| Wide Skies: Recent Art of the American West Tours China |
| EXHIBITION SCHEDULE FOR OUT WEST |
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16 Feb 07 - 04 Mar 07 / |
Meridian International Center, Washington, DC |
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29 Mar 07 - 24 Apr 07 / |
National Art Museum of China, Beijing |
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04 May 07 - 02 Jun 07 / |
Urumqi Art Museum, Urumqi |
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12 Jun 07 - 04 Jul 07 / |
Shanxi Art Museum, Xi'an |
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14 Jul 07 - 04 Aug 07 / |
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Painting Institute, Shanghai (NGS Exhibit) |
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18 Aug 07 - 10 Sep 07 / |
Qingdao Modern Art Centre, Qingdeo |
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24 Sep 07 - 30 Oct 07 / |
Guangzhou City Museum, Guanqzhou |
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15 Nov 07 - 31 Dec 07 / |
Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, Hong Kong |
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February 08 / |
Missoula, Montana |
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| Inside the Museum at Urumqi, China |
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Urumqi, which is in Western China, is the capital of Xinjiang Province. Urumqi is five hours by air from Beijing. The exhibition is special since it was the first time an large American exhibition of any kind has visited this remote city. The exhibit was shown in a brand new museum on the University grounds. On the left is the orginal painting "Five Cents" by Rhett Lynch
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| Meridian International Center, headquarted in Washington, D.C., is organizing an exhibition on the American West for circulation in China beginning in early 2007. The exhibition, Out West: The Great American Landscape, is a curtural exchange project and has been heartily endorsed by the Ministry of Culture of China. Out West is the second part of an exchange begun by Ancient Threads, Newly Woven, an exhibition organized jointly by Meridian and the China International Exhibition Agency in Beijing on contemporary art from the Silk Road of Western China, now on tour in the United States. Out West, which will tour China, is to bear the Olympic logo and will be part of the cultural dimension of the 2008 Olympics and of the curtural presentations leading up to the games themselves. Read Entire article |
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