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Wang Keju: No Cai Guoqiang
And we mean that title with the utmost respect for both artists. Admittedly, we've been a one-site cheering squad for Cai Guoqiang these past few years - his vision, his willingness to push the envelope draws admiration from all who chafe fro
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Cai Guoqiang: China's Most Explosive Artist
"There are countries where you have trouble finding oil paint, but I have always been able to find gunpowder wherever I went." A quick update on what firecracker Cai Guoqiang has been doing since blowing up cars and handling the pyrotechni
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Han Bing's Erotic Performance
Sexual Fantasies of the KnifeReady for some titillation? Sorry, there's plenty of that on the internet without China Expat chipping in. Oh, now you're judging the suspiciously androgynous figure in the photo above.
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Maleonn's Kingdom of Illusions
from Maleonn's What Love IsYou can still make magic with photography. Of course, you need more than Photoshop. Some hereditary talent never hurts. Maleonn's father was the head of the Shanghai Opera, his mother a famous actress.
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Wen Fang’s Birthday Present
Wen Fang: cup in one hand, world in the otherNot for her, in fact, but from her. Paris-Beijing's latest exhibition is Wen Fang's gift to the world as it turns a year older, an installation/almanac of China in 2008.
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Breaking Forecast
All in a few hours daubing...Standing on his stepladder in proletarian garb, he was mistaken by most visitors for a workman doing a touch-up job. But in under two hours, with nothing but a Home Depot brush and a bucket of common black
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Ai Weiwei: Objecting Artist
It's grand to be Ai Weiwei. The true businessman lives for the deal; money is only a way of keeping score. The true artist, more than anything else, wants to be taken seriously, for his work and ideas to move people.
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A Second Life for Cao Fei
If Michelangelo were alive today, you wouldn't find paintbrushes or sculpting knives in his studio. Oil on canvas has given us countless windows into creative minds, but today's artist has so many options, and we're not talking ab
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New Yorkers Can't Get Enough Propaganda Art
The Asia Society's Art and China's Revolution ExhibitIt's safe to say that Chinese art is way past communist propaganda. But don't tell that to America.
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Between the Sexes
Another Episode XX - Liu Lijie" From the distinction between man and woman came the righteousness between husband and wife. From that righteousness came the affection between father and son; from that affection, the rectitude between ruler
