'Beautiful Disorder' at Cass Sculpture Foundation
Claire Shea: We began discussing the possibility of an exhibition of Chinese contemporary art in 2012 when we were thinking about expanding our program to become international. Our founders, Wilfred & Jeannette, had travelled to China many times in the ...
(Jul 8, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Regime change: Art Santa Fe
Susan Weinreich (Booth 200) will display one of her first Rocky Mountain landscapes, as well as an eclectic assortment of pieces that represent her entire body of work, spanning 50 years, including some from when she was a teenager. In her oil ...
(Jul 8, 2016, Santa Fe New Mexican)
Cracking Art play in with plastic animals in XTD
“Animals landing” at XTD is the first installation by Cracking Art in China, designed for real contact with the local audience. It brings a wave of joy and regeneration to the city until the ... “Our activities are also founded on the idea that ...
(Jul 8, 2016, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
Eric Shiner leaving Warhol Museum for Sotheby's
When Eric Shiner interned at the Andy Warhol Museum in 1994, one his first tasks was to open boxes that were marked 'Fashion' that contained shirts, belts, leather jackets and other clothing that Warhol had bought new and immediately packed away as ...
(Jul 8, 2016, Tribune-Review)
Kansas City: Locals argue the best BBQ while visitors enjoy art, history and sparkling fountains
Senior curator Colin Mackenzie jokes that the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has enough Chinese camel sculptures for "our whole staff to ride away." The Chinese collection of more than 4,000 works is lorded over by "Guanyin of the Southern Sea," a ...
(Jul 8, 2016, Knoxville News Sentinel)
Warhol director Eric Shiner heading back to New York
Most recently, Shiner played a key role in bringing to Pittsburgh world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei for the opening of the Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, a new exhibition organized by The Warhol in partnership with the National Gallery of ...
(Jul 8, 2016, PGH City Paper)
Great expeditions: A report from the Edge of the World
All of Svalbard's past and present lives were conjured up for the purpose of our visit: a three-day international cross-disciplinary conference organised by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), and the Northern NorwayArt Museum (NNKM). Titled ...
(Jul 10, 2016, Ocula Magazine)
Trees, cubes, and human rights
This is the first time the work of the famous Chinese artist is on display in Cambridge and as such serves as a well-executed introduction to his diverse artistic praxis. It is hard to think of a better place in Cambridge for Ai Weiwei's eerie ... Ai ...
(Jul 10, 2016, Varsity Online)
Banned vagina calligrapher hits back at criticism by Chinese media
"I felt honored to have a governmental organisation remembering me, but ever since I began to do contemporary art in the late 80s, I never had anything to do with them." "The membership was just like a dead body, and I would like to thank them for ...
(Jul 10, 2016, Shanghaiist)
Discover Russia
From public to private, the Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art in Saint Petersburg boasts the largest collection of modern art in Russia. With over 2,300 works from the collections of 250 artists, the Erarta intends to exhibit the best of ...
(Jul 10, 2016, China Post)
Were Juan Luna and the Queen Regent of Spain an item?
Carved by “highly skilled Chinese artisans” in the Philippines, the furniture followed the spirit of European styles as much as “Luna and his colleagues, in studying art purposely, copied European masters, thus 'dovetailing' styles,” Manahan explained ...
(Jul 10, 2016, Inquirer.net)
Newest additions to Borusan Contemporary Art Collection on display at Perili Köşk
Located in the historic Perili Köşk (Haunted Mansion), the Borusan Contemporary gallery in Istanbul stands out for its vast collection of contemporary artists who lay bare the latest movements and developments in contemporary art. The gallery is ...
(Jul 10, 2016, Daily Sabah)
Fang Wei's Vibrant Abstract Creations in Kuala Lumpur
Prior to that, he owned a printmaking facility, which catered to leading and record-breaking contemporary Chinese artists such as Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi, and Zhou Chunya. Fang also worked closely with Zhang Huan: he helped conceive his famous ash ...
(Jul 10, 2016, Blouin Artinfo (registration))
Heilongjiang Artist Hits China Art Association for Kicking Him Out Over Calligraphy Using Female Genital to Hold the ...
Heilongjiang Artist Hits China Art Association for Kicking Him Out Over Calligraphy Using Female Genital to Hold the ...
(Jul 11, 2016, YIBADA English)
In A Chinese Port Town, South China Sea Dispute Is Personal
"For thousands of years," Wang says, "fishermen have fished our ancestral sea, the South China Sea, with no more advanced technology than this book, a sailboat and a compass." The title can be roughly translated as The Book of Maritime Routes. Many ...
(Jul 11, 2016, WAMU 88.5)
PHOTOS: For #WorldPopulationDay, How Earth's 7 Billion Live
The 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest gives you an idea of how crowded a world of 7 billion can feel: People literally live on top of on another in China's high-rise dormitories. Yet there is still great solitude in some ...
(Jul 11, 2016, WAMU 88.5)
RICHARD VINE with David Ebony
An art-world murder mystery, SoHo Sins is the first novel from Richard Vine, Art in America's Managing Editor and an expert in the field of contemporary Chinese art. SoHo Sins is a noir-style crime-story set in the New York art world of the late 1980s ...
