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Contemporary Chinese Art News 11/2015 (Page 5)



Why Moe Satt Is Leading Myanmar's Contemporary Art Scene
This is the second edition of the prize, which Hong Kong artist Kwan Sheung won in 2013 for his politically-inspired installations and videos, including a crowd control barrier filled with water and maotai, the pricey alcohol associated with corruption ...

Auction houses remain optimistic about upcoming sales in Hong Kong
Tokyo Chuo Auction is offering Chinese paintings, imperial ceramics and Japanese tea wares and scholars' objects in its annual Hong Kong sales, while Taiwan's Ravenel will hold a modern and contemporary art sale. South Korean auctioneers remain some ...

How one road to a deal with Iran was paved with art
Staff at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art inspect Picasso's painting 'Open Window on the Rue de Penthievre in Paris', September 1993. At bottom left is 'Fille De Montmartre' by French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and in the background is a ...

Nov. 26-27: SF Botanical Garden, SF Zoo, Thanksgiving Day 5K, Dubsgiving, City ...
Nov. 26-27: SF Botanical Garden, SF Zoo, Thanksgiving Day 5K, Dubsgiving, City ...

Holy cow: Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei works roll out at National Gallery of Victoria
Caonima translates to "grass mud horse" a phrase of Mandarin slang that came to prominence online in China in protest against government censorship, said the NGV's senior curator of contemporary art Max Delany. The bird in his work will reference the ...

Seize the day
In 2007 he put up for auction at Philips in London a collection of Chinese contemporary art, which he had assembled cheaply from the late 1980s onwards. The sale made $20m; one piece went for 64 times the price he paid for it. Mr Farber started ...

Cleveland Arts listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3: Glassblowing Demonstrations & More
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. 11400 Euclid Ave. 216-421-8671 or mocacleveland.org. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. ... Saturday; Monday-Thursday by appointment. Exhibit: "A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Work by Contemporary Chinese Artists" and "A "Spirit ...

Performance artist hopes to win big in China
Rockbund Art Museum says it is at the forefront of the growing contemporary art scene in China, presenting world-class programs in a unique museum setting. The museum is located within the Bund district and housed in an Art Deco building which was ...

Ray Hughes Gallery to close
Hughes had bought and promoted contemporary Chinese art before it became a fad, for example. “At various times it was very exciting being part of that gallery,” Bell said. Artist Michael Bell at The Hughes Gallery. “One of my great memories is to sit ...

How long can Beijing's biggest artist colony survive?
Arriving into Songzhuang, you'd be forgiven for wondering what had attracted over 5,000 artists to make this far outpost of Beijing the largest artist colony in China. Along the dusty main street, a line of boxy, low-rise buildings housing cheap ...

Prisoner of Cultural Revolution receives posthumous celebration
The Mu Xin Museum, which the artist helped plan before his death, stands out among the raft of property developer-funded contemporary art institutions driving China's museum boom. Such projects “are big, have money and energy, but don't know what ...

Q. and A.: Lu Yang on Art, 'Uterus Man' and Living Life on the Web
I was growing up at about the same time that Chinese contemporary art was beginning to emerge, so I learned about contemporary art early on. When I was in middle school, my classmates were interested in the latest trends, but I wanted to find more ...

Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol in New York: how the city shaped their art
Like their own countries of origin, the United States and China, both artists have dallied with the unintended charms of mass production, industrially and culturally. ... National Gallery of Victoria curator of contemporary art Max Delany describes Ai ...

Newcastle auctioneers Anderson & Garland 175th anniversary sale is due to begin
And the auction is likely to attract interest from as far afield as China as buyers bid by fax, online and over the phone. Anderson ... A new generation of buyers has also seen the staging of a couple of annual contemporary art and design sales ...

Contemporary Chinese art donated to Cambridge University
CAMBRIDGE University will be the new home of three artworks by leading contemporary artists from China — a token of appreciation of the bonds between the Chinese community and the prestigious British university that also marks the last month of the ...

Art Consultant Arianne Levene Piper on Collecting in Emerging Art Markets
Arianne Levene Piper: One of the main deciding factors was my desire to work with Chinese Contemporary Art; in 2005 there were hardly any galleries or dealers working with Chinese Contemporary Art in London, and very few - if any - Contemporary Asian ...

