Tag: China
Chinese artist Ren Yue lets bees make his art for him. “I wanted to try to eliminate the subjectivity of the artist and the mediation of bees served this purpose,” he says of his series, Yuansu II. To make the art, he used totally symmetrical clear plastic polyhedrons to allow the bees freedom to create their honeycombs […]
In a post which includes a clip of the classic “Graduation Song” by Vitamin C (shout out 1999), the Wall Street Journal discusses a new trend of Chinese women wearing wedding dresses to their college graduation. “The wedding dress makes things feel more meaningful,” one student the WSJ talked to explained. A knee jerk reaction would […]
Hong Kong’s M+ visual art and culture museum that will open in 2017, but right now, it’s hosting its first online pop up exhibit — an immersive look into the history and culture of neon signs in the city. These signs are icons of the city, but due to safety concerns and redevelopment, they are […]
German photographer Michael Wolf has been living in Hong Kong since 1994. His work documents the world around him, and recently that has meant photographing China’s “megacities,” which house up to 25 million people, usually in a densely populated area. His photos of high rises, from a series called The Architecture of Density, appear abstract and inhuman, the […]
Here’s the trailer for ‘The Search for General Tso,’ a documentary that looks at Chinese food in America through our country’s favorite dish. Shockingly, it sounds like the American interpretation of General Tso’s isn’t exactly faithful to the original. The film is screening at Chelsea Cinemas on 23rd Street tonight as part of the Tribeca […]
In an effort to curb the amount of vandalism that visitors (and its citizens) have inflicted on the more ancient and popular sections of the Great Wall of China, officials have created a designated zone where people can etch and scrawl their names. “As many tourists like to carve words on buildings, we will develop […]
The independent video game art collective Babycastles are known for their playfully absurd taste in underground games and their seriousness about video games as an art form. Over the last few years, they’ve risen from their birthplace in the basement of the old Silent Barn to infiltrate respected art establishments around the world. And on March […]
Wang Bing’s doc ‘Til Madness Do Us Part will be screening at MoMA this Wednesday, as part of Documentary Fortnight 2014, the museum’s international festival of nonfiction film and media. Gleaned from 300 hours of footage, the film provides an unyielding, four-hour long look inside a mental institution in the Yunnan Province of China. Like the clip above, the […]
China’s authorities considers heavy internet use a clinical condition. To combat what they think is a critical epidemic and the downfall of its youth, the government sets up special treatment facilities to cure teenagers, to take them out of their online life into the presumably healthier “real” life with some very “unorthodox psychological sessions.” The […]
If you’re a major auction house like Christie’s and Sotheby’s (who isn’t!), you should be looking over your shoulder: China is coming for you. As its middle class grows, the country is doing to high-end art sales what it once did to manufacturing: adopting it and profiting from it. Today, the New York Times profiled the […]
