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Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language. >> Read more

Thus, Why Only Art Can Saves Us, is a philosophical, political, and existential reflection on the appeal and aesthetic qualities of art in the 21st century. >> Read more

As the most familiar philosophical term for contemporary Chinese, >> Read more

Co-organized by Start Museum Shanghai and Goldsmiths College, University of London, the ‘Forum for International Thought’ launched on 2nd December at Goldsmiths. >> Read more

The "surprising package" in question here is Selina Abromovic (aka "Baby No 1") on the "Sexy Hotline" that, using the template of late-night sex advertisements on German TV >> Read more

(中文) 2015 年 7 月 31 日至 9 月 2 日 星期一至星期六,上午 10 时至下午 7 时 藝術門,香港中环毕打街 12 号毕打行 6 楼 香港-藝術門画廊将呈献驻於阿姆斯特丹和北京的艺术家——倪海峰的个展。 >> Read more

Row after row of sleek black telephones on white plinths, each one indistinguishable from the next; we are reminded at first of the cold, impersonal, mass-produced objects of a factory, devoid of human traces. >> Read more

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‘My Chinese friends’ brings together over 40 works by Chinese artists that originated between 1992 and today and with only two exceptions have all been curated by Alexander Ochs and shown in exhibitions in the past 22 years. >> Read more

Whatever doubts one might harbor about the obviousness of deploying Hitler and Ronald McDonald as stock illustrations of “evil” quickly melt away when faced with the awesome spectacle of the endeavor. I just hope that next time, the Chapman Brothers will manage to do it even worse. >> Read more