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In the process, you go somewhere and somelsewhere elastically, even a tiny bit. While inhabiting a ritual, one lives in and through time, via an odd interval sliced open and stitched back together. >> 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

“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

"Double Take" presents the work of two exemplary, and hugely influential 20th-century photo essayists, the documentary photographers Brian Brake and Steve McCurry. Both Brake and, twenty years later, McCurry made their reputations as visual storytellers providing eyewitness accounts of great events. >> Read more

George Condo’s first solo show in Hong Kong, “Expanded Portrait Compositions”, opens at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. Organized by Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, it comprises major new work by one of the most influential living painters. >> Read more

(中文) 蔣志的最新個展“去來”呈現了藝術家近年關於人生境遇和生命循環往復的思考軌跡 >> Read more

(中文) 作为一个业余艺术写作者，我时常在展览上对作品背后的意义揣摩猜度，斟酌字句去权衡对作品的理解和对现状的思考，在这过程中消耗了太多感受的能量，在时下你方唱罢我登场，层出不穷费解的局面中，也常迷离出戏，此时此刻，音符所施予的力量却是如此简单和直接。 >> Read more

A prejudice I wasn’t able to overcome: I find the title of the Biennale unbearable. It literally translates as “Go Art Go” (okay, also “Long Live Art”, but still). >> Read more

The 35th edition of Art Brussels took place from 21 – 23 April and presented 145 galleries from 28 different countries. This is the second time the fair is located at Tour & Taxis, a vast former customs warehouse in the northern part of Brussels that was built at the turn of the 20th century when Belgium was rich off the back of its colonial exploitation of central Africa. >> Read more

Reports on the art market are suddenly very hip. The art market is still such a tiny little thing compared with other markets, like pork bellies or copper, but a sufficient number of investment bank clients are involved in it to make the analysis worthwhile. The trouble is that most reports are rubbish, with a few exceptions. >> Read more