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I have been a Paola Pivi fan since 2000, when I first saw "Senza Titolo (Untitled)" at one of the most beautiful museums in Italy, the Castello di Rivoli, on the outskirts of Turin. "Senza Titolo" is an unframed white painting — the one on show at the Rockbund Art Museum is called "Thank You Ocean" — made of thousands of artificial pearls. It is a concentration of power, mass and beauty... >> Read more

The Stockmarket is wobbly, China growth is slowing, Beijing's regulatory regime is tightening, there is a lot of hidden bad debt (who knows how much in State Owned Enterprises), there is a property bubble and a trade war with the United States. >> Read more

Perhaps no one in the western art world today has more to say about a whole host of topics, from independent publishing, to queer history, to dealing with loss and hope, than AA Bronson. >> Read more

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

What can we make of topography or “writing a place” as a way to think about “locality” and site? >> Read more

These are truths, affirmations, stated or not, that are felt but not proved. >> Read more

Like the impact of any massive object, the past months have seen shockwaves emanate from the opening of the National Gallery of Singapore (NGS), in the form of various reviews and opinion pieces. >> Read more

Taryn Simon is a New York-based artist known primarily for her meticulous work combining photography and text, though her practice has included sculpture and performance.
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Randian recently sat down with Marc Spiegler, the director of Art Basel, along with Adeline Ooi, in a wide-ranging conversation about the strategy and direction of Art Basel...
 
 
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More so than whatever a prize like this might mean to the artist, however, is the question of what his success in Shanghai indicates about the Chinese art world at the moment—and, by transference, what role Hong Kong is playing in relation to this system. Whereas artists working in Hong Kong were once fond of saying... >> Read more