{"id":66,"date":"2005-06-01T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T03:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/06\/01\/sculpture-working\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T02:21:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T06:21:55","slug":"sculpture-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/06\/01\/sculpture-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a1918\"><\/a>  This past weekend I came upon <a href=\"http:\/\/sculpture.org\/documents\/scmag05\/may_05\/may05.shtml\">Sculpture Magazine<\/a>, new to me.  Inside the May issue is an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/shell.php?sid=2\">Cai Guo-Qiang<\/a>, whose work strikes me as fantastically disturbing, attractive, thoughtful, and magical.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not all flying tigers shot through with arrows, like this:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/shell.php?sid=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"476\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/imgs\/imgs_project\/Inopportune2.tiger.3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; His other work, describing &#8230;consumption?, interchange? &#8212; it&#8217;s as disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/shell.php?sid=2\">Dream<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/imgs\/imgs_project\/2005_dream_07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which features blood-ghost appliances and cars and missiles and all the junk we make and sell.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/shell.php?sid=2\">Art Shopping Network<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/imgs\/imgs_project\/2005_moca_02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>which makes you wonder what&#8217;s being netshopped.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an exhibition of his work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massmoca.org\/visual_arts\/visual_arts.html\">MassMoCA<\/a> (till October 2005).  If I still lived in Boston, a day trip to North Adams would be on my agenda for sure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I came upon Sculpture Magazine, new to me. Inside the May issue is an interview with Cai Guo-Qiang, whose work strikes me as fantastically disturbing, attractive, thoughtful, and magical. No, it&#8217;s not all flying tigers shot through with arrows, like this: &#8230; His other work, describing &#8230;consumption?, interchange? &#8212; it&#8217;s as disturbing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}