Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
SOUL'D OUT with Gotham Chopra & Mao's image in Chinese Contemporary Art with Eliot Kiang
Gotham Chopra and Eliot Kiang speak about the documentary film SOUL'D OUT and Mao Zedong as an art icon respectively.
Eliot Kiang is the owner of the Morono Kiang Gallery, a contemporary art gallery located in the Bradbury Building in Downtown Los Angeles. Kiang's talk will especially focus on Mao and how Mao has become an icon in today's modern China.
Deepak Chopra is known as a spiritual counselor to millions around the world. To others he's a prophet for profit. To his film-maker son Gotham, he's none of the above, so what is he? Come get a glimpse of the answer when Gotham presents an excerpt of his in-progress documentary film SOUL'D OUT.
7:30pm Galleries, bar open
8pm Eliot Kiang of the Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles
8:30pm Gotham Chopra, Author, film-maker and co-founder of 'Liquid Comics'
9pm Q&A
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