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OMA to realize the chinese pavilion for 2015 venice art biennale
international studio OMA has been commissioned by the beijing contemporary art foundation to design the chinese pavilion at the 56th international art exhibition of la biennale di venezia. under the theme of 'other future', the exhibition brings ...

The Best of Contemporary Art Goes to the 56th Venice Biennale
Canada, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, Serbia, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Ireland, Australia, USA, Israel and China are the countries that will participate in this exhibition to demonstrate that Art is not about borders and politics but people. Coinciding ...

Capital Playbook: De Blasio rebrands PlaNYC; Gabe Sherman joins NYMag staff
ANDREW CUOMO, HEAD OF (A) STATE—Jimmy's final dispatch from Cuba: A dredge spewed black smoke and the Caribbean sun, where it crossed the steel frames of the Chinese-crane, cast shadows over the hundreds of shipping containers arranged in a ..... THE ...

The Mystery Of China's Gold Holdings Is Coming To An End
Apparently not according to Larry “No More Buybacks” Fink, who overnight said that “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” and then proceeded to pitch ETFs ...

Culture Scene: April 23-29
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," through Aug. 2; 5216 ...

The View From Here
And the RAA wrote this: “… with typical boldness, the chosen works will explore a multitude of challenging themes, drawing on his own experience to comment on creative freedom, censorship and human rights, as well as examining contemporary Chinese art ...

Auction houses hope touch of modernism can lure back Chinese art lovers
... diversify its Asian art sales to attract international clients through its Hong Kong platform after its recent Chinese and Asian modern and contemporary art spring sale generated a record HK$259 million in earnings after 80.5 per cent of the pieces ...

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World War II: China-Burma-India Theater; through Nov. 30, Simpkins Military History Museum, see above. Dickson Mounds ... Contemporary Art Center of Peoria; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., Riverfront Arts Center, 305 S.W. Water, Peoria; rotating exhibits in ...

Top 25 Most Collectible Latin American Artists
Latin America is a growth market for sure, but what of its local artist market? Sales at auction of Latin American modern and contemporary art are mostly purchased by buyers of Latin American ancestry. But there is much potential for this relatively ...

Jewish film festival has strong lineup, points of view
Boston audiences can get a first look at the animated short films of the award-winning, young Chinese filmmaker Lei Lei and other animation artists based in China on April 24 at 7 p.m. when the Institute of Contemporary Art presents “Expanded Animation ...

Review: Tseng Kwong Chi's Darkly Comic Images at Grey Art Gallery
Presenting more than 80 photo-based pieces, the show was organized by Amy Brandt, curator of modern and contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va., where it will be shown in August. In 1979 Tseng Kwong Chi began to create his most ...

Exhibition of Qi Baishi's art opens at Hungarian National Gallery
BUDAPEST, April 23 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition of the works of Qi Baishi, one of 20th century China's most outstanding artists, opened at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest on Thursday. Called Fascination of Nature, this is the first time Qi's ...

Museum & Gallery Listings for April 24-30
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 ...

Review: New Whitney Museum's First Show, 'America Is Hard to See'
... in Contemporary Art.” But no mention is made of one that fully carried the institution out of parochialism, Lawrence Rinder's “The American Effect: Global Perspectives in the United States, 1990-2003,” which had work by artists in China, Colombia ...

Embassy walls provide safe haven for free speech in China
“Although some issues can't be openly discussed in public, the embassies would like to provide a platform,” said Zhu Qi, an independent curator and important critic of contemporary art in China. Providing a haven for free speech is risky in China ...

Cai Guo-Qiang on the State of Contemporary Chinese Art
Along with artists such as Zhang Xiaogang and Zeng Fanzhi, Mr. Cai has benefited from the boom in the Chinese contemporary art market. In 2010, his “Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky,” a gunpowder work on paper, sold for $2.7 million at auction ...

