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Hong Kong artist Lee Kit has filled the white spaces of the Minsheng Art Museum with scenes from one bathroom after another. A blue cup sits upon a white metal rack in the corner, two colorful glass cups reflect the dim amber glow of the lights on the floor and the wall, the English logos of different cleaning products are faintly drawn on pieces of cardboard…. >> Read more

Ecce Homo. “Behold the man,” Pontius Pilate said to the public when he crucified Jesus Christ. The same phrase was taken by Friedrich Nietzsche for his autobiography, which he finished in the last years of his ontological pursuit. Again, Tsang Kin-Wah borrows the same words to title his latest show at Pearl Lam Gallery Hong Kong.... >> Read more

A review of Xie Molin's solo exhibition at Beijing Commune - a feast of texture and the existentialism of paint. >> Read more

On the occasion of Andreas Gursky's first solo show in Asia, Jiang Zhi, a leading artist and photographic practitioner from China, spoke with the revolutionary photographic artist. >> Read more

Its profile may be lower than other galleries in 798, but Space Station should by now have a reputation for strong and inventively installed exhibitions by emerging artists. The latest of these was Hou Yong, a painter born in 1976 in Beijing, whose solo outings to date have been aqueous in theme. A long-running series called Black from circa 2006–2008 shows figures swimming in glossy, dark water. >> Read more

“Nostalgia,” a contemporary East Asian art exhibition, opened recently at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. Presenting works by 14 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean artists, the exhibition puts forward the wish for a certain nostalgia towards the traditional arts... >> Read more