Would I call them white paintings. Or flowers. Chrysanthemums for health, chrysanthemums for death, chrysanthemums for the imperial. Do they or do they not last. A country, a region, a continent, in which whiteness is otherness. Silver, the whitest metal.

Sawako Nakayasu, from “Girls and Large Flowers,” 2009

It’s the taste of capital materializing. Not only in the form of China’s coal-fired power plants, cars and factories, but also in the slick shapes of Shanghai’s new office towers, each an individual node in a global network teeming with data, a network that seems to shape our collective tomorrow with growing haste, violence and carelessness.

David Perry, “Three Passages: Double Happiness, Child Palace, Small Offerings,” 2009