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...when he was still living in China, the artist Cai Guo-Qiang began experimenting with a very Chinese medium. And a very tricky one: gunpowder. He would sprinkle it on fibrous paper, then light it to create a "drawing" of burned residues. He moved on to produce outdoor "explosion events," using fireworks to create spectacles on the ground and in the sky that he related to Taoist ideas about destruction and transformation. By now, Cai (pronounced Sigh) is an old master of blast art. Which is funny, because at 50, he's a soft-spoken man with a modest manner...
...million Value of art auctioned last year by Sotheby's and Christie's in Paris $800 million Value of art auctioned in Asia in 2007. On the strength of artists like Cai Guoqiang, whose gunpowder-on-paper abstracts sold for $9.5 million in November, China has passed France as the world's third largest art market according to a recent economic study...
...sumptuously curvaceous green sofas that look like they might be sculptures in their own right, the Ya Chao or Refined Nest Gallery, www.yachaogallery.com, is almost a parody of a funky art space. It specializes in Chinese contemporary art - Chen Feng, Han Jia Quan, Pan Wei, Liu Xuguang, Qu Fengguo, Cai Bing - but also deals in artists from the New Chinese fine arts movement...
...still early days. Zhang's predecessor at the theater, Cai Zhengren, 66, says Kunqu "is like a person trying to stand up after many years of paralysis - it still needs support." But help is appearing. The city of Shanghai has started paying two-thirds of the tuition for students pursuing high-level Kunqu studies - grants that encouraged a sixfold increase in applications from...
...what's better, an empty stage or a full house? Ex-director Cai, who can point to a 50-year involvement with Kunqu, has no doubts. "Kunqu has to develop under a different social environment to survive," he says. Adapting old works to attract new fans is "exactly what I hope for the future...