When can a museum exhibition be defined by what is absent, rather than what is present? When it’s “Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Since opening day, the public discussion about “Art and China” has been as much about this issue as it has been about the art. Huang Yong Ping, the artist behind "Theater of the World"Sun and Peng’s work was presented in a Chinese art museum in 2003. “In the period under review — 1989 to 2008 — the Chinese art academies were largely dominated by men,” Munroe said.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 27, 2017 15:00 UTC