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The Sifang Art Museum and Victor Wang are proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in China by UK‐based artist Haroon Mirza. >> Read more

With over 5000 museums built in the past decade or so, China is experiencing a museum boom of epic proportions. Cynics can point at how, on the one hand, these structures are just empty shells containing a motley crew of poorly presented artifacts... >> Read more

The much-anticipated Sifang Art Museum and a related architectural enclave is the pet project of real estate developer Lu Jun and his son Lu Xun in Nanjing. But following the opening of its inaugural exhibition, one wonders in hindsight about the thoughts behind “The Garden of Diversion”, curated by Philippe Pirotte. >> Read more

The opening exhibition at the Sifang Art Museum designed by Steven Holl Architects re-considers the utopian tradition of philosophical gardens in China. Within this evinced context the exhibition connects a variety of subject mater, such as the meaning of monuments and folly gardens, or the body, hedonism and experience economy. >> Read more

四方当代美术馆开馆展重新思考了以中国文人园林中的隐逸精神为根基的乌托邦传统。在这一被重提的语境中，此展览将众多的主题串联了起来，如纪念碑式的建筑与供士人清赏雅集的园林建筑的意义、身体、享乐主义与体验经济等等。 >> Read more

Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing announces its inaugural exhibition.
 
 
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Thus does BJDW 2013 aim to oil the wheels of design here this month. Hopefully this, and each subsequent edition, will help instill — not just inspire — awareness and productive competition in this milieu. It’s a space we continue to watch. >> Read more

(Hong Kong, 10 January 2017) To commemorate the beginning of an artful year, Massimo De Carlo gallery presents its first group show ‘Between Utopia and Dystopia’ at Hong Kong’s Pedder Building. It will be on display from19 January 2017 to 11 March 2017. >> 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

The Westerners are skilled in geometry, and consequently there is no the slightest mistake in their way of rendering light and shade [yang-yin] and distance (near and far). When they paint houses on a wall people are tempted to walk into them . . . Students of painting may well take over one or two points from them to make their own paintings more attractive to the eye. >> Read more