April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8

The only bilingual Chinese-English Newspaper in New England

Day: December 24, 2022

The Artist in Motion: An Interview with Yun-Fei Ji

World-renowned painter and Beijing native Yun-Fei Ji has had solo and group exhibitions in such locations as worldly as Hawaii, Belgium, Iceland, and Italy. He has works in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Drawing Center in New York, the Worcester Art Museum, and Brandeis University.  SAMPAN recently had the opportunity to speak with Ji, regarding his fifth solo exhibition at the James Cohan Gallery in New York City, The Sunflower Turned Its Back, running through January 7, 2023. Ji’s stunning evocations of […]

Air Monitoring in Chinatown: Next Steps from MassDEP

Should you go for a run today? If you live in Chinatown, you may want to stick to the treadmill. The neighborhood is strangled by major highways and roads, and every day thousands of automobiles pump harmful pollutants into the air. Over the years, studies from Tufts University School of Medicine have measured high levels of ultrafine particles in Chinatown. In 2019 the area received the dubious distinction of having the worst air quality in the state. Low air quality […]

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