European art museums flock to Asia to exhibit - and attract donations
Last year, the Hong Kong-based Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation gave US$10 million to establish a Chinese art initiative designed to bring contemporary artists' work to the museum. The museum plans to commission artists from ... Lee Ufan and Chinese ...
(Mar 17, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Bookworm Literary Fest Gets Underway
Afterwards, we visit an independent modern dance company to see how an the contemporary art form is being embraced in innovative ways in China. Last but not least, we introduce you to the book series "Hundreds of Taboos in Life" by Taiwan-born writer ...
(Mar 18, 2014, CRIENGLISH.com)
Report: Super-rich, favoring just a few artists, drive art market
The report by the Netherlands-based European Fine Art Foundation derived its estimates by crunching numbers from two major clearinghouses for art auction information (one for China, one for the rest of the world), and weaving in responses from a survey ...
(Mar 18, 2014, Los Angeles Times)
Art San Diego Contemporary Art Show changes hands
Art San Diego Contemporary Art Show, the annual art fair that's exhibited work by established and emerging artists and galleries since 2011, was recently purchased by Redwood Media Group, which operates Artexpo New York, Spectrum Miami and other large ...
(Mar 18, 2014, San Diego CityBEAT)
Ceramic artist Peter Callas to lead workshop and present lecture April 3
Callas' pieces can be found in numerous collections, including the Guangdon Shiwan Ceramic Museum in China, The National Museum of Contemporary Art and the Yeo Joo Ceramic Museum in Korea, the Gotoh Art Museum in Japan, the Cleveland Art ...
(Mar 18, 2014, Appalachian State University)
Bizarre Products Dreamed Up by the Heirs of Marcel Duchamp
"SHANZHAI OriginalsTM" by Shanzhai Biennial - "At last SHANZHAI BIENNIAL unveils its SHANZHAI OriginalsTM line, where fans can finally disOWN a piece of the Chinese phenom that has changed the face of fake." Photos by Christine Hahn. "SHANZHAI ...
(Mar 19, 2014, Wired)
Shepard Fairey Designs Powerful Print of Chinese Artist and Human Rights ...
Shepard Fairey Designs Powerful Print of Chinese Artist and Human Rights ...
(Mar 19, 2014, PR Web (press release))
Exhibition Traces a Career Dedicated to Mutability
Mr. Chin, the child of Chinese immigrants, is so versatile that his friends like to joke about the fact that he was even included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's 1994 exhibition, “Black Male.” “Mel Chin: Rematch,” a ... “Once you realize that ...
(Mar 19, 2014, New York Times)
Door to Art of the World, Barely Ajar
In terms of genuine globalist reach, MoMA is a more expansive institution than it was in 1984, but only in the area of contemporary art. Global modernism remains either outside its ken or perhaps hidden away in its storage vaults. In any case, we ...
(Mar 19, 2014, New York Times)
'A Dream I Dreamed' from 'Contemporary Art Queen' Kusama Yayoi
The tour exhibition "A Dream I Dreamed "from the 'Contemporary Art Queen' Kusama Yayoi was held in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, its first large scale public appearance in China. The exhibition, which is about to close at the end of this ...
(Mar 20, 2014, People's Daily Online)
GO Calendar: Your top events for the week
These works, completed in 2013, are part of a series that the artist began in 2007 known as Scholar Rocks, a reference to stones found in China's Tai Lake region that were traditionally collected by scholars and used as ornaments for reflection. The ...
(Mar 20, 2014, nwitimes.com)
Herb Williams curates OZ Nashville's first visual art exhibition for TNT
Name-brand toothpaste rolled from the bottom and neatly stapled receipts, or cheap beer cans and moldy Chinese takeout boxes? You can tell a lot about a person based on what they don't want ... Fairey began making these prints as a riff on ...
(Mar 20, 2014, Nashville Scene)
Bringing a Flagship of Contemporary Art to Hong Kong
In the meantime, M+ will use a smaller waterfront pavilion that should be finished by next year for its show, “Right Is Wrong — Chinese Contemporary Art 1975 to Now.” Photo. Lars Nittve, the executive director of M+, was a founding director of the ...
(Mar 20, 2014, New York Times)
The Great Art The Nazis Deemed "Degenerate"
“What I do hope is that the exhibition will enlighten people about the present, too, and inspire them to ask questions about where contemporary art is in danger today. Where do we have censorship?” Peters says. “While you can't directly compare the ...
(Mar 20, 2014, Co.Design)
Asia+: 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, April 2014
Description. Asia+, a new auction platform launched by Christie's Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art department in Spring 2014, presents new collectors with a comprehensive view of the depth and breadth of art creation by offering a small but ...
(Mar 20, 2014, Christie's)
Spare Times for March 21-27
Brooklyn Museum: 'The Future Is History: Feminist Legacies in Contemporary Art' (Thursday) An intergenerational range of participants — including the art historian Deborah Bershad Addeo, the artist Katherine Hubbard, and the artist and activist Reina ...
