In the ten days before and after the Labor Day holiday, Double Fly Art Center—the collective known for its signature brand of absurd slapstick and carnivalesque live events—rehearsed two clamorous pro…

Simon Denny’s installations, which defamiliarize the crass imagery of the revolution in technologically mediated “disruption,” serve as a catalyst for debates about how forms of critique and complicit…

He An opens his cryptic solo exhibition with a list of terms positioned next to but also including its title: Preface, Night or with Its Daytime, He Taoyuan, EVA00 Prototype, Armenia, Bride, Love Chil…

Chinese artists have long been attracted to David Hockney’s work—painting, photography, visual technique, art history, and even his legendary life story. The story goes that the younger Liu Wei was a …

It’s been 20 years since Beijing-born artist Wang Gongxin returned to China after a decade in Williamsburg, bringing with him fresh ideas about new media and video art. He first responded to his repat…

Through “Moving Images,” the latest in a series of exhibitions that precede the construction of Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture, curator Yung Ma attempts to reconstruct the phenomenon of immigration, providing a systematic survey of the institution’s collection of work in the moving image. It is especially appropriate to examine immigration in the…

TATE BRITAIN 2014.09.30~2015.01.04 Disparate imagery, associative connections, and distinct emotional distance define a network of rooms organized for the visitor to carve an unhindered and fairly unchallenging path through this year’s Turner Prize exhibition. The attitude that once popularized the event, or at least made it infamous, has shrunk away over the past decade. Selected…

PLATFORM CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART INSTITUTE, BEIJING 2014.11.08~2014.12.30 Working on a regular schedule of one large-scale exhibition every two years, each with some dozen works of considerable size, Q…

WEB EXCLUSIVE In a Hong Kong hotel room in June 2013, American computer analyst Edward Snowden revealed classified information from the US National Security Agency (NSA). Described as the largest intelligence leak in history, revelations included proofs of the government’s illegal wiretappings on phone and Internet communications of hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The…

LEO XU PROJECTS, SHANGHAI 2014.11.23~2015.01.04 Cui Jie’s solo exhibition “The Proposals for Old and New Urbanism” surveys paintings of urban architecture produced over the last two years, among which the figure of the overpass marks one of the major scenes. The right half of the new work Vision underneath the Overpass is filled with metal…

ANTENNA SPACE, SHANGHAI 2014.11.08~2015.01.15 Yu Honglei belongs to a group of young artists making an impression based on their interest in cultural spaces beyond the art world. Although their work does not always stylistically diverge from the admittedly louder and brasher emerging artists focusing on the mechanics of the art world itself, their break is…

WEB EXCLUSIVE Ang Song Nian’s latest solo exhibition at DECK seems particularly appropriate within the context of Singapore, the self-styled Garden City, whose extensive greenery was born not of some respectful consideration for nature, but rather political and economic considerations of greater immediacy. Of course, control and influence don’t just flow in one direction—hence the…

MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART (MONA), HOBART, AUSTRALIA 2014.11.22~2015.04.13 “Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state.” ——Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings (1983) In Matthew Barney’s epic, durational film, the American artist plays a mythical character, Ka, who passes silently between the living and the dead. Heavily bearded and drenched in feces, Barney appears in…

IMA BRISBANE 2014.12.13~2015.03.22 Although Berlin-based writer and artist Hito Steyerl’s films are not often seen in the Asia-Pacific, her name was frequently invoked in Australia around the time of the 2014 Biennale of Sydney. In Is a Museum a Battlefield?, a performance-lecture at the 2013 Istanbul Biennial, she highlighted sponsors’ links to the militarized policing…

L-ART GALLERY, CHENGDU 2014.12.20~2015.01.30 HUNSAND SPACE, BEIJING 2014.12.21~2015.02.28 “Boredom is the Beginning of Action” and “Omnipresent Concrete” do not particularly stand out among the exhibi…

GALLERIA CONTINUA, PACE BEIJING, AND TANG CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 2014.12.13~2015.03.15 “Unlived by What is Seen” is an ambitious undertaking in its engagement with the mechanics of the art industry. …

TEXT / Wu Mo Translated / Vanessa Nolan BLINDSPOT GALLERY, HONG KONG 2014.11.15~2015.01.10 Taking on the explicit aim of promoting contemporary photography, as Blindspot Gallery does, implies a sense …

MULTIPLE VENUES IN KOCHI, KERALA, INDIA 2014.12.12~2015.03.29 As one of only two biennials in South Asia, the Kochi Muziris Biennale is inevitably discussed in terms of its lack of government funding,…

POWER STATION OF ART, SHANGHAI 2014.11.23~2015.03.31 CRITIQUE I TEXT / Lu Mingjun Translated by Daniel Nieh More than 70 artists participated in “Social Factory,” Anselm Franke’s Shanghai Biennale. Th…

Hong-gah Museum, Taipei 2014.11.01~2015.01.25 Curated by scholars Gong Jow-Jiun and Nobuo Takamori, the 4th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, “The Return of Ghosts,” features the work of more…