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“An Evening at Gillman Barracks” is tonight at Singapore’s whitewashed gallery enclave. Here, Randian offers preview sights of the shows at premier galleries including Arndt, ShanghART and Mizuma. >> Read more

With the slogan “We Are Asia,” Art Stage Singapore returns next week for its fourth annual edition. Randian previews this year's fair, with comments from founding Director Lorenzo Rudolf. >> Read more

Thus does BJDW 2013 aim to oil the wheels of design here this month. Hopefully this, and each subsequent edition, will help instill — not just inspire — awareness and productive competition in this milieu. It’s a space we continue to watch. >> Read more

Gillman Barracks, an old army base, has, over the past two years, emerged as Singapore’s new art district. With shopping being the national sport of this island-state, it is no easy matter for an art district to achieve the fame of shopping districts. Say the name of Gillman Barracks to a taxi driver, and nine times out of ten... >> Read more

An introductory word on Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, with a run-down of select booths to look out for at the fair.
 
 
 
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Chen Wei is known for creating constructed environments which combine 1960s decor and a variety of different props, suitcases, shards of mirror and, most strikingly, taxidermied animals — flocks of frenzied bats and herds of cattle. >> Read more

Its profile may be lower than other galleries in 798, but Space Station should by now have a reputation for strong and inventively installed exhibitions by emerging artists. The latest of these was Hou Yong, a painter born in 1976 in Beijing, whose solo outings to date have been aqueous in theme. A long-running series called Black from circa 2006–2008 shows figures swimming in glossy, dark water. >> Read more

Artist Gordon Cheung writes about a recent group exhibition at Ben Brown gallery in London with photo and video artists Chen Wei, Cheng Ran, Jiang Pengyi, and Ye Linghan. >> Read more

Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai. March 20 to May 3, 2011 Liu Wei’s ‘Trilogy’ at Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Part II — Read Part I of this review here  The Gothic flying buttresses seem to have developed, at least partly, out of two series of work: Liu Wei’s composition of recycled windows and doors, “The Outcast,” (2007; also previously shown […] >> Read more

The common plan of attack seems to have been to bring the tried and true, and the result at the Miami Convention Center was a dizzying array of mini-blockbuster shows. >> Read more