Pioneering Artist Zhang Huan Reveals His Pandemic Diary: ‘Death Is My Lover!’
The artist has created a new body of work that responds to his experiences with the virus.
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The latest column tackles lesser-known British painters, experimental pastries, and quite a bit more.
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Farewell Our Globalism
Sampling China's post-Tiananmen avant-garde, the Guggenheim Museum evokes both fading one-world hopes and rising ethical divisiveness.
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City Slickers on the Wild Side: The Barnes Foundation Celebrates the ‘Art of Flânerie’
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‘It Is Impossible to Simplify My Feelings About China’: Ai Weiwei on His Controversial Art, in 2006
With Ai Weiwei having recently received his passport after Chinese authorities held it for four years, we turn back to the October 2006 issue of ARTnews, in which Barbara Pollack spoke to the…
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Gods and Monsters: Zhang Huan on ‘Semele,’ His Cross-Cultural Opera
In George Friedrich Handel’s 1743 opera Semele, which is based on a story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a young woman named Semele runs away from a would-be marriage to have an affair with…
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9 Funky, Surprising, and Selfie-Worthy Outdoor Art Installations to See in NYC This Summer
Where to find crumbling Rococo grottos, three-legged Buddhas, psychedelic pink flamingos, and more
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China’s New Normal in Venice
For Venice Biennale visitors, 2011 may mark the first time that Chinese artists are presented as something other than Far Eastern tokens. Not only are an exceptionally large number of participants fro…
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DVF as Merchant Martyr in Beijing
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, muse to artists including Chuck Close and Mario Testino, is pursuing the imagination of Chinese customers with the same verve she brought to the American scene…
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