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In the exhibition, we can see standing portraits; the paintings beside them turn the atmosphere from silent to fervent. On the other side, the abstract paintings bring the rhythm back to gentle, describing the secrets of time with hidden sparks. >> Read more

ArtBasel announced the exhibitors to its second art fair in Hong Kong, the first under the ArtBasel brand. 245 galleries from around the world, over 50 % from Asia and Asia-Pacific, altogether over 3,000 artists. >> Read more

The world's best art selling machine continues to be the Art Basel trade fair. Over 300 galleries from around the world, 2,500 artists and 65,000 visitors, including 70 museums. >> Read more

Once again there were very few galleries from China participating in Basel. >> 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

Amid a very tense atmosphere in Paris, Chris Moore reviews its prime art fair, FIAC. >> Read more

ShanghART artist collective BIRDHEAD (SONG Tao and JI Weiyu), started their six-month Southeast Asia Residency program from July 2016. >> Read more

Pavilions were everywhere at Basel this year. Dan Graham of course, but also more widely John McCracken, ...and all through Design Miami / Basel. >> Read more

ShanghART S-Space is pleased to present a special project - "Landscape" by the artist group Birdhead on 5th June, 2016. The exhibition will last till 31th July, 2016. The first implement of this Landscape project is in 2008 in UK. >> Read more

It’s a natural and useful process. As the career of an artist becomes consolidated, his work is subject to a discourse that facilitates knowledge of the same and determines its popularity. >> Read more