Gunpowder On Canvas: Literally Explosive Art
12:00 pm ET Artist Cai Guo-Qiang stands in front of a gunpowder drawing, Desire for Zero Gravity, at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Cai uses a pyrotechnic process to burn shapes into large-scale canvases. Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang ...
(Mar 10, 2012, NPR)
Cultural philanthropist
These were the artists, he says, who laid the foundation of Chinese contemporary art, considered such a strong force today. “My collection spans around an 18-year-period, from the 80s to the late 90s, which in a way shows the evolution of the Chinese ...
(Mar 10, 2012, The Hindu)
Closing the great divide
By Han Bingbin (China Daily) Contemporary art has lost ability to communicate with its audience, and the different genres need to work at better cross-overs. Han Bingbin talks to the curator of the Irish Wave art festival, which aims to cut across the ...
(Mar 11, 2012, China Daily)
Critic's Notebook: Timothy Potts' past and future
Imagine an Indian masterpiece from the "Getty Collection at LACMA" — or of African art at the UCLA Fowler Museum, American painting at the Huntington, postwar Los Angeles art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. If truly major art of any culture ...
(Mar 11, 2012, Los Angeles Times)
Winning hearts through the arts
You can argue that the West wasn't interested in Chinese contemporary art until Tiananmen Square. It inspires me when I meet people from this part of the world who are doing interesting and original things. It makes me crazy when I see people being ...
(Mar 11, 2012, Khaleej Times)
Amateur Architecture: A New Vernacular?
Wang Shu has built only a few projects, and while the Wenzheng College Library (1999-2000, Suzhou), the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum (2001-2005, Ningbo), and the Vertical Courtyard Apartments (2002-2007, Hangzhou) are clearly the work of a talented ...
(Mar 12, 2012, Archinect)
Spirited Sales during New York Art Week
New York City was inundated by the contemporary art contingent this week, with both the Armory Show and The ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America) Art Show taking place, as well as a plethora of smaller fairs and major auctions running ...
(Mar 12, 2012, ArtfixDaily)
Le Meridien Appoints Contemporary Indian Artist Duo Thukral & Tagra as New ...
Le Meridien Appoints Contemporary Indian Artist Duo Thukral & Tagra as New ...
(Mar 12, 2012, MarketWatch (press release))
Nesrin Esirtgen shares her art collection with the public
One such modern and contemporary art collection is that of Nesrin Esirtgen, vice chairperson of the executive board at Abdi İbrahim Pharmaceuticals. Composed largely of contemporary works of art Esirtgen has been collecting for the past year, ...
(Mar 12, 2012, Today's Zaman)
Meet Birdhead, China's Hottest Photographic Duo
Birdhead's stream-of-consciousness is a refreshing antidote to the grinning faces, endless Mao Zedongs and cultural clichés that have been crowding much of contemporary art coming out from China in the last few years. Redolent of Wolfgand Tillmans' and ...
(Mar 12, 2012, Huffington Post)
Visit by Chinese Emerging Artist
(March 12, 2012) – Recent multimillion-dollar auctions of art from China point to a growing respect for Chinese contemporary art and artists. University of South Florida's Graphicstudio and the Confucius Institute at USF provided a window into this ...
(Mar 12, 2012, University of South Florida)
Experts Predict Art Market Trends, Part 2: Roman Kraeussl, Lorenzo Rudolf ...
Experts Predict Art Market Trends, Part 2: Roman Kraeussl, Lorenzo Rudolf ...
(Mar 13, 2012, ARTINFO)
Mini guide to Singapore
Exhibitions range from Chinese calligraphy to contemporary art (71 Bras Basah Rd; admission £5). Pulau Ubin is a small island that's one of the last vestiges of rural Singapore. Make for the Tanjong Chek Jawa, a wetland area on the island's eastern ...
(Mar 13, 2012, Myjoyonline.com)
Capri Pants Inventor & Overall Amazing Lady Gloria Sachs Dead At 85
For the past two decades she was involved in the contemporary Chinese art scene, and was working on several projects in China at the time of her passing. Oh, and about those capris: According to her daughter, Sachs was the first to bring capri pants ...
(Mar 13, 2012, Styleite)
Geffen Contemporary Re-Opens With Explosive Exhibit in April
by Dennis Brinkworth Computer rendering for Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2012. Courtesy Cai Studio Cai Guo-Qiang sure knows how to make a bang with his art exhibits. While the Chinese artist lived in ...
(Mar 13, 2012, Haute Living)
Old Masters at European Fine Art Fair draw beleagured investors
"I don't consider contemporary art, where you've had these wild prices, a very sound place to put it. What we call a lot of money in the Old Master market— say the $40m that the Getty Museum paid recently for a Turner - in the contemporary or modern ...
(Mar 13, 2012, The National)
Chinese Director Jia Zhangke Plans To Have Own Arthouse Theatre
Arthouse theatres are scarce in Beijing, with only the Broadway Cinematheque, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and China Film Archive serving the needs of artistically-inclined moviegoers. Jia Zhangke, a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, ...
