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People

Shi Guowei: After the Festival

In his solo exhibition “Festa” at the newly opened Fotografiska Shenzhen, the Beijing-based artist’s painted photographs reveal the unease and melancholy at the edges of celebration. Michele Chan

Shows

In Search of Lost Stillness: “Nothing Still about Still Lifes” in Nanjing

How is the age-old genre faring? Michele Chan

News

Yayoi Kusama, 1929–2026

Yayoi Kusama, whose art reached across generations and continents, has died at 97. MICHELE CHAN

Issue

Up Close: Yu Nishimura

Michele Chan

Current Issue

Liu Wei: Bare Life, Bare Love

The Beijing artist behind this year’s Met façade commission transforms the debris of modernity into forms at once satirical and searching. Michele Chan

Shows

Unfinished Skies: “Prayers to Fornax” at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing

Offering neither technology as destiny nor transcendence as deliverance, the show proposes art as a site for rehearsing relation. Michele Chan

News

Paola Dindo, 1954–2026

The Hong Kong-based restorer passed away at the age of 72. MICHELE CHAN

Issue

Up Close: Simon Liu

Michele Chan

Market

Art Fair Report: Tale of Three Cities

How does a fair benefit from waiving booth fees? Can a gallery weekend at market’s low tide generate its own momentum? Art Dubai, Hive Seoul, and Gallery Weekend Beijing pressed on these questions this spring. Elaine W. Ng & Michele Chan