Saturday, April 16, 2011

European Art in Beijing

How the detainment of a famous Chinese artists put clouds on a German exhibition traveling to Beijing, strategically referencing“The Art of the Enlightenment”, which shows late 18th century European art from some of Germany’s greatest museums.

Guido Westerwelle explained that the  Enlightenment’s “advance of rationality” had turned Europe’s “ruling elites into governments” and “subjects into citizens” - clever sloganeering against yet another reality check here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd7245c0-6780-11e0-9138-00144feab49a.html#axzz1JfLClgXk


More about Ai Weiwei's exhibition "Sunflower Seeds"

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