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Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present ‘Sequences from a volatile now’, a new exhibition by Matthias Bitzer from April 17th to May 19th, 2018. This exhibition will be the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery. On this occasion, a new body of work will be presented encompassing drawing, painting and sculpture with the […] >> Read more

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Michaël Borremans, inaugurating the gallery’s space in Hong Kong. This will be the artist’s first solo show in Hong Kong and his sixth overall with David Zwirner. Fire from the Sun includes small and large scale works that feature toddlers engaged in playful but […] >> Read more

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a possible future ended. Only some archaeological documents remain. Liu Cixin’s utopian short story “Zhongguo 2185”, written in the 1980s and published as samizdat in 1989, speaks of this spectral future. “Zhongguo 2185” envisions a future in which a democratic China, led by a female president, is forced to shut down the power network to stop a cybernetic insurgency helmed by one of six virtually resurrected brains—Chairman Mao’s. >> Read more

Marlborough Galleries, founded in London in 1946, was the first modern International gallery, opening in Rome in 1962 and in New York in 1963, followed by other cities around the world, becoming the prototype for all subsequent International galleries. Ran Dian spoke with Gilbert Lloyd, son of founder Frank Lloyd and Managing Director of Marlborough from 1972 until 1991. >> Read more

“Things are not, in fact, bad,” seemed to be the sentiment of Lorenzo Rudolf, the founder and president of Art Stage, back at Art Stage Singapore back in January this year, striking a pre-emptively defensive and reassuring note. >> Read more

The International Awards for Art Criticism Ltd. (IAAC) launches the fourth edition of their Awards this month (IAAC 4) and will announce their new competition rules, awards system and members of its international jury at a press conference to be held at the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum on 2 June 2017. >> Read more

The gallery Aurel Scheibler opened in Cologne in April 1991 and moved to Berlin in 2006, with a location in Charlottenburg and later in Kreuzberg. In summer 2012 the gallery moved to Schöneberger Ufer in Tiergarten, where it is set in a historical building created in 1911 for the Berlin Association of Female Artists (Verein […] >> Read more

We are pleased to present Michał Budny’s latest works in The Song of Skull, his fifth solo exhibition at the Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder. >> 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 renowned American philosopher Hilary Putnam passed away last year. Even though he was a pioneering figure in new American Pragmatism, second to none in both the multi-disciplinary scope and abundance of his work, he was still, at the time of his death, best remembered for coming up with the question known as “brains in a vat”… >> Read more