Art Project uses Internet to introduce art to the world
As one of China's leading private museums, TAM is well-known for its promotion of contemporary Chinese art. "Besides allowing more visitors to get closer to the museum and these artworks, the Art Project has a special 'compare' function, which visitors ...
(Sep 11, 2014, ecns)
Edmund Capon says Australian art is unpopular overseas
The former Art Gallery of NSW director will tell a conference in China that Australian art has had a "rough journey around the world" and failed to have the impact of Australian literature, music and films. "There's no point in pretending otherwise ...
(Sep 11, 2014, Sydney Morning Herald)
East meets West
To understand the impact of Western culture on Chinese contemporary art, visit the exhibition Paris.Chinese Painting at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, which runs until September 21. Presented by Le French May and the Leisure and Cultural Services ...
(Sep 11, 2014, Hong Kong Standard)
Events in Westchester for Sept. 14-20, 2014
Chinese Theater Works. Sept. 20, 1 to 3 p.m. $20 and $25 for a family of four. $5 for each additional person. Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden, 28 Deveau Road. hammondmuseum.org; 914-669-5033. PEEKSKILL 12 Grapes Music and Wine ...
(Sep 11, 2014, New York Times)
Art Basel and Kickstarter Team Up to Crowd-Fund for Non-Profits
The initial round of projects are from Australia's 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (the Chinese art collective Yangjiang Group is looking to host a multimedia art event in Sydney's Chinatown), London's Gasworks (which hopes to add studios for its ...
(Sep 12, 2014, artnet News)
Is Edmund Capon right about Australian art or does he have a dodgy memory?
And this brings us to the popularity of contemporary Chinese art, which is often unrecognisable from its international counterparts. For this very reason it is surprising that those galleries in Australia specialising in it, bother to call it Chinese ...
(Sep 12, 2014, Daily Review)
SH Contemporary Is Dead on Arrival
Earlier this week it was unclear whether the 2014 BolognaFiere SH Contemporary art fair would take place. After last night's ... “There was some issue with customs, which happens very, very often in China,” fair director Guido Mologni said. “Of course ...
(Sep 12, 2014, artnet News)
Zodiac Animal Heads Arrive at Adler Planetarium
A monumental sculpture featuring the animal heads of the traditional Chinese zodiac will be unveiled on September 17 outside the Adler Planetarium. “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze” is by Ai Weiwei, a leading figure in the contemporary art world ...
(Sep 12, 2014, Chicagomag.com)
Los Angeles art market hots up
The Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing unveils on Saturday The Los Angeles Project, a major new show of seven artists ranging from Sterling Ruby to Kaari Upson. Curated by UCCA director Philip Tinari and its chief curator Paula Tsai ...
(Sep 13, 2014, Financial Times)
Shanghai Fair Embraces Regional Artists of Asia
... Contemporary art fair opened to VIP visitors on Thursday, September 11, with over 50 galleries exhibiting at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. This year's SH has a strong regional emphasis, with 50 percent of galleries coming from China, a quarter ...
(Sep 13, 2014, artnet News)
New exhibitions at Contemporary Art Museum take on social, political issues
Particularly interesting is a loop of excerpts from the show, illustrating how sets and props were used to reference topics from gay rights (a “Brave New Family” sign depicts two men) to the Tiananmen Square protest (takeout bags featuring the Chinese ...
(Sep 13, 2014, Suburban Journals)
La Biennale Des Antiquaires Gala Dinner: High End Antiques, Contemporary Art ...
La Biennale Des Antiquaires Gala Dinner: High End Antiques, Contemporary Art ...
(Sep 14, 2014, Forbes)
Worcester artist's work re-introduced in WAM exhibit
Worcester artist's work re-introduced in WAM exhibit. Picture. Worcester artist Howard B. Johnson, Jr. stands next to his piece "One Day Cannibals Raided the Cookie Jar" in the Worcester Art Museum's Contemporary Art Gallery. A detail of the mixed ...
(Sep 14, 2014, Worcester Telegram)
Weekend: Places to go and things to do
SICHUAN OPERA FROM CHINA: Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Sette La Verghetta Center for the Performing Arts, Marywood University. UMPHREY'S MCGEE: Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Wilkes-Barre, $29.50. Visit www.kirbycenter.org ...
(Sep 14, 2014, Scranton Times-Tribune)
Visual art: Institutions focus on individual artists
Andy Warhol will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Larry Sultan will be at the L.A. County Museum of Art; sculptor Elizabeth Turk and environmental artist Lita Albuquerque will be at Laguna Art Museum; and Cuban artist Esterio Segura ...
(Sep 15, 2014, OCRegister)
Los Angeles, in Art Form, Comes to Beijing
A new show at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing's 798 art district brings an eclectic mix of Los Angeles art to the Chinese capital. “The LA Project” features seven artists' work sprawled over the center's cavernous rooms. Each artist ...
(Sep 15, 2014, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Alcatraz Will Become an Art Gallery: Ai Weiwei Exhibit
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been a vocal critic of his government, particularly the limits placed on free speech and expression. In 2011, the Chinese authorities detained him for 81 days on charges of tax evasion, and he hasn't been ...
