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Contemporary Chinese Art News 06/2014 (Page 2)

Weekly Shuffle: Many Changes at the Met, Morgan, and More

Chinese contemporary art expert Melissa Chiu director of the Asia Society, has accepted the same post at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. As reported by artnet News, former director Richard Koshalek left the museum a year ... (Jun 17, 2014, artnet News)

14 Incredible Works That Have Redefined Art in the 21st Century

For a crash course in the contemporary art scene, we gathered one work for every year between 2000-2014. Looking .... In 2011, the Chinese government imprisoned Chinese artist and outspoken dissident Weiwei on bogus claims for 81 days. He was very ... (Jun 17, 2014, PolicyMic)

Warhol rocks Asia: The pop art king's 15 minutes of fame are eternal

When it comes to the global market, especially Asia, he is revered both for his talent and his celebrity status. "When Warhol was really becoming popular in Japan, consumer culture was just exploding there, like what China is today," said Eric Shiner ... (Jun 18, 2014, The Denver Channel)

Warhol Sells for $32 Million at Art Basel's Rich Bull Run

“He came a minute too late,” said David Zwirner, the gallery's owner who sold the work within the first hour of the preview of the world's largest modern- and contemporary-art fair in the Swiss city. Zwirner declined to disclose the price, saying only ... (Jun 18, 2014, Bloomberg)

Not a Myth: Athens is Booming with Culture Again

But these days, cutting-edge galleries like Breeder and upscale restaurants like the fish-focused Michelin-starred Varoulko share space with Chinese shops and crumbling historical residences. The next ReMap is in 2015, which is around the time that the ... (Jun 18, 2014, Yahoo Travel)

Weekly Shuffle: Many Changes at the Met and Morgan

Andy Warhol sells for $32m at Art Basel

'Gorgeous': Asian, S.F. Modern museums collaborate

"It's almost not about beauty for me at all," Allison Harding, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum says. (Harding co-curated for the Asian with Forrest McGill, Wattis senior curator of South and Southeast Asian art.) "It's ... (Jun 18, 2014, SFGate)

Dolphin Balloon Sells for $5 Million in Art Basel Spree

The most expensive artwork sold so far at the world's largest modern- and contemporary-art fair is an Andy Warhol self-portrait for $32 million, bought in the first 15 minutes. “It's a new world we are in,” said Bruno Brunnet, a partner at Berlin-based ... (Jun 19, 2014, Bloomberg)

The Slumdog Millionaire Architect

His senior project was displayed at Mumbai's leading contemporary art museum, and he won a postgraduate scholarship to Columbia University, where he earned a master's in 1977. Contractor came to find Manhattan seductive, but unlike many ..... In ... (Jun 19, 2014, New York Times)

Chinese artist makes waves, and ice, to highlight environmental pollution

And the Chinese government doesn't considers pollution to be a sensitive topic. If anything it is our bodies that are sensitive!" In this respect, Yin and her husband –a power couple in the contemporary art world if ever there was one – share a similar ... (Jun 19, 2014, The Guardian (blog))

At Home With The World's Biggest Ai Weiwei Collector: 'He Is Still Vastly ...

At Home With The World's Biggest Ai Weiwei Collector: 'He Is Still Vastly ... (Jun 19, 2014, Forbes)

Speech by CS at opening ceremony of "Paris.Chinese Painting: Legacy of the ...

Speech by CS at opening ceremony of "Paris.Chinese Painting: Legacy of the ... (Jun 19, 2014, 7thSpace Interactive (press release))

Speech by CS at opening ceremony of "Paris•Chinese Painting: Legacy of the ...

Speech by CS at opening ceremony of "Paris•Chinese Painting: Legacy of the ... (Jun 19, 2014, 7thSpace Interactive (press release))

Will the Clash of Identities Consume Us?

For the 50th anniversary of the establishment of French-Chinese diplomatic ties, there has been a major exhibition of Chinese contemporary art in Paris. In this exhibit, I am very impressed to see the important presence of cultural and ethnic ... (Jun 19, 2014, Huffington Post)

At Art Basel, Works With a Museum Presence

BASEL, Switzerland — In an old market hall adjacent to the cavernous center where Art Basel, the gold standard of contemporary art fairs, is taking place, there is a happening unlike anything ever staged here. Called “14 Rooms,” it ... Prominently ... (Jun 19, 2014, New York Times)

Revolutionary Sèvres discovery presented at Art Antiques London. Who cares?

