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A professional jazz pianist and New York-based independent curator, Daniel Chen has since August been the associate director of Hong Kong’s Kwai Fung Hin Gallery. >> Read more

A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is pleased to announce the opening of the four-year local art practice project Parallel Suspension by the artist group Chen Jianjun + Cao Minghao, as well as the first edition of annual group exhibition project Summer Discovery 2014 on August 9th. >> Read more

Chen Hangfeng’s practice is one which never strays far from the issues affecting modern China. All these works however, are linked by a central theme which ties which is the idea of adaptation—how we adjust to changing environments and the role tradition plays in the face of the juggernaut of modernity.
 
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It is too early to decide if I am destroying the tradition of ink painting. —Zheng Chongbin >> Read more

“Always the same thing. How boring! Pedants definitely!” said Oblomov, yawning. Basel is still the best art fair in the world. You knew that already. It runs as smoothly as Swiss Rail. No air-conditioning problems here! Yet there is a growing sense Art Basel is getting predictable. At first, I thought it was just me, […] >> Read more

A strong advocate for the internationalisation of art, Nathalie Obadia has been instrumental in introducing Chinese artists such as MadeIn, Ni Youyu and Wang Keping to the Paris art scene. >> Read more

The founding of the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery in Munich in 1968 marked the beginning of a forum of contemporary art that over the years has presented a great many artists in their first solo exhibitions in Germany, or indeed in their first solo exhibitions at all. The list includes, for example, such artists as Jenny […] >> Read more

M+, the new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, is pleased to announce Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium. Co-organised by M+ with, respectively, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, this two-part symposium celebrates the 100th birthday year of I.M. Pei by bringing together leading scholars who will lend new insights into the acclaimed architect’s life and work. >> Read more

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ShanghART had a standout solo-presentation of Liang Shaoji (museums everywhere take note: we need to see a major retrospective of Liang Shaoji). BANK (Shanghai) was present at Frieze Masters with a presentation of Maryn Varbanov's woven sculptures and Antenna Space brought a series of paintings by Cheng Xinyi. >> Read more