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Announcing the newest addition to YISHU Journal Limited Edition prints
[ November 1, 2010; ] Announcing the newest addition to YISHU Journal Limited Edition prints
Zhong Biao (b. 1968, China) "Dawn of Asia" (2010) Serigraph 21 x 30 cm Edition of 200
Venue: MAGAZINES, Art Basel, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Preview: Wednesday, December 1st, 2010, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Public opening hours: Daily from noon to 8 p.m., [...]
Tags: Yishu Art Edition, Zhong Biao
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Yishu Select: The Cult of Origin
In Yishu Select, RedBox Review features key articles from partner Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art for synopsis. Here RedBox review summarises J.P. Park’s text, which makes problematic the use of ‘Chineseness’ as the ‘ultimate signifier’ in discussion of contemporary Chinese art.
TITLE: “The Cult of Origin: Identity Politics and Cultural Capital in [...]
Tags: Chineseness, identity politics, J.P. Park, orientalising, origin, signifier, spectacle
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Yishu Select: Hu Xiangqian
In Yishu Select, RedBox Review features key articles from partner Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art for synopsis. Here, RedBox Review features questions and responses drawn from an interview with Hu Xiangqian, conducted this year in Guangzhou by Biljana Ciric and Li Mu.
TITLE: “A Conversation with Hu Xin” (selected questions and responses)
AUTHOR: Biljana Ciric, [...]
Tags: Biljana Ciric, Guangzhou, Hu Xiangqian, Li Mu
ON THE GROUND, Yishu Journal
Yishu Art Guide: After a Long Winter In Beijing
The following text was published in the Yishu Journal annual contemporary art guide.
After a Long Winter in Beijing by Zhang Chaoxuan (translated by Katherine Don)
In looking back on the contemporary Chinese art scene in 2009, we are more willing to believe that the rapidly expanding art industry followed a natural course of self-regulation, rather than [...]
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How to position Chinese art within greater Asia?
Yishu Journal, the leading journal of contemporary Chinese art, has just launched Yishu-Online.com, which will provide access to their archives for academics and the public alike.
Tags: featured, Guggenheim Museum, Hongnam Kim, Hou Hanru, Layla Diba, Midori Matsui, Shahzia Sikander, theory, Wang Hui, Xu Bing, Yishu Journal
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Yishu Select: Pan Yuliang
In Yishu Select, RedBox Review selects key articles from partner Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art for synopsis. In this essay, Phyllis Teo examines the nude works of Pan Yuliang which, as part of the early Western art movement in China, possess distinctly modernist qualities. Pan herself considered these to be her most significant paintings. [...]
Tags: Chinese contemporary photography, Chinese modernity, maternal, Mother and child, Pan Yuliang
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Yishu Select: Paul Gladston on the Historicization of Contemporary Chinese Art
In Yishu Select, RedBox Review selects key articles from partner Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art for synopsis. In Part 2 of his exploration of the historicisation of contemporary Chinese art, Paul Gladston offers a critical reading of a text by art historian and curator Gao Minglu entitled “’Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth’:Total Modernity [...]
Tags: Chinese modernity, contemporaneity, Paul Gladston, postmodernism, Western modernity
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Yishu Select: “Guggenheim Museum’s Art Council…Part II”
In Yishu Select, RedBox Review selects key articles from partner Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art for synopsis. As an integral part of the preparation for the opening of the new Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum in late 2013, this panel discussion features members of the Museum’s Asian Art Council, a ‘think tank’ for the institution’s [...]
Tags: 'traversal', aesthetic value, art and politics, Guggenheim, inter-Asia exchange, modernity, Xu Bing 
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (
Yishu Select: Chinese Art in Places and Spaces