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Jumping and whooping, men swept by in costumes covered in fabric petals, their bodies thawed into fluttering colors. It took Andy a moment to realize that their swollen, red features and black, hollowed eyes belonged to wooden masks. >> Read more

Any set of random numbers that are deprived of their contexts are imbued with meanings. >> 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

Inga Svala Thorsdottir and Wu Shanzhuan's manifesto and series of works titled Thing's Right(s), a revision of the 1948. >> Read more

“Has the decision to host the Olympics not yet been made? Why is it that we dare not do such a thing?” —Deng Xiaoping, 1990 >> Read more

“I cannot possibly understand those artists who place themselves in front of the canvas as if it was a surface to be filed up with colors and shapes, following a taste that is more or less appreciable.“ >> Read more

Axel Vervoordt Gallery Antwerp is pleased to present its solo exhibition of Yun Hyong-Keun (Miwon, 1928 – Seoul, 2007), who was a member of the Korean art movement Dansaekhwa. >> Read more

Leading Australian conceptual artist Scott Redford muses on the place of Anselm Reyle in current postmodern discourse. Reyle, born 1970, retired this year despite being one of the most prominent German artists. >> Read more

Echoing the internet’s tendency to confuse or otherwise shatter once simple boundaries, Curating Lab’s recent symposium “When Does an Exhibition Begin and End?” discussed, naturally, a move away from exhibitions as discrete, well-defined, singular units.... >> Read more

Political Games and the Politics of Play - on “Responsive Institution >> Read more