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After nearly three years of closure and an expansion costing more than RMB 700 million, New York’s New Museum has reopened. Its largest-ever opening exhibition, New Humans: Memories of the Future, asks through 732 works: as machines become more human, what are humans becoming......
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This summer, the Centre Pompidou opened its second Asian outpost on the banks of Seoul's Han River. The inaugural show brings together ninety-one major Cubist works by Picasso, Braque, and others — and raises a question worth asking: why does the Pompidou keep coming back to Asia......
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On a July afternoon, we walked into SFMOMA to see “Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal,” on view from May 16 through September 13......
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One of Los Angeles’s biggest recent openings is Dataland, billed as the world’s first AI art museum. It occupies a Frank Gehry-designed building beside The Broad, MOCA, and Walt Disney Concert Hall......
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What happens when two artists who have shared a life for nearly twenty years place their work in the same room for the first time? At Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, Liu Ren and Zhang Ruyi’s two-person exhibition, “Everything Is On Time, Except Time Has Never Belonged to Us,” offers an answer that arrives almost at once......
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At M+ in Hong Kong, a major exhibition of Lee Bul’s work since 1998 shows how uncannily her art anticipated the age of AI, engineered bodies, and cities forever being dismantled and rebuilt......
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If there is one place in Asia that comes fully alive every March, it is Art Basel Hong Kong. Within three hours of the doors opening on March 25th, fairgoers had already spotted Chilam Cheung and Anita Yuen, Lin Chi-ling, Yang Caiyu, Feng Tang, Yuan Hong, Zhang Zetian, Uli Sigg, Zhang Han — the roll call went on. But the real news this year was the fair itself: after more than five years in the making, a new sector called Echoes made its debut, a structural response to where mid-career artists and mid-size galleries now stand in the ecosystem......
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During the 2026 Lunar New Year, an exhibition about food is unfolding in Wenzhou. Using familiar ingredients—apples, milk, rice, blood clams, spices, canned goods—as its point of departure, the work of eleven artists or artist groups places the everyday back within larger historical and social contexts, from oceans, forests, and factories to home kitchens and multinational supply chains. Food is not only a matter of taste; it also reveals the tangled relations among labor, capital, and power......
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Huang Bing, the Hong Kong artist and 2025 Hick Award winner, makes vivid, flickering animations about social relations, personal shame, and unspoken desire. Through dark humor and irony, he subjects both everyday life and himself to an unsparing examination......
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With the Lunar New Year of 2026 just over two weeks away, museums across China are beginning to reveal their major post-holiday exhibitions, following a year that ranged from blockbuster institutional shows and academically driven biennials and triennials to exhibitions of twentieth-century masters and new work by contemporary artists......
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In the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, art is quietly becoming a “secret weapon.” Four collectors reveal how they have made room for it—in apartments, studios, and entire houses......
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In a former industrial district of Bangkok, Dib Bangkok turns a family’s two-generation devotion to art into a public encounter with the contemporary......
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In 2025, we visited several women collectors whose holdings stood apart. Judith Neilson, the world’s largest collector of Chinese contemporary art, has spent 25 years acquiring nearly 4,000 works and insists that none will ever be sold, so that the “Chinese story” told by the collection can remain whole......
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In 2025, galleries with decades-long histories—from New York to London, Berlin to Hong Kong—closed, downsized, or entered bankruptcy, revealing a genuine structural shift in the art ecosystem......
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In early winter, Hangzhou usually carries a light mist. As you approach the reflecting pool plaza at Tianmuli, you see one of the city’s familiar blue-green taxis sitting quietly in place. The body bears the well-known Three Pools Mirroring the Moon motif, but where the headlights should be, the words “NATURE / natural” have been substituted. Not far away, a white flag with blue patterning snaps in the wind......
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At Place du Palais-Royal, between the Louvre’s dome and the glint of the Seine, a row of glass panes poised between classicism and futurism announces the new home of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. There, Jean Nouvel has turned a 1855 Haussmann building into a mutable machine for seeing......
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He made a fortune in business by the age of thirty and began collecting in the 1980s. Today he has four large private museums and more than 4,000 works, including pieces by Andy Warhol, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, and Cindy Sherman......
