Making Chinatown

The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...

In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...

No World is an action-filled video work filmed inside an abandoned museum in the Songzhuang area outside Beijing...

Sarcastically titled to call attention to the problematic notions underlying colonialism, this photograph shows hundreds of Native Malaysians seated quietly behind one of their colonial oppressors...

The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...

In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...

Tarantism is the name of disease which appeared in southern Italy, resulting from the bite of a spider called Tarantula...

Long Long Live (2013) takes the viewer to the setting of the Oasis Villa on Green Island, once a reform and re-education prison to house political prisoners during Taiwan’s martial law period...

The founder of one of Moscow's few private museums died in Greece....

Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF) is established to support artists and art practitioners, who offer new insights on our world and our future...

The online program Incidents (of Travel) explored distant corners of the world through day-long excursions and extended conversations between one artist and one curator...

Amid Palestine Controversy, Artists Boycott Bristol’s Arnolfini – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Tessa Solomon Plus Icon Tessa Solomon Reporter, ARTnews View All December 14, 2023 2:22pm People queue in the rain outside the Bristol Arnolfini art center in 2013...

In addition to Yang’s signature drying rack and light bulbs, Office Voodoo includes various office supplies like CDs, paper clips, headphones, a computer mouse, a stamp, a hole puncher, a mobile phone charger...

Wolfgang Tillmans initiated the ongoing series Faltenwurf in 1989, representing compositions of unused clothing, with special attention paid to the ways in which they drape and fold...

In his seven-channel video installation Making Chinatown (2012) artist Ming Wong reconstructs a Hollywood classic to complicate the relationship between identity, language and performance...

3pm, location TBA Space extremely limited, RSVP required In many Hollywood motion pictures, the image of Chinatown registers as a fleeting montage of gangster chasing, detective hunting, opium smoking, mahjong playing, red lantern flickering and pedestrian clamoring spectacle...

During his San Francisco residency in the fall of 2011, Lin Yilin developed a series of site-specific performances that explore the urban histories of migration and immigration, with particular focus on their political implications...

Laura Hyunjhee Kim for Neon Was Never Brighter: A Glimpse Into the Future For the first outdoor contemporary art festival in Chinatown, San Francisco, Neon Was Never Brighter: A Glimpse Into the Future , in collaboration with Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative (CMAC) and curator Candace Huey, KADIST San Francisco co-presents a new performance, Cosmocrane (2022) by Laura Hyunjhee Kim...