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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,
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News that India’s megacity will have two art fairs prompts concerns about rapid growth. HG Masters
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On September 20, a self-proclaimed performance artist deliberately destroyed a porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei after sneaking into the invite-only opening reception for “Who Am I?” at the Palazzo Fava museum, the Chinese dissident artist’s first solo exhibition in Bologna, Italy. Installed in the museum’s atrium, the targeted
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On September 20, Christie’s auction house opened its new Asia Pacific headquarters in The Henderson, a recently developed office building in Hong Kong’s Central district. With this opening, Christie’s becomes the third major auction house to expand their footprint in the city, following rivals Phillips and Sotheby’
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Christie’s Establishes its First Saudi Arabia Outpost Saudi Arabia has granted the international auction house Christie’s a commercial license to operate in the kingdom, the company announced on September 17. Christie’s will open a sales office in the capital of Riyadh at an unspecified future date, and
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Holly Lee, a Hong Kong artist and pioneer of conceptual photography in the region, has passed away at the age of 71. Her death was announced by Hong Kong-based nonprofit platform WMA on September 15. Despite initially training in literature, the Hong Kong-born artist pivoted to photography in the late
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Project Belonging: From There to Here. Part 1: The Foreign in the Familiar Ateneo Art Gallery Manila August 10–October 26 A sharp, distorted cackling—as though ripped directly from some arcane tape—rattled from deep inside the gallery. Such strange, surreal instances permeated “Project Belonging: From There to Here,
