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CDT Bookshelf: Richard Vine’s “New China, New Art”

Richard Vine, the Asian art editor for Art in America and a long-time observer of China’s contemporary art scene, has written a new book called, “New China, New Art,” which chronicles the origins of the work of...

Chinese Art, in One Man’s Translation – Holland Cotter

From the New York Times: When the exhibition “Inside Out: New Chinese Art” opened at Asia Society and P.S. 1 in 1998, it caused a stir because it both did and did not meet expectations of contemporary art from China. The show had plenty of Mao portraits, but they came with jokes: Mao behind bars, […]

Zhang Huan’s “My Boston” – Sam Crane

From The Useless Tree blog: I don’t know what is more interesting: this description of Zhang Huan‘s performance art; or the fact that the Boston Globe story ran in the China Daily. Here we have an officially sanctioned Chinese newspaper running commentary on postmodern performance art and, simultaneously, telling us that traditional Confucianism is making […]

His performance art is bound to provoke – Cate McQuaid

From the Boston Globe: Zhang Huan is the type of artist whom many outside the rarefied world of performance art label a crackpot. He has covered his naked body in honey and fish oil and sat in a public toilet, attracting flies. For his piece “Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg,” documented in a series of […]

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