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You can catch him on giant posters, on the walls of living rooms, and in sculptural bust form in restaurants, but there's one place in China you won't be seeing Chairman Mao this year — art museums. The Chinese government has removed 10 of Andy Warhol's Mao paintings from the mainland stops of the t
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The first survey of Chinese installation artist Lin Tianmiao at Asia Society, called Bound Unbound, could not have a more fitting title. The artist’s sartorial sculptures, grotesque bodies, and fibrous compositions illustrate an artist bound by cultural convention creating art unbound in technique a
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BEIJING — "BEIJING AUTUMN: OFF THE RADAR ART RESISTANCE IN CAOCHANGDI ---CCD300" is the SMS that was sent to advertise an exhibition project called Manmade and Natural Disasters, started by a group of artists living and working in the Caochangdi art village to the northeast of Beijing. A similar not
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Could traditional Chinese artists little known in the west take over the global art market? Bloomberg notes that auction price indexes for Li Keran, a prominent 20th-century Chinese landscape painter, are growing at a faster rate than Edvard Munch, the western master behind "The Scream," a version o
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Today China's biggest online food retailer, Yihaodian, announced one of the most amazingly weird plans I've ever heard: the company will roll out 1,000 virtual supermarkets around the country. The stores — spanning 1,200 square meters (roughly 12,900 square feet) in virtual space and stocking about
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Last Thursday, the Chinese government rejected artist Ai Weiwei's appeal of a $2.4 million fine levied against his FAKE design studio company for tax evasion, a charge that most regard as trumped up to justify the artist's arrest last year. Ai says there's no way he'll pay.
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Even before the current documentary about him was out in theaters, Ai Weiwei had become the poster child for China's repression of dissenting artists. But Der Spiegel has a profile of 30-year-old Zhao Zhao, a former assistant of Ai's and an artist in his own right who's been facing increased pressur
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Seemingly all of the United States was put into a fashion frenzy last week when it was brought to the media’s attention that the Ralph Lauren-designed uniforms for the 2012 US Summer Olympic team with their all-American flair (and hideous berets) were produced in China.
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A recent series of comics that appeared on Sina Weibo show the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda comics in 1950, depicting China 60 years later, i.e., in 2010.
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Alison Klayman’s 90-minute film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry set out to be a portrait of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and along the way morphed into a highbrow, jaw-dropping reality show about fumbling, corrupt governments (China), social media (Twitter), democracy and art (Weiwei) and the power of the st
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LOS ANGELES — Chinese installation artist and activist Wu Yuren, who was arrested on questionable charges last year, has reported on Twitter that as of March 30 the charges have been dropped and that he has received his passport back.
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LOS ANGELES — One thing many Americans notice about first-tier Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai is that there are very few homeless people. Indeed, life on the margins in major Chinese cities often means life literally on the margins, away from the public eye.