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Günter Grass (1927–2015)
Stephen Kinzer reports in the New York Times that the German writer, social critic, and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass died today. Best known for his 1959 novel The Tin Drum, he also won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. Throughout his career ...

China Painter Cui Sets Record With $30 Million Landscape Work
"There is certainly an interest in creating a public price level for his artworks, and this appears to be at a price level not really for experienced collectors," said Johnson Chang, who has been dealing in contemporary Chinese art for 30 years. "This ...

Tome's Insiders Guide to Sydney During Fashion Week
The Museum of Contemporary Art and the White Rabbit are the best museums in town, and Roslyn Oxley and Sarah Cottier the best galleries. The theater scene in Sydney is uniquely incredible, and the Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir St Theatre are by ...

Eli Klein on Riding the Wave of China's Contemporary Art Scene
Around 10 years ago, when Chinese art was still mostly dusty filler for antiquities auctions, Klein sensed that the mainland's contemporary art scene could be huge—and dominated by him, because of his ability to straddle East and West. He was right ...

Market News: Scottish art thrives
After a disappointing sale of Chinese contemporary art in Hong Kong, Sotheby's is to exhibit a private collection of 17th-century Dutch drawings by Rembrandt, van Ruisdael, van Goyen and others at the Long Museum in Shanghai this week. The drawings are ...

Inequality Critic Reich: 'Capitalism Has Gone Off Track' in America
“I look at history and see that every time our own system of capitalism has gone off track we put aside ideology…and very pragmatically get on with what needs to be done,” he told a crowd of 400 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla ...

Cui Ruizhuo, Wu Guanzhong Lead Poly HK Spring Sales
Meanwhile, the Chinese and Asian Modern & Contemporary Art department fetched a total of HK$259 million with a sell-through rate of 80.5%, led by works by modern Chinese masters including Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-ki, Chu Teh-chun, and Lin Fengmian ...

Galleries Flee Singapore's Much-Hyped Gillman Barracks
The art complex—which hosts the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) and three restaurants, as well as 17 commercial galleries across 6.4 hectares—was launched to great fanfare in September 2012. The government backed the project, which entailed a $10 ...

ALL and Brush galleries showcase fresh works for spring
Nearby, it's all about contemporary art at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios, 256 Market St., Lowell, now through June 6. On view is the dazzling Massachusetts Artists 2015: Showcase of Contemporary Art, a biennial exhibition of works by artists who ...

New Nudes: Six Young Photographers Who Are Putting a Fresh Spin On the ...
New Nudes: Six Young Photographers Who Are Putting a Fresh Spin On the ...

Outrage over Chinese artists chosen to represent Kenya at Venice Biennale
... been set up calling on the Venice Biennial to “renounce Kenya's fraudulent representation”, describing the artists as “a group of well connected persons, who [have] neither the intellectual nor creative capacity to represent Kenya's contemporary ...

Chinese painter Cui Ruzhou sets record with $40m landscape
"There is certainly an interest in creating a public price level for his artworks, and this appears to be at a price level not really for experienced collectors," said Johnson Chang, who has been dealing in contemporary Chinese art for 30 years. "This ...

Blackstone secures $600 million for Miami luxury mall
Blackstone will hold a $100 million mezzanine portion of the loan with the Bank of China providing $250 million, Craig Robins, president and chief executive of Miami-based Dacra Development, told Reuters on Tuesday. Deutsche Bank and Credit Agricole ...

The Art World's Next Neighborhood May Surprise You
A recent swath of Contemporary art galleries opening up shop south of the blurry divide between Manhattan's Lower East Side and predominately Chinese sections of East Broadway, Canal Street and Eldridge Street suggests yes. But what does this mean for ...

Culture scene: April 16-22
Asia Society Texas Center: "The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America," through July 19; 1370 Southmore; $5; 713-466-9901, asiasociety.org/texas. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty," opens 6:30 p.m. Friday ...

Art of Papercutting Opens Window into China and Chicago
It's not like contemporary Chinese art, like the Cruelty Movement, the very political art, the Pop Art that came out, the need to express political and social themes. Paper cuts don't have that element, they're totally neutral. Chinese collectors are ...

GO Calendar: Events in the River Region
... includes all art faculty from the Fine Arts College of Yuxi Normal University and is a reflection of the development and current state of thirty years of Yunnan art history, as well as a firsthand demonstration of thirty years of contemporary ...

