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Shenzhen, as a starting point and as a shadow, faces the huge challenge of China’s transformation from “production” to “creation.” >> 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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Michael Lin’s most favored themes—inquiries into notions of hometown and elsewhere, dialogues between works of art and architecture, and his own particular critiques of consumerist society—were condensed in a Shanghai villa. >> Read more

Eschewing the tangible details, like state iconography or paeans to Singlish and the "kampung" spirit, Lee’s oblique approach suggests that things which may not seem to have much to do with Singapore could actually tell us much more than signifiers fraught with overuse... >> Read more

A report on ArtBo's 11th edition in Bogota this month. >> Read more

The subject of “Coloured Sky” is a young girl of indeterminate age, who we never see. She is imagining what it is like to be an adult woman, a glamorized “film” version of her future. >> Read more

Randian talked to Lorenzo Rudolf about his SHContemporary days and his observations of the Shanghai art scene. He also discussed the challenges (and potential) of operating in Singapore, and the reasons behind some of the curated exhibitions ArtStage has pushed in the fair. >> Read more

The 1st prize winning essay by Su Wei, from the 1st edition of the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC). >> Read more

Side-by-side but dispersed seems a good description of young Chinese artists’ practices. It is up to others—critics, say, or viewers, curators, art historians—to make connections, to identify themes in artists’ practices, but it is worth noting how little their preoccupations, at least in this small sample, are in dialogue with each other... >> Read more

Broached Commissions, a Melbourne-based design studio, has pioneered a new approach to the applied arts and to design objects based on extensive curatorial research into overarching historical themes such as colonialism and globalization. One of their central concerns is a key question in international applied arts practice: What happens to design when it migrates? >> Read more