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randian 燃点 recently chatted over e-mail with Colin Chinnery, the director of the Multitude Art Prize, about the operation and aims of the Prize.
 
 
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In the process, you go somewhere and somelsewhere elastically, even a tiny bit. While inhabiting a ritual, one lives in and through time, via an odd interval sliced open and stitched back together. >> 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

This major traveling and transforming exhibition is based on several intertwined lines of tension and narratives found today in the realities, artistic and cultural production, and contemporary thought in the Asian sphere and beyond. >> Read more

It is constructed on a spectrum of art practices, new commissions, works from the Kadist collection, case studies curated by Yongwoo Lee, Qu Chang, and Simon Soon, and experiments on forms and processes addressing, directly or symbolically, several broad categories of issues. >> Read more

“I’ve never been interested in a blank canvas—rather, a dialogue with the world. I like to think of them more as ghosts, speaking with ghosts. I think about the idea of spectral presences.” >> Read more

The second edition of the Art021 art fair this year still remained at the Rockbund area, part of the Bund in Shanghai. This erstwhile confluence of money and culture of the British elite in the early 20th century has, 80 years later today, taken on a new look. The Art Deco structures are now stuffed with contemporary art. >> Read more

A historical exhibition in two parts, co-commissioned by Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing) and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), comprising documentary materials and artworks that examine the life and work of a defining figure in contemporary Chinese art. >> Read more

I happened to overhear him speaking to someone nearby, saying “all of the burnt books upstairs were once banned.” It turns out I was right—all of Qiu Zhijie’s work and every aspect of his work have always come about with such exquisite reasons. >> Read more

[Press Release] Yinka Shonibare MBE, Champagne Kid 7, (2013), Unique life-size mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, leather, resin, chair, globe and Cristal champagne bottle, 178 x 85 x 76cmcm. Copyright of artist. HONG KONG, 30 September, 2013 – Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by renowned […] >> Read more