How comfortable is it to be Asian, particularly Chinese, in the European art world in 2025? Intense geopolitical tensions, economic instability, slowdown and the shift to national and regional interests rather than globalised ones have put most recent orthodoxies in...
Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, on the main St Petersburg to Warsaw railway line, when the city was part of the Russian Empire and a centre of Jewish culture and learning. We are in the same city, renamed Daugavpils in 1920, the second city of Latvia, to open an...
Hsiao Chin (b1935), who died on 30 June, is one of a tiny number of postwar artists who made significant contributions both to European art and to the art of Greater China: in 1961, he co-founded the Milanese avant-garde Punto movement together with the Italian artist...
Kang Haitao is one of the most important Chinese artists born in the 70s - a generation much admired inside the country but only now becoming recognised outside. This London exhibition is an abbreviated version of a recent acclaimed retrospective at the Mark Rothko...
The Serpentine Galleries (London) and WF CENTRAL (Beijing) have announced a major international collaboration: a new architecture Pavilion, designed by JIAKUN Architects, at the WF CENTRAL development in Beijing. Modelled on the Serpentine’s annual Pavilion...
If you’re the sort of person that thinks money alone makes the art-world go around then leave this page immediately. However, if you are driven by curiosity and aesthetics and believe in the need for an alternative to Art Review’s Power 100 list which celebrates a...
Welcome to the fifth birthday edition of the Artlyst Alternative Power 100. This is a list of merit awarded, by our panel, to art industry insiders who have made a major contribution to the discipline of Contemporary Art, in the previous twelve months. I would like to...
Art15, which opens in London today for its third edition, was set up by two of the original founders of ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair, Tim Etchells and Sandy Angus. The latest edition further cements its position as a global art fair with a focused...
The Shanghai Biennale is often referred to as the most important event in the Chinese art calendar. Next week will see its launch with the first major retrospective exhibition by a Western artist, Sean Scully. The exhibition takes place at the Shanghai Himalayas...