(Sep 15, 2014, SF Weekly)
Jie (Boundaries): Contemporary Art from Taiwan
Sun: I've seen a lot of Chinese contemporary art from the mainland and it seems that many artists have been working in New Genres and digital media. There's a lot of video-based work in this exhibition. Could you speak to maybe why that is? A.P.: I ...
(Sep 15, 2014, Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun (blog))
Christies to auction art by Nagpur artist Vasudeo Gaitonde starting at $300000
Deepanjana Klein, head of South Asian modern and contemporary art at Christie's, called Gaitonde's work "poetry on canvas." "There is only a finite body of great work and collectors know that. When they see something ... "Chinese art has taken a lot of ...
(Sep 16, 2014, Firstpost)
Indian artist Gaitonde's painting to be auctioned in NY
Deepanjana Klein, head of South Asian modern and contemporary art at Christie's, called Gaitonde's work "poetry on canvas." "There is only a finite body of great work and collectors know that. When they see something great they will come and get it ...
(Sep 16, 2014, Emirates 24/7)
Revamped museum will shift focus to local works
Tam says the museum is receiving more government funding to buy art, including a HK$50 million allowance last year, which it is using to buy the winning entries in the annual Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award. The closure ... "It is particularly hard to ...
(Sep 16, 2014, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Indian masterpieces up for sale in New York
Deepanjana Klein, head of South Asian modern and contemporary art at Christie's, called Gaitonde's work "poetry on canvas." "There is only a finite body of great work and collectors know that. When they see something ... "Chinese art has taken a lot of ...
(Sep 16, 2014, IBNLive)
Weekly Shuffle: Leaders Leave the Brooklyn Museum and Phillips Collection
... specialist in Asian twentieth-century and contemporary art is Laure Raibault, most recently of Bonhams, Hong Kong, according to a press release. Sotheby's Hong Kong has hired Katherine Don, an art advisor specializing in contemporary Chinese art ...
(Sep 16, 2014, artnet News)
Dazzling Prices at Auction Kick Off Asia Week in New York
Five New York auction houses are putting material valued at over $100 million – think Song dynasty ceramics, T'ang horses, Chinese contemporary art, ancient scrolls, golden Buddhas — on the block in sales from today through this weekend. “More Asians ...
(Sep 16, 2014, New York Observer)
Sui Jianguo: Chinese sculpture about control and its absence
Those looking to contemporary Chinese art for insights into the social and political conditions of being Chinese will find a bit of what they're after in Sui Jianguo's first U.S. gallery show, at L.A. Louver. There's the disembodied, disempowered ...
(Sep 16, 2014, Los Angeles Times)
Chinese Art Market Rebounds to $8.5 Billion in 2013
In China, on the other hand, auction sales have been the main engine of growth, and account for close to 70% of the market. The remaining 30% of sales are made by galleries (who deal primarily in Contemporary Art), private dealers, and sales directly ...
(Sep 17, 2014, artnet News)
EXCERPT: Global Chinese Art Auction Market Report 2013
In China, on the other hand, auction sales have been the main engine of growth, and account for close to 70% of the market. The remaining 30% of sales are made by galleries (who deal primarily in Contemporary Art), private dealers, and sales directly ...
(Sep 17, 2014, artnet News)
Spencer Museum of Art pauses to showcase diverse collection
In Gallery 316, paintings, photographs and objects, from contemporary Chinese art to local printmaking and beyond, evoke some form of surreal landscape. “Many of these works offer views into spaces that are imagined, invented or abstract,” said curator ...
(Sep 17, 2014, Lawrence Journal World)
Home is where the art is
The private investor with a deep interest in contemporary art began collecting Chinese works in the late 1970s. Then an executive with the Schindler Elevator Company, he was tasked to start a joint venture with the Chinese state. He was later ...
(Sep 18, 2014, AsiaOne)
New curator Wassan al-Khudhairi bringing Art Papers Live event to Birmingham ... - The Birmingham News
New curator Wassan al-Khudhairi bringing Art Papers Live event to Birmingham ...
(Sep 18, 2014, al.com)
Global Chinese Art Auction Market Report 2013 published by artnet and CAA
Despite growth, 20th century and Contemporary Chinese Art made up just 6.6% of the domestic market value and 3.2% volume; overseas, this sector performed better, constituting 23.6% market value share and 6.9% market share by volume. There were a ...
(Sep 18, 2014, AMA)
Cranbrook Academy of Art presents public lecture series
29, Pan Gongkai, Professor and President of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, “Ink Painting as a Sample of Chinese Contemporary Art”. • 6 p.m. Oct. 2, Jacob Gaboury, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Visual Culture at Stony Brook ...
(Sep 18, 2014, The Daily Tribune)
Beijing gets a taste of LA's art world in 'The Los Angeles Project'
13 and runs through mid-November in Beijing's 798 Arts District, is billed as the first extensive presentation of L.A. artists in China. Los Angeles is “kind of at the center of a bunch of different trends,” said Ullens Center Director Philip Tinari ...
