 
 Hedi Slimane After much rumor and speculation, Hedi Slimane and Dior Homme have parted ways. Read Paris Editor Timothy Hagy's reports. Hedi Slimane Leaves Dior Homme Kris Van Assche to Head Dior Homme
 Zac admires Loulou Academy of Art University Graduate Fashion Show is on Friday, April 27th at 7:00pm. 2007 guests of honor include Zac Posen, Loulou de la Falaise and Pulitzer Prize winner Robin Givhan. "Loulou de la Falaise is the woman I design for, imaginative, individual and forever chic," the designer Zac Posen declared to the International Herald Tribune. This will be an exciting and memorable evening for the fashion industry, and we can't wait to read what Robin writes about it for the Washington Post. www.academyart.edu 79 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, 94105 (415) 274-2222
 Roy Lichtenstein, Two Paintings: Dagwood, Works by Roy Lichtenstein, Vernon Fisher, Claes Oldenburg, Enrique Chagoya, and Peter Saul, continues in the Freidenrich Family Gallery. Selected from the Marmor Foundation and the Center's collections, the exhibition explores the appropriation of techniques and motifs from comic books by artist's commenting overtly on American culture. On display until April 22.
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
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 Swimming Pool From Beijing Beyond the Bank — Liu Qinghe Works, hosted and curated by renowned art critics Fan Dian and Yin Shuangxi, will be exhibited at the National Art Museum of China from March 28 to April 5, 2007. There will be over forty pieces of Liu Qinghe's new ink and wash works, with the reception starting at 3 pm on March 28. Liu Qinghe was born in 1961 in Tianjin City. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1987, and is now Deputy Professor at CAFA. Liu Qinghe is one of the earliest pioneers to develop the role of ink and wash painting and in using the medium to depict contemporary life. Since he exhibited in New Generations Art Exhibition in 1991 at the History Museum, his sustained efforts have produced a series of images in ink and wash which have become a representative symbol of contemporary painting. Liu's art practice has played an active role in the promotion of Chinese ink painting.
 Shanghai Museum Shanghai Museum, jointly with Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai presents Art In America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation. Co-organized with the Guggenheim Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art, this is the first survey exhibition of American art presented in the People's Republic of China. Approximately 130 important works of American art spanning the Colonial period to the present age, focusing on painting drawn from major U.S. and European collections will be featured. The exhibition premiered in Beijing at the National Art Museum of China in February and travels to Shanghai where it will be co-presented by the Shanghai Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, from May 1 to June 30, 2007. The exhibition features approximately 120 artists from the early 18th century to the present and includes: John Singleton Copley; Benjamin West; Charles Willson Peale; Gilbert Stuart; George Catlin; Frederic Edwin Church; Edward Hicks; Winslow Homer; Martin Johnson Heade; John Singer Sargent; Albert Bierstadt; Mary Cassatt; Childe Hassam; Frederick Remington; Marsden Hartley; Robert Henri; George Bellows; Charles Demuth; Georgia O'Keeffe; Stuart Davis; Thomas Hart Benton; Grant Wood; Norman Rockwell; Jackson Pollock; Willem de Kooning; Mark Rothko; Robert Motherwell; Robert Rauschenberg; Jasper Johns; Andy Warhol; Roy Lichtenstein; Donald Judd, Dan Flavin; Brice Marden; Chuck Close; Lawrence Weiner; Richard Prince; Keith Haring; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jeff Koons; Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Kara Walker; and Matthew Barney, among many others.
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