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Techno-Orientalism is the theme animating the Beijing Tokyo Art Projects? (BTAP) exhibition for the Dashanzi International Art Festival this May at Beijing 798 Art Factory. Curated by Takehiro Kaneshima and Snejana Krasteva, the pieces exhibited prove how art fused with technology can reconstitute identities, breakdown boundaries and recast relations of power and belonging. Techno-Orientalism: Shattering […]

Let Me Introduce Myself is the second line of an email KimSu Thelier received earlier this year from someone claiming to be her younger half-brother in South Korea that she never knew she had. It is the first in a series of five email messages that inspired Thelier’s installation at the White Dot Gallery on […]

Fifteen years ago, Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers) organized a national lecture tour for American artist Carrie Mae Weems in England, together with events across various cities. Carrie Mae Weems’ first UK exhibition opens in London Mark Sealy Carrie Mae Weems, May Days Long Forgotten (film stills), 2003. Fifteen years ago, Autograph ABP (Association […]

The reception of Chinese contemporary art abroad is not unlike that of Chinese food in most foreign countries. It is exotic, tasty, inexpensive, an increasingly fashionable. When exported, the inexhaustible diversity of Chinese food dwindles down to certain foolproof items likes sweet and sour pork, chicken nuggets with chestnuts, fried rice, and to the more […]

Jae Rhim Lee tells me I will spot her among the other artists at the prayingproject performance festival at Exit Art because she will be "the one in the white onesie." (won-sy: the all-in-one outfit that babies wear). Furniture for meditation Sady Sullivan Jae Rhim Lee, performance with Furniture Set, "prayingproject," Exit Art, 2005. Jae […]

The practice that Alexis Zelda Stevens cultivated during her residency at ArtSway, a contemporary gallery deep in England’s New Forest, is precarious and precocious; and it might have begun with a pink-painted tree branch or a dinky green ladder. The St.Ives New School Max Andrews Alexis Zelda Stevens, Untitled, 2005. Courtesy of ArtSway. The practice […]

Judith Schaechter, a 2005 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, inaugurates the new location of the Claire Oliver gallery with an intrepid exhibition of stained glass works. Following her four-museum touring exhibition, "Extra Virgin," Schaechter’s "Seeing is Believing" provides a glimpse into the artist’s exquisitely paradoxical world. Consisting of her signature lightboxes, a remarkable large glass […]

A man naked from the waist up sits on the stage of the silent auditorium, his face in his hands. When he finally moves, it is to vigorously rub his hands against his face. The sound of flesh tormenting flesh slowly crescendos, and as the man’s eyes follow his hands as if they were strange […]

Re-presenting performance, a symposium that took place at the Guggenheim in New York in April 2004, was organized by the "grandmother of performance art," Marina Abramovic, to discuss what could be a painful and productive episode in the development of performance art: the idea of re-performance. (Re)Performance at the Guggenheim Rodrigo Tisi Joseph Beuys, How […]

White," the title of the new series of paintings by Kehinde Wiley, is bound to catch the attention of the 27-year-old artist’s legion of fans. With this single, supercharged word, the painter insinuates that he has turned away from they’ve come to expect of him in his brief but immensely successful career: monumental portraits of […]