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Have you ever imagined what it would like to be something other than human—a hawk gliding through the air or a monkey swinging from a tree? >> 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

(中文) 展览主题“启示”似乎是对基督教《圣经》中普遍启示的借用。“启示”的原意是揭开或者把遮盖物挪去。在基督信仰中，启示是指神向人显明自己，使人可以认识他。 >> Read more

After representing the American Pavilion for the 2013 Venice Biennale, Sarah Sze has now moved on to occupy both Victoria Miro’s spaces in London, in what is in fact Sze’s third exhibition with the gallery. >> Read more

Exhibitions of Chinese art outside China tend to confirm certain assumptions about the country's history, culture, politics, and people. At first, ‘XU ZHEN®: Eternity Vs Evolution’ at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, seems no exception to this rule, promising viewers a proven combination of two enduring preconceptions about China’s past and present. >> Read more

Jumping and whooping, men swept by in costumes covered in fabric petals, their bodies thawed into fluttering colors. It took Andy a moment to realize that their swollen, red features and black, hollowed eyes belonged to wooden masks. >> Read more

The recent sculptures nuns + monks by Ugo Rondinone take their rightful place in the continuity of a narrative introduced by the artist thirty-two years ago. A narrative composed of chapters that would never cease to interact with one another throughout a trajectory made up of intertextual questions, back-and-forths, survivals, displacements and reinventions of shapes and attitudes, or of interrogations that are constantly being renegotiated. >> Read more

Manifestations is Philippe Parreno’s eighth solo exhibition with Esther Schipper. It includes works spanning various media: a granular soundtrack, a CGI film, atmospheric sensors, robotic systems, computer code, ice and water. >> Read more

Minimalist, conceptual, and deliberately provocative, Cao’s work reflects upon and exploits the physicality of her materials, from the conventional – marble, stretched linen and canvas – to unexpected, even transgressive, substances including the artist’s own hair, breastmilk and urine, and their various significations. >> Read more

(中文) 无可否认，新冠疫情对世界的影响将会在未来相当一段时间内持续，艺术家和所有人一样难免不受到波及。我们可以在哪些历史中寻找参照，或者今天的事件又会如何影响未来？或许每个人的答案都不尽相同。这次展览邀请的作品也不会提供标准答案，然而无论影像或是绘画，具象或者抽象，其线索在于，都是艺术家在对自身所处环境或面对某个事件审视之后的表达与呈现。 >> Read more