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China to review Ai Weiwei tax case
Chinese authorities have agreed to review a fine imposed on a firm linked to controversial artist Ai Weiwei, who has said the $2.2 million penalty is an effort by the government to stifle his activism. "They have two months to review the case. ...

China Armco Metals Updates Metals Trading Activities, With New Contracts ...
China Armco Metals Updates Metals Trading Activities, With New Contracts ...

How Art History Majors Power the US Economy: Virginia Postrel
His assumption is that, because of government education subsidies, the US is full of liberal-arts programs that couldn't meet that test. “Too many aspiring young museum curators can't find jobs?” he writes. “The pragmatic Chinese solution is to cut ...

China Armco Metals Updates Metals Trading Activities, With New Contracts ...
China Armco Metals Updates Metals Trading Activities, With New Contracts ...

Empathizing Through Art in Yogya
In February 1999, Dadang left Indonesia for good with his family and took a position in the Northern Territory University, teaching Southeast Asian contemporary art. “It was only in Australia that I began to feel that it was OK to be Chinese,” he said. ...

Qatar Looks to Balance Its Arts Scene
“We're sort of learning as we go along, since this is the first modern contemporary art museum in Doha,” Ms. Khudhairi said. “We're using the first years to try out different types of programming and events that can engage, to see what works and ...

How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy: Virginia Postrel
His assumption is that, because of government education subsidies, the US is full of liberal-arts programs that couldn't meet that test. "Too many aspiring young museum curators can't find jobs?" he writes. "The pragmatic Chinese solution is to cut ...

Neither Independence nor Unification
Taiwan, which mainland China claims as part of the People's Republic, stands apart. That Ai's art has found a home — indeed, a refuge — on the island precisely during its intense election season makes total sense: Ai has an independent spirit, ...

Former Theater Director Sees Shen Yun for the Sixth Year in San Francisco
Mr. Wang Yiyuan was a theater artist and director in China for many years. For the last six consecutive years he and his wife have seen Shen Yun Performing Arts. [Mrs. Wang, Audience Member]: (Chinese, female) (her first quote) “Every year when it is ...

Home > Whatson > Artsentertainment > Celebrating Chinese art: Exhibit in ...
Home > Whatson > Artsentertainment > Celebrating Chinese art: Exhibit in ...

Jan. 8 — 14
And the Chinese artist Zhang Dali continues his project “A Second History,” in which he uncovers the role played by photographs in the state propaganda produced during the rule of Mao Zedong. In these photographs he documents how pictures were doctored ...

A Filmmaker Walks the Line Between Outsider Status and Official Approval
As of Tuesday, it had earned about $82 million at the Chinese box office, and it is China's official entry for an Oscar. At the moment, no other cultural product or artist better embodies the hunger by the Chinese state and its citizens to create ...

Celebrated Vancouver artist to exhibit work in China
Chan, one of the most celebrated artists in Canada's Chinese community, will be taking his collection of paintings to China for an exhibit at the Guangdong Institute of Fine Art — a school he left as a young man in 1962. But while Chan is excited to ...

Asian of the Year
AsiaNews' Asian of the Year was Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, who was recognized for raising important issues in China to the general public through his art and blog at the risk of his own life. Those who made it to the short list were ...

Major Chinese art institution pays tribute to Vancouver painter
Chan, one of the most celebrated artists in Canada's Chinese community, will be taking his collection of paintings to China for an exhibit at the Guangdong Institute of Fine Art - a school he left as a young man in 1962. But while Chan is excited to ...

Home > Whatson > Artsentertainment > Exhibit in Kitchener City Hall's new arts ...
Home > Whatson > Artsentertainment > Exhibit in Kitchener City Hall's new arts ...

Art Center Executive Takes Four Hour Plus Drive to See Shen Yun in San Francisco
Shen Yun Performing Arts is well under way with their 2012 world tour as is travels across North America, bringing audiences a unique performance - classical Chinese dance and a one-of-a-kind musical experience. It's a four and a half hour drive from ...

