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Hitler’s bodyguard died recently. Rochus Misch was 96. He said Hitler was “a very normal man" and "He was no brute. He was no monster. He was no superman." What a relief for Jews, Russians, gays, gypsies, and social democrats, to name a few. >> Read more

The recent sculptures nuns + monks by Ugo Rondinone take their rightful place in the continuity of a narrative introduced by the artist thirty-two years ago. A narrative composed of chapters that would never cease to interact with one another throughout a trajectory made up of intertextual questions, back-and-forths, survivals, displacements and reinventions of shapes and attitudes, or of interrogations that are constantly being renegotiated. >> Read more

Tianjin, just half an hour by train from Beijing, is said to be the most inconspicuous of China’s municipalities. This is perhaps surprising, given the fact that it is the first city in Northern China to be exposed to modern culture, experiencing a glamorous era in the period following 1860 when it became a treaty port. Tianjin is the epitome of modernity with “Chinese characteristics”. >> Read more

HdM GALLERY London presents Eternal Landscape a solo show by leading Chinese, multimedia artist Yang Yongliang. It will be his first major collaboration with HdM GALLERY and his first solo exhibition in London. >> 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

"Remapping Reality" marks the first comprehensive presentation of Wang Bing’s collection of Chinese video art from the post-Olympic era. >> Read more

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has officially announced that the 12th edition of the Taipei Biennial, slated to take place in late 2020, will be curated by the renowned French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour and the independent curator and artist Martin Guinard-Terrin. >> Read more

Titled As We May Think, Feedforward, extending this seminal text’s far-reaching ramifications into the artistic domain as a way to reflect on the trajectories of technological advances and their reverberations throughout the social sphere over the past decades, the 6th edition of Guangzhou Triennial seeks to address the multiple implications engendered by such a technologically constructed time-space - in the real and through the virtual - by examining creative endeavors both from geographical purviews and from cosmic prospects in responding to the challenges and opportunities at stake and to think, once again, through a new alliance of visions by humans and nonhumans alike, machines and flesh with equal footing, organic and inorganic hand in hand, an alternative outlook for a new possibility of ecology whereby a retooled humanism may thrive in a Parliament of Things (to borrow a term from Bruno Latour) in symbiosis and reciprocity. >> Read more

The Rockbund Art Museum Shanghai will present the first large-scale solo exhibition in China by the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs, “La dépense,” from November 9, 2018 to February 24, 2019, curated by Yuko Hasegawa. >> Read more

(中文) 前些年，中国的艺术研究只是体现在部分展览和艺术项目中，如今可以在不少艺术家的创作里嗅到，它伴随受欧美教育的一批年轻艺术工作者回归来势凶猛。“研究”受艺术生产者追捧，特别能代表今天艺术正在经历的，一场更大范围的整体转型。 >> Read more