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We are deeply saddened to have learned of Robert Indiana’s death this past Saturday at his home on Vinalhaven. Speaking of the artist, Paul Kasmin says: “Robert Indiana will remain alive through the great legacy he has left behind. He was unlike any other person I have ever met. A genius.” >> Read more

ShanghART S-Space is a special project space of ShanghART Gallery with no fixed space and time. S-Space will hold exhibitions for artists and curators in terms of different curatorial ideas. For this time, S-Space moves into ShanghART Beijing, it will present a group show “Shared Narrative(s)” curated by MIAO Zijin. >> Read more

Writing from Paris in 1991 under the pseudonym “No Beard Fei,” Fei Dawei penned a letter to fellow art critic and curator “Scraggly Beard Grandpa,” the pen name of Li Xianting in Beijing. Fei’s letter was a response to Li’s concern that “if art leaves its cultural motherland, it necessarily withers.” >> Read more

Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by the Belgian artist Renato Nicolodi (Brussels, b. 1980). >> Read more

Chronus Art Center is pleased to present Jim Campbell & ZHANG Peili: The Flickering Uncertain, >> Read more

The motive of this exhibition is my effort to imagine “the shapes of concepts of particles”. It was partly inspired by Ted Chiang’s novel 72 Letters. I was fascinated by the first pages of the novel, which describes a scene in which ideas are given to a clay mould by different combinations of letters on […] >> Read more

Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is honored to announce the first solo exhibition of Cao Yu (* 1988 in Liaoning, China). >> Read more

Art has no equivalent of the Skyscraper Index, the notion that record-breaking towers tend to be built, hubristically, just prior to an economic crisis. The top end of the art world seems to ignore crises altogether (at least the part that doesn’t invest in tall buildings). Inflationary tendencies are observable in the art world, though, in uppity auction prices, the spread of private museums and art storage facilities and, seemingly, in art itself, no doubt partly to fill all the cavernous museums being built. >> Read more

Patty Chang, Feng Chen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Shanghai Seeds… >> Read more

INK Studio, the critically-acclaimed Beijing art gallery, is proud to present Earth Roots, the first systematic survey of internationally renowned artist Yang Jiechang’s One Hundred Layers of Ink series. A stunning statement in its inception in 1989, the series has been extremely influential on the development of contemporary Chinese art, anticipating now-commonplace strategies like repetition, […] >> Read more