Cai Guo-Qiang's Boom Year. After His Guggenheim Retrospective, the Artist Helps Beijing Open Its Summer Olympics. By Barbara Pollack. February 23, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. EST.

Cai Guo-Qiang is an artist the late Hunter S. Thompson would have loved. Think of the rental cars Thompson's narrator wrecked in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and it's easy to imagine this art ...

Cai has previously said it denotes Chinese craftiness in stealing western technology, while arrows piercing the life-sized stuffed tigers of "Inopportune: Stage 2" are also about the aesthetics of ...

Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese-born artist with an abiding passion for large, loud explosions. His current exhibition at Mass MOCA is in four parts. Inopportune: Stage One, 2004, consists of nine white ...

As I discussed last week, Cai Guo-Qiang’s Inopportune: Stage One is a powerful headlining piece for the retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim. This installation, perhaps rightly so, gets ...

I walked into the New York Guggenheim this past weekend wholly unprepared for the epic awesomeness of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang's exploding-car installation, called Inopportune: Stage One ...

Cai Guo-Qiang's exploding cars have taken over the Big Apple's Guggenheim. Skip to main content. ABC News Homepage. ... Artist Cai Guo-Qiang's Inopportune: Stage One.(Keith Bedford: Reuters) ...

‘Inopportune:Stage One’ (2004), a work by Chinese New York based artist Cai Guo-Qiang, which shows suspended cars in an animated sequence of explosion, is displayed as part of the 17th ...

Photo credit: Cai Guo-Qiang, Inopportune: Stage One, 2004. Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes. Dimensions variable. Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, ...

Everyone's bursting with anticipation for the opening of Cai Guo-Qiang's new exhibit at the Guggenheim; ... Another piece, titled "Inopportune: Stage One," acts as a centerpiece ...

Rivenc also has begun exploring Cai's daring installations, works as diverse as Head On (2006), in which life-size replicas of wolves lunge at a glass wall, and Inopportune: Stage One (2004), in ...