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Think, 2013.04.15 Mon, by

Art in the Age of Mass Production: Is the Long Museum Just Another Museum?

With money and space, the Long Museum has potential, but do they have the curatorial chops to turn a building into a museum? Despite a less-than-mind-blowing first show, it's nonetheless a good place to see a very extensive collection of Chinese art. >> Read more

Think, 2011.12.15 Thu, by

Anders Petterson on ArtTactic’s latest China Art Market Confidence Survey

Randian talks to Anders Petterson of ArtTactic on the latest version of the Chinese Contemporary Art Market Survey. >> Read more

Think, 2017.11.15 Wed, by

Zhongguo 2185

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a possible future ended. Only some archaeological documents remain. Liu Cixin’s utopian short story “Zhongguo 2185”, written in the 1980s and published as samizdat in 1989, speaks of this spectral future. “Zhongguo 2185” envisions a future in which a democratic China, led by a female president, is forced to shut down the power network to stop a cybernetic insurgency helmed by one of six virtually resurrected brains—Chairman Mao’s. >> Read more

Think, 2017.04.21 Fri, by

ABHK 2017 UNREPORT

Reports on the art market are suddenly very hip. The art market is still such a tiny little thing compared with other markets, like pork bellies or copper, but a sufficient number of investment bank clients are involved in it to make the analysis worthwhile. The trouble is that most reports are rubbish, with a few exceptions. >> Read more

Think, 2016.09.21 Wed, by

Spatial Utopia: OCAT Annual Lectures by Wu Hung, and “An Exhibition About Exhibitions”

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

Think, 2016.05.02 Mon, by