Violent clash between human and nature: Cai Guo-Qiang's recent works

New York's Guggenheim Museum's retrospective of the work of the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is nothing if not action packed.

The galleries are rife with the sound of explosions and the sight of suspended objects and wildlife (stuffed) that they seem right out of martial-arts spy thriller. Organized by Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexandra Munroe, the museum's senior curator of Asian art, the exhibition will be on till the end of March.

On the first ramp, nine stuffed tigers pin-cushioned with scores of arrows writhe in the air in furious death throes