(Mar 21, 2014, New York Times)
In the middle
Australia's love affair with conceptual art is reaching a crescendo this year with the NGV's game-changing contemporary art show Melbourne Now closing its doors this weekend after having been seen by about 725,000 people. In Adelaide the Art Gallery of ...
(Mar 21, 2014, The Australian)
Orient expressions
From its beginnings, five years ago, the Neilson family's private museum of contemporary Chinese art has presented a striking alternative to the big public art institutions. It's the sort of initiative that warms the heart of the federal Arts Minister ...
(Mar 21, 2014, Sydney Morning Herald)
Cai Guo-Qiang's Falling Back to Earth encourages the wolf within
While this may have belonged to the realm of environmental artists in the 20th century, today it has become part of the mainstream of contemporary art with growing plants, stuffed animals and the active interface between the arts and science. ... In ...
(Mar 21, 2014, Brisbane Times)
In Search of Oxford
And what a collection, from the silver and gold dinnerware that Corpus Christi College hid from Cromwell, to contemporary art and the pre-Raphaelites. It's enough to make you just stand there, blinking, trying to decide where to start. ... with ...
(Mar 21, 2014, New York Times)
Artists on the Arts Season Ahead
What's intriguing is the way she writes about Chinese history, because she's a really realistic writer. You are inside the story with her. I'd like to see " Andrea Chénier " at the Metropolitan Opera. It was written by an Italian named Umberto Giordano ...
(Mar 21, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
'Fútbol' intrigues, but doesn't change the game
This exhibit – curated by Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at LACMA – revolves around soccer, of course, but also aims to tackle bigger themes. Among them are masculinity and the construction of heroes; ritual and worship; marketing ...
(Mar 22, 2014, OCRegister)
Lima International Contemporary Art Fair
A visitor takes photo of a work of the artist Marcos Lopez, during the Lima International Contemporary Art Fair "Art Lima 2014", inaugurated in the Army's Superior War School, in the Chorrillos district, Lima department, Peru, on March 19, 2014. The ...
(Mar 22, 2014, Chinadaily USA)
by: public works: KITTY HAUSER
Tent on the Frankland Range is a spectacular image, as artful as a Jeff Wall, its misty vista reminiscent of Chinese landscape painting. It could hold its own in any gallery of contemporary art. The same could not be said of all of his photographs ...
(Mar 22, 2014, The Australian)
North Van hosts Biennale
The 15 artists are from Brazil, while the artists at the Gordon Smith gallery hail from China and Poland. Besides the two installations, the Biennale is ... But the contemporary art scene out there is really vibrant."MacDonald said art could help ...
(Mar 23, 2014, North Shore News)
Hauser & Wirth Somerset … the next Guggenheim?
The arrival of a contemporary art gallery could, very possibly, turn Bruton into an international tourist destination. I stayed here ... Steep, narrow alleys, called bartons, ran from the main street down to the river, along which I returned (clutching ...
(Mar 23, 2014, The Guardian)
Platform China Spotlights Mainland In Hong Kong's Thriving Art Scene
The past few years have seen Hong Kong transform from an oft-lamented cultural wasteland to regional hub for international contemporary art. M+, a new visual arts museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron and part of a government-backed cultural district ...
(Mar 24, 2014, Jing Daily)
Yellowstone Art Museum turns 50
Peterson said contemporary art is informed by the past. So the trove of historic works, ... For example, during the Chinese New Year, works showcasing horses were added to the exhibit because 2014 is the year of the horse. Most of the works that will ...
(Mar 24, 2014, Billings Gazette)
Art agenda: Art Paris Art Fair, Italian fashion, Pilgrim/Roy quilts
Billing itself as “the Springtime event for Modern and Contemporary Art” with China as this year's guest of honour — and photographic chameleon Liu Bolin among exhibitors — the fair features both art and design while acting as a platform for younger ...
(Mar 24, 2014, The Malay Mail Online)
Old Town Shows the Diversity of Indonesia's New Art
Brought together by renowned senior collector Oei Hong Djien in cooperation with Heri Pemad Art Management, the collection reflects the great diversity of the country's contemporary art. Many among these have been seen before, and many others are old ...
(Mar 24, 2014, Jakarta Globe)
North Vancouver hosts Biennale
The 15 artists are from Brazil, while the artists at the Gordon Smith gallery hail from China and Poland. Besides the two installations, the Biennale is ... But the contemporary art scene out there is really vibrant."MacDonald said art could help ...
(Mar 24, 2014, North Shore News)
DMA show reflects changing of the guard
When the Dallas Museum of Art opened in its Edward Larrabee Barnes building in the Arts District in 1984, the Barrell Vault and its four quadrant galleries were full of what was called “contemporary art.” Shortly after the opening, the museum premiered ...
