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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

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 speaks with critic Ge Sin Di about the photographic duo "Birdhead," who they are, their politics, and their latest work. >> Read more

Picasso, Duchamp, Pollock, Warhol and Hirst at one time or other have been reviled in both the popular and academic press. Pause. This list summarizes the greatest achievements in art of the last 100 years. One could add others to the list too — Matisse, Barnett Newman, Beuys, >> Read more

Zhai Zhenming in Conversation with Paul Gladston. >> Read more