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Milwaukee Art Museum focuses on China EXPERIENCE 3,000 years of Chinese art and cul- ture in five exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum beginning this month. The Summer of CHINA is part of a year-long celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the Museum’s Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion. The feature exhibition is The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City. Through Sept. 11, 90 objects from the Qianlong Garden and the Forbidden City—murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades, and cloisonné—are available for public viewing for the first time. The museum is the exhibition’s last site, and one of only three in the world to host it. While the objects are in the United States, the Palace Museum and World Monuments Fund are restoring structures within the Qianlong Garden, 64 and the objects will be permanently housed there. The internationally funded project is expected to be completed by 2019. The Milwaukee Art Museum’s other related exhi- bitions are Warriors, Beasts, and Spirits: Early Chinese Art from the James Conley Collection, through Aug. 28; Emerald Mountains: Modern Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, through Sept. 11; On Site: Zhan Wang June through Sept. 11 and Way of the Dragon: The Chinoiserie Style, 1710–1830, June 30-Nov. 6. The Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Dr. on the lakefront, is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays. Admission is $14 for adults, $12 for students with ID, seniors 65 and older, and active military, and free the first Thursday every month. All special exhibitions are included in the entrance fee.