Classical Japanese Art Hangs On
Whether it represents a better long-term investment than Chinese art or Western contemporary art is open to question. So maybe the thing to do is simply buy it and enjoy it. Japanese wood block prints, being flat and made in colorful multiples, are ...

Taxi driver-turned-billionaire Liu Yiqian, founder of China's Long Museum, has ...
Taxi driver-turned-billionaire Liu Yiqian, founder of China's Long Museum, has ...

Collecting Art While Overseas
The couple's overseas assignments gave them a front-row seat as China's contemporary art scene rose in global importance. Photo: Virgile S. Bertrand for Barron's. Fast-rising executives are often handed overseas assignments at some stage of their ...

Couple turn 'hideous' Hong Kong flat into sculpture showcase
Practicality is also a highlight of a camphorwood drawer case (see Tried + tested), designed by Bourieau and inspired by traditional Chinese medicine chests. “It's functional art,” says Pickett. “The fixed drawers don't open and close, so take up very ...

2015 Art Basel Miami Bashes You Don't Want to Miss
Curated by Nick Swerdlow, director of Swerdlow Art Group and Vice Chairman of the board at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), this showcase will bring together five artists from around the world – like Carlos Salas from Colombia, Sergio ...

Christie's Hong Kong Art Auction Feels China's Economic Chill
China's economic slowdown, government anti-corruption measures and fleeing speculators are causing a chill in the Hong Kong art auction market, Christie's Nov. 28 International Hong Kong evening sale showed. The London-based auction house sold ...

Auction watch: High-quality artwork highlights Dec. 5 sale in Regent Square
Berkovitz points to Richard Lin's “12.12.63,” as a prime example of the renaissance in Chinese contemporary art. Born on the island nation of Taiwan and educated in England, Lin created minimalist pieces using metals and plastic on canvas. The work on ...

The Weird, Sketchy History Of Internet Cafes
It was part of a commission for an art event called “Towards the Aesthetics of the Future” at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London. Soon after .... Also this year, a 26-year-old woman in China gave birth while in an internet cafe toilet ...

Prisoner of Cultural Revolution receives posthumous celebration
The Mu Xin Museum, which the artist helped plan before his death, stands out among the raft of property developer-funded contemporary art institutions driving China's museum boom. Such projects “are big, have money and energy, but don't know what ...

13 Getaways on Less Than $25 a Day
... and is a good place to pick up souvenirs like ceramic teapots and kitschy t-shirts. The half-mile lane can get crowded—especially during major Chinese holidays like Spring Festival and the October golden week—but it is criss-crossed by much ...

The Art Newspaper China announces winners of its annual art award
The prize for best Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition went to Mobile M+'s Moving Images project, and top international exhibition in China went to William Kentridge's Notes Towards a Model Opera at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art. The Art ...

Curator double play: Crow Collection announces a pair of new appointments
Jacqueline Chao, a specialist in Chinese and Buddhist art, has taken a job as curator of Asian art at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, officials at the Dallas museum announced Monday. Chao comes to the Crow from the School of the Art Institute of ...

Hong Kong gears up for Mobile M+: Live Art
We are following the history of contemporary art movements which have already blurred boundaries. Artists are no longer just image- or object-makers working alone in the studio. Sometimes they produce something ephemeral by using their own body,” he ...

Faena Hotel evokes glory days of Miami Beach
A 30-foot-long red carpet leads into the “Cathedral,” a sweeping lobby lined with massive gold-leafed columns and edged with elaborate floor-to-ceiling murals depicting lush tropical scenes. The Living Room is a movie set of red leather armchairs ...

Christie's Hong Kong Asian contemporary art auction yields $95 million
Christie's currently holds sales in Asian 20th century and contemporary art, Chinese ceramics and works of art, Chinese classical and modern paintings, jewelry and jadeite, watches and fine wine. Christie's sales in Hong Kong typically take place in ...

Art Central returns in 2016 to Hong Kong Art Week
... Art (Beijing) highlights generations of contemporary Chinese art with names such as Shang Yang, Liang Quan, and Wei Dong; TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY (Osaka) exhibits Hirohito Nomoto, Kazumi Nakamura and the work of multimedia artist Satoru Tamura; ...



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