Yi Chen is Christensen fellow at the Ashmolean ( I first met Weimin He when he held that post. )
She and Shelagh Vainker curated this delightful exhibition.
I can recommend it if you need to slow down, relax and enjoy a taste of beauty.
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/art/11630427.Exhibition_enhances_city_ties_with_China/
Xu Bing @ The Ashmolean
http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/10270287.Xu_Bing__Ashmolean_Museum
Art during the Cultural Revolution
Xu Bing like most educated youth of his generation was sent to work as a peasant in the To the Mountain and Countryside Movement . I reviewed an earlier exhibition about the art of that period(1966-1976) when traditional Chinese landscape painting was frowned upon and Western art was regarded as capitalist and criminal.
http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/8957651.Cultural_Revolution_and_The_Past_in_the_Present__Ashmolean_Museum