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David Zwirner is pleased to announce the gallery's first exhibition dedicated to the work of Ruth Asawa since having announced the representation of the artist's estate earlier this year, which will take place at the 537 West 20th Street location. >> Read more

Ding Yi’s paintings refuse to answer, to limit or be limited. Whether small or vast, their multi-hued fields of crosses map and divide pictorial space, transparent and unguarded, beguiling with pattern. But this is no panacea for interpretation, for anything-goes opinion. Look closely at each painting and you can become familiar with them, with the individual character of the multitude of marks that compose their seeming and actual similarity, the repetitions, threads and permutations, and yet still not know them >> Read more

Why Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and why now? What are the nuanced relationships to identity and aesthetics we could distill from his oeuvre that might help us contribute to social change? >> Read more

KERJASAMA, or ‘COLLABORATE’, is a reciprocal visual arts residency between an Australian and an Indonesian artist. Kerjasama was launched in 2014 through Asialink’s arts residency laboratory, in partnership with Artback NT, Australia and Cemeti Art House, Indonesia. This exchange residency program is supported by the Australian Government through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program, […] >> Read more

As the by-product of international expositions, the biennial/triennial/multi-ennial model not only shapes the development of modern and contemporary art history, it is also intimately tied to the course of modernity... >> Read more

People crowd the raft of empty Coke cans and Pepsi bottles. Tourists, clubbers, musicians, students, sun bathers. Protestors are matched with actors, mendicants with diners, a photographer and his model with a mugger and his victim. The flag is red, the sky is grey, but unlike Delacroix’s "original", there is no ship on the horizon, blind or otherwise. >> Read more

Outline for a story that isn’t a horror story, though it might at first resemble one: The painter paints—an abstraction, a grid, a controlled Cartesian situation. >> Read more

Alessandro Rolandi on three exhibitions to see now in Beijing, from appropriation of movie posters to censored ghosts to wild script calligraphy. >> Read more

A similar trance-poetics is evident in the films of James Benning, who, as Stein did in literature, achieves a temporalization of space and a spatialization of time. >> Read more

This is the story of something that happened to me when I was at art school—a small incident that remains vivid to me even now. >> Read more