Tag Archives: China

In the swim of things: a conversation on the poetics and politics in He Xiangu’s debut film

by Tiffany Fung | Apr 26, 2017

In the swim of things: a conversation on the poetics and politics in He Xiangu’s debut film

by Tiffany Fung | Apr 26, 2017

Curator Siqiao Lu and artist-filmmaker Tiffany Fung discuss the borders that art trespasses and reconstructs in He Xiangu’s debut film “The Swim,” which premiered at the Guggenheim Museum in February 2017.

Xu Zhen & Armory Focus: China

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 7, 2014

Xu Zhen & Armory Focus: China

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 7, 2014

“Armory Focus: China” curator Philip Tinari discusses his selections for this year’s edition at the The Armory Show, including the work of artist Xu Zhen.

Reflections on Chinese Contemporary Art: Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, and Cai Guo-Qiang

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 5, 2014

Reflections on Chinese Contemporary Art: Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, and Cai Guo-Qiang

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 5, 2014

“Armory Focus: China” curator Philip Tinari discusses artists Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, and Cai Guo-Qiang.

Access 100 Artists: Get Involved!

by Rosanna Flouty | Jan 25, 2013

Access 100 Artists: Get Involved!

by Rosanna Flouty | Jan 25, 2013

Art21’s Director of Education, Rosanna Flouty, sends out a call to action. Get involved with our latest initiative, Access 100 Artists, and host a screening!

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Ai Weiwei: New Communication

by Claudine Isé | Jul 6, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Ai Weiwei: New Communication

by Claudine Isé | Jul 6, 2012

Art21’s latest Exclusive video: in one of his first on-camera interviews following his release from detention in 2011, Ai Weiwei discusses the potential for artists to express themselves online.

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Contemplating Nicotine: Xu Bing’s “Tobacco Project”

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Feb 10, 2012

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Contemplating Nicotine: Xu Bing’s “Tobacco Project”

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Feb 10, 2012

Sarah Hanley looks at an exhibition of works by Xu Bing that explore the extensive, tangled relationship between human beings and tobacco.

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, presented at The Smart Museum of Art in Chicago in 2000, was a metaphorical representation of It’s Me, a 1998 Chinese experimental art exhibition that was …

On View Now

On View Now | Back to the Future: Xu Bing, “The Living Word,” and the Legacy of 1989

by Max Weintraub | Aug 4, 2011

On View Now

On View Now | Back to the Future: Xu Bing, “The Living Word,” and the Legacy of 1989

by Max Weintraub | Aug 4, 2011

Perhaps the most seminal and certainly the most seismic moment in the history of Chinese contemporary art transpired at the National Gallery in Beijing in early February 1989.  On the …

On View Now

On View Now | An East Wind Swirls in Chelsea, Lately.

by Max Weintraub | Jul 7, 2011

On View Now

On View Now | An East Wind Swirls in Chelsea, Lately.

by Max Weintraub | Jul 7, 2011

In his recent show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, Ashley Bickerton, a founding member of the 1980s “Neo-Geo” movement alongside Jeff Koons and Peter Halley, continued his exploration of …

EVERYTHING TRANSFORMS

by Din Heagney | Jun 15, 2011

EVERYTHING TRANSFORMS

by Din Heagney | Jun 15, 2011

I first met Maya Kramer at a dinner party she was hosting at her home in one of the tree-lined compounds of the former French Concession in Shanghai. But it …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops

by Joe Fusaro | May 25, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops

by Joe Fusaro | May 25, 2011

Three things this week… Maika Pollack recently wrote a wonderful review in The New York Observer about the current Glenn Ligon show at the Whitney Museum. As I visited the …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Love Everyone’s Futures

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Apr 20, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Love Everyone’s Futures

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Apr 20, 2011

The rain finally stopped this past Sunday so that 1001 chairs (or at least a good few hundred of them) could be set up outside Chinese embassies across the globe …

Art21 Extended Play

Cao Fei: “PRD Anti-Heroes”

by Jonathan Munar | Apr 15, 2011

Art21 Extended Play

Cao Fei: “PRD Anti-Heroes”

by Jonathan Munar | Apr 15, 2011

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #140: Artist Cao Fei discusses her multi-media theatrical work “PRD Anti-Heroes” (2005), a play performed by non-professional actors. Investigating …

