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Anne Imhof on Discipline, Agency, and “House of Swans”
The German artist and choreographer’s exhibition is currently on view at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary. Louis Lu
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A Low Hum: The 16th Gwangju Biennale
The biennale treats transformation as something layered across scales and rhythms, at times seismic, at times imperceptibly slow. Louis Lu
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Inside the Self-Enclosed Universe of Henri Alexander Levy
The founder of the cult fashion label Enfants Riches Déprimés speaks about discipline, self-destruction, and why provocation, for him, was never the point. Louis Lu
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Kiaf SEOUL at 25: A Market Split
What does this year’s Kiaf SEOUL reveal about South Korea’s local art ecology and market conditions? Louis Lu
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Shows to See in Korea, September 2026
With Gwangju, Busan, and Jeju hosting overlapping biennials this year, and Frieze and Kiaf returning in tandem in Seoul, here is a guide for must-see exhibitions across Korea in September. Louis Lu
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Art Fair Report: A Fraying Monopoly
As Art Basel’s centers have multiplied—Miami, Hong Kong, Paris, and now the Gulf—the original flagship’s claim to primacy has become something that requires renewed defense. Louis Lu
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Ho Tzu Nyen: After Commemoration
For the artist-curator, to change one’s life is not to sever ourselves from the past, but to let it flow onward in other forms. Louis Lu
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Up Close: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
The Turner Prize-winning artist has spent more than a decade examining how sound and silence operate as instruments of power. Louis Lu
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Gwangju Biennale Agrees to Restore “Taiwan Pavilion” After Dispute
Taiwan’s exhibition at the 16th Gwangju Biennale will proceed as the “Taiwan Pavilion.” Louis Lu
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“A Score for a Human Life”: Wallace Chan at Shanghai’s Long Museum
Wallace Chan’s “Vessels of Other Worlds” in Shanghai expands his Venice presentation to monumental scale, meditating on transformation, permanence, and the passage of time. Louis Lu
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A Discipline of Feeling: On “Youth Palace” at the Rockbund Art Museum
The sprawling group show confronts a socialist legacy and turns it on the institution itself, exposing its machinery while imagining the museum otherwise. Louis Lu
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Ding Yi: Against the Image
On the evolution of the Shanghainese artist’s cross-hatched rhythms of urban and cosmic transformation. Louis Lu
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Up Close: Lotus L. Kang
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Seoul: “Spectrosynthesis Seoul”
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