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UTILITY FASHION
Michael Wang, NKEADDYY (detail), 2013, Exchange of common stock, certificate, powder-coated aluminum, knit athletic shoes, 13.3 x 433.7 x 13.3 cmCourtesy the artist Streetwear marketing campaigns,...
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VAPORWAVE
Album art for : MACINTOSH PLUS’s Floral Shoppe adj. [word] foggy, with a sense of fear, isolated-Robin Burnett, formerly of INTERNET CLUB explains, “This music genre reminds me of a foggy ambience...
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VIDEO LANDSCAPE
Mark Tribe, Sawtooth Mountain (“Rare Earth” Series), 2012, archival pigment print, 60.96 x 96.52 x 2.54 cmCourtesy the artist In Japanese developer Konami ’s video game Contra, the player and his or...
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A DISCOURSE ON HOUSEHOLD ELECTRONICS
Wang Min’an, Henan University Press, 2015, 209 pp., ChinesePHOTO Liu Yiwei IN THE POSTSCRIPT to Wang Min’an’s collection of theoretical essays, A Discourse on Household Electronics, he writes that one...
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WOMEN IN COLOR
Yang Fudong, The Coloured Sky: New Women II, 2014, photograph, color inkjet, 120 x 180 cmCourtesy ShanghART Gallery and the artist Gauzy and alluring maidens sparkle across the screen in Yang Fudong’s...
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ROADWAY OBSERVATION
Ase Kawaharara, Terunobu Fujimori, Shinbo Minami (eds.), Culture and Life Concept Store, 2014, 352 pp., traditional Chinese What is there to be observed on the road? The concept of “roadway...
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Motorcycles
Blackbridgemotorcycles If Shanghai is a Vespa circling the former French Concession, Beijing is a tough-looking motorcycle built by an artist. Anticipating this need, Blackbridge, a studio in the...
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LEAP FORUM/VENICE 2015：NEW PAVILIONS FOR A GLOBAL ASIA
Yangjiang Group (from left: Chen Zaiyan, Zheng Guogu, Sun Qinglin) LEAP Forum is an initiative of Modern Art, Modern Media Group’s art platform. It is a virtually distributed conference in which...
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