Shows
In Search of Lost Stillness: “Nothing Still about Still Lifes” in Nanjing
How is the age-old genre faring? Michele Chan
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Yayoi Kusama, 1929–2026
Yayoi Kusama, whose art reached across generations and continents, has died at 97. MICHELE CHAN
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Up Close: Yu Nishimura
Michele Chan
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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
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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
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Paola Dindo, 1954–2026
The Hong Kong-based restorer passed away at the age of 72. MICHELE CHAN
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Up Close: Simon Liu
Michele Chan
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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
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Brian Yue & Claire Bi: To Carry, Gracefully
The young couple spearheading Cheng-Lan Foundation supports artists from the “global majority.” Michele Chan
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Beijing: “Ouyang Chun: Nirvana”
Michele Chan
Shows
Summer in Beijing: Six Must-See Institutional Shows
A rediscovered modern realist, bodies in displacement, and geological deep time. MICHELE CHAN
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Regarding the Pain of Images: Dinh Q. Lê at 10 Chancery Lane
The Vietnamese American artist maimed the image to hold it open—it is through the wound that the photograph speaks. MICHELE CHAN
News
Protests and Shutdowns Engulf 61st Venice Biennale Opening
Artists, unions, and activists set the tone for the world's most prominent art exhibition. Michele Chan
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61st Venice Biennale Jury Resigns
The panel stepped down eight days after announcing it would omit Israel and Russia from awards consideration. MICHELE CHAN