HONG KONG, China (CNN)-- Yue Minjun acknowledges that "Execution," inspired by the bloody Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, is the most politically sensitive of his work. But while Tiananmen served as ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Pale and weary from an exhausting promotional campaign in Hong Kong, Yue Minjun looks nothing like the ...

“Yes, it’s me,” Mr. Yue said in a recent interview, and […] Yue Minjun’s canvas painting “Execution” shone at Sotheby’s in London in October because of its price of $5.9 millio ...

Yue Minjun’s paintings are immediately recognizable ... at something they really shouldn’t be laughing at, like a mass execution. The atmosphere may be celebratory, but Yue’s images often ...

If the lesson last week was “Don’t laugh about the PLA,” this week’s message seems to be, “Don’t even crack a smile.” Some of the paintings currently being criticized are from ...

Renowned Chinese artist Yue Minjun has become the latest target among the nationalistic internet influencers and netizens in China, some of whom have accused him of insulting the country and ...

A large, pink, inflatable man, created by the Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun, has divided opinion in a small town in Wales. The 13-meter- (43-foot-) tall inflatable, which depicts the ...