{"id":164918,"date":"2013-11-02T21:34:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T04:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=164918"},"modified":"2013-11-02T21:44:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T04:44:01","slug":"canadian-artists-work-vanishes-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/canadian-artists-work-vanishes-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Artist&#8217;s Work Vanishes in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2013\/10\/31\/artist-fears-six-months-of-his-work-is-lost-after-apparent-censorship-raid-of-chinese-gallery\/\"><strong>Canadian artist fears that work he sent for an exhibition in Beijing is now lost<\/strong><\/a>, but it is unclear whether it is in the hands of censors or conmen. From Tristin Hopper at The National Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Clarkson\u2019s show, Mirror, Mirror, was set to run from late October to early November at Duck Soup Projects, a Beijing-based exhibition space.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the Oct. 18 opening, however, Duck Soup Project\u2019s website, ducksoup.cn, was suddenly taken down, replaced instead with an official People\u2019s Republic of China seal and a message declaring that the message was in contravention of Chinese Internet law and that any attempt to contact the website\u2019s owners is forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Jason Q. Ng, a Toronto-based expert on China\u2019s online censorship, told Metro Saskatoon that the censorship alert posted to ducksoup.cn appeared authentic. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2013\/10\/31\/artist-fears-six-months-of-his-work-is-lost-after-apparent-censorship-raid-of-chinese-gallery\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An unnamed expert told Hopper that Clarkson&#8217;s work may not yet be valuable enough to attract thieves, but that censors would have found little to object to among the exhibits, which include a drawing of Ai Weiwei&#8217;s severed head impaled on a stick. But another image featuring Mao Zedong wearing sunglasses and looming over the Rocky Mountains may have triggered political sensitivities. Late last year, China&#8217;s Ministry of Culture <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/12\/mao-portraits-barred-from-chinese-leg-of-warhol-tour\/\">blocked Andy Warhol&#8217;s stylized Mao portraits<\/a> from the Beijing and Shanghai legs of a touring exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian artist fears that work he sent for an exhibition in Beijing is now lost, but it is unclear whether it is in the hands of censors or conmen. 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