In Shenzhen-Hong Kong bienniale, the urban village is the main attraction
Visitors inspect installations such as WEGO, by The Why Factory and MVRDV, a 9-meter-high architectural folly transplanted from an Eindhoven square where it debuted during last year's Dutch Design Week, or Pingheng, Understanding Chinese Reality, a ...
(Feb 9, 2018, The Architect's Newspaper)
Local art market gloomy
The press conference at Art Stage this year conveyed a sense of pessimism about the local art market which was not picked up in the report. Apart from Chan Hori Contemporary Art mentioned in the article, a number of prominent local galleries, including ...
(Feb 9, 2018, The Straits Times)
Frederieke Sanders Taylor, a champion of NYC architecture and artists, has passed away at 77
As in her own collection, her exhibits were wide-ranging, covering not only conceptual contemporary art and design in the traditional media of painting and photography, but also design, architecture, and installation. Her roster of artists have ...
(Feb 9, 2018, The Architect's Newspaper)
Power Station of Art
Given the centrality that the development of China and Chinese cultural production has in defining the complexity of our current world, the Shanghai Biennale appears as an ideal place to show both the role of contemporary art as a critical sensibility ...
(Feb 10, 2018, E-Flux)
India Art Fair 2018
Blain | Southern, which has branches in London and Berlin, has witnessed a growth in the number of Indian collectors over the past decade, especially those with an interest in Western contemporary art. “Since our largest gallery is based in London we ...
(Feb 10, 2018, HarpersBazaarArabia)
Dhaka Art Summit 2018: The most unusual 'must-see' on the global art circuit
Since its beginnings in 2012 the summit has grown in stature, becoming the most unusual "must-see" on the global art circuit. It owes some of its popularity to the fact that contemporary art is stratified between the huge prices paid for work by ...
(Feb 11, 2018, The Age)
Art Geneve A Pleasant Encounter By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Followed by their space dedicated to contemporary art called Espace Muraille which is hosting an exhibition by Olafur Eliasson. It is undoubtedly one of my favourite exhibitions in Geneva. It attests of Eliasson's research on time, perception, space ...
(Feb 11, 2018, ArtLyst)
Frederieke Taylor, Gallery Owner With Eclectic Taste, Dies at 77
Frederieke Taylor, a collector, curator and administrator who exhibited her eclectic taste in contemporary art and architecture at the gallery she co-founded in Soho in 1993, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 77. Her daughter Martien Halvorson ...
(Feb 11, 2018, New York Times)
A dog's life for Sydney's Chinese New Year
Celebrating the Year of the Dog, the city's 22nd Chinese New Year Festival starts on Friday night, with up to 1.4 million people expected to attend. As part of the Lunar Lanterns exhibition, two giant dog lanterns will be suspended in Chinatown, with ...
(Feb 12, 2018, Daily Mail)
Art on show as Chinese culture comes to town
The very best of Chinese contemporary art is on display in Liverpool, just steps away from the new Terracotta Warriors exhibit which opened last week. The exhibition can be found at the Heritage Centre of Liverpool's St George's Hall, featuring ...
(Feb 12, 2018, JMU Journalism Liverpool Life)
Hedge fund billionaire to show part of art collection during Art Basel Hong Kong – to educate public about a ...
Hedge fund billionaire to show part of art collection during Art Basel Hong Kong – to educate public about a ...
(Feb 12, 2018, South China Morning Post)
What Is the Undercommons? 5 Big Ideas You Need to Know to Understand the New Museum Triennial
The curators speak a lot about the value of “localized gestures, actions, and dialogues” (weirdly a priority of Facebook too these days); they promise works that “serve as calls to action against the systems of domination and exploitation ...
(Feb 12, 2018, artnet News)
Rollercoasters, Crumbling Walls, and Dead Seagrass: A Few Highlights from the 2018 New Museum Triennial
Those very photos comprise part of For Who Is the Loveliest Guy, a coaster-centric 2014 installation by the Chinese artist Song Ta, now on view in New York at the 2018 New Museum Triennial, which had its press preview this morning. For the piece, the ...
