Activists Protest Fireworks Display at Centre Pompidou

Activists Protest Fireworks Display at Centre Pompidou

A dozen demonstrators gathered outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris on Wednesday, October 22, to protest a fireworks performance by Cai Guo-Qiang and call for a boycott over his controversial stunt in the Himalayas earlier this year. The daytime fireworks show by the Chinese artist, titled “Le Dernier Carnival” (“The Last Carnival”), was staged to mark the museum’s five-year closure for renovations. Organized in collaboration with White Cube gal…

SFT France Protests Centre Pompidou Over Artist’s Fireworks Stunt in Occupied Tibet – Tibet

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 23 Oct: A French contemporary art institution, the Centre Pompidou, faced protest from Tibetan activists in France on Thursday amid a fireworks performance by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, held to mark the museum’s temporary closure. Cai continues to face global backlash for a controversial and pernicious fireworks art stunt carried out last month on a sacred mountain in Shigatse, in occupied Tibet.