Driving from Dubai’s airport to the center you see billboards along the road with huge letters saying: TRUMP, and underneath, International Golf Club. Moments like this remind you that the Emirates (and the Gulf states) are different from the rest of the Arab world. Led by business-oriented sheikhs, foreign investment, and lots of petroleum, in […] >> Read more
In an age in which he feels artists have become exceedingly democratic, Luc Tuymans adheres closely to the method he has honed over time—mercifully without, he says, a moment of “painter’s block.” >> Read more
Recently, I came across a conversation between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht (in the former’s book Understanding Brecht, first published in 1966)... >> Read more
Kukje Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Kim Yong-Ik as our final show of 2016. This marks the first time the widely acknowledged artist’s work is shown at Kukje and will consist of thirty new paintings made between 2015 and 2016. >> Read more
Alessandro Rolandi on three exhibitions to see now in Beijing, from appropriation of movie posters to censored ghosts to wild script calligraphy. >> Read more