Australian art dealer extraordinaire Ray Hughes passes away
Australian art dealer Ray Hughes, known for his unerring eye for art, passed away on December 7, 2017, at the age of 72. Hughes was a pioneer of contemporary Chinese art and was renowned for hosting lunches at the Ray Hughes Gallery, surrounded by ...
(Dec 12, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Avant-garde artist Huang Rui's studio opens to the public
(Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn). The 3,000-square meter space was built near the 798 Art Zone on the site of an abandoned waste yard. Construction work started in 2006 and it took Huang almost 10 years to finish, using up to 200,000 ancient ...
(Dec 12, 2017, ecns)
Ai Weiwei to deliver Biennale of Sydney keynote address
Artspace will include Flemish painter Michael Borremans, Indian artist Tanya Goel, China's Geng Xue, and Vietnam's Tiffany Chung. Carriageworks at Eveleigh will display the work of artists including UK-based duo, Semiconductor, Vietnam's Trinh Thi ...
(Dec 12, 2017, Daily Telegraph)
A Sputnik year for America, from China
Architecture: The breakneck pace of construction and light regulation over the past decades have allowed foreign architects to build some of the world's most audacious buildings in China. Young Chinese architects have soaked up global influences and ...
(Dec 12, 2017, SupChina)
Ai Weiwei is taking over the Sydney Biennale with a massive inflatable sculpture
The Biennale of Sydney today announced its complete line-up for 2018, with 69 artists from Australia and around the world showing work at seven venues: Art Gallery of NSW, Artspace, Carriageworks, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia ...
(Dec 13, 2017, Time Out)
Ray Hughes farewelled with announcement of gift to AGNSW
At the memorial event, attended by artists, art collectors, friends, family and colleagues, Ray Hughes was painted by speakers as “joyous, curious, demanding and generous”, someone whose passion and enthusiasm was to discover intriguing art and to ...
(Dec 13, 2017, Daily Telegraph)
YARAT to host new group exhibition
YARAT Contemporary Art Space invites you to enjoy a new group show "Crumbling down, up and up we climb" from December 15 to February 18. The exhibition explores attitudes towards cultural histories and monumentality as well as the constant human ...
(Dec 13, 2017, AzerNews)
CAFA Art Museum exhibitions works of Chines artist Wang Qi
The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Art Museum is currently hosting an exhibition of art by Wang Qi, one of the most important figures in Chinese contemporary art history. "Wang's rich experience, theories and accomplishments mean he can be called ...
(Dec 13, 2017, Global Times)
Sydney Opera House right on song for Biennale artist Oliver Beer
The most famous is Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei who will present his immense installation, Law of the Journey, on Cockatoo Island. The work is an inflatable boat with 250 human figures representing refugees. Ai will give the Biennale keynote ...
(Dec 13, 2017, Daily Telegraph)
One day, one place: Beijing blooms with modern art
Besides the surprisingly gritty murals, graffiti and outdoor installations, check out the latest cutting-edge exhibitions at powerhouses such as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the newly relocated Red Gate Gallery or the Beijing branch of ...
(Dec 13, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle)
One day, one place: Beijing blooms with modern art
Besides the surprisingly gritty murals, graffiti and outdoor installations, check out the latest cutting-edge exhibitions at powerhouses such as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the newly relocated Red Gate Gallery or the Beijing branch of ...
(Dec 13, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle)
Paris welcomes cultural initiative Operation Panda
The piece of art will be exhibited at the Christmas market for the holiday season before traveling to Beauval Zoo, the French zoo where pandas are on loan to France from China. In June 2018, the art work will take part in the contemporary art fair ...
(Dec 13, 2017, Xinhua)
Dorine, Barbara, Kathy
Among my first tasks as Curator of Contemporary Art, Time-based Media at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was to make sense of the museum's history and holdings, which after nearly 143 years of collecting totals around 90,000 objects, with its time-based ...
(Dec 13, 2017, Brooklyn Rail)
Take It Down!
Faced with the threat of a boycott, the Dr. Seuss Museum chose to paint out the offending Chinese figure, which had been part of the author's first children's book, And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street, published in 1937. Sam Durant's 2012 ...
(Dec 13, 2017, Commonweal)
Sidewalk Cracks: Contemporary Chinese Art Has a Laugh
Sidewalk Cracks: Contemporary Chinese Art Has a Laugh. Two exhibits by contemporary Chinese artists takes China's enormous transformation as a jumping-off point to interrogate globalization, commercialism, and form itself. Jonathan Curiel; Wed Dec 13th ...
(Dec 13, 2017, SF Weekly)
The golden age of VR
... including a function to take a selfie with a favourite work of art — and without some of the downsides. “As the technology continues to improve, you can really see the brushwork, the cracks, everything. Anyone can visit, from anywhere and you don ...
(Dec 14, 2017, Financial Times)
Art | Reviewers' picks of 2017
The Lock-Up continues to cement its position as Newcastle's leading contemporary art space. Strong exhibitions from progressive local artists, work from internationally recognised headliners such as Shaun Gladwell, and performance and musical pieces ...