(Jul 11, 2016, Brooklyn Rail)
The authenticity in getting Caught with Christopher Chen
The genesis of Caught occurred when Chen took a trip to China in 2009 and visited 798 Art District in Beijing, which is devoted solely to Chinese contemporary art. “I was so taken aback when I walked through the streets because they seemed to be filled ...
(Jul 11, 2016, Brooklyn Rail)
On a roll: Toiletpaper builds car for BMW
If some sliver of the erudite contemporary art market—or Not Art market—is a joke, Cattelan is certainly not Not Laughing all the way to the Not Bank. 'There is a sense of self-determination that today's artists, from the well established to younger ...
(Jul 11, 2016, wallpaper.com)
Crafts Take A Giant Leap Forward
The activist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's one million ceramic sunflower seeds, exhibited several years ago at Mary Boone Gallery, are dramatic departures that triumphantly succeed on a high curatorial level that assimilate the time honored energy and ...
(Jul 11, 2016, Huffington Post)
LUC TUYMANS with Jarrett Earnest
... year: Control (2007), the biopic about Ian Curtis, which was really good, No Country For Old Men (2007) by the Coen brothers, and then you have There Will Be Blood (2007) by Paul Thomas Anderson—those three films did something which contemporary ...
(Jul 11, 2016, Brooklyn Rail)
Six things to see before the Chinese art exhibition ends in Qatar
There are only a few days left to catch an exhibition that brings together the work of 15 Chinese artists in Qatar. “What about the Art,” which implicitly includes social, political and cultural commentary about China from the artists, has been on ...
(Jul 12, 2016, Doha News)
Liverpool Biennial 2016 Hits the Spot Between Eccentric and Politically Engaged Freewheeling performances and ...
Liverpool Biennial 2016 Hits the Spot Between Eccentric and Politically Engaged Freewheeling performances and ...
(Jul 12, 2016, artnet News)
Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei
This show offers, then, the prospect of a creative confrontation between two major figures from very different artistic traditions and presents an important question: how, exactly, are Western contemporary artistic traditions adapted when they migrate ...
(Jul 12, 2016, Brooklyn Rail)
Nan Liu: An Artist's Cross-Cultural Journey
His current exhibition at The LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts, Nan Liu's Cross-Cultural Perspective, displays the artist's works in a wide variety of media—including drawings, watercolors, oils and brush-painted Chinese scrolls—and also features ...
(Jul 12, 2016, Huffington Post)
Cornell inaugurates new collaboration in China
The program, “Visual Culture, Media Theory, Arts Practice,” will explore contemporary international debates in and across media studies, visual studies, literary studies, philosophy and contemporary art with daily seminars and lectures, and visits to ...
(Jul 12, 2016, Cornell Chronicle)
An Opera That Springs From China but Laps Distant Shores
In 2012, she installed a work, “Hanging Garden in Ink,” with plants painted black, based on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. And she began thinking more broadly about gardens: the one where Du ...
(Jul 12, 2016, New York Times)
Hirshhorn art collection stays in Naples
More than 400 works of modern and contemporary art that the late Olga Hirshhorn brought to her home in Naples will stay here as her estate's gift to The Baker Museum. Artis—Naples CEO and President Kathleen van Bergen announced the gift Tuesday ...
(Jul 12, 2016, Naples Daily News)
Who Are the Super-Sized Art Collectors?
Contemporary art is big business. It's also in the business of big: Collectors are ever more interested in snapping up the kind of massive, statement-making sculpture and installation work that formerly was the specialty of only the mightiest of ...
(Jul 13, 2016, artnet News)
10 Great Art Documentaries To Watch This Summer
Troublemakers follows the story of the renegade artists who risked their careers to radically change the perception of what could be classified as art, which is the polar opposite of the speculative, money-driven contemporary art world of today ...
(Jul 13, 2016, artnet News)
Cornell launches new humanities collaboration in China
The program, “Visual Culture, Media Theory, Arts Practice,” will explore contemporary international debates in and across media studies, visual studies, literary studies, philosophy and contemporary art with daily seminars and lectures, and visits to ...
(Jul 13, 2016, Cornell Chronicle)
Dakis Joannou
Nor does it appear on the foundation he established 33 years ago as DESTE, a Greek word for "look" and an acronym for International and Greek Contemporary Art. Interestingly, he founded DESTE before he started collecting. That happened in 1985, when he ...
(Jul 13, 2016, Interview)
Nonprofit news: Young patients' artwork featured in Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville exhibit
Art with a Heart in Healthcare attempts to lessen children's fear, pain, boredom and depression by providing art sessions during their stay in the hospital, according to a news release from the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. The museum is ...
(Jul 13, 2016, Jacksonville Daily Record)
Outdoor piece marks Laumeier's anniversary
The large-scale artwork was gifted to Laumeier's Permanent Collection by the Brazilian artist and CRG Gallery, New York, following exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) as the fifth MCA Plaza Project. The sculpture is now on view ...
