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Memes and power, language and sex, politics and history are all fodder for louche anthropological experiments in Xu Zhen’s first major solo show in France which recently opened at Perrotin in Paris. “Civilization Iteration” develops themes of cultural hybridity (including sexual and evolutionary) first exhibited in the exhibition in 2009 that launched his corporate alter-ego […] >> Read more

For a long time ShanghART’s home was the M50 art district, on the banks of Suzhou Creek, a much smaller version of Beijing’s Dashanzi 798. Galleries at M50 would come and go but ShanghART’s presence, along with the mostly local artists it represented—including Ding Yi, Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen—remained constant. >> Read more

I know this is the being outside the system. I know, too, I do not belong. >> Read more

When I first saw Dan Graham, he stood almost anonymously by the wall, white hair and beard, a checked-flannel shirt and old cardigan.
 
 
 
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One of the most influential artists of his generation, Baselitz was dismissed from art school after only two semesters for "gesellschaftspolitisch unreif" ("socio-political immaturity")... >> Read more

Art Basel’s Conversations and Salon program returns to Hong Kong with a wide range of panels featuring prominent figures within the international art world, from leading artists, gallerists and collectors >> Read more

For most, Vietnam is an idea formed, since the beginning of the twentieth century, by a foreigner’s idea of the foreign, rather more than by its residents. >> Read more

In essence, Zheng Chongbin has fought an unwinnable but fertile battle to deconstruct and meld traditions.
 
 
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Look at these sculptures as sculptures, the paintings as paintings. >> Read more

I visited Gregor Hilderbrandt’s studio in West Berlin; a string of rooms are packed with seemingly every material and detritus possible....Gregor arrives, wearing dark jeans and jacket, and an un-tucked stripy business-shirt.... >> Read more