In the market for art
This is to say total auction sales in China - including Hong Kong and Macao - will amount to 70-80 billion yuan ($11.21-12.82 billion) in 2012. Sotheby's auction revealed that the price for ceramics has remained stable while contemporary art has ...
(Nov 15, 2012, China Daily)
Giddy Highs for Contemporary Art
Colorful abstracts are popular now in part because they don't require the nuanced cultural translations of Chinese scroll paintings or German Expressionist portraits. And at a time when other investment vehicles appear stagnant, collectors see a chance ...
(Nov 15, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
Chinese art star Yue Minjun brings 'laughing men' to the Fondation Cartier in ...
Chinese art star Yue Minjun brings 'laughing men' to the Fondation Cartier in ...
(Nov 16, 2012, Art Daily)
Ravenel's upcoming sale of modern and contemporary art
... of modern and contemporary art on 25 November in Hong Kong and on 2 December in Taipei. Over 190 lots will be offered for the estimate of $34m. The auction will present artworks by internationally recognised artists, including a series by Chinese ...
(Nov 16, 2012, AMA)
Zeng Fanzhi, China's millionaire artist
In Chinese contemporary art the victimised conceptual artist Ai Weiwei makes the global headlines but the painter Zeng Fanzhi, who decrees his work non-political, makes the money. Last month, for instance, one of Ai's sunflower seed sculptures was ...
(Nov 16, 2012, The Times (subscription))
Has New York Come A-Knockin?
Last month, Sotheby's Hong Kong fall auction was down 37 percent from the previous year, with sales of Chinese contemporary art down 51 percent. Yet last weekend, Art Taipei, Asia's longest-running art fair, saw its highest sales total ever. But even ...
(Nov 17, 2012, Taipei Times)
'Lifelike': Contemporary art at NOLA museum dares viewers to touch, confounds ...
'Lifelike': Contemporary art at NOLA museum dares viewers to touch, confounds ...
(Nov 17, 2012, Washington Post)
Chinese art star Yue brings 'laughing men' to Europe
Still reeling from the fallout of the Tiananmen Square massacre two years earlier, he and other artists founded a current known as “cynical realism”, now one of the most influential contemporary art movements in China. Fondation Cartier director Herve ...
(Nov 18, 2012, The Malaysian Insider)
Christie's HK Contemporary Asian Art Auctions (Nov. 24-25): Top Lots To Watch
Following up last month's Hong Kong autumn auctions by Sotheby's and China Guardian — which pulled in respective totals of US$258 million and US$58.6 million – Christie's is set to hold its HK autumn series from November 23-28. With local and mainland ...
(Nov 19, 2012, Jing Daily)
To show, or not to show
Uli Sigg, founder of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, said "there is in every country, a public order of what is acceptable for the public… But there is a difference between censorship and public order." His experience is that museums in the US were ...
(Nov 19, 2012, Global Times)
Asia Society Hong Kong Event Honors Zao Wou-ki, a Global Artist Ahead of His ...
Asia Society Hong Kong Event Honors Zao Wou-ki, a Global Artist Ahead of His ...
(Nov 19, 2012, Asia Society (blog))
Christie's Contemporary HK Sale To Benefit From Global Auction Trends
Though few lots at the recent contemporary art auction in New York, with the exception of a Lichtenstein sculpture, went to Chinese bidders, this doesn't mean the success of last week's Sotheby's sale will have no effect on China or on the prices for ...
(Nov 20, 2012, Jing Daily)
Liang Shaoji Weaves the Complex Work of Nature into Spellbinding Silkworm Art
At 44, Liang was already much older than most of the artists who were then beginning to put Chinese contemporary art on the map. He had graduated from the middle school attached to the Zhejiang Fine Art School in Hangzhou in 1965, on the cusp of the ...
(Nov 20, 2012, ARTINFO)
Dracula's Lanterns Join Romanee-Conti in Hong Kong Sales
22 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Poly's inaugural Hong Kong auction takes place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel with sales of watches, jewelry and Chinese modern and contemporary art on Nov. 24 and fine Chinese paintings and ceramics ...
(Nov 20, 2012, Businessweek)
Hong Kong artists get biggest ever international showcase
He said the city could challenge narratives of art history put forward by the mainland and Taiwan, since narratives as portrayed by Hong Kong art always fell outside the history of Chinese contemporary art, which focused on mainland works. Chang, a ...
(Nov 20, 2012, South China Morning Post)
TEFAF Maastricht debut for six galleries
The successful candidates have galleries in London, Paris and New York and represent a wide range of disciplines ranging from Chinese snuff bottles to contemporary art. They will exhibit in a special section when the 2013 edition of The European Fine ...
(Nov 21, 2012, Art Daily)
Painting a grim picture in Songzhuang
The experimental nature of contemporary art means that its practitioners will have to remain on the fringes. "From a historic and artistic perspective, the dilemma of Songzhuang is the dilemma of contemporary Chinese art. After 30 years of development ...
(Nov 22, 2012, China Daily)
Painting a grim picture in Songzhuang
The invitation may not always elicit a knowledgeable response in this more "pedestrian" part of the city, but as anyone who has dabbled in contemporary Chinese art will know, Songzhuang in the eastern suburbs of Beijing boasts China's, and most ...
(Nov 22, 2012, Chinadaily USA)
China's Next Big Export
The Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2010 reports contemporary art is now exhibited in 37 Chinese museums, 23 nonprofit art spaces, and 197 galleries, an explosion from 10 years ago. (The 2012 budget for the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts is $146 million ...
(Nov 22, 2012, Daily Beast)
Painting a grim picture in Songzhuang
The invitation may not always elicit a knowledgeable response in this more "pedestrian" part of the city, but as anyone who has dabbled in contemporary Chinese art will know, Songzhuang in the eastern suburbs of Beijing boasts China's, and most ...
