Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language. >> Read more
It has been just over a year since we moved to Berlin. Yuan Yuan has finally made his first solo show (Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong) after moving his studio here, and I have been busy preparing our dual exhibition project, which was intended for this year’s Frieze London, now delayed of course. >> Read more
by r/e collection Continuing our series on going for a walk, this week we visit La Palma, home of two collectors who have lived in America, Germany and Spain but now live on the Canary Islands off the north west coast of Africa. La Palma was a regular holiday destination for numerous members of the […] >> Read more
Edouard Malingue Gallery (Shanghai) is pleased to present Wang Wei’s solo exhibition “That is a Layer of Gauze that Mimics the Texture of the Wall” on 7th September. >> Read more
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
Samdani Art Foundation announces Seismic Movements: Dhaka Art Summit 2020, the fifth edition of the bi-annual research and exhibition platform focused on art and architecture connected to South Asia, to be held from 7 - 15 February 2020 in the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. >> Read more
Just prior to Chinese New Year Chris Moore spoke Dominique Lévy by telephone to discuss Hong Kong and China, beginning by discussing why Lévy Gorvy first opened an office in Shanghai before opening the gallery in Hong Kong. >> Read more
The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress. >> Read more