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Artists take on opera 

OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, Chinese artist Zhang Huan has gone from offering nude solo performances in Beijing's impoverished East Village enclave to...

Qi Zhilong: National Gallery Of Indonesia 

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How much can pictures of pretty girls really matter? Quite a lot, it turns out, when the...

Customs delay prompts Chinese artist's freewheeling improv 

What does an artist do when he arrives on the far side of the world, only to find that the works for his gallery show, scheduled to open in 48...

Busan Biennale: Sept 6-Nov 15 

Founded by local artists in 1981 as a showcase for themselves and their East Asian peers, the Busan Biennale went international in 2000, largely in...

Seoul Biennale: Sept 11-Nov 5 

It's been half a lifetime since Marshall McLuhan declared that "the medium is the message," and now we are blessed--if that is the word--with an...

Paik's place 

The new $26.6-million Nam June Paik Art Center opens to the public Oct. 9 with a festival titled "Now Jump" [through Feb. 5, 2009], encompassing a...

China envy: the debut of Cai Guo-Qiang's midcareer survey at the Guggenheim Museum in New York melded sheer spectacle with an incisive treatment of the artist's signature transcultural themes 

Arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our day, Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957) maintains a large studio in New York and a second in...

Street Ministries - Hello, Whitney -- New job involves volunteer and 

The way we were, the way we are: China's most outspoken artist reflects on the ongoing struggle for expressive freedom in the People's Republic 

AN INTERVIEW WITH AI WEIWEI AN INTERVIEW WITH AI WEIWEI Art in America: Your acquaintance with art and politics in China clearly began with...

The labors of Narcissus: a show at New York's Asia Society recaps the galvanizing performances and current industrial-scale art production of China 's pioneering Zhang Huan 

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The legend of Zhang Huan, as endorsed by the current retrospective at New York's Asia Society,...