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Ah Singapore – Switzerland of Asia! Clean, organized, educated, military and somewhat conservative – just call me Heidi. All that’s missing are cuckoo clocks and those things they call the Alps, but who needs those anyway when you have a giant walky-casino-helipad-pool and Avatar-like super-trees? Cuckoo!

The electrical field is strong, the sound a hum. The room is a glistening white. There is a polite notice on the wall warning about potential damage to mobile phones and pacemakers during the executioner’s steady work.

Gu Cheng hacked his wife Xie Ye to death and then committed suicide by hanging at the apartment in New Zealand. The intelligentsia expanded a discussion on humanistic spirit.

Today we published Xue Tan’s review of Hiram To’s recent “Garlands” exhibition at Amelia Johnson Contemporary. So I’d like to take the chance to mention another exhibition involving Hiram: “Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary”, a recent group exhibition at Menier Gallery in London, took a fond look back at David Lynch’s surreal soap opera of American […]

Choi Jeong Hwa sent me some pictures of his latest balloon installation inside a Baroque church and never have his brightly-colored balloons been more impressive. All that substance vs. insubstantiality, kitsch vs. sacred, transformation vs. ephemerality. With this his balloons get to float (and sink) with Andy Warhol’s and Jeff Koons’s. Breathtaking. For more, see www.choijeonghwa.com