Hundreds of migrant laborers packed the exhibition hall at Jianwai SOHO provided by culture-savvy real-estate magnate Pan Shiyi. Many dressed in their finest attire, especially the young ones who aimed to show the assembled hordes of media at the UNESCO "Together with Migrants" Festival that "mingong" (the common term for migrant "peasant-workers") have style and […]

When artist and photographer Shirin Aliabadi lifts the Islamic veil of a contemporary Iranian woman, she exposes a surprise; blond hair, blue, green or gray contact lenses, an occasional facial piercing and, most importantly, surgical nose tape. In the eyes of a contemporary Iranian woman, a nose covered with a surgical tape is beautiful. It […]

China is transforming rapidly, opening its doors and absorbing everything foreign. The field of contemporary art is catching up quickly in the big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, but in a second tier city like Nanjing the scope of contemporary art work is comparatively limited. With my own interests and background; being fluent in both […]

China is transforming rapidly, opening its doors and absorbing everything foreign. The field of contemporary art is catching up quickly in the big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, but in a second tier city like Nanjing the scope of contemporary art work is comparatively limited. With my own interests and background; being fluent in both […]

On the eve of the debut of “The Venus Revolution” I caught up with Hotep, founder and CEO of Skinnymen Productions, a multimedia edu-tainment company in Atlanta, GA, for an in-depth discussion about this innovative and edgy multi-media art exhibit.Nancy Gilliam: Could you please explain to our readers exactly what “The Venus Revolution” is?Hotep: “The […]

The artist, Zhao Dewei was born in Shanghai, China, in 1960, and is now living in Songzhuang of Beijing. Early in the “85” Period, Zhao has shocked and surprised the city of Qingdao, where many people hardly know what “contemporary art ” is, by his daring and bright work schema as well as his radical […]

Today, travel has become an essential part of our lives. The sense of migration is no more the idea of settling and changing ways of life and environment from native to foreign. It is more like the stops in between, the stop between two journeys. This phenomenon questions our identity and the notion of belonging […]

“Next Level” highlights the breadth of international artists that the Sundaram Tagore Gallery represents. Sundaram Tagore Gallery’s mission is to create a cross-cultural dialogue among its art and artists, and with artwork from India, America, Israel and Japan, it achieves that goal. This show achieves something more than just a feel-good, pan-global display of art, […]

Curated by Zhu Qi, one of China’s premier critic/curators, the multimedia “Beyond Empire” exhibition at Arario Beijing promises to be a holistic highpoint in 2006, with over 30 prominent and emerging Chinese artists. The show revolves around questions of the changing nature of the "New China" as cities are torn down and rebuilt almost overnight […]

Leah Oates: Your recent solo show at Priska Juschka was a significant change of focus for your work. Previously you had worked with underground urban systems to build new and fictional territories. With the current work there is sculpture and other media along with paint. Please speak about what precipitated this shift.Dannielle Tegeder: My work […]