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To build a “Temple” of artworks ——Liu, Fengzhou, 2011 First of all, it’s been a dream of mine. I invested in many fields, but art and artworks have always been my favorite and focus. In the late 1990s, I started art collection as an interest. In 2004, I attended training classes in Central Academy of […] >> Read more

Chen Hangfeng’s practice is one which never strays far from the issues affecting modern China. All these works however, are linked by a central theme which ties which is the idea of adaptation—how we adjust to changing environments and the role tradition plays in the face of the juggernaut of modernity.
 
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TWTC combines every possible service that brings together a vast consulting service on trade-related issues, trading partners, suppliers, and markets. >> Read more

After many years bound up in red tape Christie’s will be the first foreign auction house to be licensed to operate in China without a Mainland partner.
 
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Perhaps the most misunderstood work at dOCUMENTA (13) was Yan Lei’s “Limited Art Project,” the reaction founded on preconceptions and prejudices about Chinese art – particularly painting – lazily assuming it merely riffs on Western clichés, that it is derivative and repetitive. >> Read more

"Indian Highway," a show from the Serpentine in London, touched down in Asia via Oslo, Rome, and Lyon. Having traveled thus far, perhaps it is unsurprising that some of the carefully crafted dishes (some 200 works by 30 artists) cooled slightly, even with such curatorial couriers as “HUO” (Hans Ulrich Obrist) and Julia Peyton-Jones… >> Read more

(中文) 墨虎恺的评论。 >> 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