Turkish and Other Delights

Turkish and Other Delights | PiST///

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Apr 12, 2011

Turkish and Other Delights

Turkish and Other Delights | PiST///

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Apr 12, 2011

  PiST///Interdisciplinary Art Space is storefront gallery space and artist project co-directed by artists Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt. Opened in 2006, PiST/// is located in Istanbul’s Pangaltı neighborhood, a …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 2

by An Xiao | Dec 3, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 2

by An Xiao | Dec 3, 2010

Ai Weiwei. Sunflower Seeds, 2010. Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Photo courtesy of Aaron Chen. An Xiao follows up on yesterday’s post and continues her discussion with Bird’s …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1

by An Xiao | Dec 2, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1

by An Xiao | Dec 2, 2010

Artist Ai Weiwei in conversation with Tate Modern curator Katie Hill, October 2010. Photo by An Xiao. This past summer, Jennifer Ng and I launched Bird’s Nest: Ai Weiwei in …
Installation shot of "Effervescent Condition" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Left) Yefeng’s "Battelfield," (right) Sampson’s Dodgedraw on the right, Dodgedraw participant

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Effervescent Condition, curated by Fang-Tze Hsu (MA 2010) was the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) contribution to The Power of Copying, a large-scale, international group exhibition held …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 31, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 31, 2010

Work by Season 4 duo Allora & Calzadilla is currently on view at the Aspen Art Museum in the exhibition Restless Empathy. The exhibition examines the process of entering the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 26, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 26, 2009

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will host a talk with Season 3 artist Matthew Ritchie and brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner (of indie rock band The National) on Saturday, …

Some Thoughts on China + Transformation

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 31, 2009

Some Thoughts on China + Transformation

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 31, 2009

In the final week of the Transformation series, I’ve asked a number of people with diverse points of view to offer their thoughts on the topic. To kick things off, …

Flash Points

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 20, 2009

Flash Points

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 20, 2009

In celebration of the fifth season of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, premiering this fall on PBS, the current round of Flash Points topics correspond to our upcoming four thematic …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

The Cincinnati Art Museum has announced an exhibition of prints by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear. The show is scheduled to open December 2009.   Barbara Kruger (Season 1) is …

Catching Feelings

by Julia Steinmetz | May 6, 2009

Catching Feelings

by Julia Steinmetz | May 6, 2009

I’ve been trying to ignore all of the panic and mania surrounding swine flu, since as far as I know anxiety has not yet been proven to afford protection against …

U.S. Embassy in Beijing

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 13, 2008

U.S. Embassy in Beijing

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 13, 2008

On the occassion of the 2008 Olympic Games, the new American Embassy in Beijing opened last Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Though not as prominent as the architectural “monuments” of …

Sound and Vision: A Night with Barry McGee, Japanther, and PAPER RAD

by Marc Mayer | Jul 23, 2008

Sound and Vision: A Night with Barry McGee, Japanther, and PAPER RAD

by Marc Mayer | Jul 23, 2008

A full roster of public programs accompany Life on Mars, the Carnegie International 2008. On Thursday, July 24th Douglas Fogle, curator of the 55th Carnegie International, will host a conversation …

1968 | 2008

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 24, 2008

1968 | 2008

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 24, 2008

This is not the first time that Summer Olympics Games are embroiled in environmental and political controversies. In 1968, Mexico City, with its high altitude containing 30% less oxygen than …

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

On Wednesday June 25th at 7:00 p.m., the Goethe-Institut New York and the Austrian Cultural Forum will co-host a conversation between Jörg Heiser and Brian Sholis, editor at Artforum.com. The …

U.S. Embassy Makes Olympic Rings

by Rosanna Flouty | May 12, 2008

U.S. Embassy Makes Olympic Rings

by Rosanna Flouty | May 12, 2008

These big metallic tulips aren’t just going to be on view in Spain, where they are permanently installed along the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao‘s riverside façade, above. An edition of Tulips …