(Nov 23, 2012, China Daily)
Museum leaders find plenty to like in China
But Fan Di'an, director of the National Art Museum of China, contends that, in terms of contemporary art, Chinese and US museums still have much to do together. "Chinese and American contemporary art are very active in commercial events, such as ...
(Nov 23, 2012, China Daily)
Venezuelan art
A display of 20 paintings under way at the National Art Museum of China offers a glimpse of Venezuela's art tradition and its diverse contemporary art landscape. Works on show range from that of a Classical style to Figurative, Abstract and Geometric ...
(Nov 23, 2012, China Daily)
Feature: Reviving the cultural power of China's museums
Home to the ninth Shanghai Biennial which runs until March 31, 2013, the PSA hosts exhibitions ranging from a review of the past 30 years of Chinese contemporary art to works from the Pompidou Center in Paris, giving audiences a feast of world art and ...
(Nov 23, 2012, Xinhua)
Art magazine publishes scathing critique of Ai Weiwei
He is also right to upbraid western viewers for their inability to see past what are for them the pleasurable ambiguities of contemporary Chinese art. Less convincing, however, is Ai's wholly reductive view of the critical possibilities of contemporary ...
(Nov 24, 2012, Shanghaiist)
Christie's Hong Kong presents the first Chinese Contemporary ink exhibition
The aim is to engage audiences in a dialogue on the ways in which works of art in a traditional medium can be innovative and be translated into the language of global contemporary art. This exhibition in Hong Kong will be followed by a series of ...
(Nov 25, 2012, Art Daily)
Christie's Hong Kong presents the first Chinese Contemporary ink exhibition ...
Christie's Hong Kong presents the first Chinese Contemporary ink exhibition ...
(Nov 25, 2012, Art Daily)
In the zone
Tinari was studying Chinese at the time, so he was assigned by the university to pick up Xu at the airport and show him around. They talked in Chinese about art in China and the US. It was Tinari's introduction to Chinese contemporary art and he later ...
(Nov 25, 2012, China Daily)
Auction Houses Go Head-to-Head in Hong Kong
But though sales remained strong, some categories—such as contemporary Chinese art—remain below their highs of spring 2011, the peak of the art-market boom in China. "The cowboys have left town," said François Curiel, president for Christie's in Asia ...
(Nov 25, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
Results of the Ravenel auction of Chinese and Japanese contemporary art
The Modern and Contemporary art auction organised by Ravenel on 25 November 2012 in Hong Kong fetched a total turnover of HK$104m ($13.4m and €10.3). Among the best sellers of the auction we might recall painter Zao Wou-ki, whose painting ...
(Nov 26, 2012, AMA)
Chinese Design Takes The Stage In Germany
Chinese contemporary art and design recently took the stage in Germany with a special exhibition of two Beijing-based artists at the Design Lounge of the renowned Cologne Fine Art and Antiques Fair (COFAA), one of the largest European trade fairs for ...
(Nov 26, 2012, Jing Daily)
Regional Buyers, International Sellers Converge On HK's Red-Hot Auction Market
In terms of some auction categories, such as fine wine and contemporary Chinese art, this has been particularly true for international houses like Christie's. This weekend, the auction house raised HK$108 million in its three-day wine series, selling a ...
(Nov 26, 2012, Jing Daily)
Art in Beijing: National Museum showcases other 'Ai'
To audiences overseas, contemporary art in China is typified by Ai Weiwei, the most trenchant critic of China's artistic and political restrictions. But not all Chinese artists subscribe to Ai Weiwei's approach. Ai Jing (no relation), once a popular ...
(Nov 27, 2012, CNN)
China's “Great Global Thinkers” for 2012
He is also right to upbraid western viewers for their inability to see past what are for them the pleasurable ambiguities of contemporary Chinese art. Less convincing, however, is Ai's wholly reductive view of the critical possibilities of contemporary ...
(Nov 28, 2012, China Digital Times)
Reviving the cultural power of China's museums[1]|chinadaily.com.cn
Home to the ninth Shanghai Biennial which runs until March 31, 2013, the PSA hosts exhibitions ranging from a review of the past 30 years of Chinese contemporary art to works from the Pompidou Center in Paris, giving audiences a feast of world art and ...
(Nov 28, 2012, China Daily)
Reviving cultural power of China's museums
Home to the ninth Shanghai Biennial which runs until March 31, 2013, the PSA hosts exhibitions ranging from a review of the past 30 years of Chinese contemporary art to works from the Pompidou Center in Paris, giving audiences a feast of world art and ...
(Nov 29, 2012, People's Daily Online)
Hong Kong's importance as international arts hub grows
Wong said that London and New York were still the centres for Western contemporary art, and that the Hong Kong market was dominated by Chinese works. But Western contemporary art is becoming more visible in Hong Kong, with the Museum of Art hosting ...
(Nov 29, 2012, South China Morning Post)
Sotheby's 'Boundless: Contemporary art' held in HK
29, 2012 shows "Pumpkin" by Yayoi Kusama at the preview of Sotheby's "Boundless: Comtemporary Art", the company's inaugural auction of Asian and Western contemporary art in Asia, in Hong Kong, south China, Nov. 29, 2012. The auction that will be held ...
(Nov 30, 2012, China.org.cn)
Christie's: Evolution of the Asian art market
"It was unthinkable five years to think they will be in the top 10 living artists in the world -- two Chinese artists -- but now it's done, which shows the interest of Chinese contemporary art, not only in China but also in Europe and America." Five ...
(Nov 30, 2012, CNN)
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