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To describe Ji Dachun as a post-internet artist, at first sight seems inadequate. His painting doesn’t appear as particularly technoid or media based. At the heart of his more recent work, however, is to create a possible syntax of his medium along the transmitted painterly forms, and so to speak “to write and continue to write” its CODE. >> Read more

by Chris Moore The China art market faces its most difficult period since 2008. With the developing US-China trade war, increasing skepticism towards corporate China’s debt (particularly banks), growing uncertainty from political unrest in Hong Kong, and a weakening global economy, not least in Germany, the economic “motor of Europe”, and the continuing UK Brexit […] >> Read more

Three and A Half Performances…… >> Read more

The 2018 Exhibition of the Annual on Contemporary Chinese art is not organized thematically, but presents a summary outlook of contemporary Chinese art in 2018, relating artistic practices, theories, exhibitions and art phenomena, etc. It is a continuation of the archival work conducted by the Chinese Modern Art Archive (CMAA) since 1986. >> Read more

This Spring, Hambling will exhibit for the first time in China, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing. Ran Dian met the artist at her London home to discuss the show. >> Read more

Combining acumen, chutzpah and luck, Jens Faurschou became Denmark’s foremost gallerist and art dealer. It is a story, that along the way, has involved Picasso, Miro, Munch, Robert Rauschenberg - and Swedish banks. >> Read more

Ran Dian 燃点magazine needs a little help from you to keep (debate about) art critical, especially when that debate is about art and China. >> Read more

The pictures of stocky women in ballet dresses, engrossed in play, have almost become shorthand for Paula Rego’s pictures. But glance through any book on her and one immediately remarks the extraordinary diversity of her art… >> Read more

Samson Young’s 2018 solo exhibition at Edouard Malingue Gallery (Shanghai) entitled The highway is like a lion’s mouth follows from the English translation of a slogan that is familiar to Hong Kongers. >> Read more

Get ready players! Auction Fortnight has begun and there’s only one winner! Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Hong Kong, September 30 Sotheby’s Modern Art Evening Sale, Hong Kong, September 30 At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening Sale four works stood out, by Zao Wou-Ki, Liu Ye, Xu Zhen and yeah, um Hao Liang. Let’s have a […] >> Read more