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One of the most important artists working in photography today, and a famously errant pupil of the Ernst and Hilla Becher school of German photography, Andreas Gursky’s subtly manipulated and densely rich images, often large scale, have helped transform photography into a highly synthetic and conceptual art form. >> Read more

There was one clear choice. Liu Wei's complex conceptual jungle "Trilogy" at the Minsheng Art Museum, blended painting, sculpture and electronics, the museal space itself to meditate on modernism, China, Beijing, the road to his studio and his own practice. >> Read more

If you want a picture of the future of art fairs, imagine a boot stomping a human face (especially about the eyes)—forever. It might seem a bit much to bring up Orwell in relation to Art Basel Miami Beach, but with the fair’s recent acquisition of Art HK, the Swiss company has moved from the institutional to the despotic. >> Read more

Since the late 1980s, contemporary Chinese art has gained an increasingly high profile within the international art world. This profile has accrued for four substantive reasons: first, because of the sometimes highly innovative way in which producers of contemporary Chinese art have sought to combine/hybridize attitudes, >> Read more