Using explosives to create beauty rather than warfare and violence provides a sliver of hope for our shared human future.” ...

Critics claim as well that the ceremony’s spectacular fireworks show, which was conceived by Chinese art star Cai Guo-Qiang, wasn’t all it seemed to be. The impressive fireworks display included a ...

Cai Guo-Qiang reviews one of his gunpowder drawings at the Grucci fireworks plant. Jessica Dimmock / VII Internationally lauded “explosives artist” Cai Guo-Qiang has already amassed some ...

For the 2005 Festival of China, artist Cai Guo-Qiang created a fireworks display over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Ken Cedeno/Corbis Editor's Note: Since this profile appeared in 2004 ...