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All of classical Western history is here: the Greeks, the Romans, the Renaissance meisterwerk like Michelangelo's David...So heavy, so self-important. But try to pick one up and it goes all over the place like some crazy, coiled toy—the weight vanishes: puff! >> Read more

An elegant, thoughtful show curated by Nicolas Trembley, "Mingei are you here?" surveys and juxtaposes the local and international influence of the Japanese Mingei folk design movement, which was founded in 1926 following European arts & crafts movements, and continued into the 1970s... 
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Dear Mr & Mrs Singapore: Your children, Art Stage and Biennale, have successfully completed the year and may enter the next class. Here is our report card. They are performing stronger but still have some work to do.
 
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Furnace-hot people, molten, abused, abusing, filled the paintings of Yang Shaobin, televisual violence and internet grotesquery playing to our sadomasochistic scopophilia. You couldn’t look away...
 
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He taps into a common sense of isolation which surpasses the boundaries of nations, culture, language, and ethnicity. The artist creates a window into the current state of Chinese society, and in some ways even affirms many Western preconceptions about China. >> Read more

Thomas Ruff’s virtual darkroom might be seen as a type of Platonic cave too. For Ruff, a photograph – as opposed to a mere print, like a monotype – must exist twice. For instance, at least one negative and one print. There must be multiples. >> Read more

Several Shades of Grey Weather (Chapters 1 to 5 have been lost in the cellar at randian headquarters except for the following fragment). Undoubtedly what strikes me most at the fair are the VIP toilets which are divided by panels in six groups of three — I guess to allow private diuretic parties. They are […] >> Read more

Artissima can very much be compared to the culinary delicacies and the eating habits of Torino and its province, the Piemont, famous for its truffles and the Slow Food movement. The attitude of the fair is also slow in the sense that the art presented is far from being fast consumable "bling-bling" art >> Read more

What is really interesting about art is how, with a piece of meat painted by Rembrandt in the 17th century and then painted by me now, the subject matter hasn’t changed, only how you look at it.
 
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randian 燃点 recently chatted over e-mail with Colin Chinnery, the director of the Multitude Art Prize, about the operation and aims of the Prize.
 
 
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