Tag: Artists

Ai Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility

In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply different attitudes towards public exposure and social and political responsibility. From Bernhard Zand, talking to Ai Weiwei for Spiegel Online: SPIEGEL: How have you been lately? Ai: In general I am fine; my situation is as good as anybody else’s. It is still difficult but

May 10, 2013 1:35 PM

Artist Zhao Zhao: ‘I Try To Resist Being Tamed’

Last year, a number of works by the artist Zhao Zhao were confiscated by Chinese customs officials on their way to an exh

May 1, 2013 4:55 PM

China’s Resistance Art Beyond Ai Weiwei

Oiwan Lam at Global Voices Online looks at Chinese art-activist Li Ning and his art group, the Body Art Guerrilla Group,

January 23, 2013 9:34 PM

Artist Puts iPad on Pedestal

The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos talks to artist Li Liao about his piece Consumption, currently on display in Beijing in

January 18, 2013 3:16 PM

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