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So Guy Ullens is leaving the UCCA, selling his collection, lamenting failures and withdrawing from China. Does it really matter? Is UCCA such an important institution? Should a foreign-owned museum be attempting to define the debate about contemporary art in China? Or is Ullens just running away from failure? >> Read more

This year’s edition of Para Site’s International conference is interested in the renewed discussion throughout the world, often marked by symbolic actions if not yet by government policy, affecting what gets counted within the category of heritage, and who gets to do the counting: from the increasing debate around repatriation of looted artefacts by colonial powers to the varied and dissimilar processes of renaming and removing symbols of past eras, from India and Myanmar to Confederate America and Apartheid South Africa. >> Read more

Preparations for the European Biennial of Contemporary Art enter their Final Phase... >> Read more

The city of Yekaterinburg, nestled deep in the Russian heartland almost 2000 km east of Moscow, might not be the most obvious site for an international biennial... >> Read more

As such, the progress of Wang Jianwei’s work is not a development in the conventional sense; neither it is it a sequence of repetition. More accurately, it is a system of mutually reinforcing extensions of art propositions and their variations... >> Read more

More so than whatever a prize like this might mean to the artist, however, is the question of what his success in Shanghai indicates about the Chinese art world at the moment—and, by transference, what role Hong Kong is playing in relation to this system. Whereas artists working in Hong Kong were once fond of saying... >> Read more

Chris Moore looks askance at the work of prominent painter Liu Xiaodong, whose solo exhibition "The Process of Painting" closed recently at Kunsthaus Graz. >> Read more

Chris Moore surveys Zhang Huan's art since the artist returned to China, with particular focus on the Ash Paintings exhibited at White Cube in London this summer, along with his major installations.... >> Read more