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HUGO BOSS ASIA ART: Award for Emerging Asian Artists opened early today at Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai, presenting artworks by the four finalist artists: Li Ming (China), Tao Hui (China), Yu Ji (China), Robert Zhao Renhui (Singapore). >> Read more

HUGO BOSS ASIA ART: Award for Emerging Asian Artists opened early today at Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai, presenting artworks by the four finalist artists: Li Ming (China), Tao Hui (China), Yu Ji (China), Robert Zhao Renhui (Singapore). >> 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

For his first solo show in Seoul, Daniel Arsham presents a series of new pieces inspired by daily objects shown through the prism of destruction—a recurring narrative in his work—with the use of precious materials. >> Read more

Dissecting the piece as a whole, I found no link between these images, which constituted an anything-goes pile-up of various symbols: Tantric Buddhism, Taoism, body politics, the larger narrative of human civilization, reincarnation, redemption, self-examination, revelation, purgatory, Hieronymus Bosch’s “Ship of Fools” and “The Seven Deadly Sins”. . . >> Read more

Almine Rech Gallery was established in 1997 in Paris, followed by Brussels in 2008, London in 2014 and New York in 2016. Contact in Chinese: Damien Zhang contact.paris@alminerech.com Represented Artists: Justin Adian Ziad Antar John M Armleder Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Matthias Bitzer Joe Bradley Don Brown Brian Calvin The Estate of Agustín Cárdenas Ha Chong-Hyun George […] >> Read more

Simchowitz's controversial business model, obstinate personality, omnipresence on social media, and big mouth have consistently earned him a spot at the center of heated and polarized debates about his policy of aggressively stockpiling emerging artists' work so as to compete with galleries and dealers for their market share. >> Read more

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN) announced today that it will officially open to the public in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2017. >> Read more

Almine Rech Gallery was established in 1997 in Paris, followed by Brussels in 2008, London in 2014 and New York in 2016. Contact in Chinese: Damien Zhang contact.paris@alminerech.com Represented Artists: Justin Adian Ziad Antar John M Armleder Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Matthias Bitzer Joe Bradley Don Brown Brian Calvin The Estate of Agustín Cárdenas Ha Chong-Hyun George […] >> Read more

Frieze looked good. There was much less of the not-so-good stuff and less garish art than in previous years. It was more brainy and subtle. And there were buyers! >> Read more