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Uzumaki is the name of a Japanese manga published from 1998 to 1999. Its author Junji Ito used the shape of a spiral as a form of horror. Spirals are generally regarded positively in Japanese society, so the challenge of Uzumaki was to take the mysterious pattern as larger than humanity’s capability for understanding and twist it into a terrible force. >> Read more

Pictures Generation artist, Matt Mullican, renowned for his work with signs and flags and pioneering hypnosis performances, exhibited in China for the first time during West Bund Art & Design last November, with a special presentation of his flag works. >> Read more

She emerges and disappears, paint swirling and eddying, pigment lush and thick. She is familiar to the painter. He has painted her dozens of times. Day turns to dusk. He puts down his brushes. >> Read more

Axel Vervoordt is one of the most influential interior designers of his generation but he started his career as a collector and art dealer. In recent years, Axel has returned to this with his son Boris, who leads the gallery in Antwerp and Hong Kong, as well the company’s architecture and design business. >> Read more

Marlborough Galleries, founded in London in 1946, was the first modern International gallery, opening in Rome in 1962 and in New York in 1963, followed by other cities around the world, becoming the prototype for all subsequent International galleries. Ran Dian spoke with Gilbert Lloyd, son of founder Frank Lloyd and Managing Director of Marlborough from 1972 until 1991. >> Read more

(中文) 中国民生银行艺术机构北京民生现代美术馆将开启“醍昂：白明的国度”的布展及展出。该展览由著名学者徐钢担任策展人及学术主持，将对艺术家白明多年的创作生涯进行全面的回顾及呈现。 >> Read more

80,000 kg of human excrement in an art gallery, a Paralympian spinning her wheelchair across Lake Zurich and mournful, lovelorn robots are some of the more entertaining works in Manifesta 11. >> Read more

When I first saw Dan Graham, he stood almost anonymously by the wall, white hair and beard, a checked-flannel shirt and old cardigan.
 
 
 
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One of the most influential artists of his generation, Baselitz was dismissed from art school after only two semesters for "gesellschaftspolitisch unreif" ("socio-political immaturity")... >> Read more

Conrad Shawcross makes large-scale sculptures, some mechanical and involving light. But he is conceptually a draftsman. >> Read more