(Feb 12, 2018, ARTnews)
The Masterful, History-Making Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama
Their bold and conceptual style marked a departure from the choices of previous presidents who have opted for more traditional artists, spurning those favored by the contemporary art mainstream. But if the selections were a departure from history, so ...
(Feb 12, 2018, Artsy)
Take Five offers students free path to pursuing passions
... electrical and computer engineering, and health policy. Sorrells's program is called Chinese Language and Culture. “I choose that because I like to be challenged, and it was something new and completely unfamiliar to me,” she says. “And because ...
(Feb 12, 2018, University of Rochester (press release) (blog))
MGM China opens MGM Cotai resort today
MGM China (2282) is formally opening its latest resort, the HK$27 billion, 1,400-room MGM Cotai in Macau today, just in time for the Lunar New Year. MGM China says, the resort will redefine the way people experience art and entertainment through ...
(Feb 13, 2018, Hong Kong Standard (press release))
Chinese ink painter turns to rock as new medium of expression
A man of few words, he says he likes tea, classical music and reading, especially Chinese philosophy. He says being a Chinese ink painter doesn't mean he is out of the contemporary art scene. What he represents is an exploration of Chinese art's ...
(Feb 13, 2018, China.org.cn)
State of Art: A Chronicle of Hong Kong Art Week
A floating tree scuplture takes centrestage at the Audemars Piguet lounge, designed by the Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz, where we pop in for tea. It pays homage to Le Brassus, home of Audemar Piguet's Manufacture and symbolises the brand's deeply ...
(Feb 13, 2018, Philippine Tatler)
The UK has seen an increase in visits from China
chinese new year in soho london The UK has seen an increase in visits from China, and is ready to welcome more visitors ahead of Chinese New Year. The UK saw strong growth from China during the first nine months of 2017 with spending up 48% and visits ...
(Feb 13, 2018, FTNnews.com (press release))
Did Obama's Portraitist Paint an Image of a Black Woman Holding the Severed Head of a White Person?
Wiley, who has described his own visual style as “bombastic, syrupy, and garish,” is celebrated in the contemporary art world for his large-scale portraits of black and brown men and women striking heroic poses modeled on those of aristocrats in ...
(Feb 13, 2018, Snopes.com)
Why Catherine Kwai is obsessed with the underdogs of the art world
“I didn't think I was really involved in Chinese contemporary art, because we had Hanart, who presented them already. So I started to be involved because I wanted to help them. I really felt that this was another kind of artist, and they were so ...
(Feb 14, 2018, Prestige Online)
Why Marrakech is North Africa's newest art hub
Marrakech looks like it has been coloured-in using a child's paint box. The winding medina streets are a dusky pink, and jasmine, cactus and bougainvillea-filled courtyards shimmer under the deep blue sky. But while the Moroccan city has been ...
(Feb 14, 2018, The Independent)
Chippendale: From drugs, crime and prostitution to one of Sydney's hippest suburbs
Since the early 2000s, Chippendale, once a dangerous no-go zone, has happily evolved as a place to venture for its cutting-edge art scene, culminating in the 2009 opening of one of Australia's most interesting privately funded public museums: The White ...
(Feb 14, 2018, Domain News)
Hong Kong Celebrates Arts Month with Art Basel and other Distinctive Art Events Throughout the City
As a result of the gathering of Hong Kong creative community, visitors will find the area full of spaces to enjoy pottery, sculpture, Chinese calligraphy, and contemporary art, amongst others. Join Fotan Open Studios on March 31 for the opportunity to ...
(Feb 14, 2018, GlobeNewswire (press release))
UNSW appoints inaugural Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art
It is aimed at developing new knowledge and a better critical understanding of the global significance of contemporary art and culture. Professor Ross Harley, Dean of UNSW Art & Design, congratulated Professor Gladston: “As the inaugural recipient of ...
