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With major back-to-back art fairs in London and Paris this October, many galleries and collectors have been making the cross-Channel trek while weighing up two rival art markets, anchored by the duopoly of Frieze and Art Basel, respectively. Along with the newly rebranded Art Basel Paris (October 18–20), the
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On October 10, Hong Kong’s M+ museum announced the six shortlisted artists for the third edition of its biennial Sigg Prize. The nominees are: Shanghai-based multimedia artist Bi Rongrong; Macau-born ceramicist Heidi Lau; Singaporean artist Ho Rui An; Taiwanese artist and filmmaker Hsu Chia-Wei; Berlin-based composer and performance artist
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The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) has announced the appointment of artist and filmmaker Anton Vidokle, curator and art historian Hallie Ayres, and film curator Lukas Brasiskis as artistic directors of the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. All three are associated with the publication e-flux, with Vidokle being its co-founder, Ayres
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Mire Lee Open Wound Tate Modern London Oct 8–Mar 16, 2025 To coincide with Frieze London, Tate Modern unveiled its ninth Hyundai Commission, titled Open Wound, a visceral, large-scale, site-specific installation that filled Tate Modern’s 3,400-square-meter Turbine Hall. And of course it didn’t take long for
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Flooding Damages Artworks at Taiwan’s Juming Museum The private Juming Museum in New Taipei, dedicated to the late sculptor Ju Ming (1938–2023), sustained considerable damage to artworks by the artist as well as several loaned from overseas for the exhibition “Fang Wu – Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition” (2024) due
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The English capital is overrun every year with contemporary art events, as the sibling art fairs Frieze London and Frieze Masters (both October 9–13) take over Regent’s Park. The 21st-century-focused Frieze London 2024 features more than 160 galleries from 43 countries, while the more classically oriented Frieze Masters
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After three weeks of silence, pyrotechnic artist Cai Guo-Qiang has released a statement addressing his disastrous fireworks commission for the third PST Art festival at the Los Angeles Coliseum in southern California, during which coin-sized debris rained onto the crowd, injuring at least two people. Themed “Art & Science Collide,
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Following New York mayor Eric Adams’s recent indictment for major federal corruption charges, new reports have emerged alleging that his administration also sought to ingratiate itself with the Chinese government by pitching an exhibition to the Brooklyn Museum on Sun Yat-sen, the provisional first president of the Republic of
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Myles Russell-Cook to Lead Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Following Max Delany’s recent departure, Myles Russell-Cook has been appointed artistic director and CEO of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), a role he will begin in November. Russell-Cook joins the ACCA from the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
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Starchitecture lends its glow to the first sales. HG Masters
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Eikoh Hosoe, an influential Japanese postwar photographer and filmmaker known for his transgressive visual style, died in Tokyo on September 16 aged 91. His family announced his passing last Wednesday. Born Toshihiro Hosoe in 1933 in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, he was raised in Tokyo. Hosoe’s childhood was disrupted by
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The upcoming art fair brings together galleries from Indonesia, South Asia, and beyond. Art Jakarta
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Pearl Lam Galleries Opens Another China Venue Hong Kong’s Pearl Lam Galleries has opened a second gallery space, 70 Square Metres, in Shanghai. Located in the Chinese megacity’s historic former French Concession, the new venue will host artist residency programs, as well as exhibitions for emerging non-residency artists,
