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Ai Weiwei's Unexpected Navajo Art Collaboration
Compared to Ai, Benally is a relatively unknown figure, partly because, despite the fact that he is committed to working in a contemporary art idiom, he is also committed to working on the Navajo Nation. “I've had a lot of opportunity to do things off ...

Arts Council Funding In Greater Manchester
Additionally in this world class cluster, in visual arts our investment in Castlefield Gallery helps support emerging artists and our investment in nationally and internationally recognised Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art helps strengthen the North ...

The shark is dead but the price has a bite
It is London's turn this week to host the contemporary art sales that in New York, in May, returned the world's highest ever auction total of $744m – accrued in a single evening at Christie's. ... Interest is strongest in China, Japan, Russia and the ...

Lehmann Maupin Presents Collection of Seminal Films and Sculptures by ...
Lehmann Maupin Presents Collection of Seminal Films and Sculptures by ...

RUSH HOUR: The stories you need to know today
Thousands of Game of Thrones fans lined up for hours yesterday for an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Worth the wait? Game of Thrones fans line up for exhibition. Photographer: Simon Bullard. Source: News Corp ... Organisers say a record ...

T Museum opens in Hangzhou
With a focus on Chinese contemporary art, the museum is to host a residence for 10 young Chinese curators to understand the museum's artistic values and set up exhibitions. Its inaugural show, entitled “Fusion/Convergence”, is to feature 61 Chinese ...

My road trip with Mara
At gallery after gallery — such as Klein Sun Gallery, the one that loaned Williams the amazing Chinese art from last year's show, and where the stunning Christina Lee showed us new work coming out of China — I was thrilled to see contemporary art in ...

Tracey Emin sad after My Bed sells for HK$29m in London
The work, a rumpled bed surrounded by the intimate debris of empty bottles of vodka, cigarette packets and condoms, attracted controversy when it was shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize, prompting a debate about the state of contemporary art. Among ...

Australian Design on Show at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing
The prestigious Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing has commissioned Australian-based design studio Broached Commissions to curate an exhibition of objects by acclaimed international designers from Melbourne, Tokyo, Beijing, and London ...

Art Basel Announces Hong Kong Show Dates for 2016 and 2017
UBS has a rich history of supporting cultural and artistic endeavours across the world, with a focus on promotion, collection and educational activities in the world of contemporary art. The Art Basel show in Hong Kong is supported by Davidoff and ...

Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, July 3-9, 2014
Smithsonian Folklife Festival This year's event focuses on China and Kenya, with performances, workshops and demonstrations to share cultural traditions such as music, art, stories, language, food, games and crafts. Thursday-Sunday 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m ...

Bewigged Warhol Caps $347 Million Contemporary-Art Sales
This week's evening sales of contemporary art at Phillips, Sotheby's (BID) and Christie's in the U.K. capital produced a total of 202.4 million pounds, a 28 percent jump from the tally at equivalent events last year. New buyers from China and other ...

I look at artists like a commodity balance sheet: art dealer Olyvia Kwok on ...
I look at artists like a commodity balance sheet: art dealer Olyvia Kwok on ...

London Art Auctions See New Names Favored
A scarlet red Fontana—a color usually popular with Chinese buyers—bombed at Christie's, when no collectors would bid to its $4 million low estimate. Christie's specialist Francis Outred blamed the Fontana's "undulating canvas" and "less than perfect ...

Exhibit paints picture of contemporary Chinese art through 3 giants
The Hsiao endowment has helped make possible exhibits like the 10-month-long 3 Giants of Chinese Contemporary Art that opens there next week. "This is an incredible, perhaps once-in-a-lifetime, opportunity," Damian said. "This brings the world of ...

Janis Leonard: An appreciation of the Scottsdale designer
Leonard, the designer, former board member of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and Valley cultural leader, died June 8. She was 55. The two-story ... She made spaces more interesting or beautiful in America, China and Germany. Her accolades ...

Through the rabbit hole to find a new wonderland
But somehow, I never got round to writing about those two months in 1992 when I plunged into my very own rabbit hole to emerge as an Indian Alice in New York's wonderland of contemporary art. Winding through art galleries and museums, I face challenges ...

