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“I’ve never been interested in a blank canvas—rather, a dialogue with the world. I like to think of them more as ghosts, speaking with ghosts. I think about the idea of spectral presences.” >> Read more

The second edition of the Art021 art fair this year still remained at the Rockbund area, part of the Bund in Shanghai. This erstwhile confluence of money and culture of the British elite in the early 20th century has, 80 years later today, taken on a new look. The Art Deco structures are now stuffed with contemporary art. >> Read more

"Fragments of Empires" is an exhibition of contemporary art that addresses issues of memory, identity and the impact of migration through three different time-based media: sound, film and photography. Throughout the exhibition ‘fragments of empires’ are revealed through the notion of ‘object memories’ as artists examine how objects, and associations related to them, have been transferred and re-imprinted through historical processes of colonisation and migration, moving in this way from one culture to another. >> Read more

I happened to overhear him speaking to someone nearby, saying “all of the burnt books upstairs were once banned.” It turns out I was right—all of Qiu Zhijie’s work and every aspect of his work have always come about with such exquisite reasons. >> Read more

[Press Release] Yinka Shonibare MBE, Champagne Kid 7, (2013), Unique life-size mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, leather, resin, chair, globe and Cristal champagne bottle, 178 x 85 x 76cmcm. Copyright of artist. HONG KONG, 30 September, 2013 – Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by renowned […] >> Read more

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, which ended a disastrous century of arch enmity between France and Germany, a very ambitious conference was held at the famous China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou... >> Read more

On the eve of APT7, the pioneering visual art event of the Asia-Pacific, Randian’s Chris Moore spoke with Suhanya Raffel, Director of the APT and Acting Director of the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA).... >> Read more

Since the late 1980s, contemporary Chinese art has gained an increasingly high profile within the international art world. This profile has accrued for four substantive reasons: first, because of the sometimes highly innovative way in which producers of contemporary Chinese art have sought to combine/hybridize attitudes, >> Read more