This article critiques the rising commercialism of art in China, and the "prettiness" of the current (1990s) art scene. Peppered with quotes from critics Zhu Qi and Gao Minglu, the article gives a brief history of the emergence of contemporary Chinese art since the opening of China under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. Art by Xu Bing, Huang Yong Ping, Cai Guo-Qiang, Zhang Yijie, and Liu Qinghe are used to illustrate the evolution of the avant-garde movement of the 1980s to the more "academic art" offshoots in the 1990s. A separate interview with Zhu Qi, former editor of online magazine Chinese-art.com is included in the story.
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1999
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CNN.com, 1999
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