After former KAWS fans burned their merch, the artwork, which was slated to go to auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on October 7, was taken down from the auction house’s website.
Tag: China
Traveling to China, Finding the Core of Art
If there is a folly to what Zhang Wei has done, there is also a defiance of the commercial aspect of the art world.
Signs of Chinese Animation’s Resurgence
This romantic fantasy shows that while Chinese animation still has a long way to go, it is continuing to make progress after decades of lagging behind in relevance.
When a Chinese Company Resurrected a Shuttered American Auto Factory
American Factory, the first film from the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground, is a riveting inquiry into globalization.
A Disturbing Reckoning With China’s One-Child Policy
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s new documentary One Child Nation unpacks the history and brutal effects of a policy that dominated a population.
Why Is Beijing’s Arts Community Struggling to Stay Afloat?
Galleries are exiting the market and studios are being demolished in what the government is referring to as their actions against organized crime.
The Empresses of China’s Forbidden City Get a Splendorous Look
Within their historical context in an exhibition at Freer | Sackler, the empresses of China’s Qing Dynasty succeeded in making meaningful lives for themselves, and that is something to celebrate and admire.
The Material Legacy of Matrilineal Power in China’s Qing Dynasty
Many of the objects in Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644-1912 at Freer | Sackler have not previously been available for research, have never traveled outside of China, and might not be likely to reemerge again.
The Memes and Art From Hong Kong’s Million Person March Last Sunday
Creative communities in Hong Kong and beyond have made poignant works of art and internet memes in support of the anti-extradition bill protests.
Hong Kong’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Closes for Day, Joining Strike Against Proposed Extradition Bill
About 100 Hong Kong arts organizations, including commercial galleries, announced a strike against a bill that would allow extraditing fugitives to mainland China.
The New Technological Cold War Runs Through a Cable on the Ocean Floor
Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Meredith Lackey’s Cablestreet, a surreal documentary short about Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Artists Use Liquor Bottles and Inflatable Tanks to Highlight the Pain of Tiananmen Square Protests
30 years later, suggestive liquor bottles and inflatable military tanks capture the fraught response to the legacy of civil disobedience in China and Taiwan.