Art
艺术
Essays on exhibitions, institutions, and the art world as a system — how artworks circulate, acquire value, and shape ways of seeing.
All essays are written from a reporting perspective, based on field research and institutional observation.
What makes an artwork worth a sky-high price?
什么塑造了艺术品的天价？
From auctions, galleries, and collectors, this essay examines how artworks acquire value — and why price often has little to do with art itself.
What shapes—and accelerates—the photography market
是什么塑造和推进了摄影市场
From photography auctions and galleries, this essay explores how value is constructed in a medium once defined by reproducibility.
Back to photography through “anti-photography”
在“反摄影”中回归摄影本质
From the Arles photography festival, this essay reflects on how photography circulates between exhibition, industry, and public imagination.
“The Uffizi for everyone”: what renovation changes, and what it costs
“乌菲兹美术馆属于所有人”
From the Uffizi’s curatorial history, this essay examines how classical museums negotiate authority, tourism, and modern display.
Inside Tate Modern: how a museum is run (and justified)
Tate Modern馆长谈：美术馆如何运营，也如何为自己辩护
Through Tate Modern’s institutional logic, this essay looks at how museums redefine public culture and contemporary art narratives.
Lynn Hershman Leeson: identity, surveillance, and the long prehistory of “AI”
Lynn Hershman Leeson
From Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work, this essay explores how media, identity, and technology intersect in feminist art practice.
Wong Ping: fables inside and out
我的寓言内外
Through Wong Ping’s moving-image works, this essay looks at desire, power, and absurdity in contemporary visual culture.
An art museum in a chicken farm
养鸡场里的美术馆
From a rural art space set in a former chicken farm, this essay examines how alternative museum models reshape viewing and participation.
Mushroom Exhibition: from a “non-human” lens to new curatorial questions
Mushroom Exhibition
From a mushroom-themed exhibition, this essay reflects on how nature, science, and contemporary art share visual languages.