Since the institution of China’s “one child” policy in 1979, some 80,000 Chinese girls have been adopted by American families. Prompted by her own adoption of a daughter, filmmaker Linda Goldstein Knowlton probes these adoptees’ experiences through a portrait of four remarkable Chinese-American teenagers on a journey to discover their pasts, returning to China to…
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Ai Weiwei | Grand Army Plaza, NYC
One of China’s most visible and outspoken contemporary artists, Ai Weiwei has had a challenging relationship with Chinese authorities, who placed him under house arrest last fall and demolished his studio. Now, Ai Weiwei has sent his first major public art installation to the United States. The monumental piece, “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” is current…