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Gander drily recites a maudlin tale of an inspiring young child he had met on the beach during his student days—that gentle uplift you might read in Upworthy and Humans of New York. As the story concludes, Gander's halting cadence evaporates as he confessed that a ghost-writer crafted these bizarrely banal heart-warmers which he uses instead of speeches... >> Read more

Dear Mr & Mrs Singapore: Your children, Art Stage and Biennale, have successfully completed the year and may enter the next class. Here is our report card. They are performing stronger but still have some work to do.
 
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For no matter how big the fair is (258 galleries, 31 countries), how many satellite fairs sprout up (more than 20, but only a few worth going to), or how many celebs are spotted (Leonardo DiCaprio, Cindy Crawford, Glenn O’Brian), the thing about fairs is they are always going somewhere else. Somebody is always getting left behind. >> Read more

(中文) If Li Shurui employs a three-dimensional, calm installation to narrate ideas about love, then Chen Jie’s works extend the subject, through the flatness of the works, into the solitary depths of doubt...
 
 
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Robin Peckham explores the oeuvre of MAP Office and their place in the strange art ecology of Hong Kong and greater China.
 
 
 
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Randian Editor Iona Whittaker in conversation with Ai Weiwei — Chinese artist, writer, filmmaker and commentator — at his Beijing studio. The year 2012 marked his release from house arrest and the film "Never Sorry".... >> Read more

A critical response to Ai Weiwei’s view that the exhibition “Art of Change,” at the Hayward Gallery, fails to address any of China’s most “pressing contemporary issues." Contemporary art in China is, Ai argues, “merely a product” that “avoids any meaningful engagement” and whose only purpose outside China is therefore “to charm viewers with its ambiguity”. >> Read more

Roland Barthes once wrote: “The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence—as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence…The Photograph then becomes a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination....
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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

Exhibitions of Chinese art outside China tend to confirm certain assumptions about the country's history, culture, politics, and people. At first, ‘XU ZHEN®: Eternity Vs Evolution’ at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, seems no exception to this rule, promising viewers a proven combination of two enduring preconceptions about China’s past and present. >> Read more