(Mar 14, 2012, Bernama)
Experts Predict Market Trends, Part 3: Lucy Mitchell-Innes, Nancy Murphy ...
Experts Predict Market Trends, Part 3: Lucy Mitchell-Innes, Nancy Murphy ...
(Mar 14, 2012, ARTINFO)
Discovering Chinese Design: An Interview with Zara Arshad of Design China
While China's art scene continues to make record sales, and big names like Ai Weiwei, Cai Guoqiang and Yue Mingfen are starting to roll easily off Westerners' tongues, Chinese design remains comparatively in the shadows. At best, it's regarded as a ...
(Mar 14, 2012, Core77.com (blog))
With still lifes, bold move made
Eight untitled images are on view in a small solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Maps 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA 425 Fawell Blvd, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137, USA Overall the work feels not unpleasantly like ...
(Mar 14, 2012, Chicago Tribune)
Chinese new media send signals west
Zheng will lead a curator's talk Saturday at 1 pm at Centre A, 2 West Hastings (at Carrall) and the May issue of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, which Zheng edits, will be devoted to Yellow Signal. [email protected] © Copyright ...
(Mar 15, 2012, Vancouver Sun)
What to See and Where to See It
Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Avenue; (617) 478-3100; Icaboston.org SALEM, MASS. “The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann.” Expect the unexpected from this master of the fabricated photo who blended unrelated negatives ...
(Mar 15, 2012, New York Times)
Chinese new media send signals west
Zheng will lead a curator's talk Saturday at 1 pm at Centre A, 2 West Hastings (at Carrall) and the May issue of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, which Zheng edits, will be devoted to Yellow Signal. AT A GLANCE YELLOW SIGNAL: NEW MEDIA IN ...
(Mar 15, 2012, Vancouver Sun)
Chinese Sculptors' Exploration of Ancient Traditions Sparks Artistic Rebirth
The Beijing-based curator Bérénice Angremy said Chinese government policies on contemporary art were in a constant state of flux, but added that the authorities still sporadically resorted to banning or closing down exhibitions on experimental art that ...
(Mar 15, 2012, New York Times)
Chinese-Indonesian Collector Makes Up for Lost Time
Mr. Tek began collecting art about eight years ago and has since amassed more than a thousand pieces of contemporary art, primarily focusing on works by Chinese artists. His collection includes global stars like Ai Weiwei, Zhang Xiaogang and Fang Lijun ...
(Mar 15, 2012, New York Times)
Art Basel of Asia: Get Ready for Art HK 12, Hong Kong's International Art Fair
China is now home to over 1 million millionaires, according to China Luxury Network. For the actual and aspirational wealthy, China fuels an insatiable desire for luxury goods that continues to build beyond cars, fashion, and real estate and into the ...
(Mar 15, 2012, Forbes)
Maastricht's art fair turns 25, celebrates the old
* Maastricht art fair, 25 this year, opens Friday * "TEFAF" world's biggest fair for arts and antiques * Sees rise in banks, funds and Chinese buyers By Mike Collett-White LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - It is probably not the world's biggest art fair, ...
(Mar 15, 2012, Reuters)
'Francesca Woodman' at Guggenheim Museum
Francesca Woodman, the photographer who took her own life at 22 in 1981, is as close to a true saint as the putatively secular world of contemporary art can claim. The dreamy, formally playful and disarmingly erotic pictures Woodman made — mostly of ...
(Mar 15, 2012, New York Times)
Artists turned on to the theme of sex
By Zhu Linyong (China Daily) Sex is a key element in contemporary Chinese art and for proof of this assertion you need look no farther than a 798 Space exhibition that gathers diverse genres to examine the subject. And, to make it sound a little bit ...
(Mar 16, 2012, China Daily)
Indian, Asian art at Christie's sale
... categorised as the Doris Wiener Collection, the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, India and Southeast Asian Collection, Japanese and Korean Art, Auspicious Treasures for Scholars and Emperors, Luminous Perfection and Fine Chinese ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Hindustan Times)
The art market: Dollars and censors
Her figures highlight the trends in the market today: the importance of China; the blurring of the frontiers between auctioneering and dealing; the rise and rise of art fairs; the strength of modern and contemporary art; and the arrival of new players ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Financial Times)
Animal instincts challenge morality of human nature
To walk into the installation, which fills Paddington's Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, is like stepping inside a natural history museum. But this is a museum crossed with a casualty ward. Flimsy veils redolent of curtains drawn around a patient's ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Wyndham Weekly)
New York art's Asia Week set for big sales
Last year, sales of Asian art at Christie's saw a double-digit percent increase and are now the second place category behind overall contemporary art, but ahead of impressionist and modern. Weihe pointed to wealthy, patriotic Chinese looking to their ...
