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What’s Shanghai’s art scene like in late 2023? Absolutely buzzing – from Art021 to the Shanghai Biennale, things are looking busier than ever...

In the flash animation SpringValle_ber_girls , Petra Cortright collages together surreal scenes out of unnaturally idyllic desktop screensavers with equally unreal computer-generated women that pop in and out of the landscape...

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Contemporary Evening Sale = HKD 568.9m ($73m) Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening sale of Contemporary art was more notable for the several artist’s records set for Shara Hughes, Nicolas Party, Louis Fratimo, Jadé Fadojutimi and Joel Mesler than for the top lots in the auction...

Lifesize Draft is the second of two sculptures on a similar theme, the first one being Utopia Battery, (2008)...

Highly autobiographical, exquisitely made and compiling different aspects of the artist’s practice, Kiss of the Rabbit God is one of Andrew Thomas Huang’s most precise, relevant, and successful videos...

The museum says it returned the donation Aven made to support its current Francis Bacon exhibition...

While Untitled (Shuffle) presents the same formal characteristics as the rest of Berman’s verifax collages, this constellation of specific images inside the radio’s frames—the Star of David, Hebrew characters, biblical animals—have Jewish symbolism and attest to the artist’s lasting obsession with the kabala...

Three Short Films about Women at SeaShorts 2018, George Town | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Image courtesy of SEA Shorts August 16, 2018 By Alfonse Chiu (1216 words, five-minute read) The SeaShorts Film Festival ran for its second edition as the official pre-festival to the annual George Town Festival from 1st to 5th August in a radical geographical shift away from the Kuala Lumpur home of its parent organisation, Next New Wave...

Pascua Dolorosa (Painful Easter) by Fredi Casco is a series of drawings made on old worksheets documenting land surfaces in Caapucú, a forest exploitation area where one of the most violent episodes of the repression of Stroessner’s dictatorship took place in 1976, and during which peasants accused of belonging to insurgent movements were kidnapped, tortured and many of them killed...

“A Dream Under the Southern Bough: Reverie”: Down the Ant Hole | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of Toy Factory June 6, 2019 By Jocelyn Chng (1,138 words, five-minute read) My strongest memory from the first instalment of this three-year series by Toy Factory, A Dream Under the Southern Bough: The Beginning , was its dramatic cliffhanger of an ending...

Two Chinese artists show contrast in styles in side-by-side solo exhibitions of paintings at Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Detail from “Bay of the Deer” (2023) by Zhang Wenzhi, part of the Beijing-based artist’s solo exhibition “Tiger in Mountains, Deer at Ocean” at Blindspot Gallery...

After one season at the helm, the question remains: Can one of the country’s biggest contemporary-art collectors bring culture—and a pennant—to the Mets? Wait till next year… Plus, Jim Jarmusch and more in this week’s column....

On this special episode of Hidden Noise, we are presenting you with recordings from Digital de Suite, a symposium on blockchain and the arts held during Frieze New York in May 2018...

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These holiday gifts will help the kiddos unleash their creativity — and keep them entertained for hours....

2,000+ Sign Letter of Support for Palestinian Professor Amin Husain Skip to content Amin Husain is the co-founder of arts and activist collective Decolonize This Place...

Full title of the work: Grain par Grain, sur le parterre humide et fissuré...

It's been a knockout in Germany...

October 9 – October 12, 2013 In this workshop, Nicolás Paris, in collaboration with architect Max Turnheim, invite a group of architecture and landscape students to think about new potential relationships that could be generated inside and outside the exhibition space to transform its everyday use...

Artist Wong Ping’s madcap video, Wong Ping’s Fables 1 , might at first appear to resemble a crazy screensaver...