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The usual summer lull affecting the art world didn’t apply this year in rural England. “We loved what we saw. And then this project fell in our lap,” Ivan Wirth told the FT about finding Durslade Farm. >> Read more

A frame is a shape, a drawing. It is both invisible and present — a dotted line that serves to demarcate a designated area or a tangible border which separates inside from out. It is the scintillation of presence, the oscillation between undetectable contours and harsh delineation, where frames force us to have a heightened awareness... >> Read more

This recent episode in the public debate about arts and cultural policy demonstrates how tightly bound absurdity is with questions about what constitutes meaning and meaninglessness, as well as the related issue of what the value of art is today. Clearly, there is a need to grasp and articulate why and how such "absurd" art may be significant... >> Read more

“We Have Never Participated” may not directly relate to the pieces on show, nor is participation obviously present in every piece, and yet, juxtaposition happens to be one technique used to question existing systems. In a way, the audience has to fill in the gaps... >> Read more

Targeting the ever-expanding scale and scope of collectors in Asia, these “art supermarkets” are no doubt a logical strategic development.
 
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MABSOCIETY is honored to launch The Book about Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground. On this occasion BANK’s project space will be reconfigured into a reading room... >> Read more

In January 2014 Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents Xu Bing: A Retrospective, curated by Taiwanese curator and art critic Chia Chi Jason Wang. >> Read more

Following the death in September of the noted sinologist Professor Michael Sullivan, the Sullivan Collection of Chinese art has been donated to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.
 
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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

The vicissitudes of the era had no doubt taken their toll, but Sullivan, with an ever keen eye for art, found much to uphold his interest. No matter how messy the scene was, politically, ideologically, socially, artistically, his commitment was constant. Those of us who aspire to recording contemporary art owe a great debt to this fine, magnanimous historian. >> Read more