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Art, Unfolded
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Xu Bing: What Exactly Is Art Today? Wu Hung: Art Has Long Since Entered Our Lives Leung Man-tao: At Last, Someone Asked These Questions for Us Zhu Yujie: There Has Never Been Only One Way to Understand Art 01. Ma Liang: Hands Too Clean Cannot Make a Good Artist 02. Su Chang & Yu Ji: I Used to Look Down on Masters 03. Ding Yi: Everyone Says My Paintings Look Like Floral Fabric 04. Peng Wei: I Was Already Past My Prime at Six 05. Zhang Huan: My Art Is a Form of Meditation 06. Zhang Ran: I Organized a Dance Party in a Museum 07. Ge Yulu: Shamelessly Hanging Around Is Pretty Good 08. Zhang Yuling: Can We Discuss Gender with Humor? 09. Xu Bing: In Contemporary Art, No One Has the Final Say 10. Su Ye: Do the Rich and Museums Determine All Our Taste? 11. Qin Siyuan & Yin Yi: Preserving Buried Memories with Sound, Part I 12. Qin Siyuan & Yin Yi: Preserving Buried Memories with Sound, Part II 13. Curator Zhu Zhu: Artists Need More Than Craft; They Need Humanistic Depth 14. Wang Ruiyun: From Troublemaker to Lying-Flat Youth—What Was Duchamp Playing At? 15. Collector Zhou Chong: I Began to Consider the Meaning of Consumption 16. Gong Yan: Artists Must Be Cherished 17. Curator Cui Cancan: Expertise Can Eliminate Genius without Relying on Intuition 18. Zhou Dawei: Business Logic Matters, but Ideals Took ART021 Further 19. Zhu Yujie × Cheng Yanliang: How Do Artists Make Everyday Objects Shine? 20. Wu Hung: Understanding Contemporary Art where Ancient and Modern, East and West Meet Bonus | Liang Shaoji: Busy as We Are, Every One of Us Resembles a Silkworm Bonus | Chiharu Shiota: Thread Is How I Speak with the World Bonus | Chen Yujun: The Best Art Is a Return “Home” 21. Hou Hanru: When a Market Becomes a Museum, How Can Public Art Enter Urban Life? 22. Liu Jianhua: An Artist Is a Farmer at Work 23. Lu Pingyuan × Wang Huan: The Artist Catches Ghosts; the Curator Reads Feng Shui 24. Gu Zheng: How Have One-Tap Beauty Apps Changed Photographic Art? 25. Zhan Wang: Sculpture's Methods Have Never Been Absent from Contemporary Art Bonus | Looking at Self-Portraits with Leung Man-tao: What Is Excessive Self-Consciousness? 26. Liu Yichun: From Coal Wharf to Museum—How Can Industrial Buildings Remake a Humanistic City? 27. Ai Jing: I Have Always Lived the Life of an Artist 28. Ying Qinglan × Zhou Li × Zhou Hehe: Why Does Art Need the “Female Gaze”? 29. Yang Yuanyuan: Telling Forgotten Stories of the Chinese Diaspora through Images 30. Hu Yinping: Mistakes Deserve Praise 31. Wang Changxing: Why Did Art Deco Blow Only as Far as Shanghai? 32. Yu Guangzhao: Museums Must Break the “White Cube” and Move Closer to the Public Bonus | Xu Zhen: Exhibiting in a Leaking Chicken Farm and Giving Away 100,000 Paintings over Four Years Bonus | Fu Peng: If I Restarted Life, I Would Still Guard Dunhuang and Its Caves Crossover with Steve Says | Zhu Yujie: The Little Girl Curating in a Gatehouse Venice Biennale | Art Can Be Gentle and Provocative Bonus | Why Has David Hockney Become the Art World's “Federal Reserve”?