The First Phone Call to Joseph Beuys After His Death
1991
metal sheet, telephone, papier-mâché, drawing collage
drawings: 16 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (42.6 x 434.9 cm) each of 4
objects: 5 1/2 x 22 7/8 x 9 1/16 in. (13.9 x 58.1 x 23 cm)

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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 »

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Change Is the Rule
Hou Hanru
2005

Huang Yong Ping’s art is an entire ontology in itself. It’s a universe unto itself, and like the universe itself, it’s a complex system generated out of paradox and perplexity, which endow it with ultimate dynamism and vitality. His art is powerful but intelligent, revealing the essence of... read more »

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