Shadow, the latest release from Chinese director Zhang Yimou, looks like no other film.
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Artist Embroiled in Controversy for Depicting an Independent Taiwan in a Public Sculpture
While Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger called the decision to identify Taiwan as a state independent from China an “error,” it has engendered a global discussion.
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Yu Hong’s Fantastical Universe of Sorrow
In the Chinese artist’s monumental paintings, babies sleep in hell and faceless crowds slump in despair, illustrating the Buddhist world of Saha, where all beings suffer.
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Italy Returns 800 Artifacts to China Amidst a Controversial Trade Deal
News that Italy will repatriate almost 800 Chinese cultural artifacts obscures the country’s controversial sign on to China’s Belt and Road Initiative without the European Union’s consultation.
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The Realities of Being Trans in Hong Kong
A comic artist tells a story of trans lives in one of China’s most important cities.
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From China’s Underground Comics Scene: “Watermelon Man”
When the sun sets, things get interesting.
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Ai Weiwei Slams US for “Complicity” in China’s Arrest of Two Canadian Citizens
The artist called the United States a “willing partner” in China’s “monstrous regime.”
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Why China’s Infamous “Copycat” Town Now Invests in Original Artworks
Economic changes have forced the 8,000 painters and 1,200 galleries in the Shenzhen village of Dafen — who were once responsible for 75% of the world’s oil painting reproductions — to rebrand. But can skill overcome the town’s reputation as a home of imposter impressionists?
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Artwork Interrogating the Ethics of Technology Pulled from China’s Guangzhou Triennial
Four artists’ works were flagged by government censors for their experimental projects about artificial intelligence, genome modification, and bioethics.
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In Shanghai, a Future of Endless Museum Photo-Ops
With Wavelength: Reset at the Powerlong Museum, Qibao, once regarded as drab wilderness, has become the place in Shanghai to be seen.
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Christie’s Expects $51M for One of China’s ‘Da Vinci’ Scrolls, But Provenance Questions Remain
Centuries before Wester Europe coined the term, “renaissance man,” artist Su Shi moonlighted as a pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman for the Song Dynasty.
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The Banality of Capitalism in China
There are moments of friendship and warmth in Wang Bing’s documentary Bitter Money but the primary sense a viewer gets is that being on the bottom rung of capitalism in China consists mainly of boredom.