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Perhaps no one in the western art world today has more to say about a whole host of topics, from independent publishing, to queer history, to dealing with loss and hope, than AA Bronson. >> Read more

303 Gallery is pleased to announce our sixth exhibition of new paintings by Tim Gardner. >> Read more

Chronus Art Center is pleased to present Jim Campbell & ZHANG Peili: The Flickering Uncertain, >> Read more

HdM GALLERY 北京空间非常荣幸地推出展览《纽约之夜》，由斯宾塞·斯威尼（Spencer Sweeney）担任策展人。展览围绕斯威尼个人从九十年代末至今在纽约的艺术生涯之旅作为线索展开，由其挑选和征集了来自纽约文化创意团体 17 位著名艺术家的作品。 斯宾塞·斯威尼是纽约本土的一位文化巨头——他是一名拒绝被归类的艺术家，创作常以绘画的形式出现，用彩色的光束表达神秘主义波普题材。但同时他还是一位音乐人，一位 DJ，更曾创立自己的品牌俱乐部。但在过去的二十年里斯威尼所做的事情绝不止于此，他似乎总需要各种公众曝光去解锁自己的全部潜能。他就像一管催化剂，一位推动者，不断活跃在纽约最重要的文化创意团体之中。而《纽约之夜》这个展览，则是这个团体的一次盛典。 此次展览并未遵循某种审美或常规主题，而是以斯威尼在纽约最重要的个人经历作为策展的灵感来源——所有作品都来自于他身边紧密的艺术家朋友和合作者的创作，人与人之间的连接成为了最重要的纽带。 1997 年，斯威尼从费城到纽约定居并成为了一位艺术家。得益于纽约活跃的艺术和创造氛围，他很快便结识了一群对其艺术家生涯产生深远影响的朋友，他们使斯威尼的人生丰富起来——成为了一枚硬币的两面。 接下来，让我们以简短的时间线索来回顾斯威尼是如何创建出这个纽约独一无二的文化团体。 在纽约的早期几年，斯威尼经常进出于纽约伍斯特街（Wooster Street）著名的非营利出版机构 Printed Matter，也是在这里他认识了利兹·布加斯特（Lizzie Bougatsos，在 Master Printed 工作至今）和布莱恩·德格罗（Brian DeGraw）。约 1997-1999 年间，Printed Master 不远处是由 Colin de Land 创立的纽约最有趣的画廊之一 America Fine Arts（简称 AFA），因此斯威尼又结识了 AFA 的代理艺术家或工作人员 如彼得·斯库文斯（Pieter Schoolwerth）、萨迪·洛斯卡（Sadie Laska）及丹尼·麦克唐纳（Danny McDonald）等人。Colin de Land 的妻子 Pat Hearn 是那个时期最标志性的画商之一，在她的引介下，在斯威尼在与 Colin de Land 合作的一个音乐演出中和 伊丽莎白·佩顿（Eliazbeth Peyton）见面相认识。也是在那次，佩顿为斯威尼创作了一幅肖像，这张肖像后来更演绎出许多不同的版本（其中一张会在此次展出）。 Dash Snow 是那时纽约赫赫有名的大玩家，他将斯威尼介绍给了自己当时的妻子阿加特·斯诺 （Agathe […] >> Read more

Doomsday prophecies have emerged since ancient times, from the Book of Revelation of the Bible, to the Millennium Crisis, to the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse. The end of days seems imminent, yet it never comes. What is the purpose of the doomsday prophecy — to serve as a warning to the world or as a means […] >> Read more

Yuz Museum is pleased to present “ReReason” by Alicja Kwade, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia, from December 17th, 2017 to April 1st, 2018. The exhibition features 24 works of art, including 5 monumental installations from the collection of Yuz Foundation. Kwade questions the seemingly immutable and unshakable realities in an innovative artistic language […] >> Read more

Art has no equivalent of the Skyscraper Index, the notion that record-breaking towers tend to be built, hubristically, just prior to an economic crisis. The top end of the art world seems to ignore crises altogether (at least the part that doesn’t invest in tall buildings). Inflationary tendencies are observable in the art world, though, in uppity auction prices, the spread of private museums and art storage facilities and, seemingly, in art itself, no doubt partly to fill all the cavernous museums being built. >> Read more

Shanghai-born, now New York-based conceptual artist Jian-Jun Zhang began working with historic artifacts in the mid-1990s. The work of past artists has always worked to inspire later generations, but as the twentieth-century drew to a close, contemporary artists no longer sought to extend the ideas of masters who had gone before them. Instead, they turned […] >> Read more

We are delighted to announce the opening of Li Shurui’s third solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING on September 2nd, 2017. >> Read more

It is too early to decide if I am destroying the tradition of ink painting. —Zheng Chongbin >> Read more