ART

Government Propaganda: Beijing’s main art museum has opened an exhibit called “Baptism of Blood and Fire,” an array of artwork glorifying the military assault that crushed this summer’s pro-democracy movement. The China Art Gallery show of 113 paintings, photographs, sketches, cartoons and works of calligraphy is the government’s latest effort to justify June’s quelling of what it calls a “counterrevolutionary rebellion.” The exhibit includes several paintings of wounded soldiers, one of whom shouts “I’m for the people, the people are for me” as he is helped through the smoke and fire of the June turmoil by a sympathetic citizen.