Denver Art Museum gets $3 million gift from Avenir Foundation to expand its ...
Denver Art Museum gets $3 million gift from Avenir Foundation to expand its ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Denver Post)
Chinese New Year
All participants and community members are invited to attend the museum's celebration, where they can receive free admission to the galleries, participate in many different arts and crafts activities, enter a raffle and learn about Chinese art and ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Kids to get creative at party for Chinese New Year at Color My World ...
Kids to get creative at party for Chinese New Year at Color My World ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Suburban Life Publications)
Work by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Coming to Washington
January 11, 2012 Work by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Coming to Washington VOA News A work by provocative Chinese sculptor Ai Weiwei will go on display at a museum in Washington. The Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery said on Tuesday that it will display Ai's ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Voice of America)
Gallery scene reflects China's rise
Local authorities still harassed artists and police would regularly raid exhibitions, pulling pictures off the walls. Political criticism was intermittently allowed in waves of loosening, followed by crackdown. Through it all, Chinese contemporary art ...
(Jan 11, 2012, The Australian)
Scroll thought this treasure trove of Chinese history
The Better Link Press' book reproduction gives those with an interest in Chinese history a chance to enjoy this work of art now kept safely in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The scroll looks back almost a thousand years ago to the then-capital of China, ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Kansas City Star)
Profiting from the art boom
The performance of the [art] index was led by a strong contribution from traditional Chinese works, which rose 20.6 percent in 2011, as Chinese investors sought to repatriate cultural assets that had been sold to Western investors. China is a virtual ...
(Jan 11, 2012, MarketWatch)
Artist takes conflict work to China
A Belfast-based artist is to represent Northern Ireland at a Chinese art exhibition on women and conflict. Gail Ritchie's work will explore the impact on women during times of social and political upheaval. Her paintings, to be exhibited in March, ...
(Jan 11, 2012, The Press Association)
At This Show, Collectors Rule
Chinese-Indonesian tycoon Budi Tek, for example, or the Philippines' low-key Que family, who loaned a Alfredo Esquillo Jr. painting to the Singapore Art Museum's exhibit, keep their vast antiques and contemporary-art holdings out of view except when ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
At This Show, Collectors Rule
Chinese-Indonesian tycoon Budi Tek, for example, or the Philippines' low-key Que family, who loaned a Alfredo Esquillo Jr. painting to the Singapore Art Museum's exhibit, keep their vast antiques and contemporary-art holdings out of view except when ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
The US Market for Arts and Crafts to Exceed US$40 Billion by 2015, According ...
The US Market for Arts and Crafts to Exceed US$40 Billion by 2015, According ...
(Jan 11, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle (press release))
Scroll through this treasure trove of Chinese history
The Better Link Press' book reproduction gives those with an interest in Chinese history a chance to enjoy this work of art now kept safely in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The scroll looks back almost a thousand years ago to the then-capital of China, ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Kansas City Star)
Four Suggestions for How the Met Could Become a Contemporary Art Powerhouse
by Andrew M. Goldstein The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in choosing Tate Modern chief curator Sheena Wagstaff to split off and power up its long-becalmed modern and contemporary art department, has made an inspired choice. She replaces Gary Tinterow, ...
(Jan 11, 2012, ARTINFO)
Art scene reflects China's rise
Local authorities still harassed artists and police would regularly raid exhibitions, pulling pictures off the walls. Political criticism was intermittently allowed in waves of loosening, followed by crackdown. Through it all, Chinese contemporary art ...
(Jan 11, 2012, The Australian)
Guangdong Art Troupe visits Lok Virsa
ISLAMABAD: A 14-member Guangdong Art Troupe from the People's Republic of China headed by Yang Shu, the deputy director of the department of Culture (Guangdong province), visited the Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) on Wednesday. ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Pakistan Daily Times)
A Day In The Life Of A Professional Dancer In A Traditional Chinese Company
The piano, painting, and other hobbies came and went, but the art of dance remained. "I slowly became interested in classical Chinese dance, and through that dance I learned about my own culture," said Lau, who is 23 and is currently living in New York ...
(Jan 11, 2012, Business Insider)
Chinese Artist $507 Million Ousts Picasso as Top Auction Earner
Artprice via Bloomberg "Eagle Standing on Pine Tree; Four-Character Couplet in Seal Script" by Chinese artist Qi Baishi. The work fetched $65.5 million at auction in 2011. His 952 artworks tallied $445.1 million at auction in 2011, landing him second ...
(Jan 12, 2012, Bloomberg)
Chinese Artist $507 Million Ousts Picasso as Top Auction Earner
By Katya Kazakina The world auction market's top earner in recent years must yield to Chinese artist Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), according to a report from French research company Artprice. Zhang generated $506.7 million in auction revenue in 2011. ...
