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April on Art-Ba-Ba

The fourth annual “AAC Award for the Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art” (which retains its nonsensical acronym even after adding an explanatory subtitle, leaving us with the unwieldy AAC-AFTMIPOCA) passed without much commentary from the blogs, many writers seemingly numbed to the staid ceremony’s starstruck lack of credibility. Last year, Xu Zhen hired a [...]

February on Art-Ba-Ba

First published in LEAP, Volume 1 Issue 2. Text by Robin Peckham. The most popular posts on the art world internet this month circulated around the escalating demolition of art districts in suburban Beijing almost without exception, a topic that was eventually banned by the end of February. Although many threads and images were deleted, [...]

January on Art-Ba-Ba

First published in LEAP, Volume 1 Issue 1. Text by Robin Peckham. Wang Chunchen was announced as the second biannual recipient of the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards Criticism Prize established by Uli Sigg and judged by Sigg, Richard Vine, Xu Bing, and Qiu Zhijie. Naturally, netizens had some choice words for Wang. Some remarked that [...]