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Phil and I had such a great night out in Itaewon. We’ve known each other since that one art fair in Shanghai (remember ShContemporary???) back in 2009. I remember it was also the same time I knew the people I love the most; Pauline Yao, Fiona He, Lee Ambrozy… Omg it seems like such a long time ago… #PhilipTinari #UCCA #Seoul #SouthKorea #Itaewon (at 단풍나무집 Maple Tree House) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiuuwEnLHyM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

In Beijing, we held a workshop at CAFA on our show, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. All the players of the historic China/Avant Garde show joined us for two days of great discussions, including Fan Di'an and Gao Minglu. On Day Two, the brilliant Wang Hui gave a keynote and commended our periodization - 1989 to 2008. Everyone is coming to the October 4 opening, which happens to land on the Autumn Festival.

UCCA's retrospective of David Diao is the best show in town. Here is a lifetime of an artist's work that has too long gone unnoticed, suspended between perceptions of his being an American conceptualist painter and being a not-quite-Chinese-enough artist to make the global cut. Who cares! Here is a body of work that is smart, critical and surprisingly gorgeous. This painting tabs Barnett Newman's annual output of work on a canvas whose color and proportion appropriates the iconic subject matter's. I remember David from our 1980s SoHo days.