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Chris Moore On Sally Smart At Ov Gallery, Shanghai

Since 2004 the Exquisite Pirate has been raiding coasts around the world. Each incursion colonizes the exhibition space or, this time, shanghais it, by means of a giant cartographic grid. Art in the age of electronic reproduction loves a louche skull and crossbones. DPP_0105.jpg

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Stacey Duff On Current Gallery Highlights In Beijing

Gu Dexin, '2009-05-02' Gu Dexin Until September 6 Galleria Continua www.galleriacontinua.com Gu Dexin's current installation is rumored to be the last show of his career. It's also one of the most gripping...

Chris Moore On Obsessive Art In Shanghai

Interior shots of Biz-Art exhibition Interior shots of Biz-Art exhibition Obsession in art is a many-hackneyed thing, blithely presenting middle-class angst as an overheating nuclear core. There are exceptions. Some...

Chris Moore On Xu Zhen At James Cohan, Shanghai

Xu Zhen, 'Untitled' Once upon a time, in a sort of kingdom, in a once imperialist, now imperious, city was a palace that hovered in the air. It is...

Chris Moore On Wang Tiande At Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai

'Yuhuangshan' The focus of this subtle and seductive exhibition is the human and artistic relationship to transformation. Divided into four parts and using mountains and ink as Leitmotifs,...

Chris Moore On The Yves Saint-laurent Auction And The Long Shadow Of The Opium Wars

A Rat, a Rabbit, a Dragon, and the Saint Laurent-Bergé Auction: How the Opium Wars cast a long shadow over cultural restitution Last month over three days Christies in...

Stacey Duff Picks His Top 5 Shows In Beijing In 2008

STACEY DUFF, Saatchi Online magazine's China correspondent and Time Out Beijing's art editor picks the five most memorable shows in Beijing in 2008. Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, Ullens...

Stacey Duff's Top Five Shows In Beijing

Fang Lijun Our Future Until October 12 Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art 798 Art District, No 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu Chaoyang district Beijing T: 86 10 8610 8706 Despite the futuristic implications of its title, the...

Chris Moore On Qiu Zhijie At Shanghai Zendai Museum Of Modern Art

A review can easily be overwhelmed by content, ceasing to have critical form but becoming instead a list of items, or art-ems. So how does one reduce a...

Chris Moore On Mining Nature At James Cohan Gallery, Shangahi

The plain trees hum with cicadas. Down a laneway old women natter, a paper collector on his tricycle rolls, pinging a pot lid. The iron gateway is unimposing...