(Feb 14, 2018, UNSW Newsroom)
Art in Costa Rica: 4 women who changed the story
Lola Fernández Caballero. Born in 1926, she is a Colombian-Costa Rican painter. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Costa Rica. She is specialized in oil and fresco at the National University of Bogotá. She studied ...
(Feb 14, 2018, The Costa Rica News)
SCAD deFINEART samples diverse contemporary works from around the world
“It's an international moment for us as well… It's a chance to reflect on our student body, but also think in terms of Savannah and what we bring here.” The range of exhibitions included in this year's deFINE presents a chance to sample the diversity ...
(Feb 15, 2018, Do Savannah)
Stagecoach celebrates Liverpool's Chinese connection
Running from February to October, China Dream is being delivered in three specially curated chapters featuring a combination of ancient discoveries against dynamic contemporary art. As the city hosts one of the world's oldest and iconic exhibitions ...
(Feb 15, 2018, Bdaily)
How will Chinese New Year 2018 be celebrated in the UK? From London's parade to Manchester and Newcastle events
How is Chinese New Year being celebrated in Liverpool? Liverpool will spend three days celebrating the Year of the Dog, from Friday, February 16 to Sunday, February 18. Chinatown, Berry Street, William Brown Street and Bold Street will be central to ...
(Feb 15, 2018, The Sun)
UK art treasures will be lost overseas unless unless museums get more funds
Prices for contemporary art “have been inflated to stratospheric levels by the advent of new billionaire purchasers from China, Russia, South Asia and the Middle East,” the report, written by historian Sir David Cannadine found. “Meanwhile, the museums ...
(Feb 15, 2018, iNews)
Art Industry News: Does the 5Pointz Decision Actually Hurt Graffiti Artists? + More Must-Read Stories
Metropolitan Museum Curatorial Position Endowed – Lawyer and art collector Aaron I. Fleischman has endowed a curatorial position in the Met's department of modern and contemporary art. Ian Alteveer, who has been working at the museum since 2006, is the ...
(Feb 15, 2018, artnet News)
What Does Discrimination Look Like?
Fan Club by Houston artist Mel Chin commemorates this episode. Fashioned from sliced fragments of a baseball bat, the piece mimics the appearance of the Japanese flag with a strip of silk stretched across the fan-like segments with a dark circle of ...
(Feb 15, 2018, Houstonia Magazine)
Art Sales at Auction on the Rise
Keeping Heritage out of that percentage mix, a whopping 29.3 percent of those totals came from the postwar and contemporary-art sector, according to the London-based art data firm Art Tactic, while impressionist and modern art accounted for 21.5 ...
(Feb 15, 2018, Robb Report)
Who Is Threatened by Women Who Curate Political Art?
The former director of the Walker Art Center, Olga Viso, resigned shortly after a controversy over Sam Durant's depiction of historical gallows garnered was resolved with members of the Dakota Nation. And even before the Institute for Contemporary Art ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Melbourne Art Fair announces galleries and commission
MAF has also announced that Philip Tinari, Director of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing will be the Melbourne Art Week Keynote speaker, presented on Tuesday 31 July, 6.30pm at Deakin Edge, Fed Square, Melbourne in association with the ...
(Feb 16, 2018, ArtsHub)
Opera Featuring Music Composed by Cornell Professor Gains Global Acclaim
In 2003 he was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship to China and he holds a Doctor of Music degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2013, he curated 30 works by emerging Chinese-born composers for a series at Beijing's Ullens Center for ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun)
How is Chinese New Year 2018 celebrated in the UK? From London's parade to Manchester and Newcastle's events
How is Chinese New Year being celebrated in Liverpool? Liverpool will spend three days celebrating the Year of the Dog, from Friday, February 16 to Sunday, February 18. Chinatown, Berry Street, William Brown Street and Bold Street will be central to ...