As Art Basel was hosting the talk “Art Practices beyond the Contextual Narrative”, in Hyde Park, a packed tent at Art Antiques London was listening to “The taste of the royal family for decorative piecs [of porcelain] in the Chinese style from Sèvres ... (Jun 19, 2014, Art Newspaper)

Young at heart, and they love art

A young generation of Chinese collectors with eclectic tastes is assuming a growing role in the nation's art auction market, and they're set to lift the fortunes of their contemporaries who paint and sculpt, said industry officials. "Young buyers and ... (Jun 20, 2014, ecns)

The latest trends in creative floor art

Hong Kong architect Johnny Li, who co-founded YILINE by LI&Co design studio and opened a space at Central's PMQ this year, says it was a poem by 8th-century Chinese poet Li Bai that inspired him to custom design the Lotus rug (HK$100,000; 350cm x 350cm ... (Jun 20, 2014, South China Morning Post)

Chinese artists reach out to Filipino students through art

Two Chinese artists demonstrated the art of ink painting to Filipino students today, in an exhibit aimed at bringing contemporary Chinese art to the Philippine audience. About 20 students participated in the workshop by Chinese painters Chen Lyusheng ... (Jun 20, 2014, CBC.ca)

Ex-graffiti artist transforms Scottsdale museum walls

Art typically adorns museum walls, but the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Scottsdale Public Art collaborated to bring internationally known artist James Marshall to Arizona to transform the walls themselves into art. Marshall, known as Dalek ... (Jun 20, 2014, azcentral.com)

Ai Weiwei on How Self-Censorship is Like Killing Chickens

In response to the removal this month of his name from an exhibition at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei rebounded by writing an essay titled “On Self-Censorship” for the Huffington Post, in ... (Jun 20, 2014, artnet News)

Kemper's 'Conversations' show offers a fresh take on familiar art

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's anniversary exhibition, “Conversations — Marking 20 Years,” offers a fresh and rewarding take on the museum's evolving permanent collection. Organized by Kemper executive director Barbara O'Brien and ... Next to ... (Jun 20, 2014, Kansas City Star)

Ai Weiwei, art without compromise

[The show was dedicated to the late Hans van Dijk, a Dutch-born curator in Beijing, who was one of the earliest supporters of Chinese contemporary art.] We made the first gallery together, the first promotion for artists in 1990s. A friend showed me ... (Jun 21, 2014, Washington Post)

Audience Calendar

Icon Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St., Brunswick. 725-8157. Through Saturday. Earth-Art-Maine: In the .... Yard sale to benefit OceanView's Resident Assistance Fund. Jewelry, china, antiques, furniture, art, frames, books, toys, sports equipment, kitchen ... (Jun 22, 2014, Press Herald)

Dark Mofo solstice weekend wrap-up

Here, blocks of frozen, polluted water from the Derwent were stacked next to Chinese mops with which to scrub them clean, an iteration of a project that began in Chengdu in 1995 . Advertisement ... But our favourite visual arts offering at MOFO this ... (Jun 22, 2014, Brisbane Times)

Collectors paint the town red

Galleries specialising in contemporary art occupied the second floor of the convention centre. Business was booming with lower prices being asked. An abstract painting by Jeff Elrod sold for $95,000 at the Simon Lee ... The ranks of collectors from ... (Jun 22, 2014, BDlive)

Top art investment still beats other asset classes

Dealers report strong sales, with broad international attendance, including first-time visitors from China, India and the Middle East. Is there a difference between the fairs? Yes and No. Yes, in that the Basel fair is very much European- American ... (Jun 22, 2014, Hong Kong Standard)

Ai Weiwei Alcatraz exhibition a major move for SF dealer

She stops to recall the time she saw an exhibition of 100 million ceramic sunflower seeds on the floor of a London gallery by the Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei and is suddenly reminded why it has been worth six trips to China, a ... (Jun 23, 2014, SFGate)

Vatican partners with Islamic museum for unique exhibition

Many of the objects embody the dialogue between the Muslim and Western worlds. There's a dime-sized Koran produced in a print shop in Glasgow, and yellow mugs from Western China that bear an Arabic inscription surrounded by lotus flowers, which are a ... (Jun 23, 2014, Deutsche Welle)

Contemporary abstracts

PIFO New Art Gallery has focused on and promoted Abstract Chinese art via an annual exhibition since 2008. The seventh edition now underway has an academic orientation as it looks at the roots of artists, showing how these artists find inspiration from ... (Jun 23, 2014, ecns)

Summer Stage Concerts -- July 7 Through July 13

... Schneller on Sonic Arboretum, an installation that debuted at New York's Guggenheim Museum and exhibited at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. He's recently been performing with Tift Merritt, developing a children's TV show, and writing for his ... (Jun 23, 2014, Black Star News)

Purdue Galleries presents 'Papercuts' in three galleries

Born in Australia, France, the Czech Republic, Canada, and the United States, the artists (Jaq Belcher, Béatrice Coron, Michelle Forsyth, Reni Gower, Lenka Konopasek, Lauren Scanlon, and Daniella Woolf) bring a broad range of international perspectives ... (Jun 23, 2014, Purdue Newsroom)