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The 1960s were an era of intense international tension and turbulent social thought......
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As November brings Shanghai’s annual art season, this year’s mood is one of continuity edged by change: from the West Bund Art & Design fair’s new diamond-like main venue to ART021’s return to the Shanghai Exhibition Center, and from the 15th Shanghai Biennale to a citywide run of museum shows stretching from the West Bund to the Bund......
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At 10 P.M., how do you step out of the clamor of Nanjing’s commercial center and into a hushed, expansive world of floral art? At Deji Art Museum, the only museum in the world open until midnight, its core permanent exhibition since the museum opened in August 2023, “Motion and Stillness Without End: Masterpieces of Floral Art from the Collection,” reopens on October 24, 2025, in its first major reinstallation after more than two years, with nearly one-third of the works on view replaced......
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At Seoul’s Amorepacific Museum of Art, more than forty works trace Mark Bradford’s personal history, migration, and resistance through painting, sculpture, installation, and video......
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A post-apocalyptic vision in an abandoned school, artworks in a bathhouse, and a monumental installation in a clay-mining warehouse—alongside works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Simone Leigh, Izumi Kato, and Osamu Tezuka. The sixth Aichi Triennale opens September 14, 2025, across Nagoya and Seto......
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Frieze Seoul returns for its fourth edition with more than 120 galleries from over 30 countries and territories, alongside a citywide program of exhibitions, gallery nights, and cultural events......
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Most of us are used to visiting museums by day. But after dark, when the lights are up, galleries can take on a more alluring, mysterious air. In China, institutions such as the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai and the Deji Art Museum in Nanjing have launched evening programs that are drawing ever larger crowds. In fact, museum nights became widespread in Europe and the United States as early as the 1990s, eventually evolving into the annual European Night of Museums each May......
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A major retrospective in Shenzhen returns the underrecognized twentieth-century painter Georgette Chen to China for the first full survey of her career there since 1947......
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Judith Neilson, an Australian philanthropist born in Zimbabwe, has spent twenty-five years assembling what is believed to be the world’s largest collection of contemporary Chinese art: nearly 4,000 works made after 2000 by more than 800 artists......
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At Art Basel in Switzerland, Berlin kept surfacing in conversations about where people were headed next. One reason was the 13th Berlin Biennale, running June 14–September 14, with more than sixty artists and 170 works spread across four venues, under the theme “fugitive,” inviting viewers to face the work with no prior research and an “empty mind.”......
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A major retrospective at the Beyeler Foundation surveys more than sixty years of Vija Celmins’s art: a body of work shaped by war, solitude, and an unhurried, exacting attention to surfaces that seem at once ordinary and unfathomable......
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Every June, the art world slips into Basel time. This year’s Art Basel in Basel brought together 291 galleries from 42 countries and territories, including five from mainland China in the main sector: ShanghART Gallery, Beijing Commune, Antenna Space, Vitamin Creative Space, and Magician Space, appearing in the main Galleries sector for the first time......
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Berlin collectors Christian and Karen Boros have built a private museum inside a former wartime bunker—one that admits only twelve visitors at a time and still bears the marks of the city’s history......
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Yu Yan is a veteran Beijing collector, former editorial director of Shilin magazine, and the laughing, playful, poetry-loving, art-market-skeptical “Auntie Yan” known throughout the art world. She began seriously collecting contemporary art in 2008 or 2009 and has continued for more than fifteen years. Her collection includes paintings, installations, sculpture, photography, and a substantial number of conceptual video works, totaling nearly 200 pieces, as well as......
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At Hong Kong’s CHAT, two spring exhibitions ask what we are really seeing when we look at a piece of cloth, tracing fiber from labor and domestic life to contemporary art’s renewed attention......
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Anicka Yi is, without much argument, one of the most closely watched artists in the world today. Born in Seoul in 1971, she moved to the United States with her family at the age of two. She first "bombarded" people's sense of what contemporary art could be with pungent smells, deep-fried tempura flowers, and moldering colonies of bacteria in 2011, at Green Gallery in Milwaukee......
