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Step into a packrat’s lair, and you see wall-to-wall clutter choking up the space. Hoarding can be such a compulsive psychological disorder that it debilitates a person’s social functioning and sense of reality. >> Read more

This exhibition is a dialogue between artists from Korea and from Berlin working with painting, video art, installation, and performance. >> Read more

Turi Simeti’s exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery on May 28 gathers for the first time a series of pieces that provide an overall perspective of the artist’s work from his beginnings to the present. >> Read more

Credit must be given to the Met, as the exhibition’s wide selection of works allows many unfamiliar Chinese names exposure on an institutional level in the West. Nonetheless, this raises a side issue as well—some of the works exhibited have little relevance to the themes they serve and thus the exhibition sometimes wanders off topic. >> Read more

More so than whatever a prize like this might mean to the artist, however, is the question of what his success in Shanghai indicates about the Chinese art world at the moment—and, by transference, what role Hong Kong is playing in relation to this system. Whereas artists working in Hong Kong were once fond of saying... >> Read more