Like well-written prose, the current exhibition of works from the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, in Hartell Gallery teaches its audience how to view, or read, it. This is especially helpful because the audience of a show so far from its home is inherently foreign. Although the artistic language of artists from the eastern and western hemispheres is similar enough, the tone of the works from half a world away is perhaps unfamiliar to the western viewer. The show’s teaching mechanism refrains from being didactic; rather, it unobtrusively introduces a lens through which to understand its elements.