Asian-fusion restaurant to open in Detroit's old Chinatown
A new Chinese-inspired restaurant is coming to Detroit's one-time Chinatown this fall. Called The Peterboro, the restaurant derives its name from its location at the corner of Cass Avenue and Peterboro Street, inside the building that housed Showcase ...

Chinese artists to represent Kenya at 2015 Venice Biennale
The selection of Chinese artists, however, may be more economic than what official organizers are willing to admit. Davide Quadrio, a Chinese contemporary art curator said many artists in Shanghai "buy their introduction to Venice." Chinese artists use ...

Amorales turns to sound design for Harvard installation
Mary Schneider Enriquez, the museums' associate curator of modern and contemporary art, said “Triangle Constellation” — as an interactive artwork and a piece unifying the museums' interior spaces — is a valuable addition to the Harvard Art Museums ...

2015-04-16T06:00:00Z GO! Calendar 4/16/15 pantagraph.com
World War II: China-Burma-India Theater; through Nov. 30, Simpkins Military History Museum, see above. Special event: Open ... Contemporary Art Center of Peoria; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., Riverfront Arts Center, 305 S.W. Water, Peoria; rotating ...

Beijing, China: 2 days, 2 nights
The sprawling 798 Art District is still the hub of Beijing's contemporary art scene, although the last decade has brought commercialization in the way of souvenir shops, boutiques and cafes, distracting from the galleries. Head farther afield —in the ...

Spring Bags From Sophie Hulme, the Photo London Fair, Soho House Istanbul ...
Spring Bags From Sophie Hulme, the Photo London Fair, Soho House Istanbul ...

Colby College Museum of Art honored by Mid-Maine Chamber for community ...
Colby College Museum of Art honored by Mid-Maine Chamber for community ...

Museum & Gallery Listings for April 17-22
Japan Society: 'Life of Cats: Selections From the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Collection' (through June 7) Cats were brought to Japan from China in the mid-sixth century. .... Museum of Modern Art: 'Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection ...

The Expensive Antics of China's Gaudiest Billionaire
... by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi, belonging to the permanent collection of the Shanghai Long Museum. Liu Yiqian, together with his wife, Wang Wei, an avid collector of revolutionary and contemporary art, would like to build something to rival the ...

The insiders: Sophie Hughes
REFLECT: A peaceful sanctuary from the city's ceaseless buzz is HCMC's Museum of Fine Arts. Built around a courtyard, this charming building comprises a mix of French and Chinese styles combining traditional Chinese symbols with rococo wrought iron and ...

China's Terracotta Warriors Have a Smashing Cameo in 'Furious Seven'
... a Jordanian prince's penthouse party, stolen his multimillion-dollar sports car, and driven it through the apartment's glass walls and into an adjacent skyscraper where, for no apparent reason, there is an art exhibition of generic-looking ...

5 Design Superstars Who Should Have Made the TIME 100
But DS+R is much more than the controversy: The firm's newly completed Broad Museum for contemporary art (opening this fall in Los Angeles) and the beloved and oft-imitated High Line, another DS+R project, show the firm is having an undeniably major ...

Postcard from Singapore: why contemporary art is making a mark in Asia
"When I was at school I didn't have the option of art history," says Audrey Yeo, owner of Singapore contemporary art gallery Yeo Workshop. "So for my generation, it's something we're all catching up on very quickly. We love it, obviously, and the ...

Hillary Clinton's Big Benefactor Has Trade Links with Iran
The US authorities can also penalise non-American companies with no base in the US at all which it judges to be working counter to its foreign policy, as happened to Zhuhai Zhenrong, a Chinese oil company, in 2012. Being denied access to US markets and ...

Merry Point Estates homes, gardens in Newport News impress
Determined to preserve the memory of those pieces, the couple found a glass artist who incorporated the bottoms of crystal glasses, crystal nuggets and china shards, along with tiny tiles, into a mirror. "It has been a conversation piece ever since ...

1965 and all that jazz
“Society is changing in every respect and we must remember this in our approach to contemporary art...The museum's role is to help us feel equally at home in ... That's before everything was made in China. In 1965 there were a lot of things made by ...