(Jan 12, 2012, BusinessWeek)
Chinese New Year Celebration At Pelham Art Center
Pelham, NY - Pelham Art Center presents a free event in celebration of the Chinese New Year commemorating the Year of the Dragon. Come see a shadow puppet play and participate in two free all age art workshops with artist Lida Yang Zimmerman and ...
(Jan 12, 2012, Westchester.com)
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904–1965)
This exhibition will treat Fu's forty-year career with some seventy paintings, including many of the artist's recognized masterpieces, drawn from the preeminent holdings of China's Nanjing Museum. The exhibition, augmented by superb works from a New ...
(Jan 12, 2012, US-China Institute)
Chinese art troupe visits Lok Virsa
ISLAMABAD - A 14-member Guangdong Art Troupe from the People's Republic of China visited the Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) at Shakarparian on Wednesday. The art troupe was headed by Department of Culture of Guangdong province ...
(Jan 12, 2012, PakistanToday.com.pk)
Chinese Artist $507 Million Ousts Picasso as Top Auction Earner
The world auction market's top earner in recent years must yield to Chinese artist Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), according to a report from French research company Artprice. Zhang generated $506.7 million in auction revenue in 2011. ...
(Jan 12, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle)
Event Guide to a Sydney summer of Chinese art
From the Aussie premiere of Beijing's Red Gate Gallery exhibition Two Generations: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, to free events at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) and highlights from the Ray Hughes collection, this Sydney Chinese New Year ...
(Jan 13, 2012, StreetCorner)
Art's New Pecking Order
Courtesy of the artist. The art market is being transformed by Chinese collectors willing to pay top dollar for everything from Ming vases to contemporary Chinese abstracts. In some cases, these works are outstripping prices paid for blue-chip Western ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
Art's New Pecking Order
Courtesy of the artist. The art market is being transformed by Chinese collectors willing to pay top dollar for everything from Ming vases to contemporary Chinese abstracts. In some cases, these works are outstripping prices paid for blue-chip Western ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
Controversial Chinese artist to perform here
By Cheong Poh Kwan The most defining works by China's contemporary artists Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang are also their most defiant. The Shandong-born brothers are best-known for their blatant mockery of China strongman Mao Zedong and the political system he ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Straits Times)
Cox Mill to host Chinese New Year event Saturday
There will be performances by the RTP Chinese Singers Club, Ruby Slippers Chinese Dance Club, the NC-RTP Chinese Music Instrument Ensemble, Chinese Phoenix Arts and the Pacific Arts Troupe. Tickets are available online and at the door, and the event is ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Concord Independent Tribune)
Art market datapoints of the day, China edition
But here, courtesy of ArtPrice and Bloomberg's write-up of ArtPrice's results, is the top of the 2011 league table: This is in many ways the tip of the art-market iceberg, where most deals — especially in the white-hot contemporary-art scene — are ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Reuters Blogs (blog))
The Chinese-Takeout Container Is Uniquely American
Did you see any ties between the containers in your show and contemporary art? Somebody did a minimalist piece, and I guess you can connect that to Donald Judd. Do you eat a lot of Chinese food? I order Chinese food a lot. It's funny that only the rice ...
(Jan 13, 2012, New York Times)
Chinese artist celebrates simplicity of nature in Battle Creek
When figures, usually women, show up in landscape paintings, they're normally quite small and visions of waterfalls, mountains and trees take precedence. “In Eastern art and Chinese art, nature is boss,” Wang said. A profile of the artist will run in ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Battle Creek Enquirer)
Interview With Herb Tam of Museum of Chinese in America
Image courtesy of Maya Lin Studio/ Museum of Chinese in America. HT: I come from an art background and while we're not strictly an art museum, I want to do more with it because contemporary art can really add layers of meaning, translation and ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Huffington Post)
Chinese art troupe enthralls students in capital
ISLAMABAD: The visiting 14-member Guangdong Art Troupe from People's Republic of China gave an enthralling performance of Chinese acrobatics for the students of Roots School System at Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) on Friday. ...
(Jan 13, 2012, Pakistan Daily Times)
Work by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Coming to Washington
Ai was detained for three months last year in China for speaking against the government. Under terms of his bail, the artist is prohibited from leaving Beijing until June, so he is unlikely to see the Washington exhibit in person. ...
(Jan 14, 2012, The Chosun Ilbo)
Former Dancer Praises the Precision of Shen Yun in New York
Shen Yun combines state-of-the-art digital backdrops with classical Chinese dance, and a live orchestra. “I loved the color of the costumes. The special effects of the people coming through, flying through the air on the screen, coming on stage. ...
