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Contemporary Chinese Art News 04/2014 (Page 3)



Warhol's Riot to Calder's Fish Fuel $500 Million Auction
Global annual sales of postwar and contemporary art increased by 11 percent in 2013, with a highest-ever auction tally of 4.9 billion euros ($6.8 billion), according to a report published last month by the European Fine Art Foundation. New York ...

The Enlightenment Movement of Contemporary Chinese Art
The Scar period is the return to realism. Zhou Chunya, Luo Zhongli and Wang Yidong, they turned their focus form worshipping national symbols to focusing on ordinary people and society. It's not only a personal milestone in Zhou Chunya, Luo Zhongli and ...

Calgary designer favours polished metal set against warm wood
Favourite paint colour: Lately, my favourite paint colour is Pratt & Lambert's China White, probably because I am in the mood for some clarity and sharpness. White rooms are particularly good for those who want fewer, more curated items in a room. This ...

CalArts Alumni and Faculty Donate More Than 30 Works of Art for CalArts ...
CalArts Alumni and Faculty Donate More Than 30 Works of Art for CalArts ...

This week in the museums
Changing Tides: Contemporary Art Of Newfoundland And Labrador, to Jun 1. $15, stu/srs $12. ... University of Toronto Art Centre Through The Body: Lens-Based Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Artists; Archiving Public Sex, Apr 29-Jun 28. 15 King's ...

Is affordable art the next big consumer trend in China?
More than 10 public and private contemporary art museums are already open in Shanghai; other big cities like Beijing are home to many more. On a weekday visit to the Monet exhibition in early April, China Economic Review felt a palpable appreciation of ...

The lure of the deep north
“Falling Back to Earth”, by Cai Guo-Qiang, a New York-based Chinese artist, is one of the most daring exhibitions ever staged in Australia. It is also the latest weapon ... But his plans for a contemporary art exhibition that year foundered. He had ...

MOCA to open Chinese ink show
MOCA, in downtown Manhattan, will open an exhibit of contemporary Chinese ink paintings this week, and the guest curator for the installations said the display may cause visitors to rethink contemporary Chinese art. Michelle Y Loh, the guest curator ...

Stocks to Watch: Apple, Facebook, Zynga
Chip maker Qualcomm Inc. reported Wednesday that second-quarter profit grew 5%. But its projections about the current quarter were less rosy than some analysts had expected amid signs that royalty payments associated with sales in China may be delayed ...

Don't miss Folklife stars Brandan Odums and 'tit Rex at New Orleans Jazz Fest
3, the citywide contemporary art extravaganza in fall 2014, have shown interest in adding a tour of the suite of murals to their big show, but he's not sure if they've made any progress. Let's hope they have the clout to work something out. To import ...

Riches of a New Louvre Outpost
The artworks brought to Paris include a 2,800-year-old Achaemenid gold bracelet with two roaring lion heads, a nacre box offered by a Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty to his Japanese counterpart more than a millennium ago, and a 1616 canvas by ...

Art Basel Hong Kong Enchants Again
... one of the first US galleries to promote Chinese contemporary artists. In just a few short years, Hong Kong has been transformed from a city that many considered a cultural desert to the fourth-largest global market for contemporary art, according ...

Sleep with Warhol or dine with Hirst: Luxury hotels wooing guests with ...
Sleep with Warhol or dine with Hirst: Luxury hotels wooing guests with ...

Buy art, get richer
Last year, worldwide auction sales of postwar and contemporary art climbed to a historic peak of 4.9 billion euros, or $6.8 billion, a massive increase over the €1.42 billion in auction sales in 2009, according to the 2014 Art Market Report published ...

Who will support Greater Boston's museums, symphonies?
WHEN CHINESE CLASSICAL PIANIST Yuja Wang took the stage in a short, flaming-red dress and impossibly high black heels, it was obvious that this was no ordinary Thursday night at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As she performed Prokofiev's Piano Concerto ...

The week ahead ( April 27 - May 3)
Sorabh Pant settles bouts between: India and China, India and the U.S., Nehru and Jinnah, Modi and. Bush, Kejriwal and Assange, Apache Indian and Michael ... Contemporary Art from New Zealand. This is the first leg of a reciprocal project in ...

Christie's Hong Kong to hold 2014 Hong Kong Spring Auctions from May 24 to 28
Christie's will present Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art in three auctions featuring over 600 lots. This May, we extend further the core values of last season's theme ""The Era of Asia, The Art of Asia"". By combining exceptional works of art from ...

Art openings, classes, events in and around Asheville
Bring safety goggles, apron, rubber gloves, 10-12 china plates, and a box to carry your piece home. Grouting will be demonstrated. $75. 693-4545 or www.artmobstudios.com. POTTERY CLASS: May 3, .... DISCUSSION BOUND “The $12 Million Stuffed Shark”: May ...

Inside the mad world of modern art
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's "Tree #11" (left) and Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog" are among the highest priced works of art ever sold. Photo: Stockamp Tsai ... as having cutting-edge taste.” In his new book, “The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories ...

Does a house in Brixton hold the key to Vincent van Gogh?
The house was bought unseen at auction for £575,000 by James Wang, a Chinese violinist, businessman and art enthusiast, who remarked with likable spirit: "I can't afford a Van Gogh painting but I can afford his house." Saskia Olde Wolbers used to think ...

