In an earlier version of her “Wild Pigeon” project the award-winning National Geographic photographer Carolyn Drake dedicated one category of her images to dreams and what Uyghur viewers of her images said about them. One viewer told her:
“Good dreams, you tell your good friends. If you do, maybe the dream will come true. If someone says ‘I was in a forest, I faced a tiger, and the tiger attacked me,’ some people will say, ‘don’t speak about it.’ If someone speaks bad words, they will come true.”
Tomorrow marks the end of a two-week exhibition at Today Art Museum showcasing Chinese painter Shan Fan and German painter Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein.
The choice of the two artists can at first be startling.
An expensive work of art was reportedly thrown out with the garbage at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong on Tuesday, and it wasn't made by Damien Hirst. As Coconuts Hong Kong, SCMP, WSJ, and basically everyone else is reporting, Cui Ruzhuo's "Snowy Mountain," pictured above, was sold at auction for HK$28.8 million (US$3.7 million) on Monday, and one day later, police were searching for it among the city's rubbish.
Using simple lines and traditional ink, Xu Li brings ancient ghosts and ladies to life on xuan paper.
Xu is a representative of China’s “grassroots” artist movement, a group of classically educated artists who have given up on academics to focus on creating art that is closer to everyday life.
Discourage, suppress, and censor it as you may -- and lord knows authorities try, try, and try again -- you'll never rid the world of porn, porn, porn. Some Chinese health department officials discovered this recently firsthand.
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