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The performance artist Lee Wen passed away on 3 March 2019, in Singapore, after having suffered from Parkinson’s Disease. He was a pioneer who defined and shaped performance art in Asia. Together with some of his peers, Lee reimagined the foundations of academic art, opening its vocabulary and techniques to a socially engaged practice. >> Read more

The inaugural “Booked: Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Hong Kong Art Book Fair” will take place on 11-13 January 2019. The art book fair will be hosted within Tai Kwun’s museum-standard galleries, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, situated within the restored Central Police Station compound in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central district. As a landmark revitalisation project, Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, has welcomed over one million visitors since opening in May 2018. >> Read more

Renowned German journalist, author, curator and art critic, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, met with Yang Jiechang to discuss Yang's his self-portraiture and calligraphy, empathy and the artist, Hitler, copying and becoming human. >> Read more

(中文) 2016年abC艺术书展（上海）将展出约360件不同内容形式的艺术家书和自主出版物，参展人/单位多达108位。你能在这里看到最多最全——当下中国的创作者运用“书”这一经典的媒介所做的创造，这其中包括艺术家、设计师、摄影师、插画师等，以及致力于艺术出版的优秀出版人/单位。 >> Read more

Representing space in “LANDSEASKY” demonstrates that an objective view is rarely a truly neutral view. For the artist, space signifies a responsibility to memorialize, as well as to represent... >> Read more

Next year, Art Basel Hong Kong will happen in mid-March—a sartorial and navigational godsend for all involved. There were rumors that one Angelina Jolie flew in on Sunday—but these turned out to be just rumors. Buoyed by recent acquisitions, perhaps she was blown off course. >> Read more

While the minimum and average quality of art displayed was noticeably higher than last year (better galleries, minimal kitsch) the art displayed was generally conservative—innovation was seldom seen... >> Read more

Chen Wei is known for creating constructed environments which combine 1960s decor and a variety of different props, suitcases, shards of mirror and, most strikingly, taxidermied animals — flocks of frenzied bats and herds of cattle. >> Read more

In the process, you go somewhere and somelsewhere elastically, even a tiny bit. While inhabiting a ritual, one lives in and through time, via an odd interval sliced open and stitched back together. >> Read more

Following successful treatment programs at Tate Modern, Delfina Foundation, London, at the New Museum Triennial in New York, at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, at Atelier Hermès in Seoul and the Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Geumhyung Jeong brings her revolutionary rejuvenating styling and grooming regime to Berlin. With product demonstrations and new beauty techniques, participants will be introduced […] >> Read more