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Tradition is subjective and even traitors have one. And sometimes traitors turn out to be heroes. >> Read more

On Oct 15, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China Xi Jinping invited 72 important figures from the “official” Chinese art world to Beijing for a symposium. Many of the participants hold important positions within official Chinese arts and cultural institutions... >> Read more

"Education should teach you to think logically. But in Thailand it's the opposite right now"; Makha Sanewong na Ayuthaya's first solo exhibition with hip hybrid space WTF is impressively coherent in its understated physicality and its conceptual concern with the absurdity of contemporary politics... >> Read more

The four artists on exhibit share a common acuity in adapting the camera’s lens and photo images for non-traditional purposes. >> Read more

With over 5000 museums built in the past decade or so, China is experiencing a museum boom of epic proportions. Cynics can point at how, on the one hand, these structures are just empty shells containing a motley crew of poorly presented artifacts... >> Read more

Edouard Malingue Gallery is pleased to present ‘Anatomy of Anxieties’, a group exhibition featuring renown and established artists, especially curated by Rowing Projects, London. >> Read more

“My Generation: Young Chinese Artists” is New York-based critic, curator, writer and journalist Barbara Pollack’s well-chosen introduction to new Chinese art and artists. It's the first exhibition in the United States to exclusively showcase the work of the post-Reform and Opening (1978–79 onwards) generation... >> Read more

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

More magic-diorama than tableaux, “The Chocolate Ruins” (2013), after which Rodel Tapaya’s solo-show at ARNDT Berlin this month is named, is a multidimensional statement. >> Read more

Yavuz Fine Art breaks the boundaries of convention and zeroes in on issues pertinent to the region. In the opening week of the Singapore Biennale, Iona Whittaker met Can Yavuz at the gallery, close to the Singapore Art Museum. >> Read more