Contemporary Chinese expatriate artist Xu Bing shares stories, sketches, and photographs of his work in association with a 2001 exhibition of his work at the Smithonson's Sackler Gallery. Word play and language are a focus of Bing's work, which incorporates folktales, fables, and the shapes of letters and words found in many different world languages. Click "View online feature" so see whole exhibition.

Concepts

contemporary art, pictographs

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Additional Tags

chinese calligraphy, smithsonian, smithsonian institute, xu bing, art of china

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)