How Three Works in SFMOMA's Survey of Chinese Art Got Blocked--in America

San Francisco Magazine Ian A. Stewart Courtesy of SFMOMA A controversial exhibition of contemporary art exposes our own cultural schisms. As curators at the Guggenheim agonized over the monumental task of compiling the survey of “global contemporary” Chinese art that will make its West Coast debut this month at SFMOMA, their attention was understandably and rightly focused on issues of cultural sensitivity. What they failed to anticipate were the reactions of the show’s American audience. ...