Artist Gordon Cheung will be in conversation with ArtReview and ArtReview Asia editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt, on the occasion of his exhibition Tears of Paradise at Edel Assanti, London (through 7 March). Their discussion will focus on ideas raised in Cheung’s recent work in which he witnesses and interprets the emergence of China as a twenty first century global superpower, framing current events in the context of the “Century of Humiliation” and the opium wars.
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation goes for modern psychology over textual ‘fidelity’, eschewing not just the silliness of toga-clad deities perched in the heavens, says Beatrice Loayza, but the itchiness of dogmatic truths
A shockingly revisionist script; questionably sourced funding; backing from the US MAGA faction – and all building up to Brazil’s October elections. Euan Marshall tries to take this thing seriously
