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When was it exactly that in the popular imagination women became more into horses than men were? Stereotype has it that teenage girls like nothing more than horses, while boys help their dads pimp their rides instead... >> Read more

Reports on the art market are suddenly very hip. The art market is still such a tiny little thing compared with other markets, like pork bellies or copper, but a sufficient number of investment bank clients are involved in it to make the analysis worthwhile. The trouble is that most reports are rubbish, with a few exceptions. >> Read more

In their project “Stone” Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun examine this persistent human interest in “self-improvement” through technological prostheses—applying this theory of “perception extension” to something as inert as a volcanic rock. >> Read more

The K11 Art Foundation (KAF) and MoMA PS1 co-present .com/.cn, >> Read more

People crowd the raft of empty Coke cans and Pepsi bottles. Tourists, clubbers, musicians, students, sun bathers. Protestors are matched with actors, mendicants with diners, a photographer and his model with a mugger and his victim. The flag is red, the sky is grey, but unlike Delacroix’s "original", there is no ship on the horizon, blind or otherwise. >> Read more

The ocean space borrows its designation as a non-space from the fact that it is by law a no-man’s-land: the sea belongs to everyone and to no one. >> Read more

For a long time M50 and Moganshan Road was Shanghai’s (very) little 798 District. It was the cynosure of art production, with ShanghART and major artists like Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen long-term residents. But ShanghART has moved to the new West Bund cultural district, as has Aike Dell’arco and MadeIn Gallery. More than once […] >> Read more

“Painting without painting, creating without creating, this is what I want.” Axel Vervoordt Gallery Antwerp is pleased to present its solo exhibition of Chung Chang-Sup (Cheongju, 1927 – Seoul, 2011), a prominent member of the Korean art movement Dansaekhwa*. After two decades of studying and practicing Western abstract art, more particularly Art Informel, Chung Chang-Sup […] >> Read more

In his third exhibition with Lisson Gallery London, following his acclaimed exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2015, Ai Weiwei returns to the United Kingdom with two installations that promote discussion and dialogue. >> Read more

After Frieze and FIAC, Artissima is the last European art fair in the autumn frenzy of art fairs. It is also a vibrant art fair in a beautiful setting in the capital of the Piedmont province. The fair’s date in autumn is well chosen: autumn is colorful and atmospheric in Piedmont, and, of course, it […] >> Read more