{"id":3702,"date":"2015-01-04T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2015-01-04T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:01:45","slug":"xu-bing-at-st-john-the-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/xu-bing-at-st-john-the-divine\/","title":{"rendered":"Xu Bing at St John the Divine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After witnessing substandard working conditions at a building site for which he&rsquo;d been commissioned to create artwork, Beijing-based artist Xu Bing created two huge phoenix sculptures composed of construction equipment. Suspended at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohndivine.org\/programs\/art\/current-exhibitions\" title=\"St John the Divine\" target=\"_blank\">Cathedral Church of St John the Divine<\/a>, their decorative lights are akin to stained glass and their message in keeping with the church&rsquo;s activist history. (Through Feb 2015). <\/p>\n<p><em>Xu Bing, Phoenix, installation view at St John the Divine, Dec 2014.<\/em><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sendible-public.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/pixel.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sendible-public.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/pixel.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/00362084-96d6-4fdb-b47b-2a75cdd68edc?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After witnessing substandard working conditions at a building site for which he&rsquo;d been commissioned to create artwork, Beijing-based artist Xu Bing created two huge phoenix sculptures composed of construction equipment. Suspended at the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine, their decorative lights are akin to stained glass and their message in keeping with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/xu-bing-at-st-john-the-divine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xu Bing at St John the Divine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,147,18,2384,4081,2166,4084,14,432,1450,4083,4080,4082,2639],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-beijing","tag-building-site","tag-chinese","tag-construction-equipment","tag-exhibition","tag-gallery-tour","tag-museum-tour","tag-phoenix","tag-st-john-the-divine","tag-working-conditions","tag-xu-bing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/file3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-XI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}