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Contemporary Chinese Art News 11/2015 (Page 3)

Lobster's Delicious History Is Completely Insane

Before it became a luxury product or a contemporary art icon, lobster was an affordable item. It cost next to nothing and was chiefly consumed by the poor. Today, it's a luxury crustacean and remains a status symbol on our dinner tables. But 150 years ... (Nov 15, 2015, Munchies_ Food by VICE)

Colour-changing Gin Native-botanical-flavoured gin from Byron Bay that changes ...

Colour-changing Gin Native-botanical-flavoured gin from Byron Bay that changes ... (Nov 15, 2015, Broadsheet)

Academy Kitchen & Bar Opens in Richmond

Rachel Gilbert, records and red ferns; this week's wrap covers all bases. Work Uniform: Mikala Tai. Take a look inside the wardrobe of 4A Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art's brand new director. Sales Wrap: Best of the Weekend. A vintage rummage and ... (Nov 15, 2015, Broadsheet)

Seven Days, Seven Nights: Elektra, King Crimson, Rad Hourani among best bets ...

Seven Days, Seven Nights: Elektra, King Crimson, Rad Hourani among best bets ... (Nov 16, 2015, Montreal Gazette)

Cafe Kalimba Opens in Northcote

Plans for luxury apartment tower at Circular Quay in disarray

CBRE have been appointed to manage the sale and Richard Butler, senior managing director of capital markets, international investments, says the site could fetch about $150 million, with interest mostly from offshore buyers in China, Singapore ... (Nov 16, 2015, Domain News)

Kerrville Chalk Festival seeking 2016 sponsors

She has participated in more than 30 street painting festivals and numerous international projects around the world, including United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China and the United States. Ronen is a ... Her clients include Disney, Dr Pepper, Red Bull ... (Nov 16, 2015, Community journal)

Solitary Soul: Interview with Lee Ufan

This included painting, calligraphy and the reading of Chinese classics. But this was part of the general culture of a civilised man. By doing calligraphy, you learnt how to write, by drawing and ... In the museum dedicated to his work on Naoshima, the ... (Nov 16, 2015, Apollo Magazine (blog))

Art gets a new framework with Maria Taniguchi

Hugo Boss Asia Art is a biannual award conceived and curated by the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China in collaboration with the fashion brand, aimed at promoting young emerging contemporary artists in Asia who are in the early stages of their ... (Nov 16, 2015, The Standard)

China's surge in art buying underlines economy's evolution

A slowdown in Chinese economic growth has devastated prices for raw materials such as iron ore and copper. Perhaps not coincidentally, global art sales have also suffered a tick-down. Recent auctions of contemporary art at Sotheby's and Christie's have ... (Nov 16, 2015, The Globe and Mail (subscription))

Feature: Story of global Chinatowns to unfold at int'l arts biennial in Liverpool

16 (Xinhua) -- Europe's biggest traditional Chinese Arch which dominates Liverpool's Chinatown is to be given a starring role in Britain's biggest contemporary arts festival, it was announced Monday. The Liverpool Biennial took the wraps off its ... (Nov 17, 2015, Xinhua)

Painting and Young Artists Prevail at Contemporary Istanbul's 10th Edition

These images by Chinese photographer Ren Hang at Galerie Paris-Beijing, which were exhibited by the same gallery in September at ARTINTERNATIONAL, are striking, perhaps especially for a country whose conservative government has just triumphed ... (Nov 17, 2015, Artsy)

Team behind Toorak Cellars and Milton Wine Shop to Open a Prahran Wine Bar

With Modigliani Purchase, Chinese Billionaire Dreams of Bigger Canvas

Ms. Wang is known as the driving force and general director behind the couple's Long Museum, which has two branches in Shanghai. Over more than 20 years, the two have amassed an extensive collection of mostly traditional and contemporary Chinese art, ... (Nov 17, 2015, New York Times)

Art Sales: contemporary art loses momentum

A fascinating second week of impressionist, modern and contemporary art sales unfurled in New York last week, bringing the total for the bonanza fortnight to $2.35 million (£1.55 million), trailing last May's equivalent New York record series of $2.74 ... (Nov 17, 2015, Telegraph.co.uk)