Madame Butterfly - Colleen Quen spreads her wings as painter
Drawing upon childhood art lessons from her mother, a sculptor, and lessons from Madeline Fu, a master of Chinese brush painting in Marin, with whom Quen has studied since 2008, Quen has created more than 300 works that range from landscapes to ...

Artist Ai Weiwei makes strong 'Case'
Photo by: Unknown. FIGHTING FOR CHANGE: Artist and social critic Ai Weiwei, who was deemed subversive and jailed by Chinese authorities, is the focus of 'Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case.' 1. Friday, July 4, 2014. Print Email Comments ...

Part of Ana Tzarev's 'Love & Peace' campaign stops at ART Santa Fe
Workers moved the 11½-foot fiberglass sculpture from its bed in front of the United Nations and shipped it for the Thursday, July 10 opening of the international contemporary art fair. Now in its 14th year, ART Santa Fe will showcase about 38 gallery ...

Exhibit gives us glass presidents
Moran's use of glass speaks to the "fragility of our political ideals," according to Maiza Hixson, the DCCA's Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art. He "creates a satirical commentary on the American democratic voice as a product both ... On his ...

Birth of a museum
... permanent collection, the Louvre Lens containing an impressive collection of works taken temporarily from the Louvre and the Pompidou Metz being a venue for temporary exhibitions fed from the French national collections of modern and contemporary ...

Visitors to the Our Land, Our Body exhibition in Harbin, northern China ...
Visitors to the Our Land, Our Body exhibition in Harbin, northern China ...

Five winners shortlisted for main prize in the Liverpool John Moores Painting ...
Five winners shortlisted for main prize in the Liverpool John Moores Painting ...

Tehran Bazaar
Withered is perhaps the key word, here, though; for, just as the Persian language was revived, and Iranian art and culture at times lay dormant only to rise and flourish against the odds, the seeds planted by the pioneers of the country's contemporary ...

Collapsing Certainties
A recent work, Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios, edited by Maria Lind and Olav Velthuis, discusses the complex relationship between contemporary art and the commercial market, as ...

Korea's Daego offers unique venues for meetings industry
... ritual called Seokjeon is performed to honor Confucius and famous Confucian scholars of Daegu. The facility also offers educational programs on Chinese characters and traditional Korean etiquette, and it is locally cherished as a backdrop for ...

Audience Calendar
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St., Portland. meca.edu. Through Aug. 3. ..... Chickadee Quilters Quilt Show, demonstrations, vendors, Chinese auction, raffle quilt and hundreds of items on display. $5 donation ...

Exhibits
Displays original oil paintings, stained glass, beeswax encaustic, Chinese brush work and gifts; lessons are available. 525-2731; MariaBranch.com. ..... 400: 400 N. Arizona, Silver City. The gallery shows contemporary art by local and international ...

Lonely Planet guide to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Also an essential part of the vibrant mix are incense-wreathed, colourfully adorned mosques and temples of the country's Malay, Chinese and Indian communities. A reverence for these ancient cultures is balanced with a drive to be plugged into the ...

Art to the Rescue of Jakarta's Kota Tua
But its creators — Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) architect Diana Ang, SHAU Architecture and Urbanism founder Daliana Suryawinata, and Indonesian contemporary art denizen and Dia.lo.gue Artspace gallery co-founder Windi Salomo — intended ...

Chinese artist given pride of place at Chatsworth
The classic vista of Chatsworth will appear very different this summer as one of its best known landmarks is replaced by a work of Chinese contemporary art. The Sea Horse Fountain has graced the South Lawn of the Derbyshire stately home, seat of the ...

10 Things in Tokyo: July Round-Up
Tang Dixin is a leader from the newest generation of young Chinese artists. Reed (2009) is a ... Her research interests cover Asian and Australian contemporary art, young women artists, globalisation and art, and new media. Emily enjoys all of what ...

Xu Bing's Sculpture Displayed at Chatsworth
The contemporary Chinese art display, comprised of various components, has been inspired by the fable Peach Blossom Spring created by Chinese scholar Tao Qian. It highlights the exploration of a delicate society associated with stability, balance, and ...

