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[01/03] Is painting slogans on a wall, that are meant to criticize China's repression, "art"? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/30/the-london-art-student-whose-chinese-political-slogan-mural-caused-a-storm

Is painting the regime's own statement, aiming for people to recognize their ironic contradiction with its actions, an effective mode of criticism?

In my view, the answers are "no" and "it's chancy".

I am all for condemning China's repressive dictatorship, as a political act; but in order to qualify as art it needs to present its meaning in a subtle, unobvious way. That's...