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.
It is debatable as to whether or not contemporary art has any major impact on politics at all. But recent antiauthoritarian protests in Poland suggest otherwise
A new retrospective reveals an artist who reinvented the twentieth-century US avant-garde with idiosyncratic approaches to traditional Japanese aesthetics
