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A long while ago—around five or six, or even seven or eight years ago—Yuan Gong came over by himself to talk with me about the idea of setting up an art space. >> Read more

The renowned American philosopher Hilary Putnam passed away last year. Even though he was a pioneering figure in new American Pragmatism, second to none in both the multi-disciplinary scope and abundance of his work, he was still, at the time of his death, best remembered for coming up with the question known as “brains in a vat”… >> Read more

Since opening ShanghART in the lobby of a hotel in Shanghai in 1996, Lorenz has been friend and mentor to scores of artists, including Ding Yi, Zeng Fanzhi, Yu Youhan, Zhao Bandi, Xu Zhen, and Birdhead, among many others. Sardonic and understated, Helbling’s Swiss roots are routinely noted but as Zhou Tiehai comments, “Lorenz has long been one of us”. >> Read more

People crowd the raft of empty Coke cans and Pepsi bottles. Tourists, clubbers, musicians, students, sun bathers. Protestors are matched with actors, mendicants with diners, a photographer and his model with a mugger and his victim. The flag is red, the sky is grey, but unlike Delacroix’s "original", there is no ship on the horizon, blind or otherwise. >> Read more

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The object of interest is not the totality of contemporary art in the 1990s, but a specific issue therein, namely, “the issue of exhibition”—to study this issue is to study the relationship between contemporary art in this period and its social context. >> Read more

As Russia’s main outpost in the Far East, Vladivostok holds a strategic position that has been both a blessing and a curse for its development, not least culturally. >> Read more

In a state of shock, many asked, “Can he really do this?!” >> Read more

A look back at 2014 for artist's residencies in China... >> Read more

Randian looks ahead to Art Basel Miami Beach 2014.  
 
 
 
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