(Mar 24, 2014, Dallas Morning News)
The return of Civilisation: who's a pretty polymath, then?
Quite rightly, the successor, even if limited to the highest achievements of civilisation, is going to want to talk about Benin bronzes, Mughal culture, the pinnacles of Chinese arts. There will be talk of the art of minorities, perhaps “outsider” art ...
(Mar 24, 2014, Telegraph.co.uk)
Cardboard Standout: Shigeru Ban Named the Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize
He designed an elementary school in China following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and, in 2011—as a gift on behalf of the Japanese government—a temporary oval-shaped concert hall in Italy following an earthquake there, made not only of cardboard tubes ...
(Mar 25, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
Museum's sculpture 'requires permission'
The sculpture was given to the museum in memory of Professor Michael Sullivan, who died in September aged 96. Prof Sullivan, a world authority on 20th century and contemporary Chinese art, began collecting Chinese painting in the 1940s with his wife, ...
(Mar 25, 2014, The Oxford Times)
Museum's sculpture 'requires permission'
The sculpture was given to the museum in memory of Professor Michael Sullivan, who died in September aged 96. Prof Sullivan, a world authority on 20th century and contemporary Chinese art, began collecting Chinese painting in the 1940s with his wife, ...
(Mar 25, 2014, Oxford Mail)
Museum's sculpture 'requires permission'
The sculpture was given to the museum in memory of Professor Michael Sullivan, who died in September aged 96. Prof Sullivan, a world authority on 20th century and contemporary Chinese art, began collecting Chinese painting in the 1940s with his wife, ...
(Mar 25, 2014, Oxford Mail)
Talking Billions and Bubble-Gum Cards With Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
Talking Billions and Bubble-Gum Cards With Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
(Mar 25, 2014, Vulture)
Day in pictures: 25 March 2014
A child tries to touch part of the A Dream I Dreamed exhibition by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Shanghai, China. Afghan security officers arrive at the scene of an explosion in Kabul Insurgents have attacked offices ...
(Mar 25, 2014, BBC News)
Morning Links: Simpsons Edition
A complete synopsis of the minor art-related kerfuffle between Jay Z and Drizzy Drake. [Hyperallergic]. Hot damn: Michael E. Smith at Dallas's Power Station. [Contemporary Art Daily]. Wu Tianming, “the godfather of contemporary Chinese cinema,” has ...
(Mar 25, 2014, GalleristNY)
The day in photos
People visit the art exhibition 'A Dream I Dreamed' by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Shanghai, China. Reuters. An employee rides a quad bike during an inspection of a solar power station on the outskirts of ...
(Mar 25, 2014, New York Post)
Renowned California artist teaching workshop on Selfies and Self-Portraits
HUNTINGTON — Chinese born California artist Hung Liu has had her work shown around the world and in most major galleries in the United States. Liu, whose works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. ...
(Mar 25, 2014, Huntington Herald Dispatch)
April 2014: DW's culture calendar
At present, there is hardly any other contemporary artist receiving as much attention and acknowledgement as Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei - mainly because, in spite of all the restrictions, he courageously continues to decry the political and ...
(Mar 26, 2014, Deutsche Welle)
Art Paris is here: interview with its Director, Guillaume Piens
For its part, China's artistic landscape has undergone significant re-evaluation in recent years and no longer merits the dated opinions held by many, who still associate contemporary Chinese art with its cultural past. Given this, it is even more ...
(Mar 26, 2014, AMA)
Looking inside tradition
For example, the most expensive Chinese contemporary art work sold at auction to date, an oil painting from Zeng titled Last Supper (2001) which was auctioned for 142 million yuan ($22.96 million) last October at Sothebys' HK Autumn Auction, is also ...
(Mar 26, 2014, Global Times)
Young Designers Reimagine Jewelry
It doesn't hurt that friends like Rachel Zoe and China Chow are also top clients. Growing up with the “more is more” ethos of the 1980s, Ms. Ko ... “I was more fascinated with contemporary art,” she said. But her father, Alberto Repossi, persuaded her ...
(Mar 26, 2014, New York Times)
Top 10 events in Vancouver this week March 27 to April 3
This beautifully-layered exploration of love, family, understanding and acceptance is about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son. Presented by the frank theatre company and .... Trench Contemporary Art ...
(Mar 26, 2014, Vancouver Sun)
This week in the museums
Elevated: Contemporary Art In The AGO Tower, to Oct 12. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 ... Royal Ontario Museum The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China's Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm ...
(Mar 27, 2014, NOW Magazine)
Pritzker Prize winner used paper to build cathedral, concert hall and homes ...
Pritzker Prize winner used paper to build cathedral, concert hall and homes ...
(Mar 27, 2014, PBS NewsHour)
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art hosts architects for Modern Phoenix ...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art hosts architects for Modern Phoenix ...
(Mar 27, 2014, newszap.com)
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