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The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was announced this past March at the Photographer’s Gallery in London, awarding Robert Adams the prize of 30,000 pounds (roughly $52,600.00), which his representative, longtime friend Gerry Badger, promptly donated to a human rights organization. Contemporary Culture and Global Responsibility Emilie Trice Alec Soth, Charles, Vasa, MN. Chromogenic color prints. […]

The art scene here might well be called "burgeoning" if that overused term didn’t already imply so much hyperbole. Clustered around the University of Oklahoma–the largest university in the state with an enrollment of over 30,000 students–a small group of talented artists has emerged that has reawakened the arts community in this small college town. […]

The Taikang Top Space Contemporary Art Center is holding an exhibit consisting of one artwork, a new collaboration by the Chinese artists Hong Hao and Yan Lei, "Taikang Project." The artwork consists of two parts, a large oil painting and three Taikang life insurance certificates. The painting is an expanded version of Van Gogh’s Ward […]

The beginning of a new season replaces the cold winds of winter. The city of Beijing reminds me of a constant changing wind. Everything changes in an instant. As the new blows the old away, what memory or remnant is left of the past in a city bent so headlong on the future, as both […]

"Dream and Fantasy" or maybe fantastic dream, these are the concepts around which unfolds the new group show of young Chinese artists born between the 70s and the beginning of the 80s. Here the border between dream and reality, between asleep and awaken is very subtle as through the eyes of those who observe everything […]

The history of figuration could be said to be the history of freezing specific moments. Following this thought, the figures in paintings divide, in relation to the onlooking viewer, in modes of address of extroversion and introversion, gazing out, apprising or sizing up the spectator, or caught unawares and gazing inward. Jocelyn Hobbie Jocelyn Hobbie […]

The bizarre images of the warbling of pigeons forever gone, the resonance of the elegiac sounds of a city’s fast changes, the spiritual pride of Imperial citizens and the collective imagination of those who want to find a form for temporal and spatial outlines. Flights of fantasy, like those evoked by Huang Rui, the artistic […]

The dilemma of identity, revolutionized more than one century ago by the Western avant-garde as an extroverted self-experience and later reproduced by consumer capitalism into the collective spectacle of our media society, has progressively penetrated the values of everyday life and at the same time left the project of modernity still spiritually incomplete. Art of […]

Greater than trend or past affectation, New York has had a serious in-flux of Chinese photography and video in recent years. "Great Performance: Chinese Contemporary Photography" at Max Protetch Gallery shows us some of what we may have missed since 1995. This show opened in conjunction with a new 7,000 square foot space in Beijing. […]

Building Code Violations" comes from the legal lexicon of modern urban planning and management, targeting those specific individual actions which are in contravention of a normalized and unified social system. In this show, "Building Code Violations" is as a cultural approach directed at a universal modernity actively forced upon Asia. Violations are a MetaphorLu Jie […]