Gehry redesign of art museum yields more space
The goal was to create more room for a collection that has grown about 20-fold since the museum opened in 1928, said director and CEO Timothy Rub. Officials wanted to expand displays of Asian, American and contemporary art in particular, all while ...

Sample Paintings
The painter is necessarily aware that his or her work functions as a thumbnail image in an endless Tumblr think piece about cultural hegemony, commodity, privilege, the market, the politics of representation, and all the post-Orientalist angst over the ...

Chinese artist exhibits gorgeous 'sculptures' built by bees
One of the purposes of 'Yuansu II' is to “eliminate the subjectivity of the artist” via “the mediation of bees,” Ren explains in the interview. The sculptures can be seen at the T Museum for Contemporary Art in the Chinese city of Hangzhou until early ...

'God father' of HK art honored for Smithsonian exhibit
The "godfather" of Hong Kong contemporary art, Danny Yung, was honored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office after his installation for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage successfully finished its run in Washington ...

`God father' of HK art honored for Smithsonian exhibit
The "godfather" of Hong Kong contemporary art, Danny Yung, was honored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office after his installation for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage successfully finished its run in Washington ...

Chinese Artist Xu Bing To Create Monumental Installation At Chatsworth House
One of the largest and most impressive installations to date by the Chinese artist Xu Bing will feature among the highlights of the ninth annual Beyond Limits monumental sculpture exhibition at Chatsworth. The outstanding work will be unveiled at the ...

Moscow art biennale: Curator on the dreams of young artists
RBTH: What is the difference between co-called “young” art and contemporary art besides the age of the artists? David Elliott: It's a random ... I know that even Chinese students came to Saint-Petersburg to gain an education here. Now some of them are ...

Chinese artists show work in Livingston
The Chinese artists say coming to America is a great opportunity. "Come to America and contemporary art is the dream for every artist," Zengguo said. "Because america is the leaders of contemporary art." "What real american artist looks like and how do ...

'Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works' at the Denver Art Museum
But I keep hearing the term ''bridge'' between traditional academic work and contemporary art as applied to this show. Christoph Heinrich, the director of the Denver Art Museum, has a background as curator of modern and contemporary in Germany, yet he ...

Culture Report: A Symphonic Protest
Highlights include James Drake's ambitious illustrative exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla, Wonka Gallery's exploration into paranoia, mind control and other matters of the conspiracy-driven mind, and lewd wire art by ...

A Classic Exploration into Visual Art And Culture
Beloved by both classical and contemporary audiences across both New Zealand and around the world, NZTrio return after touring Cambodia and China, with a series of concerts in New Zealand – including their ambitious Art3 series, playing Tauranga Art ...

Letting art prosper
In 2012, Zhang helped organize the The 1st China-Xinjiang Contemporary Art Biennale in Urumqi to give people here a general outline of the current state of Chinese contemporary art. This autonomous-region-level exhibition gathered top Chinese ...

Art Basel in Hong Kong Hires Alexie Glass-Kantor as Encounters Curator
... Malaysia, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Europe, and the United States. Glass-Kantor also served as the Asialink curator-in-residence at Ssamzie Space, Seoul, in 2005; and is currently deputy chair of the Contemporary Art Organizations of Australia ...

St Kilda gallery rocked by police raid gets cash boost from Port Phillip Council
Port Phillip Council voted in favour of the two-year $576,000 grant for the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art at its June 24 meeting. The gallery's new chairwoman, Sarah Brennan, said the board had made key changes. “In response to events of the last ...

Hundreds of homes to be developed at heart of NOMA
It is hoped work with start next summer, with the first properties ready to be lived in in 2017. Public exhibitions for the new development will take place on July 16 and 23, between 3:30-8pm, at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, on Thomas ...

Hundreds of homes to be developed at heart of NOMA
It is hoped work with start next summer, with the first properties ready to be lived in in 2017. Public exhibitions for the new development will take place on July 16 and 23, between 3:30-8pm, at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, on Thomas ...



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