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An expressionist painter firmly rooted in Chinese tradition, Michael Chow (b. 1938, Shanghai) returned to making art in 2012 after a 50-year hiatus. >> Read more

Exhibitions of Chinese art outside China tend to confirm certain assumptions about the country's history, culture, politics, and people. At first, ‘XU ZHEN®: Eternity Vs Evolution’ at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, seems no exception to this rule, promising viewers a proven combination of two enduring preconceptions about China’s past and present. >> Read more

Pal(ate)/ette/ will show artworks throughout Three on the Bund with the exhibition’s core display in SGA. Curated by NRM,Pal(ate)/ette/ reflects the spectrum of associations of the homonyms Palateand Palette; a synthesis of the senses – taste sight hearing smell taste and touch – and presenting Three on the Bund as a cultural whole. >> Read more

For the final exhibition in Blain|Southern’s Lodger series, the British artist Natalie Dray has created a new series of sculptures, which flicker between rigidity and suppleness, the inorganic and the organic, geometric order and the messy chaos of living things. >> Read more

Museum 2050 is a Shanghai-based platform for investigating key issues about the future of cultural institutions in China and abroad from a local perspective. >> Read more

As Groys notes in the opening passage of his essay, “On the New”, “We experience art history first of all as represented in our museums.” One might add, to be glib with Marx—and why not? —, secondly as farce. >> Read more

It is too early to decide if I am destroying the tradition of ink painting. —Zheng Chongbin >> Read more

The renowned American philosopher Hilary Putnam passed away last year. Even though he was a pioneering figure in new American Pragmatism, second to none in both the multi-disciplinary scope and abundance of his work, he was still, at the time of his death, best remembered for coming up with the question known as “brains in a vat”… >> Read more

Reports on the art market are suddenly very hip. The art market is still such a tiny little thing compared with other markets, like pork bellies or copper, but a sufficient number of investment bank clients are involved in it to make the analysis worthwhile. The trouble is that most reports are rubbish, with a few exceptions. >> Read more

"River of Fundament", an operatic, five-hour-long film created by Matthew Barney in 2014, was presented in Asia for the first time last September; it is known in translation as Chongsheng zhi He— literally “River of Rebirth­ ­—which is believed to be the film's subject. >> Read more