Chinese Artist Xu Bing Explores Thorny Issues in SCAD Exhibition
Global Atlanta caught up with Mr. Xu by phone and then by email to discuss the motivation behind his work and what it's like working on contemporary art in China. The interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity: Global Atlanta: You talked ...

Modern Art Masters' Work to be Auctioned in Shanghai
An auctioneer auctions a painting work by Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki at an auction of the Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art held by Christie's in Hong Kong, south China, May 25, 2013. The five-day Christie's 2013 spring auctions ...

Chazen museum gives Madson a rare glimpse into Chinese art studios
“This will go back to China, except for a couple of pieces,” he said. “This is a rare opportunity. What is contemporary art like in China? Of course this is not the whole gamut, but something you can experience and think about.” Panczenko himself ...

Is Brussels a new market hub for contemporary art?
Dealers at the 33rd edition of the modern and contemporary art fair Art Brussels (25-27 April) gave a mixed reaction to the announcement Friday (24 April) that the event will locate next year to a central site. After 17 years, the fair will transfer ...

French street artist set to invade Hong Kong again
Presented by the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation, it will form part of the annual Le French May festival. Wearing a Bruce Lee mask he bought on Pottinger Street just before the interview yesterday, Invader recalled how the government removed ...

Ginkgo Space: Void
Ginkgo space aims to explore the unique aesthetic values and cultural identity in contemporary Chinese art, to examine the Chinese artists' diverse creativities in depth, actively participate in the developmental progress of Asian contemporary art and ...

Western art and young artists underpin Christie's spring Shanghai success
Cai Jinqing, Christie's China president: "All Western art works have had 100 percent deals made, including works of impressionism, modern, contemporary art, post-war and prints, so we're proud of the result. Many works from young artists performed well ...

Your essential where-to-eat guide to Sydney
Walk down to The Rocks and visit the Museum of Contemporary Art (140 George St) and then for lunch head to the Park Hyatt for one of the best Sydney experiences, for around $20.85. Not many of us can justify or afford a few nights in this stunning ...

Struggling Artists in London, 21st-Century Style
In place of Hogarth's profligate heir Tom Rakewell is now the fictional contemporary Chinese artist “Young Sen,” whose tumultuously excessive life and brutal death are depicted in 10 large-scale “plates” that take us to China, to a London medical ...

artnet Asks: Video Artist and Painter Wang Gongxin
Wang Gongxin welcomes his first museum retrospective "Present. Being" in China at OCAT Shanghai, which presents the video works of Gongxin over 20 years. A video artist and painter by training, Gongxin curated the exhibition in a unique way, eschewing ...

10 new stores and restaurants in Leslieville & Riverside
Leslieville and Riverside are well on their way to becoming happening alternatives to their west end counterparts with tons of new restaurants, coffee shops and stores opening up. From bulk food to tacos, there are plenty of new spots to check out in ...

Dallas Art Fair Lures Designers, Clients
“I feel like we were missing the new Chinese clientele, the Russians and people who don't make it that far up Madison when they are shopping,” he explained. “We wanted to be more in the center where the action is. You cannot come into the hotel without ...

Roundup: Da Vinci developer speaks, Gurlitt's hoard, Le Corbusier's past
An assistant to Jasper Johns, who pleaded guilty to stealing unfinished works from the artist's studio, told a federal judge that he has “profound remorse” for committing the crime. — The artists in Kenya's pavilion at the Venice Biennale are mostly ...

All-female exhibition slated for Milan Expo 2015
... among the most eye-catching. And this year, locals and visitors will get the chance to see a Chinese contemporary art exhibition featuring an all-female line-up. Italian ambassador to China, Alberto Bradanini attended the preview at Beijing's ...

This week in Arts and Life Apr. 27 — May 4
“Shifting Currents,” an exhibition currently on view at the Cantor Arts Center, features a small but exquisite selection of contemporary Chinese art. The artwork provides insight into the culture of contemporary China and the integration of western ...

