Posts Tagged ‘ Art ’

Li Yinhe on Nudity in Art and Society

July 26, 2010
By C. Custer
Yang Linchuan

Li Yinhe wonders what China thinks is so terrible about the human body?
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Culture, History, Translations | 9 Comments »

Ai Weiwei’s Newest Piece: “Missing”

May 12, 2010
By C. Custer
Ai Weiwei’s Newest Piece: “Missing”

Ai Weiwei's newest piece, an audio recording over three hours long, is his latest effort to commemorate the students who died in the Sichuan earthquake.
Read more »

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Internet, Media, Translations | 1 Comment »

Ai Weiwei, Lu Xun, and the Hope of Hopelessness

December 23, 2009
By C. Custer

This China Digital Times post has been sitting open in my browser for several days now. If you’re stuck behind the GFW, it’s a question and answer Chinese artist and social commentator Ai Weiwei did with a private Chinese BBS forum, full of social questions and snappy answers. It’s worth a read, but one...
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Culture, History, Opinions, Politics, Translations | 2 Comments »

Only By Suffering Can We Become Known

October 20, 2009
By C. Custer

A colleague forwarded us this New York Times story about the recent Frankfurt book fair, at which the tensions between China and the West were very much on display. The Times has tagged it as “uneasy engagement”, and we couldn’t think of a more apropos phrase to describe the conference. Government representatives, dissident writers,...
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in China From the West, Culture, Opinions | 45 Comments »

Art, Dammit: "Water Brain"

July 28, 2009
By C. Custer

Every now and then we try to lighten the mood around here with a little feature we like to call Art, Dammit. Today’s piece comes to us via ChinaSMACK, it’s a beautiful short animated film supposedly made domestically (although its high quality has made some netizens suspicious). Watch the film before reading our comments...
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Culture, Video | 3 Comments »