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International Pop is in town—celebrate with us at A Pop Party. This bold and bright event is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Young Friends. Look forward to music by DJ Gillian Sagansky and Zem Audu, an open bar, and a retro-chic feel. Come with us around the world and back again in one night, Saturday, Feb. 27. Get your ticket now.

As the Tang dynasty disintegrated, Chinese artists sought permanence within nature, retreating into the mountains to find a sanctuary from real world chaos. Following in the footsteps of her creative heritage, Beijing based artist Fu Xiaotong updates traditional Chinese landscape painting with a modern twist. Using only a tiny needle, she meticulously pierces thousands of pinholes into large sheets of Xuan paper in a repetitive manner similar to Pointillism. It’s difficult to appreciate the scale and detail of her work through these images alone, some measuring larger than Xiaotong herself, who stands on a tall ladder to reach the peaks of waves and mountain tops that each picture depicts.