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As consumers of cinema, as addicts, we mainline film’s nostalgia, the way it seduces our caved Platonic souls to believe in brusque impressions. We feel the awkwardness of cinematic ghosts, even empathize with them, blinding ourselves like Oedipus.... >> Read more

A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is an institution for Chinese contemporary art located in Chengdu, China. A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is equipped with an exhibition space for artworks, a screening room for audio-visual material and a complete and open online database of artistic works. >> Read more

Singapore is emerging as a regional culture-hub, with rapidly developing institutions, including Singapore Biennial, and a safe-harbor for major art collections. >> Read more

ArtStage Singapore 2012 opens | Marc Quinn throws a baby into Singapore garden | Buhl photography collection auctioned | >> 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

Esther Schipper, one of the most influential gallerists in Europe, represents many of the artists who have come to dominate the intellectual scene in what is often described as “relational aesthetics,” a term Schipper herself eschews. >> Read more

Art Taipei has always had a certain allure for galleries as a fair which has the power to attract local collectors — the Taiwanese are known to be big buyers unlike their counterparts in the Mainland — and though Taiwanese galleries fared well this year, no-one else managed much traction. >> Read more

Chris Moore talks briefly with SH Contemporary director Massimo Torrigani. >> Read more