Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi

Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi deface Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain and Tracy Emin’s piece My Bed When these performance artists walked into the Tate Modern gallery and relieved themselves on Marcel Duchamp’s urinal exhibit, and argued they were paying homage to...

Panic Attack!

by Mia Jankowicz Commissioned on the occasion of the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2007 posted on Frieze on October 2007 Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK The timing and subject matter of ‘Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years’ overlapped distinctly with Kunstverein Munich and...

Look what we did

Written by Jonathan Jones Posted on The Guardian, Monday 31 March 2003 Weaned on a diet of pickled animals and unmade beds, the British public has become remarkably difficult to shock. Could that be why Jake and Dinos Chapman, the enfants terribles of Britart, bought...

Debating Art: Censorship Or Protest?

By STEVEN A. HOLMES Published: December 6, 1989 on The New york Times An angry debate has erupted at the New School for Social Research after a caricature of a black man the school was displaying in an art show was defaced by an instructor who branded the work racist....