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Banned: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s controversial dogs video

Performance / 3 minutes of reading

The video work titled Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other has only recently been removed from Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition series known as Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. The video series has been met with disapproval and disparagement not only by some art critics but animal lovers and welfare organizations as …

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Why did Danish artist group Superflex flood McDonald’s?

Performance / 2 minutes of reading

In this short film, a life-size replica of a McDonald’s burger bar gets flooded with water gradually. There are images of furniture being washed away in the water, food floating around the room, and electric appliances short circuit to a halt before space can no longer be seen below the water. While the production …

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Shirin Neshat’s Rapture – Veiled women in their traditional Islamic attire

Performance, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Shirin Neshat – Rapture, 1999, gelatin silver print, 108×171.5cm Rapture is a projection of black and white video where Iranian artist Shirin Neshat gives a narrative that concerns the differences between Muslim women and men. Neshat has used the video projection to explore the cultural and social role of women in the Islamic World …

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Zhang Huan – One of the most disgusting performance pieces ever made

Performance / 3 minutes of reading

Zhang Huan is no stranger to controversy. Having attended school at a time when China was undergoing a dramatic time in its history, Zhang learned a lot from the years of protests and demonstrations that would be staged in front of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. As an avid fan of Avant-garde art, Zhang did …

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Yang Fudong’s dreamlike Fifth Night video

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

About Yang Fudong China’s most well-known cinematographer and photographer, Yang Fudong, was born in Beijing, China, in 1971. He is also regarded by many as one of the greatest film writers to come out of China, however, his creativity spans far beyond that. Yang began training in painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts …

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Mariko Mori speaks w/ Public Delivery: Art can unite humanity

Other, Technology / 2 minutes of reading

Mariko Mori spoke with us about her work Ālaya, 2013. Transcript ‘Alaya’ was originally produced for work of dream temple, in 1999. It was one of the saying that people see inside of dream temple. I wanted to reintroduce the idea, because I wanted to share it once again. Many …

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Lida Abdul’s What we have overlooked – This man vanishes in a lake

Performance / 1 minute of reading

Who is Lida Abdul? Lida Abdul’s two-channel work entitled What we have overlooked (2011) was first presented at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel. She is an Afghan video and performance artist born in 1973 in Kabul. Forced to flee Afghanistan following the Russian invasion and the war that followed, Abdul lived as a refugee in Germany and …

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Cao Fei’s Cosplayers & the power of costumes

Performance, Photography / 6 minutes of reading

About Cosplayers Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei’s 2004 work explores the imagined identities of cosplayers, young people who dress up as game characters, and how they interact with the real world. A costume bestows magical powers upon the wearer to these individuals, rendering their person more special and enabling them to transcend their mundane reality. …

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Ai Weiwei explains his famous Sunflower Seeds

Installation / 8 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei’s Sunflowers Ai Weiwei emerged as a revolutionary artist on the scene of Chinese art and culture. He served as a protagonist in various dynamic avant-garde movements. His controversial exhibitions have taken the world of art by storm. He has been represented on top in the list of 100 most powerful people who …

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Krink (Craig Costello) - Loft in Space, Hawaii

Krink’s / Craig Costello’s intriguing drip paintings on Hawaii

Painting, Graffiti, Mural, Street Art / 1 minute of reading

New site-specific extinguisher painting by the artist from NYC.

What is the Senseless Drawing Bot? By Takahiro Yamaguchi & So Kanno

Graffiti, Painting / 1 minute of reading

The Senseless Drawing Bot by the two Japanese Takahiro Yamaguchi and So Kanno explores the relationship between machine and art and was shown at the exhibition “UTOPIA no OSHIRASE” in Tokyo in October 2011. What the device does The Senseless Drawing Bot is a self-propelling device on a skateboard that sprays abstract linework on …

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Luciano Calderon’s solo exhibition Street Dreams in Germany

Painting, Public Delivery / 2 minutes of reading

Public Delivery presents Luciano Calderon at Ruttkowski68 in Cologne, Germany. The exhibition opens on October 7th, 2011 at 8 pm. The exhibition is on display until October 30th, 2011. About the exhibition Coming from the ghetto of Villa 31 in Buenos Aires, Luciano Calderon (b. 1985) is showing new works on canvases. The exhibition is …

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A new way to paint graffiti: 5 jet planes tag sky – Saber

Performance, Graffiti, Painting / 2 minutes of reading

Yesterday Saber, well-known artist from Los Angeles, used five jet planes to write a message concerning the city's plan of banning public art in the sky.

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