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Ai Weiwei unveils his epic new Australian work: ‘90% of art is just garbage. Real art questions the existing order’

From his farm in Portugal, the acclaimed artist speaks about war, peace, the state of the world – and his 40 metre sculpture Mushrooms, on Sydney Harbour“It’s like a film set. Like...

Chinese tempera artist Li Xiaogang featured in Venice Biennale exhibition

The Beijing-born painter's hand-crafted works feature in a Venice exhibition examining creativity, memory and authorship in the age of artificial intelligence.

Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering ‘heroes and martyrs’

Gao Zhen sentenced to three years in prison after already spending two years in detentionGao Zhen, a prominent Chinese artist known for provocative sculptures of the former leader...

Chinese Dissident Artist Gao Zhen Handed 3-Year Sentence Over Mao Artwork

The New York-based artist was detained while visiting family in China and convicted under a controversial law enacted years after several of his works were created

Tianlai Art Museum / Mao, Shen-Chiang Architecture Studio

Commissioned by the chairman to commemorate his parents and ancestral home, Tianlai Art Museum transforms private memory into a public space for exhibition, set within its rural co...

Osmanthus Moon / HCCH Studio

Osmanthus Moon is a short-term public art installation created to celebrate the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a projection, specially as well as metaphorically, of...

Malaysian Artist Blurs the Line Between Architecture, Sculpture, and Light to Ask What It Means for an Object to Be Real

Kaiyi Wong is a Malaysian architectural designer, spatial artist, and founder of Unreality Studio. His practice operates at the intersection of architecture, physical sculpture, am...

Chinese Artist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Mao Sculptures

Gao Zhen, part of a brotherly duo famous for satirical artworks, was convicted of slandering one of China’s heroes after a secret one-day trial.

chen wei on the dance floor as a stage for imagined ecstasy

in his guest essay, the artist reflects on the elusive nature of ecstasy, drawing from nightlife, staged photography, personal memories, and stories shared by friends to examine ho...

M+ Hong Kong Exhibition Traces Herzog & de Meuron's Design Process Across China

An exhibition tracing the vision behind Herzog & de Meuron's ten selected projects in China will open on September 12, 2026, at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. The exhibition marks...

380,000 LEGO flowers transform shanghai’s concrete oil tank into botanical landscape

the 30-meter-long installation spills across the west bund waterfront, bringing together monumental sculpture, artist collaborations and interactive experiences where visitors can...

Qingdeng Village Art Museum / atelier anonymous

From Administrative Void to Contemporary Village Entrance: Reviving Public Life in Qingdeng VillageThe design finds its inspiration in the quiet disappearance of public life in Jia...

‘Pillar of Shame’ sculptor to ask Denmark to negotiate for artwork’s return

The creator of a sculpture commemorating those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown will ask Danish authorities to negotiate with Hong Kong for its return, with city offic...

"Beauty in Itself Is Dangerous:" Xu Tiantian on Moving Beyond Starchitecture in Louisiana Channel Interview

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA_Design and Architecture, an interdisciplinary practice that addresses both the physical and social dimensions of the contemporary livin...

West Garden Florist / LUO studio

Located in Haidian Park, Beijing, the project sits within one of the district's major urban green spaces, a setting where nearby residents gather for everyday leisure, exercise, an...

Chinese artists withdraw from biennale

“Architecture Must Return to Its Essence”: Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu on the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale

"Architecture must return to its essence." With this statement, Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu establish the central premise of their curatorial vision for the 20th International Architectu...

Der Hausbesuch: Die Welt, ein Gutshof

Danh Vo ist Konzeptkünstler. Sein berühmtestes Projekt ist „We the people“, ein 1:1-Nachbau der Freiheitsstatue, in 250 Teilen über die Welt verteilt. mehr...

Tašbik Installation / Wesam Al Asali

Tašbik is a site-specific architectural installation for the open lecture courtyard (Al Mudarraj) at Amman Design Week 2026, designed by Wesam Al Asali, an architect, professor at...

Inaugurado el arco chino de Usera, en la plaza del Hidrógeno

La plaza del Hidrógeno, en Usera, cuenta con el primer arco chino de la ciudad. El alcalde de Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, lo ha inaugurado esta mañana junto a la concejala...

Wangari Mathenge Reassembles Memory in ‘Re-membering’

The Kenyan artist expands her ongoing investigation of cultural memory and inheritance with five new paintings and her first publicly exhibited sculptures

This Beijing Pavilion Looks Like A Giant Mushroom In The Woods

In Haidian Park, Beijing, LUO studio has created West Garden Florist, a small florist pavilion shaped by the trees, pathways and public life surrounding it. Sitting beside the park...

China's newest art museum reinvents infinity

Tom Sachs Recreated Chanel’s Paris Flagship Out of Plywood and Paint in Chinatown

Walking through the installation with Observer, the artist cited Duchamp, Sol LeWitt and On Kawara as touchstones, while insisting his attachment to the physical act of making keep...