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2014.05.23 Fri, by

Baby Basel and HK Island Dreams

While the minimum and average quality of art displayed was noticeably higher than last year (better galleries, minimal kitsch) the art displayed was generally conservative—innovation was seldom seen... >> Read more

2014.05.20 Tue, by

Artist portraits from Art Basel Hong Kong

Some portraits of artists from Hong Kong Art Week, including at Art Basel - Lee Wen, Michael Joo, Shen Shaomin, Daniel Boyd, Hisako Sugiyama, Wu Jian'an, James Capper, Wang Guofeng

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2014.05.12 Mon, by

Art Basel Hong Kong 2014 preview

At the fair itself, over 245 galleries will be participating—a mix of international blue-chip galleries, top Asian and mainland Chinese galleries, as well as local galleries (We will be writing more when the fair opens).

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Artist profiles, 2014.05.06 Tue, by

Shi Jinsong’s Fragile Branches

Shi Jinsong’s work is also closely tied to a traditional Chinese aesthetic and philosophy—these words are easy to write but so often used as to be almost meaningless. Shi Jinsong engages in the invention of mythologies of things as ideals...which is to say that invention and transformation are not corruptions of an ideal but rather its embodiment... >> Read more

Artist profiles, 2013.10.09 Wed, by

Jake & Dinos Chapman 2 – The Restaurant at the End of Modernity

Hitler’s bodyguard died recently. Rochus Misch was 96. He said Hitler was “a very normal man" and "He was no brute. He was no monster. He was no superman." What a relief for Jews, Russians, gays, gypsies, and social democrats, to name a few. >> Read more

Artist profiles, 2012.10.05 Fri, by

Osage Gallery

Au Hoi Lam, Kingsley Ng, Lee Kit, Sara Tse, Wilson Shieh, Alvin Zafra, Miao Xiaochun, Li Xinping, Shen Shaomin, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Tintin Wulia, Min Thein Sung >> Read more

Artist profiles, 2012.10.01 Mon, by

Ausin Tung

Artists represented: Zhang Bojun Yang Dawei Wu Daxin Chonggang Du Hu Genhua Chen Hangfeng Pu Jie Lu Jun Wu Junyong Fang Kai John McRae Cindy Ng Shen Shaomin You Si Wang Tiande Zhao Weidong Gao Weigang Chen Wenling Miao Xiaochun Gao Xiaowu Feng Yan William Yang Chai Yiming Yuan Jia Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing >> Read more

Artist profiles, 2012.09.28 Fri, by