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Uzumaki is the name of a Japanese manga published from 1998 to 1999. Its author Junji Ito used the shape of a spiral as a form of horror. Spirals are generally regarded positively in Japanese society, so the challenge of Uzumaki was to take the mysterious pattern as larger than humanity’s capability for understanding and twist it into a terrible force.

Amidst the proliferation of private art museums in Shanghai and around China, smaller collector spaces are also opening with more modest but also more focused ambitions. Influential Shanghai collectors, Andrew and Lingling Ruff, opened 166 Art Space in late 2017. Its third show, curated by Josef Ng, opens this month. Ran Dian: Andrew, what brought […]

This I was thinking at the opening of Jake & Dinos Chapman’s first show at Blain Southern as the schmoozers and the boozers sashayed around the suicide vests. If this had been Afghanistan or Iraq or Sudan, you’d all be dead.

Hell here is an opulent info overload, data is religion, A.I. is unhinged, google images are the panopticon of the gaoler-prisoner, miasma is Miami and resistance art is futile. I kept thinking of Kanye West’s Monster track—but only the bits with Nicky Minaj.

Wade Guyton at Serpentine Galleries, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Robert Longo at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Gilbert & George at Lévy Gorvy, Enrico David at Michael Werner Gallery, David Hammons, Cody Noland et al at White Cube Masons Yard, Jeff Elrod at Simon Lee Gallery, Sherrie Levine at David Zwirner and Yan Pei Ming at Massimo […]

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.

Closing soon: Gabriel Orozco’s sixth solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel will present new works produced between Mexico City and Bali.

What kind theory of technology is adequate to depict and assess our post-colonial condition?