Tag: China
To no one’s surprise, two of the world’s only “art malls” are found in China. They’re called the K11 art malls, and they are (of course) part of a brand. The owner is a certain Mr. Adrian Cheng — corporate executive, art lover, and already one of the richest men in the world. The first […]
There’s a lot of coverage of China’s mass reproduction industry — from the Dafen Oil Painting Village documentary shots by Haibo Yu to Michael Wolf’s portraits of the copy artists with their copies of Francis Bacon, Chuck Close and Ed Ruscha. There are also conceptual art projects like Phil Thompson’s censored art in museums on Google Streetview reproduced as […]
Recently, Prime Minister David Cameron announced an initiative to ban “extreme pornography,” starting by installing mandatory porn filters on all new internet connections and, eventually, on existing connections as well. To view internet pornography, UK residents will have to call their ISP and ask access. Opponents of Cameron’s restrictions have argued that the alleged motive […]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery is hosting an exhibition called “Beyond the Paper Screen: An Exhibition of Japanese Erotic Prints from the Uragami Collection” which will feature 60 sexual woodblock prints, or “shunga” (“spring pictures.”) The woodblock prints feature scenes such as a naked fisherman’s wife being intimate with an octopus. Also, aristocratic groupsex. Shunga have a long tradition […]
Despite their government’s minor aversion to boundary-pushing art, China is killin’ it at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Featured at this year’s Chinese Pavilion is the work of digital artist Miao Xiaochun (and six others) centering around the theme of “transfiguration.” Playing on this notion, the installations figuratively explore the transformation of life to art by reinterpreting canonical Christian […]
Is your porn addiction preventing you from advancing your career? Are you tired of constantly looking over your shoulder for fear of pesky bosses interrupting your midday office MILF fix? Fear no more: this Chinese security company has just the job for you! Despite China’s incredibly strict porn censorship policies, new adult entertainment sites continue popping up […]
Sorry, that’s not the long-awaited Bloomberg-Cuomo-Kelly sex tape. But if we were living in China, we’d be very trendy. Photoshopping government officials into pornographic scenarios is all the rage and it’s making government officials upset. This renegade blackmail phenomenon has apparently spun so out of control that authorities in China’s Hunan Province have put up […]
So, this one time, the Chinese Communist Party banned traditional Peking opera for being too bourgeois. And so, Chairman Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing developed some model operas. Photographer Zhang Yaxin was one of the few people who was allowed to have color film. He was selected to document these very proper operas of very good comrades sprinting very properly across the stage […]
The stream of awful knockoff toys has thinned today, as federal agents arrested five people, charging them with importing hazardous toys from China in violation of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act. Although the report states SpongeBob SquarePants as one of the knockoff victims distributed to stores in Brooklyn and Queens. Others included Betty Boop, […]
According to the New York Times, Chinese hackers have been going after the paper for the past four months, possibly in response to an investigative report into Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family fortune. The attack lines up with methods used by the Chinese military in the past, according to the paper, and the files that were accessed included […]
