Xu Bing: Transcending Culture

Volume 10, Number 5, September/October 2011
by Scott Albright


Article Description

An artist feature on Xu Bing who who tackles the social and the political—exploring the cross-cultural rather than the national, exposing social polarization, and participating in communal discourse rather than market preoccupations—in subtle yet provocative ways.


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