Some works seem to have suffered from permanent amnesia after their trip leaving the Earth and forgotten what it felt like to be human on Earth, while others seem to have never left.

What is China’s “ecological civilization,” and what are its ideological origins? Understanding how the ideas and history of Marxism in China interlock with ecological thought, as Long March Project has set out to do, is crucial.

When images enter the virtual world, all physicality is left behind, their weight eliminated, their size adjustable, and only a virtual shadowing resurrected. One day, when we have nothing left of ourselves but images, will they too have shadows?

In an age of increasingly volatile political visions, “The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay” may be regarded as a positive attempt to tease out and touch on issues that aren’t brought up all too often.

There is a wide diversity of practices—from video to sculpture to painting, from Asia and Europe and North America, with a wide variety of concern—in the encyclopedic show of contemporary art practices showcased now at Rockbund, but what seems to unify them is a simmering dissatisfaction with the world as it is.

As the Centre Pompidou visits Chengdu, proposing a “Cosmopolis,” it’s fair to ask: why do the people of Chengdu need to pay the Centre Pompidou in order to discover themselves?

In Wang Haiyang’s artworks, the erosion and mortality of the human form give rise to other versions of vibrant life and embodiment.

A documentary filmmaker turned artist, Mao Chenyu thrives on the contradictions between the white and black spaces. Strategies of resistance from both the white and black discourses are organized into an aesthetic experience of the “green.”

In an era where geopolitics is being renegotiated, Chihying asks if new relationships are really a break with the past, or if there are still uncomfortable continuities and tendencies.

Objectophilia is an attraction to inanimate objects, so Bloodzboi and Fotan’s collaboration on Dong Leng Cha is an objectphillia rap song: An ode to the refreshing delicacy, Lemon Ice Tea. It’s not so…

  For his recent paintings, presented by Ota Fine Arts at Condo Shanghai, Singaporean painter Guo-Liang Tan chose an aeronautical fabric as his canvas. A bizarre choice, given that the fabric is water-resistant and would therefore not absorb paint. In order to even begin painting, Tan had to first seal the fabric with acrylic. In…