This story is particularly interesting to me since I am an art major. It's not every day you see an artist making world headlines. Guo Jian is a contemporary artist working in China who recently constructed a large diorama of Tiananmen Square and completely covered the surface of the sculpture with ground pork. It might sound odd to outsiders, especially those who do not understand contemporary art. However, the idea behind the work is powerful when one remembers the violent crackdown on protesters by the military. The ground pork symbolizes the stacked and rotting bodies that the artist witnessed outside the hospitals immediately after the event. The Chinese government said that they were holding Guo Jian on a visa issue, not in relation to his controversial work. The artist's colleagues, however, say otherwise. This news is alarming considering the Chinese government's treatment of another prominent contemporary artist - Ai Weiwei.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/world/asia/china-guo-jian-deportation/index.html?hpt=wo_t2
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