"Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China," now at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, seems at first to be a long-awaited corrective to Western myopia in regard to Chinese ink painting and c…
The commissioned works will be exhibited at the museum in three exhibitions from 2014 through 2017, and will enter the Guggenheim's permanent collection. Thomas J. Berghuis, currently deputy director…
“The ‘Tobacco Project’ began with an interest in the aroma of tobacco,” Chinese artist Xu Bing says over a dim-sum breakfast in New York. Likening it to something between sociology and art, he…