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“As an artist deeply committed to the practice of painting, Wehmer considers carefully its continued relevancy in examining ways of seeing. Using the painterly vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism, including complex pictorial structuring and color relationships, he explores figuration and means of representation. >> Read more

"In the history of the 20th century, “nostalgia” has become a common treasure of mankind that transcends the ideological conflicts of the East and the West. >> Read more

Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong is pleased to present an exhibition of works by American artist Philip Guston, one of the great luminaries of twentieth-century art. Guston’s legendary career spanned a half century, from 1930 to 1980. >> Read more

During the week that Wang Dongling was in New York for the opening of the exhibition Wang Dongling: Poetry and Painting at Chambers Fine Art on February 28, 2018 he gave three public demonstrations of calligraphy that for those lucky enough to witness them revealed why calligraphy has long been revered above all other forms of visual art in China. >> 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

Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now, 1981-2018. >> Read more

Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Elliott Puckette (1967), her eighth solo exhibition at the gallery. With this body of work, the artist challenges herself to push her use of line by first translating it into three dimensions, making ephemeral sculptures out of wire. The wire forms are […] >> 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

As Groys notes in the opening passage of his essay, “On the New”, “We experience art history first of all as represented in our museums.” One might add, to be glib with Marx—and why not? —, secondly as farce. >> Read more

Chen Chieh-jen’s new exhibition “A Field of Non-field” is a show that demonstrates refinement, not only in its sleek, grey visual effects, but also in the artist’s work combing through and neatly displaying the contextual relationships that exist between every single element in the exhibition—and on top of this, all of it done to the tune of his concise aesthetic temperament: solemn, neutral, calm. >> Read more