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CinemaTalk: Interview with Professor Eugene Wang on Chinese Art and Film

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Sep 24, 2011

CinemaTalk: Interview with Professor Eugene Wang on Chinese Art and Film

By Michael Chenkin Professor Eugene Wang Eugene Yuejin Wang is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. We recently spoke with Professor Wang about his interests in Chinese art and Chinese film, the areas of intersection between these two fields, and his interest in painter Liu Xiaodong, who is the subject of Jia Zhangke’s documentary Dong. Dong will screen Monday 9/26 as the opening film of the 11-film series on Chinese independent film at Doc F

Artist Yang WeidongâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s New Project Asks What Chinese Really Need

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Aug 30, 2011

Artist Yang WeidongâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s New Project Asks What Chinese Really Need

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Yang Weidong interviews a subject for his documentary project "Signal" (Photo: Yang Weidong) A work in progress by Beijing artist Yang Weidong was recently shown in Hong Kong. Named “Xu Yao” or “Need” in Chinese and “Signal” in English, the documentary comprises of roughly 20 minutes of edited video interviews that Yang conducted with 237 notable Chinese subjects over the past three years. Yang asked each person the same question: “What do Chinese peopl

History in Progress, with Gaps: The National Museum of China, Part Two

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Aug 3, 2011

History in Progress, with Gaps: The National Museum of China, Part Two

By Shelly Kraicer Visitors seem dazzled by the might of painterly propaganda in the "90th anniversary of the CCP" painting exhibit. A major function of the National Museum of China is its definition and display of Chinese history under the Party. This section, somewhat romantically entitled “The Road of Rejuvenation” takes up a major part of NMC’s northern section. I walked through it all, from the Opium War to “China in Space.” Inside the Grand Hall. If it looks like an eleg

Heavenly Culture, with Product Placement: A Tour of the National Museum of China, Part One

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Aug 2, 2011

Heavenly Culture, with Product Placement: A Tour of the National Museum of China, Part One

By Shelly Kraicer The gallery of Ancient Chinese art in the National Museum of China may be the new highlight of anyone's visit to Beijing. Beijing’s new National Museum of China opened in March 2011. It’s been steadily expanding inside since, opening more and more galleries to the public. Recently, the galleries of ancient art were finally opened, so I decided it was time to make a thorough visit (I’d been once before in early May just to take a look at the building) and see

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Jul 6, 2011

Cao Fei and Chinese Youth Culture

Cao Fei (photo credit: The New York Times) By Ariella Tai Internationally renowned visual artist Cao Fei has recently put on a new show entitled “Play Time,” pieces of which are currently on view at the Lombard-Freid Projects in Chelsea, New York City. The show takes inspiration from children’s television shows like “Thomas and Friends,” “Teletubbies” and the BBC program “The Night Garden,” as well as other forms of youth entertainment, like puppets and miniature skateboards

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Mar 1, 2011

CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Ou Ning

By Dan Edwards Ou NIng In addition to being an artist, curator, writer, and director of the Shao Foundation, China’s cultural renaissance man Ou Ning is also an acclaimed documentary filmmaker. After making the experimental San Yuan Li in 2003 with Cao Fei and other members of the U-theque collective in Guangzhou, Ou Ning relocated to China’s capital, where he made Meishi St (2006) about the demolition of one of Beijing’s oldest areas in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics. Both

Zhao LiangâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Beijing Landscape Exhibition, now through December 7

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Nov 15, 2010

Zhao LiangâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Beijing Landscape Exhibition, now through December 7

Poster for Beijing Landscape exhibition (click to englarge) By Sara Beretta In depicting the instability of China’s social environment, the work of Zhao Liang is a wake-up call to audiences. Zhao reflects his perspective through a range of visual approaches – photography, video and documentary – offering a valuable space for self-reflection and awareness. His gaze is elegant and artistic, gently detached yet sharply observant in picturing daily contradictions and human traged

Absurdity, Art, and Life on <i>Tape</i>: Report from the 2010 Reel China Documentary Biennial

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Nov 12, 2010

Absurdity, Art, and Life on <i>Tape</i>: Report from the 2010 Reel China Documentary Biennial

Tape (dir. Li Ning) By Isabella Tianzi Cai Published as part of Dong Week at dGenerate Films, a series of articles on Jia Zhangke and the art world in China. Absurdity loomed large at the Reel China Documentary Biennial this year, held at New York University from October 15-17. The two film directors on hand, Huang Weikai and Du Haibin, repeatedly used “absurd” to describe the message that they wanted their films to convey. In Huang’s Disorder and Du’s 1428, this sense of abs

Jia Zhangke and China’s Art World: Announcing <i>Dong</i> Week at dGenerate

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Nov 8, 2010

Jia Zhangke and China’s Art World: Announcing <i>Dong</i> Week at dGenerate

This week the dGenerate blog is spotlighting Jia Zhangke’s rare and underappreciated film Dong, which is one of the newest additions to the dGenerate Films catalog. To commemorate the film’s availability, this week we are posting articles related to Jia as well as on art and artists in China, the central theme of this film. Additionally, readers are welcome to send in links to their favorite or most relevant articles on both art in China and Jia Zhangke. Please share your lin

Blurring the Boundaries Between Art and Film in China

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Oct 29, 2010

Blurring the Boundaries Between Art and Film in China

Meishi Street (dir. Ou Ning) By Sara Beretta Everyone, in a sense, is an artist, in that we all strive to better express ourselves. As bricoleurs, we all do our best to depict our thought, wishes and fears, making use of the media we were given (voice, gestures and action, broadly speaking) and employing techno media, in the big and blurry cloud of creativity, communication and experimentation. People mix sounds, images and what else occurs in order to be better heard and und

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May 17, 2010

What Will Happen to Caochangdi?

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Chaochangdi art district, Beijing At RedBox Review, Samantha Culp reports a disturbing development concerning the Chaochangdi art district in Beijing, home of such artists and filmmakers as Ai Weiwei, Wu Wenguang and Zhao Liang. Here is her report: This past month, Beijing saw the launch of the first annual Caochangdi PhotoSpring – a festival based at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and comprising over two months of exhibitions and e

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