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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Chinese art

Chinese art stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - Ai Weiwei, China's leading artist and a prominent critic of the country's government, said yesterday he was beaten and detained when he tried to testify at a civil rights advocate's trial. Ai told the New York Times that dozens of police officers barged into his hotel room in Chengdu, the... More »

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China • Chinese art • civil rights • earthquake • Sichuan province • Ai Weiwei

China Censors Artist Leading Quake Inquiry

Police stake out whistleblower's studio, shut down blog

Jul 13, 09 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese artist who has made investigating the deaths of children in the Sichuan earthquake a personal crusade is facing a government crackdown, reports the CBC. Ai Weiwei's widely read blog has been deleted, and plainclothes police officers are staking out his studio in Beijing. Ai has relaunched his blog... More »

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China • Chinese art • art • censorship • 2008 Beijing Olympics • death toll • Olympic Games • earthquake • Internet censorship • disaster • Sichuan province • China earthquake • Birds Nest National Stadium • Ai Weiwei • Olympic Stadium

(Newser) - These days China feels "both older and newer than any place on the planet," writes  New York Times art critic Holland Cotter. And nowhere is that tension more palpable than in the country's museums, which use antiquities from the millennia-old civilization in service of a rising world power.... More »

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China • art museum • Chinese art • museum • culture

 Meet China's
 First Global
 Pop Star 

Or at least, that's what Sa Dingding hopes to become

Apr 2, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - China may be storming the world right now, but it’s never had good luck with pop starts. That could change with Sa Dingding, a half-Mongolian singer/songwriter, who sings entirely in Tibetan over a velvety mix of traditional instruments like the zither and modern electronica. Universal’s hoping the whole... More »

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China • music • Chinese art • Universal Music Group • Sa Dingding

The Man Behind the Smile

Chinese artist takes New York with his signature troubling grin

Nov 14, 07 5:38 PM CST
(Newser) - It's contemporary Chinese art's most indelible image—the smile so huge it becomes false, accusatory—and it belongs to Yue Minjun, the artist who uses the grinning self-portraits, often many of them, in his paintings. The New York Times chats with Yue, who is enjoying his first US show in... More »

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parody • Chinese art • art • Sotheby's • Tiananmen Square • painting • Yue Minjun • terra cotta

Can Chinese Art Stay Hot?

It's all the rage in Europe, but will Chinese-themed art lose its market power?

Apr 20, 07 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a year of high excitement and higher prices, Chinese artists are hot at influential European fairs. But the bubble may have grown too fast, and Portfolio's Alexandra Wolfe reports on speculation that it's about to burst. One curator says Chinese art is "a consumer category, not a collector... More »

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China • art market • Chinese art • art • collecting • art collector

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