Why Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and why now? What are the nuanced relationships to identity and aesthetics we could distill from his oeuvre that might help us contribute to social change? >> Read more
Driving from Dubai’s airport to the center you see billboards along the road with huge letters saying: TRUMP, and underneath, International Golf Club. Moments like this remind you that the Emirates (and the Gulf states) are different from the rest of the Arab world. Led by business-oriented sheikhs, foreign investment, and lots of petroleum, in […] >> 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
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
This major traveling and transforming exhibition is based on several intertwined lines of tension and narratives found today in the realities, artistic and cultural production, and contemporary thought in the Asian sphere and beyond. >> Read more
Featuring works by Du Zhenjun, Sayaka Ishizuka, Hew Locke, Li Tianbing, and Ren Ri Exhibition Dates 20 January–3 March, 2017 Monday–Saturday, noon–7pm; Sunday, noon–5pm Venue Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong SOHO No. 1, G/F & 1/F, SOHO 189, 189 Queen’s Road West, Sheung Wan Hong Kong—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to present MICROCOSM/MACROCOSM, a group […] >> Read more