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The Organizing Committee of the Shanghai Biennale has finally announced the selection of Anselm Franke as the chief curator of the 10th Shanghai Biennale. It will take place at Shanghai’s mammoth Power Station of Art, with an area of over 40 000 sqm. >> Read more

This fall, Shanghai’s profusion of events made it almost seem like the central hub of contemporary art in China. Here is an overview of what happened—with more coverage to come later. 
 
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The second edition of the Art021 art fair this year still remained at the Rockbund area, part of the Bund in Shanghai. This erstwhile confluence of money and culture of the British elite in the early 20th century has, 80 years later today, taken on a new look. The Art Deco structures are now stuffed with contemporary art. >> Read more

In 2014, for the second time, China’s foremost state-run institution of contemporary art – Power Station of Art – hosts the Shanghai Biennale, in its converted power plant space. >> Read more

Curated by Anselm Franke (critic and curator based in Berlin), the Taipei Biennial 2012 with its title “Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction” tackles the questions around modernity and the systematic violence that has been inseparable from its expansion and growth. >> Read more

Artists Exhibited Diane Arbus Richard Artschwager Richard Avedon Francis Bacon Balthus Davide Balula Georg Baselitz Jean-Michel Basquiat Joseph Beuys Dike Blair Glenn Brown Chris Burden Alexander Calder Anthony Caro Maurizio Cattelan John Chamberlain Dan Colen Michael Craig-Martin Gregory Crewdson John Currin Willem de Kooning Walter De Maria Edmund de Waal Alberto Di Fabio Marcel Duchamp […] >> Read more

As regards China, London was less interested in the Middle Kingdom than in 2013 but the ubiquitous presence of Chinese artists and collectors in London, and galleries and museums attentive to them, indicates a trend that has been growing for the last five years. >> Read more