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The fifth edition of West Bund Art & Design will take place from 8 to 11 November, 2018, in Hall A of the West Bund Art Center and the newly constructed Hall N. Located directly across from Hall A, Hall N offers nearly 10,000 square meters of exhibition space. >> Read more

“Always the same thing. How boring! Pedants definitely!” said Oblomov, yawning. Basel is still the best art fair in the world. You knew that already. It runs as smoothly as Swiss Rail. No air-conditioning problems here! Yet there is a growing sense Art Basel is getting predictable. At first, I thought it was just me, […] >> Read more

The title, Everything Was Forever, Until it Was No More, is borrowed from Alexei Yurchak’s book of the same name. Yurchak discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union and one particular characteristic that defined it: the sense that although the Soviet system was felt to be permanent and immutable, its demise was at the same time perceived as completely natural. >> Read more

David Zwirner is pleased to present the United States premiere of Jordan Wolfson’s most recent video work, Riverboat song (2017-2018). >> Read more

(中文) 陈界仁先生（下文均用陈先生代替）对卞卡（下文均用卞代替）发表在《燃点》的《现实、诗学和谱系，然后呢？》一文的指控，我们感到遗憾。 >> Read more

Any set of random numbers that are deprived of their contexts are imbued with meanings. >> Read more

UBS today announced it will present the international art fair, Taipei Dangdai, which is organized by the founder of ARTHQ and ART HK, Magnus Renfrew. >> Read more

Axel Vervoordt is one of the most influential interior designers of his generation but he started his career as a collector and art dealer. In recent years, Axel has returned to this with his son Boris, who leads the gallery in Antwerp and Hong Kong, as well the company’s architecture and design business. >> Read more

7 Reasons Why Sotheby’s Institute of Art is the premier program for a professional >> Read more

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a possible future ended. Only some archaeological documents remain. Liu Cixin’s utopian short story “Zhongguo 2185”, written in the 1980s and published as samizdat in 1989, speaks of this spectral future. “Zhongguo 2185” envisions a future in which a democratic China, led by a female president, is forced to shut down the power network to stop a cybernetic insurgency helmed by one of six virtually resurrected brains—Chairman Mao’s. >> Read more