Expressions unlimited
Making giant strides in economic growth and technological progress, China continues to remain enigmatic to the rest of the world in many ways. An exhibition of the work of six contemporary Chinese photographers, which has been made possible by ...

How art history majors power the US economy
His assumption is that, because of government education subsidies, the United States is full of liberal-arts programs that couldn't meet that test. “Too many aspiring young museum curators can't find jobs?” he writes. “The pragmatic Chinese solution is ...

A week into the new year, many reasons to get out Sunday
IMAGES OF THE WEEK Walking weather: Two people take advantage of the sunny and warm weather Wednesday, enjoying a picturesque view of the Palace of Fine Arts. Chinese arts: The Shen Yun Chinese arts company presents its 2012 show. ...

Wrapped up in China
All of them failed and finally he told himself, "I'm bringing myself to China." Returning to the Middle Kingdom in 2003, Svendsen started studying Mandarin, Chinese art and Chinese history. He spent five years reading The Cambridge History of China, ...

City guide
Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang district. 010-5780-0200 Taiwan abstract oil painter Ava Hsueh is holding her first solo exhibition on the mainland at National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing. ...

"A Spectcular Showcase of Rich Culture" - Shen Yun Performing Arts in Philadelphia
Just the Chinese tradition itself, at the heart of it, is compassion, loyalty, kindness, bravery.” It was Ms. Zhang's first time seeing Shen Yun. "It was my first time to see an authentic Chinese traditional art performance in the United States—I feel ...

Art market beats equities for second year
“If the economy continues to stagnate we could see darker days for art collectors.” Among individual categories of art last year, impressionist and modern art delivered returns of 14 per cent, postwar and contemporary art grew 6.4 per cent, ...

How to bet on China's Hollywood surge
In China's latest 12th Five-Year Plan, a focus on the culture industry was approved, covering the whole gambit of media publishing, film, animation, television and the performing arts, along with a commitment to “actively develop the international ...

Japanese Exhibit of China's Priceless Art Marks Anniversary of Relations
January 08, 2012 Japanese Exhibit of China's Priceless Art Marks Anniversary of Relations VOA News An exhibition showing pricless cultural relics from China was unveiled Friday in Japan's Tokyo National Museum. The exhibition titled Two Hundred ...

China Energy Recovery Inc. Enters Into Two Loan Agreements and Share ...
China Energy Recovery Inc. Enters Into Two Loan Agreements and Share ...

A scene from Robert Lepage's "The Blue Dragon"
Lepage talked to The Globe about his intimate 2008 play, a love triangle involving an expatriate Québécois art dealer (Henri Chassé), his Chinese artist girlfriend (Tai Wei Foo) and his long-ago lover (Marie Michaud), set against the backdrop of a ...

Chinese art marks Sino-Japan ties in Tokyo
To mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, 200 pieces of Chinese art have gone on display in Tokyo. The exhibits were selected from the 1.8 million treasures in Beijing's Palace Museum, including the ...

Chinese Government Have Mercy On Ai Weiwei
Beijing tax authorities have agreed to review their ruling that Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei pay a multimillion dollar fine for 'tax evasion'. The dissident artist reported that tax officials had informed him of this development last week, ...

Hawaiian Transplant Brings Her Healing Art To Monrovia
By Alison Roeske When acupuncturist Elisa Wong was growing up in a small community on the island of Maui, traditional Chinese medicine did not seem like a strange or foreign concept to her. Asian herbal medicine was integrated into her upbringing in ...

Gallery owner raises profile of local art
She has devoted her professional life to promoting Viet Nam's contemporary art scene. A skilled painter and collector, Ha works at her family's Tu Do Gallery on Ho Tung Mau Street in District 1. She has collaborated with many State-owned and private ...

Signature Dishes From Winning Top 100 Chinese Restaurants To Be Revealed on ...
Signature Dishes From Winning Top 100 Chinese Restaurants To Be Revealed on ...

Countdown to Art Dubai: press conference outlines plans for March
Leading the charge of first-timers at Art Dubai is The Pace Gallery, home to a stable of household-name greats of 20th-century art such as Robert Rauschenberg, Bridget Riley and David Hockney, alongside more contemporary figures such as the Chinese ...

