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In the press release for this recent exhibition, Qiu Xiaofei is quoted as saying “If painting is an object coated in color, then all colored objects can be called paintings”; it is something Rauschenberg, or his Combines, might have remarked. >> Read more

Surprising even the most hardened skeptics, the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award exhibition in Shanghai presented a number of challenging and edgy works with the Hong Kong artist Kwan Sheung Chi taking home the generous sum of 300,000 RMB and the accolades... >> Read more

More so than whatever a prize like this might mean to the artist, however, is the question of what his success in Shanghai indicates about the Chinese art world at the moment—and, by transference, what role Hong Kong is playing in relation to this system. Whereas artists working in Hong Kong were once fond of saying... >> Read more

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back — Us and Institution, Us as Institution takes the artist-institution relationship as a point of departure and explores artists’ commitment to questioning given values within the art system and a larger social context. >> Read more

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, which ended a disastrous century of arch enmity between France and Germany, a very ambitious conference was held at the famous China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou... >> Read more

Established by Zendai Group in 2005, the Shanghai Himalayas Museum (formerly known as Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art) is a privately-funded, non-profit art institute focusing on art exhibition, education, collection... >> Read more

Thoughts on curators imposing subject matter. >> Read more