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Moving with the Times
The China Daily reports on the evictions of foreign artists from artists’ villages in Beijing: In December 2009 a huge number of artists living and working in Beijing’s Chaoyang district were told to...
View ArticleLunch with the FT: Ai Weiwei
The Financial Times interviews artist and activist Ai Weiwei during a trip to Hong Kong: As our soup – a vivid orange colour worthy of splattering on canvas – arrives, I ask him about his distaste for...
View ArticleBeijing Art Zone Demolitions Continue Apace
Shanghai Eye reports on the continued demolition of artist districts in Beijing, and the creative protests launched in response: Chaoyang district has around 20 art zones, 12 of which are to be...
View ArticleUnhappy Picture for Beijing’s Art Hotbed
Asia Times looks at the impending demolition of Caochangdi, the Beijing artists’ zone founded by Ai Weiwei: …Like other artist communities that have come before it, Caochangdi is in jeopardy. In...
View ArticleHusband of Canadian Woman Beaten, Held 36 Days
The Toronto Star reports on the detention of artist Wu Yuren, who was beaten in a Beijing police station after going to accompany a friend to file a complaint against the management of the 798 artist...
View ArticleLittle Ai
Evan Osnos writes about Wu Yuren, the artist who is currently being detained after he was beaten in a Beijing police station: I met Wu in March, not long after that protest. I was researching a profile...
View ArticleFirsthand Account of Two Chinese Artists Arrested and Beaten
Artist Yang Licai writes about the Beijing police’s mistreatment of both him and fellow artist Wu Yuren. Thanks to Diane Gatterdam and the Under the Jacaranda Tree blog: At around 3 pm on May 31, 2010,...
View ArticleVideo: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Below is the trailer for Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a new documentary about the artist/activist, via Hypebeast.com: Unwavering in his efforts, Ai Weiwei is just as much an artist as he is an activist....
View ArticleAi Weiwei and the Art of Demolition
On his blog, Evan Osnos writes about the brief life and sudden death of Ai Weiwei’s studio in Shanghai, which was demolished yesterday: Ai was eventually released from house arrest, and he said he was...
View ArticleLi Xianting and Zhang Yihe: Ai Weiwei Is a Creative Artist
Li Xianting is an independent art critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art. He was actively involved with introducing avant-garde art forms to China in the 1970s and 80s and is frequently...
View ArticleChina’s “Great Global Thinkers” for 2012
As the season of lists gets underway, Foreign Policy has released its ranking of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012. Fresh from his coronation as GQ magazine’s Rebel of the Year, and leading the...
View ArticleChina’s Resistance Art Beyond Ai Weiwei
Oiwan Lam at Global Voices Online looks at Chinese art-activist Li Ning and his art group, the Body Art Guerrilla Group, Made-in-J Town. Their work examines forced demolition in Shandong, opposes fees...
View ArticleChinese Painter Zao Wou-ki Dies at 93
Zao Wou-ki (Zhao Wuji 赵无极), the Chinese-French abstract painter once lauded as the highest-selling living Chinese artist, died on Tuesday at the age of 93. Reuters reports: Abstract master Zao Wou-ki,...
View ArticleAi Weiwei’s Eighty-One Days
Maura Cunningham reviews Barnaby Martin’s Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei for the Times Literary Supplement. The book is based on a series of interviews with the artist about his detention in...
View ArticleClash of Chinese Art at the Venice Biennale
This year at the biannual Italian art festival, the Venice Biennale, the audience will see the clash between two faces of contemporary Chinese art: one approved and sponsored by Chinese government and...
View ArticleArtist’s Take on Sexual Abuse Turns Ugly
Didi Kristen Tatlow writes about an attack on artist Yan Yinhong during a live show in Hai’an. “Life imitated art, startlingly and crudely,” when Yan, who was performing a dance piece about sexual...
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CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Bookmaker Colette Fu
Former Fulbright scholar Colette Fu has been constructing pop-up books for the past decade. She has designed pop-ups for award-winning stop motion animation commercials and has freelanced for clients...
View ArticleDocumentary Explores Beijing’s Graffiti Culture
Texan Lance Crayon, in China since 2009, has produced a documentary film exploring the tiny street art scene in China, where graffiti is surprisingly “safe” and “open.” Aly Thibault at PRI’s The World...
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