(Feb 16, 2018, The Sun)
Things to do with the kids this weekend in Greater Manchester
With Chinese New Year taking place, the city has plenty of events and celebrations planned to mark the Year of the Dog. As well as the big parade in Manchester city centre on Sunday, there are loads of other activities taking place. On Saturday there ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Manchester Evening News)
Gabrielle Ammann: A journey into Asia
For a number of years, I have worked with artists, photographers and designers from China, as well as with the Seoul-based creative team Wolfs + Jung, made up of Emmanuel Wolfs from Belgium and Boyoung Jung from South Korea. I've learned a great deal ...
(Feb 16, 2018, TL Magazine)
Full schedule: Liverpool's Chinese New Year celebrations
A weekend of spectacular Chinese New Year celebrations will get underway as Liverpool welcomes the Year of the Dog. From 7pm tonight (Friday 16 February) a three-day programme of entertainment will take place in the city as part of the Liverpool 2018 ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Your Move)
A to Z of Chinese New Year in Liverpool
E is for exhibition of Contemporary Chinese art. A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art is open to the public at St George's Hall. It features work from 19 emerging and established artists from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the diaspora ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Liverpool Echo)
A to Z of Chinese New Year in Liverpool
E is for exhibition of Contemporary Chinese art. A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art is open to the public at St George's Hall. It features work from 19 emerging and established artists from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the diaspora ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Liverpool Echo)
What To Do: Shake off that cabin fever
This event will feature a silent art auction offering a unique art collectors' opportunity to acquire contemporary Chinese art. Participating artists include Colette Fu, one-of-a-kind collapsible book artist based in Philadelphia who combines ...
(Feb 16, 2018, The Times of Chester County)
What To Do: Shake off that cabin fever | The Unionville Times
If you have kids and you're looking for different ways to help them deal with cabin fever, there are several good options. On Saturdays in February and March, Hagley Museum and Library (Route 141, Wilmington, Delaware, 302-658-2400, www.hagley.org ...
(Feb 16, 2018, The Unionville Times)
Restaurateur Michael Chow and Mr. Chow Celebrate 50 Years at the Center of Art and Dining
It's been half a century since Michael Chow, better known around the world as restaurateur Mr. Chow, opened the doors to his first eatery in London on Valentine's Day, 1968. “I'm still in denial it's been that long,” he says from his 57,000-square-foot ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Vanity Fair)
The Best Things to Do in Phoenix This Weekend
Help Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 East Second Street, celebrate three new exhibitions during a Spring Opening Reception from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, February 16. The free event is a chance to mingle with curators and fellow art lovers ...
(Feb 16, 2018, Phoenix New Times)
Thousands of carved woodblocks combine to animate 3-D 'Time Spy' at St. Louis Art Museum
“He creates these very surrealistic, nonlinear narratives,” says Hannah Klemm, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at the St. Louis Art Museum. “You want to put them into a story that makes sense.” But it's not supposed to, and that's ...
(Feb 17, 2018, STLtoday.com)
50 things to in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, February 18
Join Valentina Acevedo Montilla for a tour, in Spanish, of the current exhibitions at Contemporary Art Gallery. More than 35 Vancouver artists create original artwork using red envelopes as the canvas at Fortune Sound Club's Get Lucky Art Show. The ...
(Feb 17, 2018, Straight.com)
HK Arts Month to transform city into vibrant, edgy arts destination
Hidden within industrial buildings in the New Territories is Fo Tan, another up-and-coming art neighbourhood that is lesser known to visitors. Since 2000, it has been transformed from a predominantly industrial district into a vibrant artistic ...
(Feb 18, 2018, Star2.com)
The museums behind the murmurs of a Southeast Asian renaissance
Museums have always been both window and mirror: they provide a lens into our society while also functioning as a way to reflect upon our own lives. They have played an outsize role in shaping culture, often with political purpose; the National Palace ...
(Feb 18, 2018, South China Morning Post)
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