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The Father of Filipino Conceptual Art

MANILA, Philippines — Where does one start with Philippine contemporary art? So little is known outside the country, even amongst foreign-born Filipinos.

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World's Longest Graffiti Street in China?

MANILA, Philippines — As is so often said about Chongqing, you've never heard of it, but with 30 million people and rising, it's one of the largest municipalities in the world (for perspective, all of New York state has some 20 million people). Located in the heart of southwest China, a former city

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Art, Tech and the Tropics: Writing on Philippine Contemporary Art

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — What's up, Hyperallergic? I'm excited to begin blogging again more regularly this month. I've just landed in Manila, the bustling capital of the Philippines, to begin a month-long writing residency at Green Papaya Art Projects.

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Getting Naked for Ai Weiwei [NSFW]

BEIJING — When Ai Weiwei's assistant, Beijing artist Zhao Zhao, was brought in for questioning recently, the supposed charges were simple: distribution of pornography. The image in question was "One Tiger, Eight Breasts," a shot of Ai with four young women, all of them naked. I first saw the photo i

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"We Need to Ai Weiwei": The Ai Weiwei Question on Chinese Social Media

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — What has the response to Ai Weiwei's tax case been like in China? We've seen the thrilling surge of netizens lending over a million dollars to the artist, and he recently made a deposit while he contests the bill. The artist has returned to Twitter, posting actively once more.

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The INTERNETworked Bridge: Connected But Unequal

BEIJING — I moved to China almost a year ago now, into a country where I knew no one and where even the internet was foreign. I pulled away from my main social circle geographically, but did what I could do stay connected via the internet and phone. And yet, just as I turned to the internet for soci

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Postcards Home: Chen Ke and ChART Contemporary at Beijing Design Week

BEIJING — Anecdotally, Beijing, like New York, definitely feels like a city of immigrants and migrants. Few people I meet actually grew up in Beijing. For Beijing Design Week, Beijing artist Chen Ke partnered with Beijing curatorial lab ChART Contemporary to find a retro, more personal way to connec

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Asian Art Guide: Gwangju and Asia's Oldest Biennial

BEIJING — It's a four hour train from Seoul — two trains, to be precise, as a transfer is necessary. With a population of a little over a million people, it's the sixth-largest city in South Korea. That city is Gwangju, whose name means, literally, the bright province. It's a city of flashing neon l

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Restless and Peaceful with Li Wei

BEIJING — I arrived at Dongfeng Art District one afternoon, a 20-minute drive east of the more famous 798 and Caochangdi arts districts in northeast Beijing. It’s a short but somewhat winding drive away from the shinier parts of Chaoyang District, Beijing’s most economically-developed area. “Dongfeng” means “East Wind,

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The Art of Political Memes

Just a few days after I wrote posts on the state of cosplay in China and the street art-like responses to the Wenzhou train collision on Sina Weibo, I found this image circulating around Weibo. What's striking about it is how quickly it leapt from the online world into the offline world. I'm used to

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Chinese Art Activist Returns to Ruins of Bulldozed Arts District

BEIJING — Photographer and installation artist Wu Yuren (吴玉仁), who Hyperallergic profiled last year for his activist work, has returned after a year to visit 008 and Zhengyang Arts Districts, the site of a heated battle between the arts community and local developers and police officials.

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China's Instant Messenger and Why New Media Types Need It

It's a well-known truism that the internet in China is lousy. But business has to be done and file transfers have to be made. New media artists in particular, who can work with large complex files, would be at a loss if they relied on Western sites like YouSendIt (blocked), DropBox (blocked) and eve