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Simon Lee Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw. >> Read more

Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation and We Are Here Co-Present Inside Out Project >> Read more

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

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

There’s something about being held within the form, like the actual person, the life cast, is held within the fantasy of the form. It’s a piece that draws you in. You go around the back, you come to the front. —Paul McCarthy >> Read more

Shanghai—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to present SCAPEs, >> Read more

The finalized sculpture is now exhibited all by itself in a room at Almine Rech Gallery. >> Read more

A prejudice I wasn’t able to overcome: I find the title of the Biennale unbearable. It literally translates as “Go Art Go” (okay, also “Long Live Art”, but still). >> Read more

Galerie Nathalie Obadia is thrilled to present The Game of Life, the third solo exhibition by the American artist, Brenna Youngblood, following on from the exhibitions held in Brussels in 2013 and in Paris in 2015. >> Read more

Hiram was way ahead of his time. What made Hiram’s works so special though was a certain complexity and conceptual longing, romance even. >> Read more