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Born in Chaoshan and based in Guangzhou, Huang Yishan is one of the most watched artists of his generation. The texture of everyday life has fed his work and sharpened his fascination with building spaces of many kinds: he repeatedly joins two dimensions to three, making reliefs and collages of varying thickness through grinding, tiling, gouging, and pressing, as if he were renovating a house inside a painting......
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Wu Wei, a collector born in the 1990s, is the founder and designer of a fashion brand. He began collecting in 2017 and has acquired sixty-five works over eight years, from artists across three generations in China—including Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Zhang Ding, Liu Guoqiang, Ding Shiwei, Li Ming, Zhou Yilun, and Yan Bing—and from younger international artists roughly his own age, such as Issy Wood and Rodrigo......
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As Art Basel Hong Kong opened its 2025 VIP day, early lines and brisk sales suggested a rebound in appetite. Conversations with the fair’s director, Angelle Siyang-Le, and three collectors of different generations offered a portrait of what felt newly urgent this year......
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Werner Büttner, one of postwar Germany’s most important contemporary artists, has spent more than 45 years making art on his own terms. Trained as a lawyer and never enrolled in art school, he became an advocate of “bad painting.” In the 1990s, nearly every Chinese painter seemed to own one of his books. After more than 30 years teaching at Hamburg’s Academy of Fine Arts, Büttner retired last year......
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Art Basel Hong Kong returns in March for its twelfth edition, with new galleries, ambitious installations, and fresh work from across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa......
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Beginning in late February, museums and art institutions in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shunde, and elsewhere will begin unveiling new exhibitions. Here is our selection of 57 shows to watch in 2025, assembled to help shape your exhibition calendar for the year ahead. Contributing writer: Huang Xirui......
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On February 6, 2025, the 16th Sharjah Biennial, “To Carry,” opened amid desert heat, bringing together more than 190 artists and over 600 works—including more than 200 new commissions—from across the world, including mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan......
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The daughter of Chang Shuhong, the star pupil of Lin Huiyin, and the designer of New China’s first state gift, Chang Shana has spent a lifetime carrying Dunhuang forward. In 2025, living and working with her studio team, she remains absorbed in the culture that shaped her......
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With January 2025 already half over and Lunar New Year close at hand, people across the art world are trying to shake off the gloom of last year’s downturn and trust that this year may go better. The artists who secured blue-chip gallery representation in 2024 are also preparing for the exhibitions ahead. Looking across last year’s signings, one shift stands out: rather than pursuing the aggressive strategy of signing only young artists, as many did in previous years, blue-chip galleries have begun building rosters more deliberately across generations......
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Chang Shana is the daughter of Chang Shuhong, known as the guardian spirit of Dunhuang; she was Lin Huiyin's most devoted student; and she designed New China's first state gift. In the public imagination she has never stopped being the "Dunhuang girl." In 2025, at ninety-four, she still lives among the colleagues of her studio and keeps working on projects tied to Dunhuang culture. Last year she and her team designed pieces for the Spring Festival Gala stage......
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On the Berriedale peninsula in Australia’s Southern Hemisphere, far removed from the usual circuits of contemporary art, the Museum of Old and New Art, or MONA, has been called an “adult Disneyland.” It can be reached only by ferry, and, apart from its ground-level entrance, the museum is built three stories underground, in perpetual darkness......
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Over the past year, we visited the homes of numerous collectors. These three art-filled retreats, each secluded in nature, stayed with us: in Mougins, France, Christian Levett has transformed an 1980s villa into a home overlooking the Alps and the Mediterranean......
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A guide to the new, expanded, and renovated museums expected to open in 2025, from Suzhou and Naoshima to Cairo, Warsaw, Brussels, Los Angeles, and Almaty......
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As the year’s exhibition openings wound down and 2024 drew to a close, the art world stayed conspicuously busy despite a broader economic slowdown, with fairs and galleries from Hong Kong to Miami competing for the attention of collectors, enthusiasts, and industry professionals......
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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......
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Daniel Crews-Chubb is one of Britain’s most sought-after artists born in the 1980s, and in recent years his work has found an expanding audience among collectors and institutions in Asia and China. His paintings arrive with a raw, reckless, even rough-edged force: he applies paint with his fingers, smears charcoal, dyes, cuts, and tears the canvas, sprays it with sand and ink, and staples layer upon layer of cut canvas onto the surface beneath......
