The Vancouver Art Gallery has recently mounted not one but two large-scale exhibitions in order to inaugurate the newly established Institute of Asian Art. This also highlights how Vancouver, the city with the highest proportion of Asians outside Asia, embraces cultural diversity... >> Read more
Visitors to Istanbul may be forgiven if contemporary art isn't high on their agenda. After all, historic sites abound. But in fact Istanbul has seen an art boom of sorts, with new museums, spaces, and galleries mushrooming along with the booming economy over the last decade or so... >> Read more
The second iteration of the CAFAM Biennale focus squarely on the importance of curatorship. This show invited top graduates in curatorial studies from six art schools around the world as the curators... >> Read more
Girolamo Marri is not a fan of Bond James Bond. His review launches several glistening bullets at the invincible character of Mr. Bond, leaving a few tears in his perfectly tailored suit and impeccably coiffed hair.
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“Nostalgia,” a contemporary East Asian art exhibition, opened recently at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. Presenting works by 14 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean artists, the exhibition puts forward the wish for a certain nostalgia towards the traditional arts... >> Read more
Since the late 1980s, contemporary Chinese art has gained an increasingly high profile within the international art world. This profile has accrued for four substantive reasons: first, because of the sometimes highly innovative way in which producers of contemporary Chinese art have sought to combine/hybridize attitudes, >> Read more