Of all the astonishing works in Cai Guo-Qiang's exhibition "I Want to Believe" at New York's Guggenheim Museum, the one I can't get out of my head is "Head On." The piece consisted of 99 full-size ...

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.

His displays also kicked off and closed the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Today, his works on paper have sold in the seven figures—in 2007, a set of 14 drawings went for $9.5 million at auction ...

"Elegy: Explosion Event for the Opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave", Shanghai, 2014. Photo by Lin Yi, courtesy Cai Studio "Head On", 2006, displayed at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.

Philadelphia’s two-venue Fallen Blossoms show began with a bang Friday, when Cai Guo-Qiang, the man responsible for the fantastic fireworks display at the Beijing Olympics, set off a explosive ...

There are fireworks aplenty in the unique art of Chinese-born, New York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang — as you can see here in the exclusive trailer for Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s ...

Cai Guo-Qiang is a contemporary Chinese artist renowned for his innovative works which incorporate gunpowder and controlled explosions.In perhaps Cai‘s most compelling work yet, Sky Ladder (2015), the ...

Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China), “Resurrection: Proposal for the 2024 Paris Olympics,” 2024. Gunpowder on canvas, 183 cm x 152.5 cm. Credit... Photo by Mengjia Zhao, courtesy Cai Studio ...

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang set fire to his latest work last week. Of course, that was the point, because Cai’s material of choice is gunpowder. To mark the creation of his monumental 18 meter ...

Chinese artist Cai Guo-qiang has been criticised in the past for his government commissions but his new show at Beijing’s Palace Museum is yet another. We ask him why he took it on.

July 4 is over, but the fireworks here are not. The artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who designed the pyrotechnics for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, is developing what he calls a large “explosion event ...

"Elegy: Explosion Event for the Opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave", Shanghai, 2014. Photo by Lin Yi, courtesy Cai Studio "Head On", 2006, displayed at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.