Su Mei Tse

If there's a common quality among the finest national pavilions at the Venice Biennale, it is simplicity. A perfect example is Canada's lone offering: a witty, elegant tribute to the 400th anniversary of Champlain's New France explorations. Spanning six screens, Jana Sterbak's video work, titled "From Here to There," is a sweet epic chronicling contemporary explorations along the banks of the St.

When is a copy of a work of art not just a copy but a work of art itself? And when is copying not merely an exercise in imitation or homage but an act of creativity and self-awareness? These are among the tricky questions raised in "Through Masters' Eyes" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LACMA commissioned Lee Mingwei, a Taiwan-born conceptual artist now based in Berkeley and New York, to come up with a project that would showcase contemporary Asian art.