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From the serious to humorous, the voyeuristic to observed, the real to the imagined, “Haze and Fog” (2013) presents another collective identity of China today by commenting on the rapid construction of the contemporary metropolis... >> Read more

A prejudice I wasn’t able to overcome: I find the title of the Biennale unbearable. It literally translates as “Go Art Go” (okay, also “Long Live Art”, but still). >> Read more

For a long time M50 and Moganshan Road was Shanghai’s (very) little 798 District. It was the cynosure of art production, with ShanghART and major artists like Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen long-term residents. But ShanghART has moved to the new West Bund cultural district, as has Aike Dell’arco and MadeIn Gallery. More than once […] >> Read more

It is a curious historical fact that such a small and distant country as Switzerland has had such a profound impact on the development of art in China, especially at this moment of China’s greatest economic and cultural transformation. >> Read more

The “Cultural Palace: Floating Theater” is intended to achieve the handling of internal contradictions and co-construction of the self-organization in an institutional context, >> Read more

I know this is the being outside the system. I know, too, I do not belong. >> Read more

The plain gesture of juxtaposing a minor group of Guangzhou cosplay enthusiasts with cranes at construction sites and migrant workers doesn’t really distill the essence either of societal change in contemporary China or “the numbing state of modernity” >> Read more

Four recent shows in London remind us why “abstract” painting remains compelling for understanding what painting is. Each show eschewed the decorative “tail-feather” displays of what is now commonly known as "zombie abstraction." >> Read more

Chris Moore reports on the most "English" of fairs >> Read more

Now in its fifth and latest iteration, the exhibition’s premise is simple and deceptively attractive. >> Read more