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Walking Into Dataland: Can an AI Art Museum Weave Together a Rainforest, Its Data, and the Bodies of the People Who Come to See It?

On June 20, 2026, Dataland opened in downtown Los Angeles, inside the Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA, directly across from Walt Disney Concert Hall, in the thick of the city's cultural corridor.

By / Xirui Huang · 4 min read

7/24/20261,577 words

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Wei Jia's Largest Solo Show Yet: The Hardest Part Is Facing the Blank Canvas

Wei Jia, born in the 1970s, occupies a singular place among his generation of Chinese artists. Trained in lithography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he returned to his hometown of Chengdu after graduating in 1999 and has taught in the printmaking department at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute ever since.

By Xirui Huang

7/24/20262,702 words

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Xie Molin: Painting by Machine, in Search of a New Way Forward for Painting

The artist Xie Molin was born in Wenzhou in 1979. Unlike most painters, he does not paint with his own hands. He built a machine and treats it as his hand instead — moving it along the X, Y and Z axes, fitted with different serrated blades, to explore the open-ended possibilities among pigment, space, pattern and visual language.

By Xirui Huang

7/24/20262,710 words

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Cai Yaling: Women's Suffering Is So Abundant, I Give It Voice Through Art

Cai Yaling is an artist born in the 1980s and the mother of two children. For eleven years, giving voice to women has been the guiding thread of her work, drawn from her own unfiltered experience as an ordinary woman — a body of work built around the most private, the most painful passages in a woman's life. It comes almost by instinct: she has burned 408 sticks of incense to render the pain of childbirth

By Xirui Huang

7/24/20263,205 words

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After a Three-Year Wait, a Free International Sculpture Show Opens in the Heart of Shanghai

The Jing'an International Sculpture Project is China's first sustained experiment in public art. Since its debut in 2010, it has run for nearly fourteen years, witnessing the country's public art scene grow from nothing, through a halting, difficult start, to the accelerated pace it enjoys today.

By Xirui Huang

7/24/20262,809 words

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Tao Hui: Making Peace with the Times, Gently

Tao Hui, Sunset in Tehran, 2014. Tao Hui, an artist born in 1987 in rural Chongqing, likes to say that his path into art bears little resemblance to that of colleagues who grew up steeped in the art world from childhood.

By Xirui Huang

7/24/20263,430 words

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Five Years in the Making, More Than 200 Works: A Life of Zao Wou-Ki

Zao Wou-Ki is the highest-valued Chinese-born artist in the world. In 2018, a single canvas of his sold for HK$510 million, setting a record for Asian oil painting at auction that still stands. He is celebrated as a leading figure of Western lyrical abstraction, yet the substance of his work never stopped being Chinese. His paintings hang in more than 150 major museums worldwide, and no history of modern art can leave his name out. Last year, 2023, marked the tenth anniversary of his death

By Xirui Huang

7/24/20262,942 words