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The classic quote by Karl Marx goes: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Such satire is not only appropriate in reference to Napoleon and his nephew, Napoleon III... >> Read more

Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai. March 20 to May 3, 2011 Liu Wei’s ‘Trilogy’ at Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Part II — Read Part I of this review here  The Gothic flying buttresses seem to have developed, at least partly, out of two series of work: Liu Wei’s composition of recycled windows and doors, “The Outcast,” (2007; also previously shown […] >> Read more

Zian Chen interviews the curators of the 11th Shanghai Biennial. >> Read more

It is a curious historical fact that such a small and distant country as Switzerland has had such a profound impact on the development of art in China, especially at this moment of China’s greatest economic and cultural transformation. >> Read more

Chronus Art Center is pleased to announce the much-anticipated presentation of Datumsoria: An Exhibition of LIU Xiaodong, Carsten Nicolai, and Nam June Paik. >> Read more

80,000 kg of human excrement in an art gallery, a Paralympian spinning her wheelchair across Lake Zurich and mournful, lovelorn robots are some of the more entertaining works in Manifesta 11. >> Read more