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I try to understand how an artist, a designer, an architect, a writer, a poet, or any other “creative” individual should go about this kind of activity in order to bring his or her own work and practice into this kind of context. >> Read more

Banyan Commune is a unique phenomenon of community life and civil culture in southern China, a gathering place traditionally served as a community center for the neighborhood. >> Read more

Writing from Paris in 1991 under the pseudonym “No Beard Fei,” Fei Dawei penned a letter to fellow art critic and curator “Scraggly Beard Grandpa,” the pen name of Li Xianting in Beijing. Fei’s letter was a response to Li’s concern that “if art leaves its cultural motherland, it necessarily withers.” >> Read more

The advent of the home studio in the 1970’s democratized both music and art, >> Read more

A4 seems to grasp the concept of a museum in a holistic way. They see the museum not as merely an exhibition hall, a landing strip for some exhibition created elsewhere, shipped in like a travelling circus. >> Read more

No one has ever called the process of urban renewal considerate. >> Read more

As the by-product of international expositions, the biennial/triennial/multi-ennial model not only shapes the development of modern and contemporary art history, it is also intimately tied to the course of modernity... >> Read more

Martin Wong was a storyteller, often prefacing descriptions of his works with quips like “There’s a long story to this painting,” before going into versions of his autobiographical account of the details behind the scenes he’d craft. >> Read more

30 September – 5 November 2016 Opening: Friday, 30 September 2016, 6 – 8 pm Gallery EXIT, 3/F, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Hours: Tue – Sat, 11 am – 6 pm Gallery EXIT is excited to announce “For now we see through a window, dimly”, a solo exhibition of early […] >> 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