Alex Jen is a writer and curator based in Hong Kong and Taipei.
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A large survey exhibition comprehensively traces the internet's influence on artistic practice since 1989, uneasily and unexpectedly revealing how it can subsume both the art and its viewing contexts.
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SEX, an exhibition at Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery, challenged me to reckon with the cultural inheritance of my Taiwanese American upbringing.
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On May 28, Building 6, a three-story structure that was renovated by architecture firm Bruner/Cott, opened on the museum's industrial campus and doubled its gallery footprint.
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The artist and filmmaker's two-channel video piece "Ashes," having its US debut at the ICA in Boston, forces the viewer to reconcile disparate scenes projected onto either side of a suspended screen.
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In his new show at Regen Projects, Gates showcases paintings based on data visualizations by W.E.B. Du Bois and ceramic sculptures that reinterpret iconic forms.