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Werner Büttner, Wild Painter in Germany who changed the 1980s. >> Read more

So I am walking in, wandering through this dimly lit, shack-like choral site, a sort of khôrā (χώρα), the territory outside the polis also rooted in it as an invisible receptacle, a housing house. >> 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

Introduce A Little Anarchy, Upset The Established Order, And Everything Becomes Chaos >> Read more

Kasmin and Perrotin are delighted to announce a jointly organized exhibition of new works by American painter Mark Ryden (b. 1963, United States). Featuring approximately forty works from the artist’s latest series, Anima Animals, the exhibition will be on view at Perrotin’s Shanghai gallery from July 3, 2020. This also marks the artist’s first solo show in China. >> 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

(中文) 近10年来的中国当代艺术展览的空间观念主要呈现以下几方面的趋向，主要表现可以概括为：绘画作品展陈的空间化和装置化；作品与场所的意义叠加，独立空间的兴起；扩展场域的展览：作品和展览的跨媒介性与在地性；走向虚拟空间。 >> Read more

Now in his 9th decade, Alex Katz is one of the greatest living artists. Yet Katz remains in a category of his own. We spoke with Katz by telephone about influences, recent shows and the key model for his entire oeuvre, his wife and muse of 60 years, Ada. >> Read more

While the COVID-19 pandemic continued extending its reach across the globe, the month of May in Beijing, with the return of Gallery Weekend Beijing and two new museums opening, seemingly saw the Beijing art world bouncing back to a steady drum of exhibitions. Yet the emergence of new cases of COVID-19 in early June (at Xinfadi Market, Beijing) put Beijing on edge once more. >> Read more

A prize is always as much about the giver as the receiver. This year’s inaugural Sigg Prize, successor to the esteemed Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), was as much about M+ as it was about the winner, Hong Kong’s own Samson Yung. >> Read more