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The growing influence of corporations in the museum sector raises concerns about cultural quality even as China鈥檚 burgeoning art scene grows by leaps and bounds.

While many fret over China鈥檚 tightening grip on Hong Kong and its clear intention to one day reclaim Taiwan, the Venice Biennale has long operated on a 鈥渄ivide and placate鈥� policy by hosting four pavilions.

Every other year, the art world flocks to Italy for the Venice Biennale, the world鈥檚 grandest and most esteemed recurring art exhibition.

There is a 鈥渃osmotechnics鈥� inherent in M矛/S墨, the radical for 鈥渟ilk鈥� in the Chinese language, such as the archetypes in conceptions of 鈥渞elation鈥�: clue(Xi脿nsu菕), organization(Z菙zh墨), web/network(W菐nglu貌), system(X矛t菕ng);.

Why do art museums show conceptual art? Certainly not because it has that density of visuality that requires the hand and eye of a master.

From gunpowder to human hair, and silk to cigarettes, the materiality of contemporary art from China is on view in Chicago in The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China.

As civil unrest continues to roil Hong Kong, the art industry has been waiting with bated breath to see how protests that originated over a proposed extradition law might affect one of the fair circuit鈥檚 major gatherings: Art Basel Hong Kong.