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The passing twelve months have seen the greater Chinese scene piqued by scandal, pressure and anti-climax and sprinkled only lightly, it seemed, with really effective art. 2013 felt like a tense and ambivalent year. >> Read more

The Open House series embodies ChART Contemporary’s mission of bringing together art & people through curatorial initiatives that educate, stimulate and support the production of new works by emerging artists. Open House presents new work for one afternoon in a space that is for rent, sale, abandoned or slated for demolition. >> Read more

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Please join us in Shanghai at the China Art Museum, halls 15 and 16, for the exhibition "China Dream, Thirty Years: Liu Heung Shing's Photography" opening on July 25 at 6pm. >> Read more

With money and space, the Long Museum has potential, but do they have the curatorial chops to turn a building into a museum? Despite a less-than-mind-blowing first show, it's nonetheless a good place to see a very extensive collection of Chinese art. >> 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

On the occasion of Liu Bolin's exhibition "Lost in Fashion" at Eli Klein Fine Art in New York, Randian’s editors argue about Liu, whose photographic set pieces present the artist camouflaged with paint and makeup so that he blends chameleon-like into the background. >> Read more

There was one clear choice. Liu Wei's complex conceptual jungle "Trilogy" at the Minsheng Art Museum, blended painting, sculpture and electronics, the museal space itself to meditate on modernism, China, Beijing, the road to his studio and his own practice. >> Read more

Fabien Fryns grew up in Belgium and Switzerland and began collecting art while still in high school. His first gallery was in Malaga, Spain, but in 2004 he moved to Beijing and opened a gallery in Caochangdi (F2 Gallery). >> Read more

Since the Financial Crisis, there has been consistent talk of why the art market has managed to sustain relative buoyancy compared to previous crises. One reason is perhaps that art is beginning to show increasing characteristics of fungibles such as commodities. >> Read more