Is China Bracing for a 2012 Art Market Correction?
Is the Chinese art market headed for an adjustment? Maybe. ARTINFO's Madeleine O'Dea reported in December that parts of the market seemed to be losing steam at the latest quarterly auctions, even as total sales climbed skyward. ...

Art Activist Refuses Food
An activist in the Chinese capital entered the third day of an art installation and hunger protest on Monday, locking himself into a transparent cage in a show of support for blind Shandong activist Chen Guangcheng, who has been held under house arrest ...

A market divided
First, and this cannot be repeated enough: the art market is not a single entity, but a succession of smaller markets. The chart (see p8) looks at impressionist, modern and contemporary art sold at auction since 2004, and shows the first slipping ...

From Controversial Epic to a Generic Flower
All but two members of the original project who had long worked in rehearsal with Mr. Chen remained in China, forcing the director to find replacements. Last week, under the auspices of China Arts and Entertainment Group, a dance production of "The ...

"The Art of Peak Performance" - Shen Yun in San Francisco
Its mission is to revive 5000 years of traditional Chinese culture. "It is amazing to come here and see in a short time, an hour-and-a-half to two, a 5000-year culture. It's not just the artistic part of it but it's also the cultural part of it. ...

Ring In Chinese New Year 2012 With MGM Resorts International - eTravelBlackboard
24, Crystals will join ARIA in its celebration with a traditional dragon dance with Kung Fu artists and Chinese performers. Select Crystals retailers will take part in the traditions involved in the ceremonial dance by feeding the dragon cabbage as a ...

Oroville temple's ancient Chinese opera puppets draw crowd of experts
By MARY WESTON - Staff Writer David Lei, (left) chairman of the Chinese Performing Arts Foundation in San Francisco, and Ching Tse, a retired Chinese Performing Arts opera singer, look at puppets and theater playbills at the Chinese Temple in Oroville ...

Art and the Arab Spring
The function of art - one of the functions of art - consists in bringing spiritual [geistigen] peace to humanity. I believe one cannot characterise the state of consciousness in contemporary art any better than by saying: more and more people are ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, detained last year, bring work to Smithsonian ...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, detained last year, bring work to Smithsonian ...

Art Review: Chinese Heritage Caught Between Communist and Capitalist Forces
The use of animated video (rather than pure landscape painting) could be seen as a concession to contemporary electronic culture; it seems to be a popular medium for Chinese artists addressing Western audiences. (Another example is Cao Fei's recent ...

Chinese Culture Doesn't Need the West Says Albermarle Gallery's Tony Pontone
A few years ago the Chinese contemporary art market boomed. Where do you see it now? When the market was flooded, it was a question of what the market was flooded with. How many times do you want to have Mao Tse-tung shoved down your throat? ...

Artist donates works to Davenport
The gold, red and black panels each bear the Chinese symbol for good luck, as well as large script with the Chinese word for "dragon." The Year of the Dragon, according to Chinese astrology, begins Jan. 23 and continues through Feb. 9, 2013. ...

Dancer who brought Bharatanatyam to Mao's China dies
She was 19 then, and an aspiring dancer who was studying Russian ballet in Shanghai, at a time when Soviet influence dominated Chinese arts. She was sent to India as part of a group of young students after the then Premier Zhou Enlai decided to set up ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, detained last year, bring work to Smithsonian ...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, detained last year, bring work to Smithsonian ...

Celebrate the Chinese New Year with 'Nights' at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Art, music, drinks and entertainment will blend for one-night-only interactive happenings on Jan. 20 The Santa Barbara Museum of Art invites guests to celebrate the Chinese New Year at “Nights” on Jan. 20. Inspired by the newly reinstalled Asian Art ...

Renovation of four Chinese galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art complete
“Luxury items were commonly placed in tombs in ancient China,” said Colin Mackenzie, senior curator of Chinese art. “Limitations of space forced us to choose only items of the highest quality, so we were very selective as we looked through our early ...



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