As part of his recent series of paintings, Wang Chuan transcribed this poem encapsulating key tenets of Buddhism (2013 No. 71). As the artist’s chosen text, we can expect it to offer insights into the paintings he created around the same time: it may be a key to understanding the series. >> Read more
INK Studio, the critically-acclaimed Beijing art gallery, is proud to present Earth Roots, the first systematic survey of internationally renowned artist Yang Jiechang’s One Hundred Layers of Ink series. A stunning statement in its inception in 1989, the series has been extremely influential on the development of contemporary Chinese art, anticipating now-commonplace strategies like repetition, […] >> Read more
Hanart TZ Gallery is pleased to announce the artist’s reception of Centrifugal Force: The Art Field of Wong Chung-yu, a solo exhibition by a young Hong Kong ink painter and new media artist Wong Chung-yu, to take place on Friday, 16 June 2017, from 6-8pm at the gallery. (Exhibition runs from June 10 until 15 July). >> Read more
The fastest, the highest, the strongest are the superlatives that came to describe the pace of development in modern China since the opening reforms. >> Read more
This symposium asks how periodicals in Asia across the twentieth century have fostered conversations about art and emergent forms of visuality. We are interested in how periodicals constitute genealogies of language and nomenclatures around the modern, the contemporary, the indigenous, the nation, arts and crafts, and tradition. >> 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