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The purpose of a whirlwind museum tour was to explore what China might do with roughly 5,000 new museums built in the past decade. This is a phenomenon marked by a dearth of reliable information.
 
 
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AICA (the International Association of Art Critics) and Shanghai Minsheng Museum have announced a new annual prize.
 
 
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Coming on to sixteen years since its inception, the CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award) has decided to open up to public nominations on the basis of its original system of nominators. >> Read more

On the evening of May 23, the ACC Awards Art China for the Most Influential held its award ceremony in Cining Palace (“Palace of Benevolent Tranquility”) within the Forbidden City in Beijing.
 
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To coincide with the opening this week in Shanghai of the 15th anniversary exhibition of the "Chinese Contemporary Art Awards" (CCAA) at the Power Station of Art, Randian's Chris Moore spoke at length with Uli Sigg about the history and philosophy behind CCAA, still the most respected art award in China... >> Read more

A more fundamental question is that any “decline” of painting in China is any more than a moment’s fancy, when in actual fact, painting is actually gaining strength and flourishing in the market. Moreover, art in a frame is still the format which most easily resonates with the wider public audience for art in China... >> Read more

The opening exhibition of displays none of the experimentation found in the shows at its Shenzhen headquarters, nor any traces of the rash and rushed attempts to “manifest regional culture” evident in the city’s numerous “modern-traditional” architectural hybrids... >> Read more

For his first exhibition in Hong Kong and only his second major outing in the contemporary art world, Ma Ke has hung the straightforward space with three large and two small paintings, all depicting full-body human figures on abstract fields. There is a good deal of meat here for aficionados of painting as a globalizing practice... >> Read more

“Evidence”, Ma Ke’s first solo show in Hong Kong, is the materialization of Ma Ke’s profound élan, of his spirit and mind as well as of the most intense peripheries of human existence. 
 
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“Evidence”, Ma Ke’s first solo show in Hong Kong, is the materialization of Ma Ke’s profound élan, of his spirit and mind as well as of the most intense peripheries of human existence. >> Read more