This exhibition brings with it a positive kind of closure: in a nebulous stage stuck between experience and expression, the repudiation of images is without a doubt an instance of art reinventing its own wonderfully clever tactics of stalling... >> Read more
This recent episode in the public debate about arts and cultural policy demonstrates how tightly bound absurdity is with questions about what constitutes meaning and meaninglessness, as well as the related issue of what the value of art is today. Clearly, there is a need to grasp and articulate why and how such "absurd" art may be significant... >> Read more
The project was called “Nine Square-Meter Museum”, and the Consulate’s drawing room became the exhibition space. The exhibition lasted just one day in order to impart a sense of urgency, and also begged the question, “What possibilities can art bring in nine square-meters and twenty-four hours?” >> Read more
Larys Frogier, director of the Rockbund Art Museum and chair of the Jury, talks about the inaugural HUGO BOSS ASIA ART Award and the upcoming exhibition of the seven finalist artists...
The classic quote by Karl Marx goes: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Such satire is not only appropriate in reference to Napoleon and his nephew, Napoleon III... >> Read more
As we might have imagined, the Chinese art scene of 2012 was full of glitz and clamor. This was demonstrated most aggressively through the curation in the first large-scale solo show of the year... >> Read more
About Jian Ce – Smile Without A Face “SMILE WITHOUT A FACE” is Jian Ce’s second solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING, featuring her latest works. For Jian Ce, a young painter, the question of how a painting can reveal itself has become a primary concern. She chose to backtrack to the core of painting […] >> Read more