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Manifesta in St. Petersburg; Wang Chunchen in Venice; Iberia Center renamed Hive Center; Launch of ArtShare; MAP Office wins Sovereign Art Prize >> Read more

Chris Moore looks askance at the work of prominent painter Liu Xiaodong, whose solo exhibition "The Process of Painting" closed recently at Kunsthaus Graz. >> Read more

Chris Moore surveys Zhang Huan's art since the artist returned to China, with particular focus on the Ash Paintings exhibited at White Cube in London this summer, along with his major installations.... >> Read more

Cao Yingbin, Chen Man, Cui Xiuwen, Feng Shu, Li Qing, Liu Bolin, Li Xinjian, Sheng Qi, Shi Guorui, Sun Xun, Wu Junyong, Xu Heng, Yang Liming, Yin Zhaoyang, Yuan Yuan, Zhang Huan, Zheng Lu, Zhou Yilun >> Read more

As Seen is not a simple compilation artist book. It’s about artworks, about looking at artworks in public spaces. It’s about what art does, or about what an encounter with art can be when that art is good. So it’s about how one defines what work is good: about who gets to decide and why. >> Read more

First published in Broadsheet (vol. 37 no. 4), we have decided to reprint Zhao Chuan's text in celebration of the 10th anniversary of "Fuck Off," a seminal exhibition in contemporary Chinese art. >> Read more

The Westerners are skilled in geometry, and consequently there is no the slightest mistake in their way of rendering light and shade [yang-yin] and distance (near and far). When they paint houses on a wall people are tempted to walk into them . . . Students of painting may well take over one or two points from them to make their own paintings more attractive to the eye. >> Read more