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So I am walking in, wandering through this dimly lit, shack-like choral site, a sort of khôrā (χώρα), the territory outside the polis also rooted in it as an invisible receptacle, a housing house. >> Read more

(中文) 无可否认，新冠疫情对世界的影响将会在未来相当一段时间内持续，艺术家和所有人一样难免不受到波及。我们可以在哪些历史中寻找参照，或者今天的事件又会如何影响未来？或许每个人的答案都不尽相同。这次展览邀请的作品也不会提供标准答案，然而无论影像或是绘画，具象或者抽象，其线索在于，都是艺术家在对自身所处环境或面对某个事件审视之后的表达与呈现。 >> Read more

Tianjin, just half an hour by train from Beijing, is said to be the most inconspicuous of China’s municipalities. This is perhaps surprising, given the fact that it is the first city in Northern China to be exposed to modern culture, experiencing a glamorous era in the period following 1860 when it became a treaty port. Tianjin is the epitome of modernity with “Chinese characteristics”. >> Read more

A conceptual artist who is tired of ‘conceptual art’? Xiao Yu may not be alone. As the cluster of meanings fades away in the monumentality and materiality of his works, Xiao Yu has embarked on an ambitious and yet perplexing task of ‘de-interpretation’ in contemporary art. >> Read more

In essence, Zheng Chongbin has fought an unwinnable but fertile battle to deconstruct and meld traditions.
 
 
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The artist Huang Ran has been nominated for short film section at the 67th Cannes Film Festival with his “The Administration of Glory”. >> Read more

Randian interviewed Karen Smith and asked for her thoughts on the prospect of contemporary art in Xi’an as well as the operations of the OCAT Xi’an branch.
 
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There is one type of artists who simply cannot be defined, since any definition would take away from their originality. Sun Yuan and Peng Yu belong to this category. Human lipids, baby or animal samples, high-pressure hose — there is nothing that they cannot bring into their practice. But as Sun Yuan says, if experiments themselves are not experimental, is creation even necessary? >> Read more

Boers-Li Gallery is currently holding a unique exhibition entitled “Made in Prison” which features the extraordinary artist Kang Wanhua. The show exhibits over sixty drawings he made while in prison during the latter part of the 1970s. >> Read more

“ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice,” an exhibition of the work of 50 young mainland Chinese artists, will open at UCCA in Beijing on January 13, 2013. Liang Shuhan met artist Xu Qu to discuss the exhibition in the final weeks of its preparation. >> Read more