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On Oct 15, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China Xi Jinping invited 72 important figures from the “official” Chinese art world to Beijing for a symposium. Many of the participants hold important positions within official Chinese arts and cultural institutions... >> Read more

Renowned German journalist, author, curator and art critic, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, met with Yang Jiechang to discuss Yang's his self-portraiture and calligraphy, empathy and the artist, Hitler, copying and becoming human. >> Read more

Separating DJs and audience:two banks of four mirrored walls—tall and facetted—spun at vertiginous speed,oscillating with the beat. The disco ball has become a threshing machine. >> Read more

Brushing off its tarnished image of old world classicism, FIAC seems to be undergoing a phase of rejuvenation... >> Read more

Born in Tibet, the artist Gonkar Gyatso relocated to London. He does not shy away from confronting pertinent social issues happening in Asia, reinterpreting them in a playful style. >> Read more

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

one key difference distinguished Art Paris from the Armory in New York: echoing the Chinese theme, quite a few galleries in the general section showed Chinese artists - or else works by Western artists dealing with themes connected to China. Guillaume Piens, the artistic director, stated that up to 33 galleries showed works that were in some way or another connected to China. >> Read more