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Never judge a book by its cover. Oh, but what a cover! Istanbul is one of the most beguiling cities in the world. Dripping with history and set beautifully along the Bosphorus, the city is undergoing yet another of its many rebirths... >> Read more

Hong Kong-based artist Kong Chun Hei on showing at Artissima art fair in Turin. >> Read more

Art Stage art fair opened Wednesday and first impressions are good. The presentation is airy and sleek—definitely on a par with ArtBasel Hong Kong—and with some 130 exhibitors, there is certainly variety, perhaps sometimes too much. >> Read more

I went for a walk and came across the National Art Gallery construction site (the gallery reopens next year). Building behind that looks like a spaceship is actually a spaceship from Planet North Korea. >> Read more

Pipilotti Rist’s work suits Guangzhou. All the swirling colors and trippy close-ups of flowers, sky, cloth and fecund earth complement a visit to this southern city, where deep pink flowers wave by the roadside and creepers cover the flyovers. “Gentle Wave In Your Eye Fluid” is the title of the exhibition, characteristic of Rist’s goggling mode. >> Read more

I was met by a low hum of gongs and chanting. I sat in one of the small halls, surrounded by ancient cypress and locut trees, sipping different varieties of pu’er tea and chatting to the temple manager and his rookie monks. >> Read more

Ah Singapore - Switzerland of Asia! Clean, organized, educated, military and somewhat conservative - just call me Heidi. All that's missing are cuckoo clocks and those things they call the Alps, but who needs those anyway when you have a giant walky-casino-helipad-pool and Avatar-like super-trees? Cuckoo! >> Read more

The electrical field is strong, the sound a hum. The room is a glistening white. There is a polite notice on the wall warning about potential damage to mobile phones and pacemakers during the executioner's steady work. >> Read more

Werner Büttner, Wild Painter in Germany who changed the 1980s. >> Read more

‟Liquefied Sunshine | Force Majeure” is a dual solo exhibition by Hong Kong artists, >> Read more