xin wang – Page 6 – curator, art historian; selected writings and projects

Notes on Vectors: Essay on Lui Chun Kwong’s recent watercolors

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July 13, 2015
New Museum Triennial Review and Ryan Trecartin Special Feature for Modern Weekly

摘要：社交网络的超音速式的铺展、泛滥影像的去真实化的迷幻力量，共同促成了亚文化对主流文化的前所未有的戏谑和嘲讽，且全面挑战并影响着当代艺术实践。

July 13, 2015
Lu Yang Arcade Reviews

Artforum: http://artforum.com.cn/archive/search=%E7%8E%8B%E8%BE%9B/7138

July 13, 2015
THE BANK SHOW REVIEWS

Art Agenda: http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/%E2%80%9Cthe-bank-show-vive-le-capital%E2%80%9D/

July 13, 2015
THE BANK SHOW: Vive le Capital

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current order of capitalism. – Fredric Jameson

April 14, 2015
Liao Guohe: Troll Painter/廖国核：扯画家

Catalogue Essay for Liao Guohe retrospective at the Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing.

March 9, 2015
黯然销魂不唯语境/Translating Feminism

published on Artforum.com.cn on 2014.12.03, http://artforum.com.cn/slant/7247# 碧昂斯在MTV音乐录影带大奖上的表演，2014年8月24日。图片：New Statesman

March 9, 2015
Asian Contemporary Art Week 2014 & Field Meeting statement

Working as the associate curator of Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York 2014. ACAW-2014_Press-Release-10-2014 Social diary in Chinese： http://artforum.com.cn/diary/7110

March 9, 2015
Lu Yang: Arcade, published as Hyperallergic Essay

The arcade is more than a place to play games. It promises a critical distance from reality, creativity independent of usefulness, and realms of fantasy that are “resistant, but not oppositional, in relation to the dominant societal logic,” as Graeme Kirkpatrick put it in “Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game.” Under its powerful reward system…

March 9, 2015
Lu Yang Arcade: New York solo

LUYANG ARCADE Curator: Xin Wang Lu Yang Arcade, the first New York solo exhibition of the Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang (b. 1984), presents some of her key projects since 2011 and new works commissioned for the exhibition that feature fantastical, often morbid visions of death, sexuality (or a-sexuality), illness, and neurological constructs of both real life-forms and religious icons.…

October 7, 2014