randian | 燃点

I took a long while writing this letter. I have been making changes to it, and it has been making changes to me. Meeting up with a few friends yesterday, the words I uttered gradually became the words I wrote to you in this letter. Sometimes I don’t know who is really in charge, my words or me. >> Read more

David Zwirner is pleased to present Seascape (2017), a new film by James Welling at its 519 West 19th Street location. This will be the United States premiere of the work and the artist's seventh solo presentation at the gallery. >> Read more

For the fourth edition of the Crystal Ruth Bell Residency, Red Gate & China Residencies are inviting people to apply for a funded residency in Beijing for the months of November and December 2017. >> Read more

Kukje Gallery is pleased to present A Snowflake, a group show of young contemporary Korean artists organized by guest curator Seewon Hyun, Co-Director of Audio Visual Pavilion. >> Read more

Perrotin Paris is proud to present Civilization Iteration, the first solo exhibition of Chinese artist Xu Zhen with the gallery, which will showcase Xu's important series of works since 2013 >> Read more

Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce the exhibition Diane Arbus: In the Park, on view in New York beginning May 2. The exhibition will be the first to focus solely on Arbus’ photographs made in Central Park and Washington Square. >> Read more

Simon Lee Gallery New York is pleased to present The Leftovers, a group exhibition organized by Franklin Melendez and Romain Dauriac which explores ideas of shelter. >> Read more

The Tina Keng Gallery is pleased to present Best Time of Year Falls in March, the second solo exhibition of Chinese artist Peng Xiancheng in Taiwan. >> Read more

For a long time ShanghART’s home was the M50 art district, on the banks of Suzhou Creek, a much smaller version of Beijing’s Dashanzi 798. Galleries at M50 would come and go but ShanghART’s presence, along with the mostly local artists it represented—including Ding Yi, Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen—remained constant. >> Read more

Dissecting the piece as a whole, I found no link between these images, which constituted an anything-goes pile-up of various symbols: Tantric Buddhism, Taoism, body politics, the larger narrative of human civilization, reincarnation, redemption, self-examination, revelation, purgatory, Hieronymus Bosch’s “Ship of Fools” and “The Seven Deadly Sins”. . . >> Read more