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Portrait of Wu Tsang, detail from production still of _A Day in the Life of Bliss_, 2013. Photo by Jesoes Torres Torres. Courtesy the artist.

Issue

Wu Tsang: Invisible Boundaries

Ming Lin

*CHEN WEI*, _Entrance_, 2013, archival inkjet print, 150 x 187.5 cm. Courtesy Gallery Exit, Hong Kong.

Shows

Chen Wei at Gallery Exit

Mesmerizing, staged photographs and intriguing installations. Kitty van Leeuwen

*AIKO TEZUKA*, _Certainty / Entropy (Peranakan 1)_, 2014, fabric, 25 m. Photo by Edward Hendricks. Courtesy Third Floor - Hermes, Singapore.

Shows

Aiko Tezuka’s “Certainty / Entropy”

Embodying Singapore’s historical, cultural and aesthetic elements. Marybeth Stock

Magazine

Issue 88

May/Jun 2014

Anselm Franke will curate the tenth edition of the Shanghai Biennale, which will center around the theme of subjectivity.

News

Anselm Franke to Curate the Shanghai Biennale

Berlin-based Anselm Franke has been appointed chief curator of the tenth edition of the Shanghai Biennale. Franke, who currently works as the Head of Visual Art and Film at the Haus der Kulturen de... Kitty Van Leeuwen

Shows

Inga Svala Thorsdottir & Wu Shanzhuan’s “The Printer/The Paper/The Layer/The Thing’s Right(s)/The Little Fat Flesh”

Imagery culled from their 23 years of collaboration. Marybeth Stock

ERBOSSYN MELDIBEKOV, Transformer, 2013, bronze and wood, dimensions variable. Courtesy Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong.

Ideas

A Perpetual Loop: The Work of Kazakh Artist Erbossyn Meldibekov

Kazakh artist Erbossyn Meldibekov is in constant conflict with his identity. His exhibition “Mountains of Revolution,” now on view at Rossi & Rossi gallery in Hong Kong, demonstrates th... Kitty Van Leeuwen

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Blazing into History: An Interview with Wang Tiande

Cigarettes, incense and ash are rather uncommon materials in the context of traditional Chinese painting. Yet, since the early 1990s, Shanghai-based artist Wang Tiande has experimented with ink pa... Sylvia Tsai

Police and wrecking crew raided conceptual artist Yuan Gong's Shanghai studio last September in order to make way for new urban infrastructure. Courtesy the artist.

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Beneath the Wrecking Ball: Yuan Gong's Resilient Practice

In early September 2013, the local government attempted to demolish artist Yuan Gong’s eponymous studio compound in Shanghai’s Changning District. One hundred black-shirted men, pro... Michael Young

EISA JOCSON performs Macho Dancer, 2013. Photo by Giannina Ottiker. Courtesy the artist.

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Macho Macho Woman: Interview with Eisa Jocson

In an unlikely underground bar in the outskirts of Geneva, as part of the Antigel festival last February, contemporary dancer and artist Eisa Jocson delivered Macho Dancer (2013), a solo perfo... Marlyne Sahakian

Ideas

Untitled Selection: Said Atabekov

Ann Woo

Installation view of Christian Boltanski's Chance (2011– ), a meditation on life and death which was on view at Carriageworks, Sydney, earlier this year. Photo by Michael Young for

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Taking Chances: Christian Boltanski at Carriageworks

Installations seem to grow ever more bloated in size in direct correlation to the thinness of a work's conceptual framework. Paris-based artist Christian Boltanski's Chance (2011), which was instal... Michael Young

Sustainability-minded architect Shigeru Ban takes this year's prestigious Pritzker Prize. Courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo.

News

Japanese Architect Shigeru Ban Wins Pritzker Prize

On March 24, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was announced as the 2014 laureate for the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. The self-proclaimed “paper-architect” is recognized ... Kitty van Leeuwen

A selection of the 39 porcelain works by Japanese-born artist Shio Kusaka.

Ideas

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Whitney Biennial 2014

The last Whitney Biennial to take place in the museum’s iconic modernist building on 75th street has met with some criticism due to the decision to divide the exhibition into floors&mdash... Lilly Lampe