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Beeple, the world’s “most expensive” digital artist, brings more than two decades of work—including Everydays: The First 5000 Days, Human One, and S.2122—to the Deji Art Museum in Nanjing......
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In mid-October, beneath Paris’s almost excessive sunlight, Art Basel opened at the Grand Palais for the first time after three years of renovation. We encountered familiar Chinese collectors throughout the fair, united in their verdict: “The venue is too beautiful. Paris has absolutely won.” Public art had taken over Avenue Winston Churchill, just one block away......
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In a rainy October in London, Frieze London and Frieze Masters returned to Regent’s Park with a new floor plan, a stronger emphasis on younger artists, and a citywide week of museum shows that made the fair feel larger than ever......
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With the Olympics barely behind it, Paris is preparing for another large-scale cultural spectacle: from October 18 to 20, 2024, the third edition of Art Basel Paris will be held for the first time in the newly restored Grand Palais, with 195 leading galleries from 42 countries and territories......
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Auguste Rodin, one of the foundational figures in sculpture’s passage to modernity, broke with the sweetness and finish of traditional sculpture, bringing complex human feeling and movement into the form. On September 27, the new Rodin Art Center opened in Shanghai’s Pudong district with 106 works, including nearly fifty originals by Rodin and six French national treasures......
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Nearly two years after opening on Shanghai’s West Bund in 2022, START Museum has reached the third installment of its four-part inaugural exhibition series, moving from “START” to “Narrating the Instant” to the current “Boundaries,” with a notably strong selection of works each time......
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Frieze Seoul has just ended, but all across the city the season’s museum and gallery shows are still in full swing, in chaebol museums, private institutions, galleries, and nonprofit spaces. As a new art capital in Asia, Seoul is both vast and intimate......
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From September 4 to September 7, 2024, the third edition of Frieze Seoul brought an unmistakable sense of energy to the city. As Frieze’s only Asian outpost, the fair drew familiar Chinese collectors, gallerists, and artists into its halls, galleries, and museums. Their consensus was clear: this was the largest, most orderly, and most engaging edition yet......
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At Taikang Art Museum, a major survey traces four decades of Zhang Peili’s work through the artist’s body, identity, and private experience......
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What should the relationship between art and daily life be? From Duchamp’s 1917 urinal to contemporary works shaped by ordinary objects, this exhibition traces nearly a century of artists turning fleeting moments into monuments......
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Fu Rao is one of the very few Chinese artists born in the 1970s to have won recognition from both Western academia and the market. Born in Beijing in 1978, he graduated from the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University in 2001, then went to Germany to study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a junior contemporary of Gerhard Richter. He has now spent more than 20 years in Dresden, a city steeped in art, literature......
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With the 2024 Paris Olympics approaching, plenty of travelers are already planning to watch the Games, take a holiday, and see some art in France. Beyond the Louvre, the Pompidou, the Orsay, and the Orangerie — the institutions everyone has already worn out their shoes visiting — where else might you go? We picked seven lesser-known but genuinely striking art destinations worth the detour......
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Provence is at its most beautiful in July, when its purple lavender fields are in bloom. Ding Yi’s first major retrospective in the South of France, “Ding Yi: Signs and Portents,” is devoted to Château La Coste, an estate of more than 200 hectares in Provence......
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As Art Basel returned to Basel with its annual force, three Chinese collectors from different generations reflected on the fair, the city, and the artworks that stayed with them......
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The architect and collector Grace Cheung has spent nearly two decades acquiring works she wants close at hand, not sealed away in storage, and supporting younger artists whose experiments keep art tied to life......
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In May, Taipei grew unusually lively as artists, collectors, and members of the media gathered for Taipei Dangdai. The most anticipated event was the opening of Fubon Museum, nearly ten years in the making, spanning 10,000 square meters, and designed by the “poet of architecture” Renzo Piano......
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In 2024, 150 years after the first Impressionist exhibition shocked Paris, the first ladies of China and France toured the Musée d’Orsay’s landmark exhibition “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism” together on May 6, the 60th anniversary of China–France diplomatic relations......
