NPR Topics: Visual ArtsNPR explores the visual arts including design, photography, sculpture, and architecture. Interviews, commentary, and audio. Subscribe to the RSS feed.Chinese Contemporary Art Gains New Audience- July 13, 2008 A new exhibit of Chinese artists opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this week. The exhibit highlights a common theme in modern Chinese art: the conflict between the individual and the collective. China recently surpassed France as the world's third largest art market and prices are rising quickly.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92499310&ft=1&f=1047 Philadelphia Museum Shaped Early American Culture- July 13, 2008 Museums were a source of education and entertainment in early America. Philadelphia artist and naturalist Charles Willson Peale helped shape American culture by establishing what was the country's first public museum of art and science.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92388477&ft=1&f=1047 |