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With its set goals of creating more urban centers of “global city status” than anywhere else in the world, 21st-century China is seeing a growing attention to a single topic: the ever-changing environment. >> Read more

Gabriel Lester offers a unique experience based on our memories and imaginations, creating a dialogue between his work and the viewer. “Roxy,” at Shanghai's Minsheng Art Museum and Lester's first solo show in China, features two installation from 2000 and 2009 that focus on reinventing cinematographic narrative. >> Read more

[Press Release] Minsheng Art Museum presents Roxy, the first solo exhibition in China of internationally exhibited Dutch artist Gabriel Lester. Born in Amsterdam in 1972 and presently based in Amsterdam and Shanghai, Lester has been producing works since the mid-1990s that are informed by lexica of cinematography and architecture, and mediate the perception of the […] >> Read more

Dao Chau Hai – a solitary wanderer in the endless exile of the mind, searching for a paradise that does not exist. >> Read more

Now in his 9th decade, Alex Katz is one of the greatest living artists. Yet Katz remains in a category of his own. We spoke with Katz by telephone about influences, recent shows and the key model for his entire oeuvre, his wife and muse of 60 years, Ada. >> Read more

George Condo’s first solo show in Hong Kong, “Expanded Portrait Compositions”, opens at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. Organized by Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, it comprises major new work by one of the most influential living painters. >> Read more

As an annual exhibition featuring works by artists from Northeast Asia, “Asia Corridor” could have the potential to delve into some rather interesting and seldom-broached issues in this region. >> Read more

The fastest, the highest, the strongest are the superlatives that came to describe the pace of development in modern China since the opening reforms. >> Read more

Lecture 1: Turing Testing: Distinguishing Man from Machine Speakers: Korean Art Collective Shinseungback Kimyonghun and Dr. Anna Greenspan, moderated by Rebecca Catching Saturday, April 1, 2017, 2-3:30 OCAT Shanghai 30 Wen’an Lu, Jing’an District, Shanghai In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing developed a test to determine if computers were able to exhibit intelligent behavior. A […] >> Read more

In their project “Stone” Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun examine this persistent human interest in “self-improvement” through technological prostheses—applying this theory of “perception extension” to something as inert as a volcanic rock. >> Read more