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Billy Childish’s name—“Childish,” as in childlike—seems to have destined much of his life: unruly, naïve, willful, and freewheeling. Abused as a child, he dropped out of Saint Martin’s School of Art as a young man and lived on benefits for 15 years. All the while, he painted, played rock music, released more than 100 albums, and published more than forty collections of poetry......
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Since the first Venice Biennale in 1895, the exhibition has endured 120 years of upheaval while retaining its place as the elder statesman of the biennial world. Each edition registers shifts in global art, helps shape the years ahead, and maintains an elusive relationship with the art market......
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Mention the Yuanmingyuan and most people picture its European-style ruins and the looted zodiac animal heads that scattered into foreign collections over the years. Few know that this royal residence, considered on par with the Forbidden City itself, was in fact 98 percent Chinese in its architecture and gardens — the working home, for five generations of Qing emperors, of governance, family life, and the festivals of the court calendar......
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Artist Zhu Liqing, born in Hong Kong in 1997, has lived with Tourette syndrome since childhood, making it difficult for her to concentrate and causing involuntary bodily tics. But painting has greatly eased her symptoms, quieting her whole being. Her artistic education and life have taken her from Hong Kong to Spain, then to the United States and Italy, and finally back to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied under Qiu Zhijie, one of the leading figures in contemporary art today. She is due to complete her master’s degree this June......
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At M+, “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Noir & Blanc—A Story of Photography” uses nothing more than black and white to stage a lucid, far-reaching history of the medium......
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At the end of March, Hong Kong Art Week opened. On the first VIP day of Art Basel Hong Kong, a long line had formed outside the halls before noon. This year’s fair brings together 243 galleries from 40 countries and territories, including 25 first-time exhibitors, an expansion of 37 percent over last year......
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In late March, the annual Art Basel Hong Kong fair returns at full pre-pandemic scale, with 242 galleries from 40 countries and territories exhibiting from March 28 through March 30, including a free public film and talks program at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre......
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Born in 1993, the Swiss artist Rebekka Steiger is one of the most sought-after young artists working today. Though born and raised in the traditional “European soil,” she makes work deeply connected to Chinese culture, landscape, literature, and ink. During a 2018–19 residency in Beijing, she taught herself Mandarin and Cantonese and chose an authentic Chinese name......
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Michelangelo Pistoletto, the only surviving founder of Arte Povera, continues to travel and work with remarkable energy, bringing six decades of questions about art, society, and coexistence to eight exhibition spaces around the world......
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For more than two weeks, discussion of Sora, the AI text-to-video model, has filled the conversation. Released without warning by OpenAI on the night of February 16, Sora has prompted visions of future human-AI collaboration—and stirred fear, resentment, and a sense of crisis, especially in film, design, and image-based art......
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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......
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Last week, I introduced four promising female artists born after 1995 with overseas backgrounds, and the response was encouraging. This time, I’m turning to four other artists of the same generation who left China earlier and received almost all of their fine-art education in the West. Their experiences have shaped practices that are more inclusive, diverse, and international in outlook, engaging with questions of Chinese and Western culture and identity......
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In the past year, everyone seemed to sense a changing of the guard in the contemporary art market: artists born in the 1990s now account for a much larger share of secondary-market sales, chased by collectors closer to their own age, and museums and galleries alike have been filling their walls with new names born after 1995. At the start of 2024 I sat down with eight artists who share that birth decade and a foot in both China and the West to talk about their work, their sense of who they are, and where they think they're headed......
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At the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, an unprecedented Mark Rothko retrospective tracks the full arc of a fifty-year career, including the little-seen work that came before the floating fields of color......
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For two decades, Zhou Dawei has been one of the most consequential figures in Chinese contemporary art — a co-founder of the ART021 fair and the nonprofit Cc Foundation. This November, from a private collection of nearly a thousand works, he chose just over ninety pieces, the ones he felt came closest to defining his own taste, and opened them to the public for the first time......
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How many exhibitions did you make it to during Shanghai’s November art season? With nearly 200 openings, two major fairs, and packed nights of receptions, the city became a temporary meeting ground for artists, collectors, curators, and galleries from across China and beyond......
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Javier Peres brings twenty years of high-level collecting into a six-story Milan home shaped by Asian influences, African art, and a restless sense of visual harmony......
