Comments on: Cai Guo-Qiang Responds to Olympics Fireworks “Controversy” http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the Art in the Twenty-First Century PBS series Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:40:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: What I’m Doing to Fight S.A.D. « FlyingZukini http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-19410 What I’m Doing to Fight S.A.D. « FlyingZukini Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:17:07 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/#comment-19410 [...] As part of my job, I get to meet quite few reputable artists, journalists, policymakers. We’re compiling a digital archive of interviews of China experts who can explain from their point of view what caused China’s economic boom. I know my posts have all been about China lately, but you should also cut me some slack being that I work at the Center on U.S.-China Relations and I am inundated in this stuff daily. Anyway. Last month I got to meet Cai GuoQiang, a Chinese artist whose work the Guggenheim Museum recently exhibited. He’s known for his use of gunpowder in his art which later led to him experimenting “with explosives on a massive scale such as artistically choreographing fireworks and other pyrotechnics. He’s probably most known for being the artistic director for the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the fireworks “controversy.” [...] [...] As part of my job, I get to meet quite few reputable artists, journalists, policymakers. We’re compiling a digital archive of interviews of China experts who can explain from their point of view what caused China’s economic boom. I know my posts have all been about China lately, but you should also cut me some slack being that I work at the Center on U.S.-China Relations and I am inundated in this stuff daily. Anyway. Last month I got to meet Cai GuoQiang, a Chinese artist whose work the Guggenheim Museum recently exhibited. He’s known for his use of gunpowder in his art which later led to him experimenting “with explosives on a massive scale such as artistically choreographing fireworks and other pyrotechnics. He’s probably most known for being the artistic director for the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the fireworks “controversy.” [...]

]]> By: Anthony http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-8014 Anthony Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:34:21 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/#comment-8014 "he completely skirts the issue." What is the issue? This was television, broadcast entertainment, art...not a journalism. This is a non-issue. “he completely skirts the issue.”

What is the issue? This was television, broadcast entertainment, art…not a journalism. This is a non-issue.

]]> By: C-MONSTER.net » Blog Archive » The Digest. 08.25.08. http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-7984 C-MONSTER.net » Blog Archive » The Digest. 08.25.08. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:00:14 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/#comment-7984 [...] Olympics, 2008: First, there was that lip-synching kid that got everyone’s panties in a knot. Now Cai Guo-Qiang has issued a statement on the fake fireworks “controversy.” Does this mean that the Students for a Free Tibet [...] [...] Olympics, 2008: First, there was that lip-synching kid that got everyone’s panties in a knot. Now Cai Guo-Qiang has issued a statement on the fake fireworks “controversy.” Does this mean that the Students for a Free Tibet [...]

]]> By: Jack http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-7946 Jack Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:01:25 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/08/22/cai-guo-qiang-responds-to-olympics-fireworks-controversy/#comment-7946 <p>If Cai were to combine his firework show with his tap dancing abilities we might actually have something here... he completely skirts the issue.</p> If Cai were to combine his firework show with his tap dancing abilities we might actually have something here… he completely skirts the issue.

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