(Jan 14, 2012, NTDTV)
Renovation of Four Chinese Galleries at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Complete
Photo courtesy of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art “Luxury items were commonly placed in tombs in ancient China,” said Colin Mackenzie, senior curator of Chinese art. “Limitations of space forced us to choose only items of the highest quality, ...
(Jan 14, 2012, Kansas City infoZine)
Chinese art loves bare it all
DidUhear – CHINA – Supporters of artist Ai WeiWei have stripped away any pretence to openly show that nudity is not pornography. When news broke in November about police are investigating the artist on porn charges, admirers posted naked or partially ...
(Jan 14, 2012, The Barrie Advance)
Theatre Review: Robert Lepage's The Blue Dragon is a potent spectacle
That work ended with its protagonist, Pierre Lamontagne, departing Canada for China, which is where we find him, 20 years on, running an arts centre in Shanghai. He's visited by Claire Foret, a highly successful and heavy-drinking advertising executive ...
(Jan 14, 2012, National Post)
Fu Baoshi, China's Master Modernist, Coming to The Met
This part will offer an insight into how Fu sustained his creative vision while adapting his art to the socialist agenda of Mao's New China. “Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)” is currently on view at The Cleveland Museum of ...
(Jan 14, 2012, TheImproper.com)
Shen Yun Transports Filmmaker to a 'Divine China'
“You are missing a part of the world that you will never see anywhere else. You won't even see it in China. It's history, it's art, it's culture, it's music, it's dancing—all of that. “How can you walk on this planet and miss that?” she asked. ...
(Jan 15, 2012, The Epoch Times)
Travel briefs: Chinese artist has show in Washington
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained for three months last year in China for speaking against the government. The Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery said Tuesday that it will display the contemporary art piece "Fragments" by Ai in May. ...
(Jan 15, 2012, Press of Atlantic City)
Art of Paul Wang
"In Eastern art and Chinese art, nature is boss," Wang said. Among those types of paintings, Wang homed in on landscapes as his chosen field. The first painting he referred to as his favorite at the Art Center was a landscape, and showed flowing ...
(Jan 15, 2012, Battle Creek Enquirer)
Vietnamese ceramics: Birmingham Museum of Art to exhibit 221 works from its ... - The Birmingham News
Vietnamese ceramics: Birmingham Museum of Art to exhibit 221 works from its ...
(Jan 15, 2012, al.com)
the gardner grows Gardner Museum artists get room with a view
Contemporary art curator Pieranna Cavalchini explains that there are two kinds of shades that can be lowered on that glass wall: one to dim the light, the other to block it out. The bedrooms and bathrooms are in back, behind solid walls. ...
(Jan 15, 2012, The Boston Globe)
Luxury sales boom in China, where giving gifts is an art
By Kathy Chu, USA TODAY By Philippe Lopez, AFP/Getty Images By Philippe Lopez, AFP/Getty Images For high-end retailers such as Gucci and Cartier, the Christmas-through-Chinese-New-Year's season is one of the busiest retail periods of the year. ...
(Jan 16, 2012, USA TODAY)
Company Special: TUV Rheinland: The 'art' of industrial testing
As with art, the company believes success built on talented people, state-of-the-art equipment and a passion for exacting work. "As one of the world's leading inspection and certification service providers, we focus on helping Chinese enterprises ...
(Jan 16, 2012, China Daily)
World's 12 most powerful art collectors
Having made a fortune in agricultural products, Tek began collecting contemporary art about 10 years ago. Around 2004, he began to focus on Chinese art, building up an impressive collection, not just of marquee names like Yue Minjun, Fang Lijun, ...
(Jan 16, 2012, Rediff)
Art's new Peking order
"I can't say if investing in art is good or bad," he says, "but I know that without money, you can't make a market grow." Within China's contemporary art circles, Mr Yang is hard to miss. He's tall, with a square face and thick head of black hair. ...
(Jan 16, 2012, The Australian)
Tread carefully in Chinese art market, experts say
Asia's wealthy have showed increased interest in art in recent years, pushing up prices and sparking concerns of a bubble -- particularly in the market for contemporary Chinese art as the country rises as an economic and political power. ...
(Jan 16, 2012, Reuters)
Goings On About Town
“Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965).” Opens Jan. 21. | “Photographic Treasures from the Collection of Alfred Stieglitz.” No longer overshadowed by “Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe,” which closed earlier this month ...
(Jan 16, 2012, New Yorker)
Tread carefully in Chinese art market, experts say
Asia's wealthy have showed increased interest in art in recent years, pushing up prices and sparking concerns of a bubble -- particularly in the market for contemporary Chinese art as the country rises as an economic and political power. ...
(Jan 16, 2012, Reuters)
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