Historic Wilton barn hosts rare fiber art exhibition
"We sell as much in China as we do in Connecticut," Grotta said. "We're very popular with the insomniacs on our website." If art enthusiasts want to view browngrotta's ... One expressed aim of "Influence and Evolution" is to address what Grotta sees as ...

Arts Etc. — April 18, 2015
Davidson Galleries in Pioneer Square. 313 Occidental Ave. S. (206) 624-1324 for details. “Change-Seed: Art from Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution” is a group show of work generated by protests in Hong Kong last fall/winter against the Chinese Government ...

Globe Trotting
Vacations in Europe have a new attraction: The euro's steep drop in value is making it a much cheaper destination, especially for visitors from the United States and China. For Americans the dollar's strength translates into a discount of ... The ...

Made-up words and letters are part of a trio of contemporary Chinese ...
Made-up words and letters are part of a trio of contemporary Chinese ...

Jerry Saltz on the New Whitney Museum
Collecting and display surfaced in China 3,500 years ago. The Greeks created a pinakotheke in the fifth century b.c. to honor the gods. Museums have been with us as long as memory has ... Last year, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago mounted a ...

Hong Kong Curator Leaves M+ for Central Police Station
Hong Kong-based curator Tobias Berger of the West Kowloon Cultural District visual culture museum M+ has been appointed head of art at the Central Police Station (CPS), a new space that, despite setbacks, is slated to open late 2016, according to ...

Civil Asset Forfeiture: Good Intentions Gone Awry and the Need for Reform
[41]; Ming Tong Liu, a Chinese-born American from Newnan, Georgia, was stopped on I-10 in Alabama for driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit while heading to Louisiana to buy the Hong Kong Chinese restaurant in Lake Charles for himself and his ...

Curator's Choice: Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, UAE Venice Biennale Pavilion
Which places give you the most hope for the future of contemporary art? I see a lot of ... As for something to retire, perhaps the idea of geographies becoming a trend, of looking at Chinese art or art from the Middle East, Latin America, etcetera ...

Art space self-starters blazing a new trail in Hong Kong
It is now the world's largest public collection documenting the development of contemporary art in Asia - a cache of donated exhibition pamphlets, personal effects, audio-visual recordings and books. AAA is also at the cutting edge of digitising a ...

New York Apartments, Art Top Gold as Stores of Wealth, Says Fink
Gold's traditional role as a store of wealth has been usurped by contemporary art and apartments in cities such as New York and London, according to Laurence D. Fink, head of the world's biggest asset manager. “Historically gold was a great instrument ...

New in Town: NUO Hotel Beijing
Located in dangerously close proximity to Beijing's vibrant 798 Art District, an arts cluster in the Dashanzi area of Chaoyang and ground zero for the movers and shakers of contemporary Chinese art today (including Ai Weiwei, of course), the new NUO ...

On the Heels of a Public Dispute, MOCA's Latest Exhibition Falls Short
One of the Museum of Contemporary Art's first exhibitions since the very public dispute between the City of North Miami and MOCA's former board, "Alternative Contemporaneity: Temporary Autonomous Zones" presents works by more than 50 of Miami's ...

LARRY FINK: Contemporary art and luxury apartments are the new gold
LARRY FINK: Contemporary art and luxury apartments are the new gold. Myles Udland. Apr. 21, 2015, 8:19 AM; 1,804; 6 · facebook · linkedin · twitter; email; print. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living Damien Hirst Wikimedia ...

Tradition and innovation in Chinese art: an interview with Tiffany Beres
Chinese ink painting has been in the spotlight a lot recently because there have been several significant exhibitions of contemporary art relating to this artistic tradition. Nathalie had seen one of the shows at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and ...

OMA Designs Chinese Pavilion for 2015 Venice Art Biennale
The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation has commissioned OMA to design the Chinese Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Biennale, just a year after Rem Koolhaas served as director of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition, “Other Future” will ...

Why the Artist Raymond Boisjoly Decided Against Seattle (It's Not What You Think)
Vancouver is generally recognized as a better springboard to Europe and the broader contemporary art circuit than Seattle. But when I talked to Boisjoly, he said his motivation to stay in B.C. was the opposite. He stayed because of blood and tradition ...

General Tso's Chimerica
The ubiquity of General Tso's chicken in the United States, from the sublime to the ridiculous, is a marvelous story of the intersection, interpenetration, ironies and unintended consequences of the ongoing Chinese and American cultural collision. The ...



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