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The 2018 Art Symposium presented by the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association (HKAGA) and Asia Society Hong Kong Center will be held on Friday 16th to Saturday 17th November. The theme of the Symposium is “Looking Up: Remapping Hong Kong’s Art Scene in the Era of New Connectivity and Ruptures”. The Art Symposium has become one of the major events in the Hong Kong and international art calendars. >> 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

Simon Lee Gallery New York is pleased to present The Tissue of Memory, a cross-generational group exhibition that considers the gesture and its history, as exemplified by the practices of Kelly Akashi, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Win McCarthy, Monique Mouton, Josephine Pryde, Gary Simmons, Cy Twombly, and Heimo Zobernig. >> Read more

June 27, 2018. Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) held a media gathering today for Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda, the curators of the Taipei Biennial 2018. Together with the director of TFAM, Ping Lin, they described the curatorial strategy for the upcoming biennial. >> Read more

As the sun stretches into its longest days, we immerse ourselves in summer’s slower modulations of daylight, its protracted evenings and shorter shadows. >> Read more

Michael Werner Gallery, New York is pleased to announce two exhibitions of works by A.R. Penck, one of the most important artists to emerge from Germany during the post-war period. Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldierwill be presented concurrently from 9 May to 13 July. >> Read more

These days it seems where ever you turn there are complaints about the gallery system. New York has been discussing the “mid-sized gallery squeeze” for years now—to no avail. The cards are still stacked in favor of the heavy-hitting galleries, like David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, you name it. >> Read more

In this inaugural symposium, we seek to critically examine the diverse museum practices in both official and private domains of the Greater China Region. We welcome papers that investigate how institutional frameworks are fostered by the unique social and cultural dynamics at play in China. >> Read more

Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce two exhibitions of works by A.R. Penck, one of the most important artists to emerge from Germany during the post-war period. Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier will be presented concurrently from 23 February to 21 April. >> Read more

Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda will serve as co-curators of the 11th Taipei Biennial in 2018, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) has announced. >> Read more