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Alex Jen is a writer and curator based in Chicago. 

From Magdalen Wong’s theatre of stoic clowns at Current Plans to Jeff Koons’s early sculptures at Art Intelligence Global, these are the must-see exhibitions during Art Basel Hong Kong

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At Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong, the artist continues his investigations into the apparatus of artmaking through five new videos

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An exhibition at the Smart Art Museum, Chicago, questions the role of the market and the possibility of pure aesthetics in single-coloured works

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The second iteration of the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art asks what art can do in an increasingly fraught political climate, but simply offers symbolic gestures

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An exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, showcases the painter’s unfussy yet intimate studies of behaviour and mundanity

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The artist’s installation at Material Exhibitions, Chicago, is both cynical and deferential towards the art world

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With a new work on view at the Queens Museum, the artist continues to probe the paradox of Asian-American visibility and ‘model minority’ myth

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At the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, the artist’s methodical excavation of her own home results in deeply evocative paintings

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