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Throughout summer 2020, this site gathered digital content that built upon the entire exhibition—new virtual tours of Wrightwood 659 and the Smart Museum of Art, object chats, at-home activities, online programs, and behind-the-scenes videos and photos.

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The Allure of Coloring: Zhan Wang

This week’s coloring page features Zhan Wang’s Beyond 12 Nautical Miles—Floating Rock Drifts on the Open Sea.

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The Allure of Coloring: Xu Bing

This week’s coloring page features Xu Bing’s gigantic installation, 1st Class.

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The Allure of Coloring: Zhang Huan

This week’s coloring page features an incense ash painting by Zhang Huan.

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The Allure of Coloring: Song Dong

This week’s coloring page features a work by Song Dong, who has repeatedly used water as a signature material in his practice.

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The Allure of Coloring: Liu Jianhua

This week’s coloring page features one of Liu Jianhua’s porcelain works, Blank Paper.

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The Allure of Coloring: He Xiangyu

This week’s coloring page is inspired by He Xiangyu’s first major work of art, The Cola Project.

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The Allure of Coloring: Cai Guo-Qiang

This week’s coloring page features Cai Guo-Qiang’s gunpoweder painting, Mountain Range.

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The Allure of Coloring: Lin Tianmiao

This week’s coloring page features Lin Tianmiao’s Day-Dreamer.

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The Allure of Coloring: Sun Yun and Peng Yu

This week’s coloring page features Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s Civilization Pillar.

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The Allure of Coloring: Ma Qiusha

This week’s coloring page features Ma Qiusha’s Wonderland: Black Square, made of black stockings stretched over concrete shards.

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The Allure of Coloring: Ai Weiwei

This week’s coloring page features Ai Weiwei’s Tables at Right Angles, which uses mortise-and-tenon joints to seamlessly reconfigure two tables collected from a Beijing antique market into a nonfunctional object.

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Cardboard Caves

Learn how to build a cool cave and construct bulbous boulders out of cardboard boxes in this hands-on project inspired by Zhan Wang’s Gold Mountain!

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The Allure of Coloring: Huang Yong Ping

This week’s downloadable coloring page features one of Huang Yong Ping’s “book washing” projects, Devons-nous encore construire une grande cathédrale? (Should We Construct Another Cathedral?).

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The Allure of Coloring: gu wenda

This week’s downloadable coloring page features gu wenda’s united nations: american code (1995–2019), a house-like structure composed of braided and felted human hair.

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The Allure of Coloring: Chen Zhen

This week’s coloring page features Chen Zhen’s Crystal Landscape of Inner Body (2000), a work that evokes the centuries old Daoist concept of “internal alchemy” by rendering internal organs in crystal.

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Pop Bottle Boats

Turn recycled plastic soda bottles into floating toy boats in this hands-on artmaking project inspired by He Xiangyu’s Cola Project.

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The Allure of Coloring: Gu Dexin

Introducing…the Allure of Coloring! Interact with The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China from the comfort of your living room through a special series of coloring sheets drawn by Erik L. Peterson.

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