PICA turns 20 with celebration of international art stars: May art gallery preview
As the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery pays tribute to its two-decade run of bringing avant-garde art and performance to Portland with "PICA: Celebrating 20 Years ...

Morning Links: 'Eventually they introduced me' Edition
Oscar Tuazon at Paradise Garage in Los Angeles. [Contemporary Art Daily]. Jacob Applebaum, Wikileaks, and Tor Activist Project traveled to Beijing to work with artist Ai Weiwei on a project for the New Museum's annual Seven on Seven conference ...

Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: The acceptable face of the Emirates
Contemporary art will be inside the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim a few hundred yards away, still just a sand-pile of dumper trucks and bobbing labourers' hats. "All that is accepted"? Unless, I say, Isis, known for its nefarious interest in artefacts ... The ...

Michael Tomor has bold goals for the Tampa Museum of Art
Yet the museum's focus has been equally devoted to edgy contemporary art. Most of the time the two live separate but equal lives at the museum. He says he's comfortable with their cohabitation. Tomor is settling into life in Tampa, "used to the heat ...

Culture Scene: April 30-May 6
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," through Aug. 2 ...

Vacheron Constantin Unveils Bronze Sculpture Marrying Swiss and Chinese ...
Vacheron Constantin Unveils Bronze Sculpture Marrying Swiss and Chinese ...

Public art week boosts profile of ...
Public art week boosts profile of ...

Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale Opens in Chongqing
The city of Chongqing, in China's Sichuan province, launched the first edition of the Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale this past weekend on April 26, inaugurating the brand new Chongqing Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art ...

Kenyan artists' outcry wakes up the government
Of the seven artists chosen to represent the East African nation, five were Chinese, one was a Kenyan-born artist living in Switzerland and the other was an Italian sculptor and hotelier who has lived in Kenya for 47 years. ... setting new records for ...

Art Basel Hong Kong: art collectors' subtropical paradise
“It's the biggest international platform [for contemporary art],” says Australian curator Alexie Glass-Kantor of the fair that originated in Basel, Switzerland, and has expanded to Miami and here to Hong Kong, where over just five days nearly 60,000 ...

First Look: Collecting Contemporary at The Asian
First Look will follow 28 Chinese (June 5–Aug. 16, 2015), a special exhibition at the museum featuring some of China's most exciting artists from the country's booming contemporary art scene. Reflecting a growing commitment to present contemporary art ...

First Look: Collecting Contemporary at The Asian
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Asian Art Museum—well known for its vast collection of Asian art antiquities—will surprise visitors this summer with its second of two contemporary art exhibitions, this one featuring ...

'Filthy Lucre': Artist Darren Waterston's Double Vision
Originally commissioned by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Filthy Lucre is the monstrous alter ego of the sumptuous dining room Whistler designed for British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland. The so-called Peacock Room—a grand ...

An Infusion of Chic Openings in Chicago
When Christian Dior recently helped sponsor a retrospective of artist Anne Collier's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, it was a logical enough partnership: The New York–based photographer is a close friend of Dior creative director Raf ...

A Debate Arises Over Frank Lloyd Wright House in Phoenix
The title alludes to the “13 Factories,” or hongs, of Canton (also known as Guangzhou), an 18th-century foreign trading site that led to some of the West's violent interactions with China. Mr. Birch's 14th factory imagines a lost space of the “unknown ...

Museum & Gallery Listings for May 1-7
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 ...

Venice Biennale Gets Smaller as Two Countries Drop Out
The Kenyan art community had been protesting the selection of mainly Chinese artists — none of whom live or work in the African country — to represent it at the international biennale. On April 14 ... Officials knew foreign artists would be showing ...

Swarthmore Students Rake in Scholarships, Fellowships
Mendelson plans to apply to art history PhD programs so she can study modern and contemporary Chinese art history. Mendelson chose to apply to the Beinecke Scholarship because of the unique opportunities this scholarship opportunity offers. “When I ...



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