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EXPERIENCE 3,000 years of Chinese art and cul- ture in six exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum. 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, ninety objects from the Qianlong Garden and the Forbidden City—murals, paintings, furni- ture, architectural components, jades, and cloison- né—are shown 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 andWorld Monuments Fund are restoring structures within the Qianlong Garden, and the objects will be permanently housed there. The internationally funded project is expected to 64 Milwaukee Art Museum explores 3,000 years of Chinese culture be completed by 2019. The Milwaukee Art Museum’s other related exhi- bitions areWarriors, Beasts, and Spirits: Early Chinese Art from the James Conley Collection, through Sept. 11; Emerald Mountains: Modern Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, through Aug. 28; On Site: ZhanWang, through Sept. 11;Way of the Dragon: The Chinoiserie Style, 1710–1830, through Nov. 6, and Chinese ContemporaryWarriors, through December 2011. The Milwaukee Art Museum is located at 700 N. Art Museum Dr. on the lakefront and is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Mondays through Labor Day. Regular hours are 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.