Lecturer, Shanghai Theatre Academy · Contributing Lead Author & Senior Producer, Yitiao
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On June 20, 2026, Dataland opened in downtown Los Angeles, inside the Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA, directly across from Walt Disney Concert Hall, in the thick of the city's cultural corridor.
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What happens when two artists who have shared a life for nearly twenty years place their work in the same room for the first time? At Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, Liu Ren and Zhang Ruyi’s two-person exhibition, “Everything Is On Time, Except Time Has Never Belonged to Us,” offers an answer that arrives almost at once.
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At M+ in Hong Kong, a major exhibition of Lee Bul’s work since 1998 shows how uncannily her art anticipated the age of AI, engineered bodies, and cities forever being dismantled and rebuilt.
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If there is one place in Asia that comes fully alive every March, it is Art Basel Hong Kong. Within three hours of the doors opening on March 25th, fairgoers had already spotted Chilam Cheung and Anita Yuen, Lin Chi-ling, Yang Caiyu, Feng Tang, Yuan Hong, Zhang Zetian, Uli Sigg, Zhang Han — the roll call went on. But the real news this year was the fair itself: after more than five years in the making, a new sector called Echoes made its debut, a structural response to where mid-career artists and mid-size galleries now stand in the ecosystem.
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During the 2026 Lunar New Year, an exhibition about food is unfolding in Wenzhou. Using familiar ingredients—apples, milk, rice, blood clams, spices, canned goods—as its point of departure, the work of eleven artists or artist groups places the everyday back within larger historical and social contexts, from oceans, forests, and factories to home kitchens and multinational supply chains. Food is not only a matter of taste; it also reveals the tangled relations among labor, capital, and power.
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Huang Bing, the Hong Kong artist and 2025 Hick Award winner, makes vivid, flickering animations about social relations, personal shame, and unspoken desire. Through dark humor and irony, he subjects both everyday life and himself to an unsparing examination.
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With the Lunar New Year of 2026 just over two weeks away, museums across China are beginning to reveal their major post-holiday exhibitions, following a year that ranged from blockbuster institutional shows and academically driven biennials and triennials to exhibitions of twentieth-century masters and new work by contemporary artists.
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