Talk:Feng Boyi

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Documentation of the claim that he is among most important is crucial, especially in light of

• the tendency of the Party to deform the marketplace of ideas that often establishes these things elsewhere, and
• his apparent apparent bomb-throwing in the title "Fuck Off": bomb-throwing in art can contribute to notability, but it is so much more often in the art world a desperate and fruitless attempt at attaining notability that in his case it does more to suggest n-n than notability.

--Jerzy•t 19:51 & 19:54, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the warning but I am still trying to add on some of the other important exhibits and such that Feng Boyi has done (just do not have that much time) and not sure how to document the initial statements that I wrote for this article since they come from a flyer that I got at a lecture that he gave at UW-Milwaukee. I am in the process of finding other sources...

• While it was common for the Communist goverment of China to interfere with contemporary art until pretty recently, at least from what I have seen and read, in the last few years they pretty much have a hands off approach... likely because they know it brings in a lot of foreign money and because they know if they give ANY attention to these radical artists, then more local and international attention also focuses on these radical artists...

• besides numerous other exhibits, curating the opening exhibit of the Beijing-Tokyo Art Project, along with "Fuck Off," alone qualify him as an eminent Chinese curator though...

• and about deleting "independent"? ...this is kind of strange, it is quite common to be an "independent" curator or critic, just like an "independent" writer, it just means you are not part of the permanent staff of a museum or gallery...White Krane 03:18, 7 January 2007 (UTC)