(Dec 14, 2017, Newcastle Herald)
Final Weeks of Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, On View Through January 7, 2018
Now in its final weeks at the Guggenheim Museum, until January 7, 2018, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is a major survey of contemporary art from China spanning 1989 to 2008. Presenting work by 71 key artists and groups active across ...
(Dec 14, 2017, WebWire (press release))
The year in visual art was a dizzying reflection of today - Chicago ...
The year in visual art was a dizzying reflection of today - Chicago ...
(Dec 14, 2017, Chicago Tribune)
5 Video Works Selected to Exhibit at the 2018 US Venice Biennale Pavilion
... lives and works in New York. Through film, architectural installation, and sculpture, she illuminates the connections among seemingly unrelated economies. Collapsing geographies and narratives, Rottenberg weaves documentary elements with fiction ...
(Dec 14, 2017, ArchDaily)
The Best Art Books of 2017
Until just a few years ago, a reference to the Los Angeles contemporary art scene in the 1960s and '70s meant a bunch of white guys hanging out at the Ferus Gallery. In 2011, an exhibition called “Now Dig This: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 ...
(Dec 14, 2017, New York Times)
SOTA: Public Granted an Intimate Look Into Noted Beijing Artist's ...
SOTA: Public Granted an Intimate Look Into Noted Beijing Artist's ...
(Dec 15, 2017, The Beijinger (blog))
SOTA: Public Granted an Intimate Look Into Noted Beijing Artist's ...
SOTA: Public Granted an Intimate Look Into Noted Beijing Artist's ...
(Dec 15, 2017, The Beijinger (blog))
Star Chinese artist opens studio as free public space - Ecns.cn
Chinese artist Huang Rui opens his Cloud House in Jiangtai County in northeast Beijing. (Photo/CGTN). Huang Rui, one of the founding members of the Chinese contemporary art movement, raised a lot of eyebrows when he relocated his studio from Beijing's ...
(Dec 15, 2017, ecns)
Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power. She Uses It for Change.
She pushes buttons as she spins parables. Her work has never been more recognized or relevant: This year she became the first female artist to top the British magazine ArtReview's Power 100 list; her “Liquidity Inc.” show opened on Dec. 13 at the ...
(Dec 15, 2017, New York Times)
Traditional Chinese art forms inspire Greenwich artist's modern approach
For the next four years, he established a following in Beijing, becoming involved with the international residency program at Red Gate Gallery, China's first contemporary art gallery. He established a studio in the 798 Art District, an international ...
(Dec 15, 2017, CT Post)
Traditional Chinese art forms inspire Greenwich artist's modern approach
For the next four years, he established a following in Beijing, becoming involved with the international residency program at Red Gate Gallery, China's first contemporary art gallery. He established a studio in the 798 Art District, an international ...
(Dec 15, 2017, CT Post)
New Greenway Commissioned Sculptures by Street Artist Aakash Nihalani
Nihalani's new works will join four already on display on The Greenway: Spaces Of Hope, painted by artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo, the fifth Greenway Wall mural at Dewey Square Park; Make and Take by Chris Templeman, an in-park 3D-printer running 24 hours a ...
(Dec 15, 2017, NorthEndWaterfront.com)
Auction Preview: Sale Arts & Editions: Contemporary Art - Comic Strip - Art Deco - Design -Street Art - Photos ...
Auction Preview: Sale Arts & Editions: Contemporary Art - Comic Strip - Art Deco - Design -Street Art - Photos ...
(Dec 16, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Winter visual arts: Flurry of exhibits in Hampton Roads
This exceptional exhibit of Spanish and Portuguese colonial art organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art celebrates the rich artistic interaction between Europe and Latin America during the 1700s through more than 100 examples of devotional art and ...
(Dec 16, 2017, Daily Press)
Gender gambit
Dec 17, 2017-The sun had already set and a light evening mist was drifting in on the crowd waiting outside the Siddhartha Art Gallery last Sunday, when 'Nari Satranj' finally opened to the public. It is the latest offering from the studio of Nepal's ...
(Dec 17, 2017, The Kathmandu Post)
Identity is a hot button topic at Richard Koh Fine Art group show
The final exhibition for the year at KL's Richard Koh Fine Art is a group show featuring the works of four strong-willed Malaysian artists, loosely linked by the issues they address. In Here We Are, Bibi Chew, Minstrel Kuik, Nadiah Bamadhaj and ...
(Dec 18, 2017, Star2.com)
Thanks to one man's collection, Jakarta now has a world-class museum
For a city of its huge size - 10 million people - and economic heft, Jakarta has lacked many things one might expect of a thriving Asian metropolis: a metro system, for one, as well as a major international modern and contemporary art museum. The metro ...
(Dec 18, 2017, Brisbane Times)
8 events happening in Dundee this December and January 2018
Here Was Elsewhere >>FFWD Shown throughout 2017 at the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum in China as part of the Cooper Gallery's international Current: Contemporary Art from Scotland project, this group show returns to Scotland with some of the most high ...
