An LED display loops a message in Lawrence Lek’s installation, which prompts the question “inside the game, can anybody tell the difference between art and the world?”
Author Archives: Danni Shen
Danni Shen is a curator and writer currently living in the Bronx, New York. She is also a contributor to SCREEN, a bilingual journal on contemporary media art, and would like to eventually resume work in China between cultural discourses. Find her on Instagram at @danni_sh and curatorial exercising at Contemporary Art: China & Diaspora.
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Yun-Fei Ji’s Ghost Stories of the Living
CLINTON, NY — Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, at the Wellin Museum of Art, is the Beijing-born, Ohio-based artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States.
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Christopher K. Ho on Confucianism, White Privilege, and Art Dads
In 2012, New York-based artist and curator Christopher K. Ho wrote the essay “The Clinton Crew: Privileged White Art,” describing the aesthetic sensibility and political shortcomings of Brooklyn-based artists who grew up in the United States during the 1990s.
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Chinese Casino Workers and the New American Suburbs
Currently on view at the Museum of Chinese in America, SubUrbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape, is a fascinating look at the evolution of the American suburbs beyond the archetype of the Anglo-Saxon, nuclear, single family and binary notions of home.