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The second edition of “Friends of Art” brings together 56 collectors born from the 1960s through the 2000s, offering an unusually comprehensive portrait of a new generation of Chinese art collectors......
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As Art Basel Paris launched its public program across five historic sites in October 2023, contemporary art met the city’s architectural past in a series of free installations, exhibitions, and conversations spread through the capital......
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In October, after Fashion Week, Paris gives itself over to a larger spectacle: from October 18 to 22, with previews on October 18 and 19 and public days from October 20 to 22, Art Basel returns for the second edition of Paris+, expanding across the city and drawing many of the world’s leading galleries......
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In mid-October, London’s autumn has turned the city’s lawns and trees faintly gold. In trench coats of every color, hurried pedestrians seem to be heading toward a single destination: Regent’s Park. From October 9 to 15, Frieze London and Frieze Masters are in full swing. Twenty years ago, in the same season and at the same location, Frieze was born as one of the world’s three best-known art fairs......
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This year, we visited the distinctive homes of collectors from finance, the arts, industry, architecture, hospitality, and media—including people who have made collecting a profession. From collectors born in the 1950s and 1960s to those born in the 1980s and 1990s, each could trace the stories behind the works in their homes: encounters with artists, the frustration of losing a beloved piece, and the moments when a work seemed to speak directly to them......
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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......
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Born in 1977 in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi, Xiao Jiang liked drawing from childhood. After graduating from a teachers college, he worked as a designer at the local cultural center, and painting from life was then little more than a pastime. He later studied in the oil-painting department at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. In 2006, at his uncle’s suggestion, he moved to Shanghai and, by some mix of accident and fate, became a professional artist......
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Chen Chieh-jen, an artist whose practice centers on moving-image works, was born in 1960 to an ordinary family in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Now internationally acclaimed, he did not have the chance to exhibit formally until he was thirty-six......
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Born in Heilongjiang in 1967, the artist Zhang Hui has taught at the Central Academy of Drama since graduating in 1991. He has worked in design, installation, and film, but has returned, finally, to painting, which for him is both livelihood and life......
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As August draws to a close, it is the season for staying home, leafing lazily through art books on the sofa, with a vase of flowers in full bloom on the coffee table ahead. In Hilary Pecis’s paintings, that is exactly the kind of languid summer moment that comes into view......
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Wu Shan, Treading on Grass, 2022. The artist Wu Shan was born in Hangzhou in 1960, the son of a painter and a music teacher; for him, art has always felt like something close to a calling. He took up calligraphy as a child, then painting, and it seemed only natural that he would go on to graduate from the oil painting department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, now the China Academy of Art......
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Lawrence Weiner’s exhibition In the Realm of Relative Form at Lisson Gallery Beijing surveys a career in which language became sculpture, architecture, and public space......
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Born in 1966 and raised in Dalian, the artist Qu Fengguo graduated from the Department of Stage Design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1988 and stayed on to teach. He has devoted himself to abstraction ever since, moving from charcoal powder to acrylics, oil paint, and even fabric paint, building his surfaces in dense layers that have shifted from early grays, browns, and blacks toward increasing color and radiance over more than three decades of work......
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On July 7, Qiao Zhibing, founder of Tank Shanghai, opened “Friends of Art,” a group exhibition drawn from the collections of 30 active and highly regarded collectors. Featuring works acquired within the past three years, it offers a portrait of a new generation of Chinese collectors—and of the moment they inhabit......
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At Houghton Hall, the Irish-born abstractionist Sean Scully brings five decades of painting and sculpture into conversation with architecture, gardens, sky, and land......
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Raphael, Rubens, Manet, Van Gogh, Chagall, Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keeffe, and nearly seventy other masters come together in a new exhibition at Shanghai’s Museum of Art Pudong......
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At Art Basel 2023, three Chinese collectors moved through the fair, museums, galleries, design exhibitions, and the city itself, making up for three years of interrupted travel......
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At Beijing’s newly opened Gallery Weekend, one upstairs room at Galleria Continua offered relief from the heat: Hans Op de Beeck’s "Vanishing," a survey in black, white, and gray that turns sculpture, watercolor, and film into meditations on time, memory, and ordinary life......