(Mar 17, 2012, AFP)
New York art's Asia Week set for big sales
Last year, sales of Asian art at Christie's saw a double-digit percent increase and are now the second place category behind overall contemporary art, but ahead of impressionist and modern. Weihe pointed to wealthy, patriotic Chinese looking to their ...
(Mar 17, 2012, Turkish Press)
'FreePort [No. 005] Michael Lin' opens with free launch party at Salem's ...
'FreePort [No. 005] Michael Lin' opens with free launch party at Salem's ...
(Mar 17, 2012, Taunton Daily Gazette)
New York Art's Asia Week Set for Big Sales
Last year, sales of Asian art at Christie's saw a double-digit percent increase and are now the second place category behind overall contemporary art, but ahead of impressionist and modern. Weihe pointed to wealthy, patriotic Chinese looking to their ...
(Mar 18, 2012, Jakarta Globe)
'ZODIAC HEADS' EXPLORE THE IDEA OF THEFT
Now, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is showing Weiwei's “Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals” in its “US museum debut.” Leave it to the esteemed Chinese artist, whose striking “Zodiac Heads” deal on one level with issues of theft and appropriation ...
(Mar 18, 2012, U-T San Diego)
Chinese Contemporary Artist Beili Liu Spellbound Creations
Beili Liu's work can be described as installation art, sculpture, mixed-media art, conceptual art, Asian art, contemporary art, Chinese contemporary art, cross-cultural, site-specific art, site-responsive art, time-based art, hand crafted art, craft, ...
(Mar 18, 2012, Albany Times Union)
Auction houses poised for marathon of Asian art sales
Asian art, which officials say is a key driver in the global market, has seen strong activity in the past year, and enthusiasm for it is still growing, especially among Chinese collectors. Asian art has begun to outpace even the once-indomitable ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Chicago Tribune)
Jia Zhangke to open arthouse theater
Arthouse theaters are scarce in Beijing, with only the Broadway Cinematheque, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and China Film Archive serving the needs of artistically-inclined moviegoers. Jia Zhangke, a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, ...
(Mar 19, 2012, China.org.cn)
Performance artist makes his point with umbrellas
I-Ching is part of a monthlong exhibition by Rui and fellow Chinese artist Ko Siu Lan organized by the Slought Foundation, a nonprofit contemporary art space, and the University of Pennsylvania. Though born into different periods of Chinese history, ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Philadelphia Inquirer)
Auction houses poised for marathon of Asian art sales
Asian art, which officials say is a key driver in the global market, has seen strong activity in the past year, and enthusiasm for it is still growing, especially among Chinese collectors. Asian art has begun to outpace even the once-indomitable ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Reuters)
Investing In and Collecting Asian Art: Expert Insight from Jiyoung Koo
For example, after 2000, Chinese contemporary art rose immensely and quickly with prices leapfrogging multiple times within months. Another example would be modern and contemporary Indian art. Prices for blue-chip artists remain in demand whilst other ...
(Mar 19, 2012, The Epoch Times)
A Miami Blog To Cover Latin American Pavilion Art Shanghai 2012
WHATSUPMIAMI WUM, a blog turned-journal for the contemporary arts will be traveling to Shanghai, China to document another Chinese international art fair. During Art Shanghai 2012 which takes place from May10-14, WUM will have a physical presence with ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Examiner.com)
Chinese Architect Wins Pritzker Prize
His buildings include the Library of Senshing College at Suzhou University, the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, the Ningbo History Museum, and the Vertical Courtyard Apartments in Hangzhou. “Oh, it's a big surprise to me,” said Wang, the first Chinese ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Voice of America)
A 'homecoming' in BC for Chinese new-media art
Like just about everything else in China, its video art has exploded in the last few years. In 1998, when Vancouver hosted a city-wide Chinese contemporary art show, the movement was in its infancy. Now, the series of exhibitions called Yellow Signal: ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Globe and Mail)
A 'homecoming' in BC for Chinese new-media art
Like just about everything else in China, its video art has exploded in the last few years. In 1998, when Vancouver hosted a city-wide Chinese contemporary art show, the movement was in its infancy. Now, the series of exhibitions called Yellow Signal ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Globe and Mail)
Art exhibition listings
Work by the finalists can be viewed on the fair's Web site (Chinese and English): www.arts.org.tw ■ Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday from noon to 8pm and Sunday from 11am to 7pm. Admission: NT$100 Once Upon a Time (彼時‧此刻) is a group exhibit on the ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Taipei Times)
Pictures worth a thousand words
Celebrated at home and often discussed in art circles abroad, Xu seamlessly integrates Chinese tradition with contemporary art concepts, while managing to transcend both. Along with Book From the Sky, which consists of more than 4000 invented Chinese ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Taipei Times)
Istanbul Modern welcomes Chinese Films Week
... in cooperation with Embassy of the People's Republic of China, presents a program that brings together seven films from the Chinese cinema. The Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey's first private museum to organize modern and contemporary art ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Focus on Travel News)
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