Chinese Artist Gets Painted Out, Atomic-Bomb Photos, Hirst

Chinese artist Liu Bolin stood motionless as two assistants painted his hair pink and orange at Eli Klein Fine Art in Manhattan’s SoHo district.

The hodge-podge of color and images that finally transformed him head to toe would make no sense if he weren’t standing before a makeshift magazine stand lined with 100 recent publications. Liu had been painted with whole covers and segments of glossies featuring Lady Gaga, plump babies and new gadgets. He had become a vertical slice of the shelves.