“Reaching out, diminishing the distance, longing for the Other is dangerous, brave, and ultimately rewarding,” quips Belgian-born artist Koen Vanmechelen, the man behind the long-running Cosmopolitan …
Read MoreKim Kardashian shot a nude cover for the independent New York magazine Paper’s winter issue; reader reaction to the photo itself was dominated by questions of Photoshop. Today, anything modified in po…
Read MoreA recent project at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden titled “Supermarket of the Dead” examines the growing prevalence of luxury items among the paper goods traditionally burned for ancestors. In Chinese custom, it is believed that in our departure we are left without worldly possessions and therefore our relations must provide us the necessary accoutrements—food, accommodation,…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreThe notion of the curator as artist is not new. In his editorial preface to curatorial studies journal The Exhibitionist, Jens Hoffman pays tribute to Cahiers du Cinema. In the 1950s, André Bazin and…
Read MoreIn 2007 we knew Hatsune Miku only as a virtual pop star program. By 2010 we began to realize that a huge number of people had produced derivative work, marking a development in both the medium and in …
Read MoreDolls are not just puppets of imagery or plastic models, but a way for an artist to highlight and point to something, Elements of emotional projection between the creator of the doll, the viewer, and the collector are drawn together through aesthetic and even ornamental acts. Concealment becomes difficult with a doll, and the object…
Read MoreFor one Chinese artist, Wen Ling, the work of American art collective Paper Rad has exerted an enormous impact through his discovery of their work, unmediated by third-party interpretations. Wen Ling’…
Read MoreSimon 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…
Read More!Mediengruppe Bitnik belongs to a new class of artists working with the inter¬net, using hacking as a strategy. Recently they made global news headlines beyond the art media by creating an automated o…
Read MoreThe erotics of destruction reaches its apotheosis, perhaps, in the sculpture of John Chamberlain, whose work is aptly theorized by J.G. Ballard’s Crash. It has been present in our culture, however, si…
Read MoreAt the National Palace Museum in Taipei, visitors cue up for an unlikely icon. The nineteenth-century Jadeite Cabbage, which sits just 18.7 centimetres tall, is admired for its natural gradient and de…
Read MorePlastic surgeon Dr. Fredric Brandt passed away in his Miami apartment in April. Known as the Father of Collagen, Brandt revolutionized the very concept of cosmetic surgery. Previously, the fountain of…
Read MoreI make three-dimensional sculptures and show them in two-dimensional environments. This data can be used for multiple outcomes: videos, still images in unrestricted sizes, 3D printing, and virtual env…
Read MoreIn the barren depths of northeastern China, Bitcoin mines churn day and night, consuming enormous amounts of electricity and emitting such heat that the indoor temperature persists at 40 degrees Celsi…
Read MoreHe 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…
Read MoreChinese 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 …
Read MoreIt is a special time, that moment when a pop culture phenomenon becomes utterly exhausted, having sold out and merchandised itself to passé status, but then bubbles back to the surface in a new, irrev…
Read MoreTao Lin: What is something you did today that is related to literature? Wu Dada: Actually, there is not much literary stuff in my daily life. If we are talking about today only, I could tell you a moment that literature took place and disappeared. I sat on the chair, poured myself a glass of…
Read MoreIn Asia, alcohol is the great equalizer—it turns everyone pink, regardless of race or ethnic origin. Christopher Doyle has grasped this truism, drinking copious volumes of the magical elixir to cross …
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