan sculptures by Sopheap Pich, the Cambodian artist, inspired by trees in his homeland. And there, at the same booth, a new map — she’d call it a cartographic work — by Tiffany Chung, the Vietnamese artist. Maybe it’s a new addition to “The Vietnam Exodus Project,” whose images Holland Cotter described in The New York Times as “personal, polit...
Art Basel's Asian Art Gets to Hong Kong via New York and Los Angeles
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
17 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — That’s Japan on your left. The first thing you may notice, inside a glass case filled with musical instruments, is the eighth-century koto, a long, low instrument with strings sometimes played while sitting on the floor. Southeast Asia is on your right. What looks like a small crocodile is a 19th-century mi-gyaung, or crocodile zither, from Myanmar (when it was Burma).
Met Gives Music Gallery a Makeover