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Critics chalk up Calder's previous low standing to the abundance of sculptures he made in the '60s for corporate plazas, which are labeled "mostly boring" (Robert Hughes, Time ). (Click here for the National Gallery site.)
The Friendship Store on east Chang’an Avenue and the aging Wangfujing Department Store (255 Wangfujing Dajie), once purveyors of Beijing’s most up-to-date fashions and top merchandise, have been superseded by the sudden eruption of huge shopping malls and plazas.
The Xidan shopping district, about 2 km (11⁄2 miles) west of the Forbidden City, is working on two new massive shopping plazas of its own to compete with Wangfujing’s Sun Dong An Plaza.
On my way out of town, I drive through a fold in time,a tunnel through the history of shopping:boarded-up storefronts on the narrow commercial streets,the old strips and plazas with a muffler shop or a chicken fryer left,and larger sites--a five-and-dime blown out into a warehouse,fast-food shops, all local chains now,with their scratchy speakers and pot-holed drive-thru lanes;then the first real malls, big as aircraft carriers, low and blocky,their outlying coffee shops and two-screen theaters like escorts;at last a quieting stretch, the freeway growing wallsand the walled tracts all around nestled in their names--The Willows, Hunt Club Crossing, Hidden Acres--their malls planted, soft-colored, smoothly designed,broad single lumps surrounded by asphalt prairie,distant and unobtrusive as buttes.
Department stores and clothing stores in shopping plazas carry a full range of wool and cashmere garments in Western sizes, well made and priced far below overseas retail markets.
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