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ICA Director Gregor Muir speaks about his first contact with the artist Zhang Enli's work, their shared impressions of Shanghai, Zhang Enli's artistic practice and why now is the time for a show in London by one of China's "lasting artists". >> Read more

Charwei Tsai and Chi-Tsung Wu were both born in the early 1980s when Taiwan was experiencing a period of drastic political reform and rapid economic growth. >> Read more

Browsing through the exhibition “A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story” provides a deja vu of flipping through somebody’s diary - where narratives are punctuated by remnants of past events including cinema tickets and candy wrappers. >> 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

How a Shanghai institution helped legalize avant-garde art practice. >> Read more

The Westerners are skilled in geometry, and consequently there is no the slightest mistake in their way of rendering light and shade [yang-yin] and distance (near and far). When they paint houses on a wall people are tempted to walk into them . . . Students of painting may well take over one or two points from them to make their own paintings more attractive to the eye. >> Read more