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Art

How a Team of Curators Is Reorienting Western Expectations Around Chinese Art and Identity

For the Allure of Matter exhibition the curators propose "Material Art" as a useful, retroactive designation of art that has existed in China since the 1980s and continues today.

Announcement

Wrightwood 659 and the Smart Museum Exhibit Contemporary Chinese Art on a Monumental Scale

The Chicago institutions have collaborated to present The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, on view at both venues through May 3, 2020.

Art

A Pioneering Thai Artist in America

Tang Chang's first solo US retrospective veers away from the criteria of progress and linearity according to which Western art is typically evaluated.