In Production: Art and the Studio System, Yuz Museum, 7 November – 1 March Every week is art week somewhere, but not every week is art week in Shanghai. So you'll be wanting to be there during the first week of November, when the city's twin art fairs, Art021 and West Bund Art & Design are on view. But the fun of the fairs is not the only...

The possibility of a queer visuality unfettered by ideas of representation is at the forefront of Doron Langberg's debut exhibition, Likeness, at Yossi Milo Gallery. The Israeli-born artist's large-scale canvases are occupied by sitters in demure postures as well as possibilities for a future and traces of the past, hidden in details that appear...

I first encountered one of Doron Langberg's paintings at a group show at Danese Corey in 2015. The exhibition, 8 Painters, was under review for the "Review Panel" (a monthly discussion of current exhibitions) when I was a panelist. Recently I came across my notes for the talk. I had written about "the ghosts hovering" in the...

If it wasn't for the film Blow-Up, Pixy Liao may never have become a photographer. Working as a graphic designer in Shanghai and deeply dissatisfied with the lack of creative control she had over her own work, after watching Michelangelo Antonioni's cult classic about a fashion photographer loosely based on David Bailey, she was inspired to make...

hen Pixy Liao landed at the University of Memphis in 2006 to study photography, she wasn't quite sure what to photograph. 'I was having culture shock, coming from China,' she said on the phone from her Brooklyn apartment. 'I didn't know who I should be.' She tried landscapes and self-portraiture, using the camera to process her new environment...

Last year, after a decade of creating hundreds of images for a project about her relationship, Pixy Liao decided it was finally time to create a book. 'I'm not a very productive photographer, so I always felt like I didn't have enough images' she says, 'but ten years felt like the right time'.