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The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has officially announced that the 12th edition of the Taipei Biennial, slated to take place in late 2020, will be curated by the renowned French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour and the independent curator and artist Martin Guinard-Terrin. >> Read more

Titled As We May Think, Feedforward, extending this seminal text’s far-reaching ramifications into the artistic domain as a way to reflect on the trajectories of technological advances and their reverberations throughout the social sphere over the past decades, the 6th edition of Guangzhou Triennial seeks to address the multiple implications engendered by such a technologically constructed time-space - in the real and through the virtual - by examining creative endeavors both from geographical purviews and from cosmic prospects in responding to the challenges and opportunities at stake and to think, once again, through a new alliance of visions by humans and nonhumans alike, machines and flesh with equal footing, organic and inorganic hand in hand, an alternative outlook for a new possibility of ecology whereby a retooled humanism may thrive in a Parliament of Things (to borrow a term from Bruno Latour) in symbiosis and reciprocity. >> Read more

This year’s edition of Para Site’s International conference is interested in the renewed discussion throughout the world, often marked by symbolic actions if not yet by government policy, affecting what gets counted within the category of heritage, and who gets to do the counting: from the increasing debate around repatriation of looted artefacts by colonial powers to the varied and dissimilar processes of renaming and removing symbols of past eras, from India and Myanmar to Confederate America and Apartheid South Africa. >> Read more

Every society is based on strong systems of belief that are part of our culture and daily lives. >> Read more

In celebration of its fifth anniversary, for summer 2018 OCAT Xi’an orchestrated a special focus on “Xi’an”, its art, culture, and geography present and past, through a large-scale, expanded presentation of the Xi’an Showcase project. >> Read more

Shanghai—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to present the summer group exhibition Undercurrents in Shanghai, organized by the galleries’ associate curator Xia Jing. >> Read more

The International Awards for Art Criticism Ltd. (IAAC) launches the fifth edition of their Awards this month (IAAC 5) and will announce their new competition rules, awards system and members of its international jury at a press conference to be held at Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum on May 21, 2018. >> Read more

The title, Everything Was Forever, Until it Was No More, is borrowed from Alexei Yurchak’s book of the same name. Yurchak discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union and one particular characteristic that defined it: the sense that although the Soviet system was felt to be permanent and immutable, its demise was at the same time perceived as completely natural. >> Read more

Situated in the centre of Bergamo’s Città Alta, a few steps away from Piazza Vecchia and the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, is Palazzo Terzi, one of the most iconic cultural landmarks of the city and home to 'Alternative Realities', a major solo exhibition by Chinese artist Yuan Yuan (b. 1973) and his first ever show in Italy. >> Read more

Perrotin is pleased to present “So Near Yet So Far”, the first solo exhibition of the Chinese artist NI Youyu in Hong Kong. >> Read more