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At the 2023 edition of Taipei Dangdai, 90 galleries gathered at Nangang Exhibition Center, where local collectors revealed a market shaped by patience, study, and emotional connection......
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Anselm Reyle, one of the most accomplished figures in contemporary German art, is known for piling silver foil, neon, industrial scrap, and acrylic glass into museum installations whose clashing colors suggest a lurid, end-of-days ruin......
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The British sculptor Antony Gormley is one of the most influential artists working today. For nearly forty years he has made sculptures of the human body and works for public space, winning prizes that include the Turner, showing in major museums and institutions around the world, and receiving a knighthood from the former Queen of England. Five years after his last visit, he returned to China this past April with Living Time, his exhibition at TAG Art Museum in Qingdao — the most comprehensive and most ambitious presentation of his work Asia has yet seen......
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In Sai Kung, Chow Sai-yiu has turned a waterfront villa into a private world of contemporary art, where family inheritance, exacting taste, and daily life meet......
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Basquiat, Keith Haring, FUTURA, KAWS, Lady Pink, Barry McGee, Mr. Cartoon, and more than thirty other major artists come together in a sweeping survey of graffiti’s passage from the street into the gallery......
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Tang Ju has been collecting for nearly thirty years, amassing more than 1,000 works. In his holdings, artists born in the 1950s and 1960s form a clear lineage: Luo Zhongli, Leng Jun, Chen Danqing, He Duoling, Zhou Chunya, Cao Li, Liu Xiaodong, Mao Yan, Yu Hong, and others......
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As Art Basel Hong Kong opens, artists, collectors, dealers, auction houses, and art-media figures who have spent three years away from the fair circuit converge on the city for the spring art season......
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Julian Opie, the British artist whose witty, spare human figures have become globally recognizable, has been unusually busy: a Beijing exhibition was still on view when a new show opened in London, and last weekend he flew to Hunan to visit his solo exhibition in Changsha. At sixty-four, he seems remarkably at ease, both in and outside the studio......
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On March 5, the Long Museum in Shanghai opened Shirazeh Houshiary’s first large-scale museum solo exhibition in mainland China, bringing together recent monumental paintings, modular sculptures, and Breath (2003/2013), the philosophical work she showed at the 2013 Venice Biennale......
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At eighteen he joined the Stars Art Group; later he studied in the Netherlands, signed with a major New York gallery, walked away from painting, spent eight years on Wall Street, and, after taking up the brush again, returned to China in 2006 after twenty-two years in the United States......
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At Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong, Mike Kelley’s 2022 solo exhibition “Subharmonic Orange Abyss” surveys the kaleidoscopic Kandor series and the artist’s enduring preoccupations with popular culture, memory, and childhood......
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The artist Shen Yuan was born in 1959 into a family of artists and became one of the leading figures among the Chinese avant-garde who settled in France, one of the first generation of Chinese women artists to win an international reputation. In the 1990s, she and her husband, the artist Huang Yong Ping, also an artist, arrived in France, and the barriers of language and the rupture of culture became a wellspring of inspiration for her......
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With borders fully reopening in 2023, Hong Kong again became a first stop on the global art circuit, its museums, fairs, and new cultural landmarks drawing visitors back to the city......
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In a compact pottery studio in Hong Kong, the actress talks about clay, photography, curating, motherhood, and why she resists every label but her own......
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A beautiful boy with a muscular body and a child’s face, a boxer with bulging veins, a voluptuous sofa: at first glance, Shang Liang’s works seem full of contradictions and charged with force. Look closer, and these exaggerated, transformed figures echo both the young, powerful athletes of ancient Greek sculpture and the idealized idols shaped by today’s entertainment industry—as if they were images of the “posthuman” our era is on the verge of producing......
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“I’m someone who lives in the present,” says Li Jin, the Tianjin-born painter who since the 1990s has turned ink painting toward food, flowers, tea wares, men, women, and children, finding in ordinary pleasures a durable subject......
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For the art world, 2022 was a year of post-pandemic revival. The Venice Biennale, documenta, and major international fairs in Basel, Frieze, and Miami returned to full scale, while collectors, artists, and audiences surged back into circulation. Artists born in the 1980s and 1990s emerged as a force in both the primary and secondary markets......
