{"id":11614,"date":"2012-06-22T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11614"},"modified":"2012-06-22T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T01:46:10","slug":"the-art-of-xiyadie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/22\/the-art-of-xiyadie\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Xiyadie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/xiyadie1.jpg\" alt=\"xiyadie1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some vivid homoerotic paper cuttings by Xiyadie, a Beijing artist whose pseudonym means &#8220;Siberian Butterfly&#8221;. Some of the figures in these pieces are suitably butterfly winged but their appealing qualities make no difference to the Chinese authorities where they&#8217;re disallowed public exhibition. They are, however, currently on display at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flazhalleystudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flazh!Alley Art Studio<\/a>, San Pedro, California until 14th July. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/arts-entertainment\/artist-spotlight\/2012\/04\/21\/artist-spotlight-xiyadie\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Advocate<\/em><\/a> interviewed Xiyadie in April and has a selection of his work. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/homobilia.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Homobilia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/xiyadie2.jpg\" alt=\"xiyadie2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some vivid homoerotic paper cuttings by Xiyadie, a Beijing artist whose pseudonym means &#8220;Siberian Butterfly&#8221;. Some of the figures in these pieces are suitably butterfly winged but their appealing qualities make no difference to the Chinese authorities where they&#8217;re disallowed public exhibition. They are, however, currently on display at the Flazh!Alley Art Studio, San Pedro, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/22\/the-art-of-xiyadie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Xiyadie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[3804],"class_list":["post-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","tag-xiyadie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-31k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}