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Yet my intention in writing this article is not merely to rant—it’s in the interest of drawing attention to a very real problem. >> Read more

As a major figure in the contemporary art scene, Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through the lens of his camera. >> Read more

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are a federal scientific institution that is part of the Federal Public Service for Science Policy Programming. >> 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 purpose of a whirlwind museum tour was to explore what China might do with roughly 5,000 new museums built in the past decade. This is a phenomenon marked by a dearth of reliable information.
 
 
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Less than a year after the Long Museum was founded in Pudong, Shanghai by the collector-couple Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei in 2012, another Long Museum—Long Museum West Bund—is scheduled to open. Randian talks to Huang Jian, the managing director... >> Read more

The new book New Museums in China celebrates a golden era of museum building and cultural appreciation in the world’s most populous nation. >> Read more

“Taoyuan International Art Award” exhibition will open on 13 March 2021 at Taoyuan Arts Center (Taiwan), showcasing the works of 17 finalists. The open call has attracted more than 600 artists from 46 countries to take part, and the grand prize winners will be revealed at the opening ceremony. >> Read more

Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language. >> Read more

So I am walking in, wandering through this dimly lit, shack-like choral site, a sort of khôrā (χώρα), the territory outside the polis also rooted in it as an invisible receptacle, a housing house. >> Read more