Plus points

Louise Lui
Avant Art, Feature
Hong Kong adopts the phrase “Asia’s World City” as its official slogan. With its incredibly free market and proximity to China’s booming economy, the metropolis has certainly lived up to its status as a bus...

China on my mind

Rowena Chiu
Archive, Avant Art, Culture
  Contemporary Chinese artists track the growing contradictions and conflicts between old and new China, testing the perimeters between traditional and contemporary art, whilst all the time explorin...

Frieze New York 2014

Louise Lui
Avant Art, Feature
A spinoff from the original London contemporary art fair, Frieze New York pitched its tent in Randall’s Island for its third year this May. In a city saturated with art fairs, where people have seen it all ...

Ed Ruscha in New York City

Louise Lui
Avant Art, News
Gagosian will present three separate exhibitions and projects by Ed Ruscha in New York, including his participation in Frieze New York with a series of recent paintings. On May 6, Ruscha’s first public commi...

Seeing is believing

Bonnie Friend
Avant Art, Feature
  You don’t have to travel very far these days before someone starts talking about the negative effects of TV, computer games, and the generally diminishing effects of technology on the imagination. “Where w...

Global symbology

Louise Lui
Avant Art, Feature
This month London’s Scream Art Gallery  presents at Art 14, a platform for global art aimed at promoting artistic and cultural exchange between East and West. Established in 2006, Scream Art Gallery has rap...