Xu Bing, an A.D. White Professor-at-Large and Cornell Biennial artist, discussed his work and posed the question, “What do we make of art today?” This talk was cosponsored by the Johnson Museum, the Cornell Council for the Arts, and the A.D. White Professor-at-Large Program.

Xu Bing is an internationally acclaimed Chinese artist whose creative and cultural interventions touch on the fields of public and ecological art, printmaking, new media installations, drawing, and sculpture. Xu Bing operates studios in New York and Beijing where he served as Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His biography charts the path of the international influence of Chinese contemporary art and its complex place in Chinese culture over the last forty years.