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London Charity Auction raises over GBP 2 million (almost RMB 20 million) for cancer charity founded by collector Myriam Ullens, Works by Liu Xiaodong, Xu Zhen (MadeIn Company) and Thomas Houseago double estimates. >> Read more

New Museum and K11 Art Foundation Announce a New Partnership to Establish Residency for an Emerging Chinese Artist. Artist Cheng Ran Selected for Three-Month Residency and Solo Exhibition, Opening at New Museum October 2016. >> Read more

On June 30, it was announced that Baron Guy Ullens is looking to sell Beijing’s Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA) along with his art collection. >> Read more

Guggenheim Museum Presents Wang Jianwei: Time Temple, New Works by the First Commissioned Artist for The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative >> Read more

So Guy Ullens is leaving the UCCA, selling his collection, lamenting failures and withdrawing from China. Does it really matter? Is UCCA such an important institution? Should a foreign-owned museum be attempting to define the debate about contemporary art in China? Or is Ullens just running away from failure? >> Read more

“Away from Disgrace” is Jiang Pengyi’s fourth solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery. The exhibition will showcase his newest works from three series which involve different experimentation of photographic materials, underscoring Jiang’s persistence to constantly investigate and innovate with the boundlessly generative potentialities of the medium. Deeply inspired by French surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille’s text L’Erotisme, […] >> Read more

People crowd the raft of empty Coke cans and Pepsi bottles. Tourists, clubbers, musicians, students, sun bathers. Protestors are matched with actors, mendicants with diners, a photographer and his model with a mugger and his victim. The flag is red, the sky is grey, but unlike Delacroix’s "original", there is no ship on the horizon, blind or otherwise. >> Read more

London—Pace London is pleased to announce Yellow, the first solo exhibition of work by Wang Guangle in Europe. The exhibition will be on view on the ground floor gallery at 6 Burlington Gardens from 18 March to 16 April 2016. >> Read more

“Surplus value” is value that people recognize beyond existing value. It is overlooked value. It is not about exploitation, but about discovery and creation. It is the “usefulness of uselessness.” Song Dong >> Read more

Initiated by the Paris-based collector and founder of Happy Art Collectors, Claude Fain, and co-founded and directed by Alexandra Fain, ASIA NOW opened for the first time. The fair was ideally placed in Espace Pierre Cardin, diagonally across the street from FIAC’s home in the Grand Palais... >> Read more