The Vancouver Biennale has also been in the news extensively over the Lenin and Miss Mao sculpture by the Gao Brothers. The Vancouver Straight Newspaper included Yue Minjun's 'A-maze-ing Laughter' in their 2010 contributors' picks: Outdoors & landmarks. The laughing figures are the iconic signature of the artist and a product of the Cynical Realism art movement that emerged in China in the early 1990s. The Vancouver Biennale has allowed a number of artists their Canadian artistic debut. Sudarshan Shetty is one such artist who is part of a growing number of young contemporary Indian artists who are internationally recognized for art that abandons or finds new ways of expressing, religious subject matter. In 2010, Soren Dahlgaard created his "Dough Portraits" with the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, for the first time in North America and for the first time in the open air.