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To coincide with the opening this week in Shanghai of the 15th anniversary exhibition of the "Chinese Contemporary Art Awards" (CCAA) at the Power Station of Art, Randian's Chris Moore spoke at length with Uli Sigg about the history and philosophy behind CCAA, still the most respected art award in China... >> Read more

From the serious to humorous, the voyeuristic to observed, the real to the imagined, “Haze and Fog” (2013) presents another collective identity of China today by commenting on the rapid construction of the contemporary metropolis... >> Read more

Withholding all personal emotion, Taryn Simon has erected a highly elaborate stage. The irony of this acute, deeply researched and detailed site is that it defines negative space. In this un-delineated space, imagination, empathy, curiosity, suspicion, relief, horror, awe—indeed all potential reactions—play out. >> Read more

Dong Bingfeng has been announced as the winning critic for 2013—his entry being the proposal for a book entitled Cinema of Exhibition: Film in Contemporary Chinese Art. >> Read more

Thoughts on Pleasure and Art >> Read more

"Indian Highway," a show from the Serpentine in London, touched down in Asia via Oslo, Rome, and Lyon. Having traveled thus far, perhaps it is unsurprising that some of the carefully crafted dishes (some 200 works by 30 artists) cooled slightly, even with such curatorial couriers as “HUO” (Hans Ulrich Obrist) and Julia Peyton-Jones… >> Read more

FIAC opened this week with 192 galleries exhibiting from 29 countries. Ran Dian spoke with Jennifer Flay, FIAC's director. >> Read more

New York — Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce an exhibition of Korean artist Seung-taek Lee (b. 1932). Presented in collaboration with the artist and Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, this marks the first solo exhibition of Lee’s work in the United States. Lee’s experimental practice holds an influential place in the history of Korean art. Throughout […] >> Read more

It is a curious historical fact that such a small and distant country as Switzerland has had such a profound impact on the development of art in China, especially at this moment of China’s greatest economic and cultural transformation. >> Read more

The Samdani Art Foundation is pleased to announce further details about the participating artists and thinkers who will constitute the third edition of the globally acclaimed Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), the world’s largest non-commercial platform for South Asian art. >> Read more