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Taiwan-born X. Fang and Lebanese American George Jreije pay tasty homage to their respective backgrounds.

THE QUALITY OF ORIGINALITY is often strained in our judgments of artists, be they painters, sculptors or illustrators of children’s books. In a recent profile of Louise Nevelson in the Sunday Times Magazine, the sculptor speaks of her earliest encouragement by an art teacher in grade school: “. . . She held this up [Louise’s drawing of a flower] and said it was the best because it was original. That word was very big to a child. I clocked it; I knew that to be original was what it was all ...