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On a recent Monday morning, artist Xu Bing stands at a lectern at the Frost Art Museum. He’s teaching a group of fifth-graders from North Miami’s W.J. Bryan Elementary, a museum magnet school ...
At the Knafel Center, Bing thus introduced the audience to some of his pieces, walking them through his growth as an artist.
Asia Society Texas announces the opening of 'Xu Bing: Word Alchemy,' featuring more than 50 of the artist's most important prints, drawings, installations, and other ephemera challenging and expanding ...
The exhibition highlights a celebrated work – "Bronze Phoenix 2016" (Feng and Huang) – created by Xu Bing (b. 1955 Chongqing, China), an internationally acclaimed artist and academic whose ...
Xu Bing, a 46-year-old Chinese expatriate who is one of his country's most successful exports, makes ridiculous art. Or maybe he makes very clever art.
Xu Bing, born in 1955 in Chongqing, China, is a contemporary artist known for his innovative use of printmaking and installation art to explore themes of language, communication, and cultural ...
A glorious pair of birds — giant, mythic, and intimidating as dragons — are the headliners of “Xu Bing: Phoenix,” now at Mass MoCA. The phoenixes, each nearly 100 feet long, were ...
Artist Xu Bing first exhibited his “Book from the Sky” in 1988 at Beijing’s China Art Gallery. The post-Mao 1980s saw some reforms to China’s long-standing oppressive political system and ...
While Xu Bing’s students were making agitprop art, including a 30ft statue of the Goddess of Democracy, his father was dying of lung cancer.