$4 Billion Basel Art Fair: Where Rich Go in Search of Investments

Levin, standing outside the convention center in Basel, Switzerland, was referring to the brisk sales inside at Art Basel, the world's largest modern-and contemporary-art fair. A self-portrait by Andy Warhol sold for $32 million within 15 minutes of ... (Jun 23, 2014, Insurance Journal)

Le Meridien Tampa Debuts in Century-Old Courthouse in the Heart of Downtown

Hotel Guests are provided with complimentary passes to explore the impressive collection of contemporary art as well as Greek and Roman antiques at The Tampa Museum of Art, Le Méridien Tampa's official UNLOCK Art partner. About Le ... Le Méridien ... (Jun 23, 2014, The Herald | HeraldOnline.com (press release))

Wang Gongxin video art plunges the world into quivering chaos

The jittering work has all the ingredients of serious contemporary art: it's both deconstructive and monumental and reconciles spasmic quaking with ceremony. The imagery is in vibratory meltdown but it pounds at your senses with royal clout: it's video ... (Jun 24, 2014, Brisbane Times)

Inhotim, Brazil's giant open-air art gallery

Inhotim has been called an art zoo, a cultural Disneyland, and, tenuously, a Jurassic Park for contemporary art. It's also a ... Paz, having sold his mining company to a Chinese investor in 2010 for $1.2bn, should have the funds to prop it up for a ... (Jun 24, 2014, The Guardian)

Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize Shortlist Announced

The 21st nominee is Zhanna Kadyrova, winner of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, a contemporary art prize given to Ukranian artists up to 35 years old. The 20 nominees were chosen from an application pool of 5,500 artists from 148 countries. The ... (Jun 24, 2014, artnet News)

Let's not forget the other National Artists

... who is best known for creating Liwayway Magazine's popular characters Pedro Penduko and Hagibis -- had already been included in the Metropolitan Museum of Manila's semipermanent exhibit on contemporary art entitled The Philippine Contemporary ... (Jun 24, 2014, BusinessWorld Online Edition)

ART: Dalí, Tapiès and Puig at the Military Club

Titled “Colors of Spain”, it is dedicated to contemporary art and features different types of paintings. “We have works from some well-known artists, who ... We exhibited in Japan and some parts in China. We would like to continue and make more ... (Jun 25, 2014, Macau Daily Times)

Melissa Chiu with work from an exhibition of Chinese photography at the Asia ...

Melissa Chiu with work from an exhibition of Chinese photography at the Asia ... (Jun 25, 2014, The Australian)

Finding the Fine Arts Dialogue in Hawai'i

The focus is contemporary art of all mediums. This is our axis. This program can offer an unprecedented stellar ... Next door, China and Russia are the most aggressive art markets in the world. Opportunity is everywhere. We need a Hawai'i footprint. So ... (Jun 25, 2014, Huffington Post)

How Cambodia's temples fell to looters

New research has uncovered the criminal system that enabled a ring of army officials to smuggle tens of thousands of antiquities out of Cambodia during the country's years of unrest between 1970 and 1998. (Photo: Tess Davis). These days, many of ... (Jun 25, 2014, Deutsche Welle)

What's Next for Santiago Calatrava's Troubled Chicago Spire?

Yet a slew of projects currently under construction—from the staggeringly tall (at nearly 3,300 feet) Kingdom Tower in Jeddah to a cluster of mixed-use buildings in China—would knock it back down toward double-digit status within just a few years ... (Jun 25, 2014, Curbed Chicago)

Provocative beauty Fine Arts

... feminism, or the male gaze, the show is less focused on "neatly constructed perceptions of beauty [than] what happens when beauty is pushed to extremes and becomes provocative," explains the Asian's assistant curator of contemporary art Allison ... (Jun 26, 2014, Bay Area Reporter)

Hangzhou gets its first private museum

The eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou got its first private contemporary art museum earlier this month with the opening of the T Museum. Called the Tianrenhe Museum in Mandarin after its art investment company owner, which also operates the for-profit, ... (Jun 26, 2014, Art Newspaper)

First Private Museum Opens in Hangzhou

Part of the architecture includes a 200-meter wall, which has earned the museum a superlative (if inaccurate) epithet: “China's longest museum.” “Hangzhou is rich in contemporary art, but this is its first private art museum,” Shen Qibin, the museum's ... (Jun 26, 2014, artnet News)

First Private Museum Opens in Hangzhou

In conversation

The exhibition represents a phenomenon in which both established and rising artists committed to land-scape paintings are likely to help contemporary Chinese art gain greater independence from imitating foreign art. Participating artists include Liu ... (Jun 26, 2014, ecns)

Explore Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibit at the Carter Center

This exhibit will feature more than 30 paintings by renowned Chinese artists as well as a calligraphy demonstration by Xu Li, one of the leading artists in contemporary China. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and members of the Chinese Artists ... (Jun 26, 2014, GlobalAtlanta)

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