Chen Wei's small world of the bigger issues

The prints in this young Chinese artist's first solo exhibition in Japan are big and visually seductive, a seeming necessity in the contemporary art photography market. In their defense, the size is a cue to take your time and look closely, which is ... (Nov 17, 2015, The Japan Times)

Morning Links: Returned Kirchner Painting Edition

Now, a Chinese museum has a globally recognized masterpiece, and my fellow countrymen no longer have to leave the country to see a Western masterpiece. I feel very ... The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami has broken ground on its new home. [Miami ... (Nov 17, 2015, ARTnews)

Plate Presentations

I stopped dead in my tracks while wandering through the dazzling magic kingdom of the Park Avenue Armory's International Show, and it was not Bernd Goeckler's Ado Chale 1960s astonishing desk, nor Kagedo's glorious pair of tiger screens, or even Lost ... (Nov 17, 2015, 27east.com)

MoMA Returns Painting to Heirs, Crystal Bridges Buys Record-Setting Artwork ...

MoMA Returns Painting to Heirs, Crystal Bridges Buys Record-Setting Artwork ... (Nov 17, 2015, Observer)

China's biggest contemporary art stars

Currently living and working in Beijing, Zeng Fanzhi shot to international fame in 2013, when his painting The Last Supper established a new world record price for a contemporary Asian artwork. Works by the artist are heavily influenced by emotional ... (Nov 17, 2015, Christie's)

Business Watch

But it said that while net auction sales increased by 15% to $48 million during the quarter because of the favorable scheduling of a contemporary art sale, commission revenues fell mostly because of weaker sales in higher-margin categories such as old ... (Nov 17, 2015, Wall Street Journal)

Haus der Kunst Receives $23 Million for Renovations

Specializing in contemporary Chinese art, he was well known for his writing on Yan Pei-Ming, with essays about the artist appearing in Les Presses du réel as well as in exhibition catalogs for the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the National Museum of ... (Nov 17, 2015, Artforum)

Sephora Confirms Opening Date in Melbourne

How to trade the new golden age of art

Art historian Gerald Reitlinger refers this period as “golden age of the living painter”. Serfaty says his ROI benefited from the rise of Chinese contemporary art. Moving to Hong Kong in 1988, he described China's art market in those days as mainly ... (Nov 17, 2015, EJ Insight)

'Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact' Review

To the extent contemporary art is meant to trick, disorient, etc. it cannot but learn from Hitchcock, who imbued middlebrow cinema with richly subversive meanings.” Related works include Jim Campbell's spectral light-box piece “Illuminated Average #1: ... (Nov 17, 2015, Wall Street Journal)

Goodbye Chalet, Hello Darlo Country Club It could be a Sydney après-work ...

Goodbye Chalet, Hello Darlo Country Club It could be a Sydney après-work ... (Nov 17, 2015, Broadsheet)

Tate Modern chief advises Korea to open up to foreign museum directors

Korea should be open to accepting foreign museum directors if it wants to expand its global presence in art amid growing competition with China, Japan and India, according to Chris Dercon, the director of London's Tate Modern. ... Bartomeu Mari, former ... (Nov 18, 2015, AsiaOne)

Footscray Goes Up in Smoke

Colour-changing Gin

Artists and Activists Stage Protest at Brooklyn Museum

Kunsthalle Mannheim Discovers 18 Possibly Nazi-Looted Artworks in Collection

Now China imports Western masterpieces

Over more than 20 years, the two have amassed an extensive collection of mostly traditional and contemporary Chinese art, much of it on display in the museum locations. Days after their latest blockbuster purchase, they were back at it, flying to ... (Nov 18, 2015, The Hindu)

A couple who bought a $170.4 million painting used American Express and are on ...