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The British artist Philip Colbert, known to nearly everyone as "Mr. Lobster," is a leading figure of New Pop art, and carries the affectionate nickname "Andy Warhol's godson" within the art world......
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Since 2011, Liu Shangying has worked across five places—Ali in Tibet, Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia, Lop Nur and the Altun Mountains in Xinjiang, and the Tianshan Mountains—painting across plateaus, deserts, wildernesses, and high mountains. His works, made over more than 10 years of “walking,” are now on view at Xihai Museum in five thematic chapters......
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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......
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Shanghai’s art season came on at full force this November, with West Bund Art & Design and ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair opening alongside major year-end exhibitions at museums, galleries, and foundations. At its peak, more than 50 exhibitions were on view at once. Though both fairs were suspended soon after opening, the art world’s busy momentum continued......
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Any account of Chinese contemporary art since 2000 has to pass through Beijing’s 798 Art District. During the pandemic, the complex endured repeated temporary closures, thinning crowds, and a degree of retreat, yet “798 is always 798”: its particular pull remains. This fall, a new institution, Song Art Center, opened there......
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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......
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“Mm, pretty good—kuoyi, kuoyi!” the artist Shi Jinsong says, laughing in standard Wuhan Mandarin. His work is tougher and more experimental than his easygoing manner suggests: metal mecha strollers, nail-studded pine trees, metallic bamboo, ruin gardens, wire-wrapped figures, dazzling disco balls, and monumental portraits. His practice moves restlessly among sculpture, installation, painting, performance, multimedia, theatrical experiments, and conceptual design......
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Channa Horwitz (1932–2013), a key figure in conceptual art and West Coast minimalism, developed a rigorous visual system around the number 8 and worked within it for decades before gaining recognition late in life......
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Tobias Rehberger, installation view of "I Am Me – Unless I Pretend to Be Her," Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2022. Born in 1966, Tobias Rehberger is one of the most important German artists working today, yet he is unusually down-to-earth. As he told us in an interview, "I'm an artist who lives in Frank......
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In “Metaphysical Vessels,” ten new bodies of work turn ceramic, metal, earth, and space into a meditation on uncertainty, memory, and the artist’s continuing search for form......
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At Spike Gallery in Beijing, “An Unmeasurable Thing,” organized with the Ulay Foundation, traces the artist’s deep ties to China, from the Great Wall to the late work that returned, with unusual calm, to questions of love, mortality, and artistic survival......
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At eighty-three, Zhou Yinghua looks back on a life spanning art, design, film, restaurants, and collecting—and returns to the artistic calling that never left him......
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At Song Art Museum, the group exhibition “Generation of Rupture,” organized with the curator Cui Cancan, brings together fourteen of the most representative Chinese artists born in the 1990s. Born in the late nineteen-eighties through 2000, they have lived and worked in Beijing, Shanghai, London, Berlin, New York, and Paris, and the fractures within their generation may occur even more frequently than before, with wholesale shifts in outlook every five years, or even every three......
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“The most compelling thing about my work, I think, is the humor, satire, and sadness behind the laughter,” Werner Büttner said in an interview. In the 1990s, Chinese painters almost all seemed to own a Büttner monograph; this summer, his long-delayed first exhibition in China opened at Triumph Art Space in Beijing......
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This summer, Norway’s New National Museum opened in central Oslo after eight years of planning, nearly $700 million in construction costs, and a vast new home for the country’s art, design, and cultural history......
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A portrait of the artist Xu Xiaoguo, born in Xi’an in the 1970s, shaped by detours through sports, music, teaching, Shanghai’s contemporary-art rise, and the harder years that followed the 2008 financial crisis, before arriving at a body of work that turns inward without losing its grip on the world......
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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......
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A first look at “Building Dreaming,” the group exhibition at BY ART MATTERS Tianmu Art Museum in Hangzhou in early summer 2022, alongside a solo exhibition by the young artist Cheng Ran......
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The photographer and writer Yan Ming has spent years making lucid, unsentimental pictures of overlooked places and lives; a major exhibition in Wuhan traces that journey and introduces a new turn toward color......