Works in the Exhibition

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">Eight-Legged Hat</span>
Eight-Legged Hat
2000
pith helmet, watercolor and ink, wood, paint, wire
24 x 34 x 34 in. (60.9 x 86.4 x 86.4 cm)


Blog

Watch your back, Betty.
Paul Schmelzer
Fri, 02 Dec 2005

Visitors to House of Oracles over the next few days will notice unusual behavior from the blood red-legged tarantula--dubbed Betty by our gallery monitors--in Huang Yong Ping’s installation The Wise Man Learns from the Spider How to Spin a Web (she’s enclosed in the cage above the table in this photo): the spider has flipped [...] read more »


Huang Yong Ping


Writings

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">The House of Oracles</span>
Why am I Afraid of Huang Yong Ping?
Philippe Vergne
2005

Things happen. As one works on an exhibition, things happen, coincidences, which make the project more, or less, relevant—whether or not these events are planned, whether or not they are the sweet fruit of a chance meeting. It might just mean that the project was meant to happen, at this place and... read more »


Lexicon

Censorship

1. The relationship between art and censorship is a long and complicated one, which continues into the present, sometimes even in milieus that may seem democratic and respectful of free expression. One of the examples most often invoked of the political suppression of... read more »


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