(Dec 18, 2017, The List)
The tycoon who transformed Jakarta's art scene
Now Indonesian tycoon Haryanto Adikoesoemo is bailing Jakarta out of the cultural desert with the opening last month of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, also known as Museum Macan. It boasts items from 800 contemporary and modern ...
(Dec 18, 2017, The Straits Times)
New museum celebrates modern China art
The Powerlong is committed to bringing contemporary Chinese art back into the lives of ordinary people. The 23,000-square-meter museum has 10 exhibition halls. It was built on Xu's personal art collection, which he said he donated to the museum to ...
(Dec 19, 2017, ecns)
New museum celebrates modern China art
The Powerlong is committed to bringing contemporary Chinese art back into the lives of ordinary people. The 23,000-square-meter museum has 10 exhibition halls. It was built on Xu's personal art collection, which he said he donated to the museum to ...
(Dec 19, 2017, ecns)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Further world-premiere highlights commissioned by the NGV and other major acquisitions include: Ron Mueck (Australia), Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Xu Zhen (China), Guo Pei (China), Sissel Tolaas (Norway), Alexandra Kehayoglou (Argentina), Candice Breitz ...
(Dec 19, 2017, E-Flux)
Huge showcase of Brazilian and Chinese artwork comes to Beijing Minsheng Art Museum
In the eyes of Marcos Caramuru de Paiva, the Brazilian ambassador to China, the exhibition featuring the art of 21 Brazilian and 21 Chinese artists is "one of the most important Brazilian cultural events in China." Chinese curator Bao Dong said that he ...
(Dec 19, 2017, Global Times)
Shanghai inspires the world with its abundant modern art
Most art historians agree that Chinese modern art began after the first and second Opium Wars (1840-42 and 1856-60). Contemporary Chinese art is understood to have been produced after 1976. In ancient times, Chinese art initially focused on the aspect ...
(Dec 19, 2017, Global Times)
Jewish Museum's Jens Hoffmann Out After Investigation Into Sexual Harassment
As this is an internal and confidential matter, we will not be sharing further details.' Hoffmann carried the title of director of special exhibitions and public programmes at the institution, which he has been with since 2012 (serving as deputy ...
(Dec 19, 2017, frieze.com)
'Mirroring China's Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes' at The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago will soon be hosting an exhibition titled “Mirroring China's Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes.” The show features Chinese bronzes from the second and first millennia BC. These artifacts were used to carry sacrificial ...
(Dec 19, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
55 Best Lesser Known Art Museums, Artist Studios, and Art Centers in Northeast USA
Portland: Portland Museum of Art. Winslow Homer first exhibited here in 1893, and since then this human-scale world-class museum has focused on American/Maine artists, American and French impressionists, contemporary art, and the decorative arts. Not ...
(Dec 19, 2017, HuffPost)
Documents of Memory: Yin Xiuzhen's “Back to the End” at Pace, Beijing
A leading female figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing) began her career in the early 1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in Beijing where she received a B.A. in oil painting from the Fine Arts ...
(Dec 19, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
'I Don't Really Collect Art. I Trade Art.'
“It's a memory bank,” he said on a recent morning, before using his iPhone to snap a photo of that day's work — a painting of a potential sports facility in Moscow — and email it to his staff in New York, Russia and China. That making art is integral ...
(Dec 19, 2017, New York Times)
Geoff Raby's eulogy for Ray Hughes: Art dealer opened our eyes to Chinese works
As such, he was the most unlikely person to have chanced upon the nascent Chinese contemporary art scene in the late 1990s. Yet his introduction of contemporary Chinese art to Australia is his most significant legacy. He opened for Australians a window ...
(Dec 19, 2017, The Australian Financial Review)
Zhang Huan
ON A HOT SUMMER DAY in 1994, Chinese artist Zhang Huan sat down in a public restroom, covered himself in honey and fish oil, and waited as flies collected on his skin. This act of performance art immediately placed him at the center of Beijing's East ...
(Dec 20, 2017, Blouinartinfo UK)
A banner art year in a time of dread
Another closing that occurred this year was General Public Collective, a storefront gallery facing the Murphy Art Center that had shows covering the whole range of contemporary art from WTF to inspired/museum-worthy, sometimes in the same show. In the ...
(Dec 20, 2017, NUVO)
Art Industry News: Famed Artist Chuck Close Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct + More Must-Read Stories
Liu Yiqian Sets Another Chinese Auction Record – The billionaire collector Liu Yiqian, the founder of China's Long Museum, bought an oil painting by Chen Yifei for $22 million at a China Guardian sale, setting a new auction record for a work of ...
(Dec 20, 2017, artnet News)
A Year Of Digital Innovation At Sotheby's
... November Contemporary Art Day Sale in New York. November 2017 was Sotheby's biggest month ever for online sales at Sotheby's, with a 91% increase year-on-year. About Sotheby's Sotheby's has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art ...
(Dec 20, 2017, PR Newswire (press release))
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