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This summer, the Yokohama Museum of Art presents New York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang (b.1957, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China) in his first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan since 2008. >> Read more

“Radicality” is one of the most arresting parts of modern and contemporary art. The discussion will ask where radicality is nowadays within the contemporary art context and whether we need it. >> Read more

That is still what I believe. You make something and hopefully it is strong enough to survive this society at large, as it is today. >> Read more

The opening pyrotechnics started out at 5 pm. From afar, thick green billows of smoke hung from the sky, drifting from PSA’s large smokestack. >> Read more

As a complex and prolific artist, Kusama marks her days plotting bold dots in the trajectory of Japanese contemporary art. Her installations of floating world constructed with flickering lights have few precedents in their lasting three dimensional transformation of space.
 
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Yin Xiuzhen’s work lacks clear-cut sense of belonging to any time period or style. Her works are flexible, vague and ambiguous. In Yin Xiuzhen’s work, the warmth obtained from the layers of scarves is unbearable, and that which appears ethereal and hazy hides the greatest danger. >> Read more

Gillman Barracks, an old army base, has, over the past two years, emerged as Singapore’s new art district. With shopping being the national sport of this island-state, it is no easy matter for an art district to achieve the fame of shopping districts. Say the name of Gillman Barracks to a taxi driver, and nine times out of ten... >> Read more

Perhaps the most misunderstood work at dOCUMENTA (13) was Yan Lei’s “Limited Art Project,” the reaction founded on preconceptions and prejudices about Chinese art – particularly painting – lazily assuming it merely riffs on Western clichés, that it is derivative and repetitive. >> Read more

Chris Moore surveys Zhang Huan's art since the artist returned to China, with particular focus on the Ash Paintings exhibited at White Cube in London this summer, along with his major installations.... >> Read more

The 6th Annual SH Contemporary was nervously watched by the local art community amid rumors that the fair’s contract with the local government was coming to an end. >> Read more