In a New York show Chinese artist Cao Fei has some brilliant video installations commenting on what gets lost in the name of "progress" - in this case the fast-paced economic development and urbanization of China in recent decades.

"La Town" is probably my favorite piece. It's a nicely-paced video of scenes in a miniature semi-dystopian urban landscape in China. (It could be anywhere where urbanization has come too fast and without care.) The landscape is populated by figurines and the occasional Western brands such fast food chains. Cute touches with color and the brands brush against the otherwise bleak, gray landscapes. What brings these landscapes to life is the poetic and musical sound track- sometimes echoing Renais's use of voice-overs on memory and forgetfulness after a disastrous event in "Hiroshima Mon Amour."

Another video "Whose Utopia" shows workers doing monotonous, dehumanizing assembly work in a Chinese factory. In contrasting footage, Cao Fei asks these workers to act out their dreams. The result is always moving and sometimes very sad.