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It can happen that exhibition reviews are worth reading not only in relation to the show in question, but also—or more so—when pitted against each other. >> Read more

As such, the progress of Wang Jianwei’s work is not a development in the conventional sense; neither it is it a sequence of repetition. More accurately, it is a system of mutually reinforcing extensions of art propositions and their variations... >> Read more

Randian interviews Dr. Alexandra Munroe, Ted Lipman and Dr. Thomas J. Berghuis about Wang Jianwei’s “Time Temple” — part of a five-year initiative by the Guggenheim Museum and the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation to promote current Chinese art... >> Read more

Guggenheim to commission Chinese art, Tefaf Beijing, Pritzker Prize, New export ban for Chinese painting, Art Basel HK announces selection for Encounters section... >> Read more

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

Axel Vervoordt is one of the most influential interior designers of his generation but he started his career as a collector and art dealer. In recent years, Axel has returned to this with his son Boris, who leads the gallery in Antwerp and Hong Kong, as well the company’s architecture and design business. >> Read more

Since opening ShanghART in the lobby of a hotel in Shanghai in 1996, Lorenz has been friend and mentor to scores of artists, including Ding Yi, Zeng Fanzhi, Yu Youhan, Zhao Bandi, Xu Zhen, and Birdhead, among many others. Sardonic and understated, Helbling’s Swiss roots are routinely noted but as Zhou Tiehai comments, “Lorenz has long been one of us”. >> Read more

Yet my intention in writing this article is not merely to rant—it’s in the interest of drawing attention to a very real problem. >> Read more

Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present American artist Blair Thurman’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and the artist’s first solo show in the United Kingdom. >> Read more

The Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Cockeyed Eddie, the third solo exhibition in France of the work of Edgar Arceneaux. >> Read more