Big is beautiful for artist Bharti Kher
Like Kher, Gupta has carved an impressive reputation on the contemporary art scene, turning icons of Indian everyday life such as kitchen utensils into artworks, with many of his installations on as grand a scale as his wife's. It's no wonder the local ...

Robert Amos: Show captures rebirth of Chinese art
Those priceless Chinese antiques that came to the West during the political upheavals of the 20th century are now being bought back by the new Chinese capitalists. In the always-unpredictable word of contemporary art, the Chinese are everybody's ...

Hell gets new neighbour with contemporary art venue
Housed in a building within Haw Par Villa, the storied kitschy park filled with sculptures and dioramas built by the late Tiger Balm tycoons Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, weeks-old contemporary art venue Latent Spaces is a stone's throw away from the ...

Christie's Makes Push Into Online Sales
Mr. Murphy spoke with The Wall Street Journal's Jason Chow and Wei Gu in Hong Kong about why he thinks the art industry's greatest opportunity lies online, the emerging markets in Asia and why he doesn't think there is a bubble in contemporary art ...

Clearly, works of glass art on exhibit
“Cradle” is one of three Lipman works painstakingly installed in the museum's Astor Galleries, not the usual location for contemporary art. A false wall has been built in one room for Lipman's “Sideboard with Blue China,” which is 25 feet long and more ...

Clearly, works of art on exhibit
“Cradle” is one of three Lipman works painstakingly installed in the museum's Astor Galleries, not the usual location for contemporary art. A false wall has been built in one room for Lipman's “Sideboard with Blue China,” which is 25 feet long and more ...

Rethinking ink
Michelle Y. Loh, guest curator of the show, said the exhibit spurs interest in contemporary Chinese art by promoting a dialogue about the "influence of contemporary art practices on the Chinese ink tradition”. "The three artists in our exhibition are ...

Warhol, Picasso Lead $20 Million Christies Shanghai Sale
Works by Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso led Christie's Asian and Western 20th century and contemporary art sale that raised 125 million yuan ($20 million) in Shanghai. The 61-lot sale on ... Of the top 10 lots, five were Chinese and five Western. The ...

Needham Artist Featured in Solo Art Exhibition in Provincetown
The Tao Water Gallery is a contemporary Chinese art gallery located at 352 Commercial St. in Provincetown and 1989 Main St., West Barnstable. “We are very excited to have found such a rare gem as Karen's work, and looking forward to hosting the ...

Warhol, Picasso Lead $20 Million Christie's Shanghai Sale
Works by Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso led Christie's Asian and Western 20th century and contemporary art sale that raised 125 million yuan ($20 million) in Shanghai. The 61-lot sale on ... Of the top 10 lots, five were Chinese and five Western. The ...

Rethinking ink in Chinese modern art
Michelle Y. Loh, guest curator of the show, said the exhibit spurs interest in contemporary Chinese art by promoting a dialogue about the "influence of contemporary art practices on the Chinese ink tradition". "The three artists in our exhibition are ...

Christie's Asian and Western 20th Century and Contemporary Art Sale Makes ...
Christie's Asian and Western 20th Century and Contemporary Art Sale Makes ...

Art Sales: Monet or Popeye, yours for $25m
There are a number of distractions to the main business in hand as New York gears up for the major spring sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art with public viewings this week. First, there are some changes in personnel at the top end of ...

Robert Amos: Show captures rebirth of Chinese art
Shanghai Night Scene by Wu Guanzhong is among the works of contemporary Chinese art currently on display at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Barry Till, curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria since 1980, is coming up to ...

The top 5 events to check out at Contact 2014
I was a bit disappointed to hear that he had taken China as his latest project (too Burtynsky-like for my tastes), but I'm pleased to say that he's brought a refreshingly human-focus to this series, one which goes beyond the scope of monolithic ...

Ai Weiwei Erased From Show in Shanghai
The name and works of Ai Weiwei have been removed from a show in Shanghai about the history of Chinese contemporary art because of pressure from government cultural officials, according to Mr. Ai and Uli Sigg, a Swiss art collector who helped organize ...

Honorary Degree Recipients Bring Global Reach
Trained in traditional Chinese art forms as well as communist “socialist realism,” Gongxin was challenged by exposure to western, “new media” art as a student in SUNY Cortland's Art and Art History Department. He explored new mediums of ... Video ...

British sculpture show examines influence of Henry Moore on contemporary artists
The exhibition, "Body and Void: Echoes of Henry Moore in Contemporary Art" fills the indoor exhibition space and the grounds at the Henry Moore Foundation in the village of Perry Green in Hertfordshire of England. Moore's style is instantly ...

Qatar splurges on modern art despite conservatism
Last year London's Art Review magazine called her the most influential personality in the field of contemporary art, saying she spends about a billion dollars on artwork every year. The QMA declined to confirm the figure, just as it has not disclosed ...

John Moores Painting Prize China winners announced
The University creates opportunities for the winners to communicate, and exchange ideas, with first-rate artists and art institutions, building a bridge of international exchange for Chinese contemporary art to enter the world." For more information ...

Ai Weiwei's Name Has Been Removed From an Exhibition About the History of ...
Ai Weiwei's Name Has Been Removed From an Exhibition About the History of ...



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