(Jul 13, 2016, The Edwardsville Intelligencer)
Alibaba Teams With the Suzhou Museum for Fashion Show and Taobao Launch
While the exact number of attendees could not be determined, more than three million people interacted online during the show, according to a spokesman for the museum, which specializes in ancient Chinese art, calligraphy and handmade crafts ...
(Jul 13, 2016, WWD)
Private Beijing art gallery UCCA at a turning point as owner Guy Ullens puts it up for sale
There were 26 privately held contemporary art museums in the mainland when research companies Larry's List and Artron published their Private Art Museum Report in January. Private museums are such new endeavours in China that UCCA is counted ...
(Jul 13, 2016, South China Morning Post)
Young artist has Sir Patrick Stewart as fan
Glasgow-based Frank said: “As I'm from Chinese descent, gunpowder and black powder plays a major role in my culture. "The Chinese ... The Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition has a long history of celebrating the best of contemporary art. After ...
(Jul 14, 2016, Glasgow Evening Times)
Rio Olympics 2016: Australia aiming for 16 gold medals, says Kitty Chiller
Ambitious: Australian chef de mission Kitty Chiller speaks during the Australian Olympic Games rugby sevens team announcement at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Thursday. Photo: Brendon Thorne. They are ranked No.1 in the world as the ...
(Jul 14, 2016, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Ball pits, buskers and 'ninja gardeners': This business conference is a circus.
It's somewhere a contemporary art exhibit or alternative rock show would feel right. ... One woman, a 26-year-old commodities trader from China, just saw the event as a vacation (there's a beer garden and many gourmet food trucks). The CEO of Montreal ...
(Jul 14, 2016, Washington Post)
How to add a splash of Rio to your home's summer style
Brazil's complex cultural tapestry — woven with threads from indigenous Indian tribes, Portuguese conquerors and a wide array of settlers hailing from the likes of Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and China — might have blended uncomfortably into a ...
(Jul 14, 2016, Washington Post)
London Art Week: a round-up of sales
As well as these Old Master sales, van Haeften also sold two paintings by contemporary Chinese painter Song Yu (b.1973) which had asking prices of €55,000 and €25,000. Stephen Ongpin – the Mason's Yard works on paper specialist made 15 sales across ...
(Jul 14, 2016, antiquestradegazette.com)
International: Tuscan wineries offer art 'treasure hunt'
'They contemplate contemporary art in the shadow of ancient cellars while savouring new [olive] oil and tasting aging wine.' Image: map of Tuscan winery art tour. The participating wineries are Castello di Ama, Castello di Brolio, Castello di Volpaia ...
(Jul 14, 2016, Decanter China)
Art exhibition a reminder of summer's splendor, allure
Avoiding the ambiguous nature that some contemporary art ventures toward, “Fireflowers” reminds the viewers of the allures of summer. Canadian Martin Kemble, director of Art Labor, recounts his tale of diaspora, which is also prevalent in the roots of ...
(Jul 14, 2016, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
28 Documentaries For People Who Just Want To Watch Netflix This Summer
You do not need to appreciate the intricacies of the contemporary art world to appreciate the wonder that is Marina Abramovic, a performance artist born in the former Yugoslavia who once spent over 700 hours staring at strangers inside New York's ...
(Jul 14, 2016, Huffington Post)
China Is Clamping Down on Foreign Arts Organizations
Late last month, Guy Ullens broke the news that he plans to sell the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), one of the most renowned private museums in China. The announcement cast an uncertain future over the Beijing institution. And it raised ...
(Jul 14, 2016, Artsy)
Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan
The first edition of the Yinchuan Biennale which will open on September 9, 2016 with the participation of 74 artists from 33 countries including China and will culminate on December 18, 2016. The YC Biennale 2016 is contextualizing some of the most ...
(Jul 15, 2016, E-Flux)
SITE biennial Eye on the Americas: SITE Santa Fe's new biennial exhibition
Mariana Castillo Deball's Who would measure the space, who will tell me the time? is an arch meditation on the intersection of contemporary art with popular art mediums, Mexican identity, narrative, archaeology, and museum display practice. The work is ...
(Jul 15, 2016, Santa Fe New Mexican)
36 Hours in Seoul
And every year brings exciting developments like the new Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, which opened in late 2013, and the Zaha Hadid-designed Dongdaemun Design Plaza, which opened in 2014 and last year hosted the ...
(Jul 15, 2016, New York Times)
Aix, Arles and Avignon — cultural powerhouses
On my visit last weekend Mozart was followed by Chinese conceptualist film-maker Cheng Ren; forthcoming events range from a showing of Jacques Demy's 1967 musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort to a night walk illuminated by Tatsuo Miyajima's ephemeral ...
(Jul 15, 2016, Financial Times)
The LA Gallery Scene, Perfectly Summed Up in Five Neighborhoods "It's constantly in flux," one gallerist admits.
In a city as large and diverse as Los Angeles the art scene has never had a traditional center to call its home. “The art scene has always moved a lot,” Ben Thornborough, director of Regen Projects said, “it's constantly in flux.” As such the city's ...
(Jul 15, 2016, artnet News)
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