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Jia 嘉 is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. She was born in Beijing where she studied architecture, performance and literature. Jia reflects on her development as an artist, the problems of translating artistic practice between differing social and cultural contexts and the intended critical significance of her work... >> Read more

A personal account of the changes and conflicts that took place within the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts following Deng Xiaoping's reforms of 1978. >> Read more

More than 140 works of diversified cultural backgrounds, made by over 80 artists from 23 countries including Greece, France, South Korea, Cameroon, USA, Japan, Thailand, Venezuela, Singapore, Iran, Italy, India, UK, Vietnam, and China, will be displayed during the exhibition. >> Read more

Art Basel’s Conversations and Salon program returns to Hong Kong with a wide range of panels featuring prominent figures within the international art world, from leading artists, gallerists and collectors >> Read more

The Award for Art in China (AAC) is the most lavish award in the world of contemporary art in China. Much can be read from the selection for these prizes every year year. >> Read more

On May 28, 2015, the award ceremony for “9th Award of Art China—the Most Influential People of the Year” took place in the Great Hall of the Establishment of Virtue [Jianfu Gong] in the Forbidden City in Beijing. >> Read more

In recent weeks Ai Weiwei has become embroiled, yet again, in apparent controversy. Paul Gladston comments.
 
 
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Li’s paintings are the sum of numerous apparent contradictions: between materiality and flatness; the painterly and the sculptural; abstractness and narrative; the actual and the virtual; aestheticization and anti-auratic dislocation; vaulting ambition and bodily limitation. >> Read more

Paul Gladston charts the trajectory of Yu Youhan’s practice from his literati inspired abstract works, to his political pop paintings to his fusion inspired landscapes — revealing new meanings behind his worth through in-depth interviews with the artist. >> Read more

Paul Gladston and Ge Si Di in conversation about the Shanghai Biennale, Geng Jianyi at Minsheng Museum, and Jacques Derrida's "Glas". >> Read more