Tag: Xu Bing

  • Intersection: International Art and Culture

    In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University has invited 14 artists from around the world to submit work that emphasises the universality of the language of art

  • Birds of Metal in Flight: An Evening of Poetry with 5 + 5

    In celebration of the year-long exhibition Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral, a night of poetry by some of today’s most renowned poets from the US and China took place on the evening of 25 February 2015 at the Cathedral…

  • Xu Bing: interview

    Xu Bing, the internationally acclaimed Chinese conceptual artist who works in a variety of disciplines and materials, in particular printmaking, ink painting, calligraphy, text and installation, and has also worked with silk worms and pigs, has just completed a major…

  • Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China

    In the mid-1980s and 90s, as China distanced itself from the policies of Mao Zedong, and his successors became more willing to engage with the outside world, Chinese contemporary art began to appear with increasing frequency in important international exhibitions.…

  • An Exhibition to See: Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing

    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 28 February–19 May 2013

  • Beijing’s 798 Art District

    A decade ago, setting up radical art studios in the workshops of a largely abandoned military electronics complex on the fringe of Beijing was considered to be intriguing and provocative. Today, Factory 798 is a warren of contemporary art galleries,…

  • Out of Beirut

    Modern Art Oxford 13 May-16 July 2006