(Sep 18, 2014, Los Angeles Times)
At Art Basel week in Miami, art takes on a starring role
They'll stroll through the Rubell Collection in Wynwood for a show of contemporary Chinese art; through the Wolfsonian-FIU on South Beach for Rebirth of Rome, a show of design objects, art and artifacts from Italy; through the Museum of Modern Art in ...
(Sep 18, 2014, MiamiHerald.com)
Mayor De Blasio announces free memberships to NYC museums, zoos; 5 Staten ... - Staten Island Advance
Mayor De Blasio announces free memberships to NYC museums, zoos; 5 Staten ...
(Sep 18, 2014, SILive.com)
Ming Dynasty Treasures, Modern Families and More
Chinese merchants and diplomats traveled to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, even getting as far as Mecca and the Islamic world, and Chinese artists and craftsmen during this time made some of the most beautiful objects in all history. At ...
(Sep 18, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
Beijing center hosts art exhibition inspired by Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Project, featuring the artwork of seven artists from the California city, is on display at an exhibit at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. The artists' work was either created for the show or brought from a ...
(Sep 19, 2014, Chinadaily USA)
10 Things You Need to Know About Investing in Art
The Chinese market may have dropped 30 percent in 2012, but for those who take a slightly longer view, there continues to be much to win. The Chinese upper-middle class is expected to hit 55 percent for all urban populations by 2022, something which ...
(Sep 19, 2014, artnet News)
Christie's to Sell Pricey Preowned Handbags in Hong Kong
Christie's is also hoping that the bags can attract new buyers in Hong Kong, where sales have been soaring, spurred by mainland Chinese demand for everything from Qing-dynasty vases to bottles of top Burgundy wines. The city is now its third-largest ...
(Sep 19, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
ABUNDANT ART! Area galleries full of new material
Works included in the exhibit “break away from traditional forms of contemporary Chinese art and represent a generation of younger Chinese artists engaging in personal and conceptual projects, generated in a global environment,” according to a ...
(Sep 19, 2014, Mankato Free Press)
Rough rider: From biker to international artist, Ted Herlinger has lived it all
In 2002, his wife brought back a large paper cutting from China. For Ted, It was ... The helixes are curvilinear forms of reed, hog gut and artificial sinew, which he showed in the Guest Room Gallery at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in ...
(Sep 19, 2014, Alaska Dispatch)
Groundbreaking 'David Bowie Is' exhibit at Chicago's MCA shows him as ...
Groundbreaking 'David Bowie Is' exhibit at Chicago's MCA shows him as ...
(Sep 20, 2014, Chicago Daily Herald)
State of expansion: Art Expo Malaysia 2014 all set to lure more visitors
The Grand China Pavilion is also a celebratory tribute to the glorious 40 years of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and China. Fine Chinese paintings and calligraphy will be a major part of the exhibition here but contemporary art from mainland ...
(Sep 21, 2014, The Star Online)
There's plenty of art to go around in southern Minnesota
Works included in the exhibit “break away from traditional forms of contemporary Chinese art and represent a generation of younger Chinese artists engaging in personal and conceptual projects, generated in a global environment,” according to a ...
(Sep 21, 2014, Mankato Free Press)
Jean Nouvel Reveals Designs for Huge Chinese National Art Museum
Architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled his plans for the new National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), a massive structure measuring 130,000 square meters (1,399,308 square feet) — eight times the size of the current NAMOC, and more than double that of the ...
(Sep 22, 2014, Hyperallergic)
Finding value in Hong Kong art
Perhaps incidentally, the book also gives Hong Kong and other serious collectors of contemporary art an intelligent guide for those seeking works beyond the marquee names from China. “Art that is acquired with only appreciation in price in mind might ...
(Sep 22, 2014, FinanceAsia)
Photo gallery: Star Shots, best photos from Sept. 22
22, at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Jarrett Mellenbruch, a Kansas City artist, created ... Students stage a rally at the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus in Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Thousands of Hong Kong students ...
(Sep 23, 2014, Kansas City Star)
Sotheby's Uses $200 Million of Art to Woo West Coast Rich
... 28 years at rival Christie's, and Scott Schaefer, former curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Sotheby's is looking to add a trusts and estate lawyer and Chinese art specialists to its West Coast team. ... by the estate of Rachel “Bunny ...
(Sep 23, 2014, Bloomberg)
High demand, emerging new artists push contemporary art prices
PARIS, Sept 23 — The contemporary art market experienced a record-breaking year in 2013/14, smashing through the US$2 billion (RM6.47 billion) mark for the first time, according to new figures released today. US artists Jean-Michel ... The rest of ...
(Sep 23, 2014, The Malay Mail Online)
Record-Breaking Year for Contemporary Art
The rest of Artprice's top ten is made up -- in order -- of Zeng Fanzhi (China), Peter Doig (Britain), Richard Prince (US), Martin Kippenberger (Germany) who died in 1997, and three more Chinese artists -- Luo Zhongli, Chen Yifei and Zhan Xiaogang ...
(Sep 23, 2014, Breitbart News)
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