Sudden Departure at New Ullens Center
On March 1, French curator Jérôme Sans began his tenure as the artistic director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. Formerly the director of programmes at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, Sans took over the position from... [more]

Poilitical Video installation by Iraqi Artist Censored
Night of Bush Capturing: Virtual Jihadi (2008), the latest installation work by Chicago-based Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal, opened as part of a residency at the Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, on March 6, but it was closed by university administrators the following day after mounting pressure from... [more]

Hong Kong Welcomes New Art Fair
Hong Kong joins the international art fair itinerary with the inaugural Art HK 08, a five-day event showcasing nearly 100 galleries from 17 countries, opening at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on May 14. Along with the locally organized Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair, Art HK 08 is part of a growing effort to... [more]

Kazuo Shiraga, 1924-2008
Japanese painter Kazuo Shiraga, a leading member of the 1950s and 1960s Japanese avant-garde group Gutai, died on April 8 in Hyogo Prefecture. Shiraga first came to prominence for his radical use of his own body as a painter’s tool: grasping a rope suspended from the ceiling, he used his feet as a... [more]