For a long time ShanghART’s home was the M50 art district, on the banks of Suzhou Creek, a much smaller version of Beijing’s Dashanzi 798. Galleries at M50 would come and go but ShanghART’s presence, along with the mostly local artists it represented—including Ding Yi, Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen—remained constant. >> Read more
The Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to present Pacific Crossings: Hong Kong Artists in Vancouver, an exhibition showcasing the work of David Lam, Paul Chui, Carrie Koo and Josh Hon, created before and after their relocation to Vancouver throughout the 1960-80s. >> Read more
Hu Yun’s work tends to go hand in hand with research, surveys, and travels, and revolve around some specific people; he extracts certain fragments from people’s lives, and eventually displays these in some form. >> Read more
It is a curious historical fact that such a small and distant country as Switzerland has had such a profound impact on the development of art in China, especially at this moment of China’s greatest economic and cultural transformation. >> Read more
I first met Karsten Födinger while we were penned up at the back of a small car being rushed from one museum opening—a recently opened museum, which of course was huge—to another in Pudong’s monumental waterfront spectacle of shiny high-rises... >> Read more
With its set goals of creating more urban centers of “global city status” than anywhere else in the world, 21st-century China is seeing a growing attention to a single topic: the ever-changing environment. >> Read more