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Symbolic of freedom, romance, machismo, and recklessness, the automobile is an indispensable part of American life, beheld as an extension of the owner’s status and identity. This exhibition at Adam Lindemann’s VENUS is a fitting tribute to the city of LA and its deeply entrenched car culture. >> Read more

The Long Museum is pleased to announce WANG Yuyang: Tonight I shall mediate on that which I am, a major exhibition of sculptures, installations, paintings and performances by WANG Yuyang, organized by New York based curator ZHANG Ga. >> Read more

Art has no equivalent of the Skyscraper Index, the notion that record-breaking towers tend to be built, hubristically, just prior to an economic crisis. The top end of the art world seems to ignore crises altogether (at least the part that doesn’t invest in tall buildings). Inflationary tendencies are observable in the art world, though, in uppity auction prices, the spread of private museums and art storage facilities and, seemingly, in art itself, no doubt partly to fill all the cavernous museums being built. >> Read more

(中文) Almine Rech画廊纽约呈献群展《想象中的祖先》，此次展览由Carlo Severi和Bernard de Grunne组织策划。本次展览展现了现代及当代艺术中的“原始主义” >> Read more

Art Basel is not just about selling famous one-name artists—the Picassos, Pollocks and Warhols—but also about remembering other masters, whether still living—Haim Stainbach, Jannis Kounellis, and Liang Shaoji and Seth Price; or not—László Maholy-Nagy. >> Read more

It is a mistake to compare LA with New York, Beijing or London, because Los Angeles is what they are not. It is their idiosyncratic counterpoint. >> Read more