Artist Gordon Cheung will be in conversation with ArtReview and ArtReview Asia editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt, on the occasion of his exhibition Tears of Paradise at Edel Assanti, London (through 7 March). Their discussion will focus on ideas raised in Cheung’s recent work in which he witnesses and interprets the emergence of China as a twenty first century global superpower, framing current events in the context of the “Century of Humiliation” and the opium wars.
The platform has come to dominate online culture, but in the face of a US ban and pressure from the Trump administration, no one seems to be defending it. How do you fight for – and against – a shadow?
