Word: yue
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...Yue Minjun is laughing all the way to the bank. The shaven-headed Beijing painter has turned his iconic guffawing self-portraits into one of China's most lucrative exports. In June, a brightly hued canvas of Yue dressed as a merry Roman Catholic Pope sold for $4.28 million in London. That record was shattered last month when Execution, a work depicting maniacally grinning figures in a Tiananmen Square-like setting, netted nearly $6 million in another London sale. Riffing on Deng Xiaoping's maxim "To get rich is glorious," Yue's paintings capture China's exuberant love affair with...
...geometries hardly betray his nationality. "It's very seductive," acknowledges Li Liang, the owner of Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai. "You know that if you put things up that look Chinese, they will sell well." But others worry that this impulse will only encourage soulless facsimiles with little cultural resonance. Yue Minjun's laughing heads, for instance, have spawned dozens of smiling faces by lesser artists. "We've reached the point where artists have to be honest with themselves," says Weng Ling, director of the Shanghai Gallery of Art. "Are you doing it for the foreign market or are you doing...
...algae outbreak on picturesque Lake Tai in Wuxi city rendered tap water for 80% of the local families undrinkable for a week. In June, 10,000 citizens in the coastal city of Xiamen took to the streets to protest against the imminent construction of a new chemical plant. Pan Yue, Deputy Director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, said earlier this year that "environmental problems are posing a serious threat to the building of a harmonious society, and have become a significant economic, social and political issue...
...some cases, the pieces you see in the show won’t just be documentation,” she adds. “It’ll also be images of the entire process, like the creation.” Contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Yue has two pieces in the exhibit. “Installation art is a full engagement with the world around you—it isn’t bound by any materials or specific set of rules and practices,” she writes in an e-mail. “It is most often...
...workers--many of whom labor in appalling conditions--will never enjoy the fruits of its economic growth. Yet no matter how enlightened Beijing technocrats may be or how thoughtfully new regulations may read, if local governments can do whatever they want, all is lost. Pan Yue, deputy head of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), regularly warns of looming environmental catastrophe. And yet there is no sign of any slowdown in the tide of pollution engulfing the country. Despite Beijing's condemnation of a huge chemical spill that left 4 million residents of the city of Harbin with no running...