A couple who bought a $170.4 million painting used American Express and are on ... (Nov 18, 2015, National Post)

Must list: Nov. 19

Designed after Chinese lanterns, landmarks such as the Egyptian pyramids, the Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower and the Roman Colosseum will glow under the big Texas sky. The festival also includes carnival games and rides, a food truck ... Latin ... (Nov 18, 2015, Chron.com)

Art: Chinese exhibitions continue at Trout Gallery

“Pull Left– Not Always Right: Emerging Contemporary Artists in China” is an exhibition of works by a selection of young Chinese artists who are shaping and defining the future of art in what is becoming one of the most important contemporary art ... (Nov 18, 2015, The Sentinel)

TGIF: Happenings — what's coming up in Northeast Ohio starting Nov. 20

Allen Memorial Art Museum: Oberlin College, 87 N. Main St., Oberlin, presents “Body Proxy: Clothing in Contemporary Art,” through Dec. 13; “The Body: ... 17; “Chinese Landscape Duets of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney,” through Feb. 2; “Muhammead ... (Nov 18, 2015, The Morning Journal)

Taiwan artworks at UBC exhibition point to spiritual dimension

It all adds up to a fascinating mix in the country's contemporary art which forms the focus of the new Museum of Anthropology exhibition titled (In) visible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art. Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura is the award ... (Nov 18, 2015, The Province)

Photo Flash: First Look at DRAGON BOAT RACING, Coming to Lincoln Center This ...

Photo Flash: First Look at DRAGON BOAT RACING, Coming to Lincoln Center This ... (Nov 19, 2015, Broadway World)

Moroccan Deli-cacy Opens in Brunswick

Dunhuang—Song of Living Beings

In the past few years, the art of Dunhuang has travelled to the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Guan Shanyue Art Museum (Shenzhen), Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou) and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, each iteration garnering popular ... For this ... (Nov 19, 2015, E-Flux)

Devoted curator

Samuel Kung is a man who wears two very artistic hats. The founder of Shanghai's Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) is also a Chinese jade connoisseur, running a successful business as a dealer and designer of the gemstone. Although he was already ... (Nov 19, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))

Twisting time with the award-winning Qlocktwo clock

It's a funny old thing, time. It can fly when you're having fun; and drag when you're not. We might think it's universal, but it can mean different things to different people. For some, it's an entirely rigid concept; for others, a loose guideline by ... (Nov 19, 2015, The National)

From Morocco to South Africa, African art is the new hot lot

Mabunda's success is emblematic of the surging Western interest in African Contemporary art -- and of the increasingly active role played by London's dealers, auction houses, museums and art fairs. Since 2009, Bonhams has been staging 'Africa ... 'The ... (Nov 19, 2015, Spear's WMS (blog))

Fabian Stech (1964–2015)

... in contemporary Chinese art, he was well known for his writing on Yan Pei-Ming, with essays about the artist appearing in Les Presses du réel as well as in exhibition catalogs for the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, ... (Nov 19, 2015, Artforum)

France to Create Fund for Arts Venues Affected by Terrorist Attacks [UPDATED]

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago have announced that they will together be mounting a two-city exhibition, “Merce Cunningham: Common Time,” in 2017, according to the New York Times' Alastair ... (Nov 19, 2015, Artforum)

Why is Ai Weiwei One of the World's Most Famous Artists?

In 2008, Ai had established himself as a key figure in the Beijing contemporary art scene. He had moved back to China after a decade spent in New York, where lived following his graduation from the Parsons School of Design. In Beijing, he quickly ... (Nov 19, 2015, artnet News)

Must-See Art Guide: Hong-Kong

... ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair opens today, presenting the latest contemporary art alongside a vast array of public projects, collectors' exhibitions, museum events, symposiums, and a special presentation of emerging artists. China's ... (Nov 19, 2015, artnet News)

In focus: Construction workers and orphans

His works have also been collected by National Art Museum of China, National Art Center-French Ministry of Culture, Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery in Sydney and Valencia Museum of Modern Art in Spain. “What I'm doing is not just a work of art. They ... (Nov 19, 2015, Shanghai Daily (subscription))

'Chinese' artist reveals true French identity

According to the Artprice databank, 17 of the 50 top-selling artists in the year to June were Chinese, and Chinese artists accounted for 21 percent of total global turnover in contemporary art, second only to Americans. Yang Yang, founder of Beijing's ... (Nov 19, 2015, Shanghai Daily (subscription))

How to hijack a journal

For a day, visitors to the official Web domain of an academic contemporary art journal based in Croatia were redirected to Rick Astley's 1987 classic music video, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” (The editors there weren't upset when they learned of the ... (Nov 19, 2015, Science Magazine (subscription))

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