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...never watch the video to “Goody Two Shoes” again for fear of that incessant “Pop Up Video” ping.I was afraid—viscerally afraid—that ReConstitution at Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) was going to turn into Pop Up Debate and ruin the electoral process for me forever. The ICA billed the event as “a live remix of the first presidential debate, morphing words and images into a nonpartisan spectacle of light and sound,” which...
...onto something. We should take this opportunity, outlandish though it may seem, to reconsider our definition of the ICH and to work gastronomy into that definition. We have to assume that their fight is not about the superiority of French cuisine, but about having gastronomy recognized as an art, a craft in its own right...
...meet again, Deerhoof. Your cryptic half-lyrics and peculiar melodies have fooled me before, but no more will I fall victim to your deception. I am determined to discover the sinister meaning behind your bizarre art rock semblance. The video transmission, unassumingly titled “Fresh Born,” begins with a small group of giddy Asian men pretending to play guitar and drums during some strange chanting. This is not the Deerhoof I’m familiar with, and I’m becoming very afraid. But wait, it’s a fake out! Soon...
Moganshan Road calls itself the center of modern art in Shanghai. I arrived prepared to bear witness to the fruit of the Chinese art boom, the boom that The Asia Times calls an “artistic renaissance,” not unlike the “emergence of Western Modernism more than 100 years ago.” A tough act to follow indeed, especially if your country was closed off from the rest of the world for much of that time...
...There exists a contingent of scholars and collectors that share the belief that a great deal of artists in China—being freed from the requirements of traditional art schools and the dictates of the state—have chosen to use their national identity, more than anything, as a selling point. To them, Yue Minjun’s smiling faces appear more Chinese-looking than is accurate; similarly, Wang Guangyi’s political pop paintings are seen as insincere and overly topical. Many Western critics, along with other Chinese artists, are bothered by the success of those...