Buddhist Art Scene kicks off Chinese New Year
The 7000 square feet China Pavilion closed the show's multi-year focus on China, with a powerhouse in both traditional and contemporary arts & installation of a reading room from a Qing Dynasty house. Qing Dynasty reading room of Jiang Bin, ...
(Jan 23, 2012, Hollywood Today Newsmagazine)
23 Questions for Installation Artist and Draughtsman Sarah Sze
How does your interest in traditional Chinese art relate to your work as an installation artist? I wanted to make a very precise show at the Asia Society—a show about drawing and the use of line in my work. One room is a selection of older works on ...
(Jan 23, 2012, ARTINFO)
Recommended: Where to celebrate the Year of the Dragon
That same day, Washington, DC's Chinatown Community Cultural Center will host a Chinese New Year Festival with hands-on arts and craft projects, cultural displays and performances. On Feb. 3, the Textile Museum opens “Dragons, Nagas, and Creatures of ...
(Jan 23, 2012, msnbc.com)
US embracing renowned Chinese painter Fu Baoshi
Hearn said Fu's ability to compromise was a skill contemporary Chinese artists— particularly since the revolutions of the Arab Spring—must also master if they want to work. "They must not transgress some unseen and ever-changing line of what is not ...
(Jan 23, 2012, Auction Central News)
Sin City – Impressions of Shanghai: New Work by island6
New York - Tally Beck Contemporary will present an exhibition of the artist collective island6, from Shanghai, China. The eclectic group is well-known for their dynamic LED work and inventive digital multi-media pieces. The exhibition, entitled Sin ...
(Jan 23, 2012, US-China Institute)
Chinese Year of the Dragon Welcomed in New York's Chinatown
Inside MOCA, patrons were checking out some traditional Chinese art forms. [Mr. SW Sang, Chinese Culture Art Association Chair]: "I hope in the coming year of the dragon to bring all the happy, healthy to the whole world." Originally from Guangzhou ...
(Jan 23, 2012, NTDTV)
Children celebrate Chinese New Year at local art studio
Students at StillRiver Art Studio got a jump on the Chinese New Year celebration by performing a traditional dragon dance Saturday at the Kalispell studio where they've spent time making all kinds of dragon artwork. The Chinese New Year was celebrated ...
(Jan 24, 2012, Daily Inter Lake)
Arts of Japan Gallery opens at MFAH Feb. 19
The Arts of Japan presentation will be consistent with the Arts of Asia gallery displays at the MFAH, showcasing ancient art objects alongside contemporary art objects, such as Japanese photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro's celebrated photographs of the ...
(Jan 24, 2012, Your Houston News)
Prominent Chinese artist shows works
The Bates College Museum of Art will show works by Xiaoze Xie, one of China's most prominent contemporary artists, from Jan. 23 to March 18. His paintings of stacked newspapers, decaying books and media images explore the tenuousness of history and ...
(Jan 24, 2012, Lewiston Sun Journal)
Dr. Doom's Party, Ghostly Canvases, $500000 Owl: Chelsea Art
“It's a bunch of great, cool young artists,” he said, surveying the crowd. “Contemporary art is one of my great passions.” A photograph by Chinese artist Lin Yilin shows Iwatsuki's reflection in Roubini's roof pool as she presses his 2010 book, ...
(Jan 24, 2012, BusinessWeek)
Arts: Culture will remain at the heart of work and play
China will continue to provide surprises as it goes on with its quest to create a contemporary cultural scene that manages to slip under the radar of a nervous government. The treatment of China's foremost contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, ...
(Jan 24, 2012, Financial Times)
Acclaimed artist to offer Chinese brush painting and calligraphy workshops
Two bold and expressive Chinese art forms will be explored in two workshops taught by visiting Weiner Distinguished Professor Dr. Lampo Leong this spring at Missouri University of Science and Technology. A Chinese Brush Painting Workshop will be ...
(Jan 24, 2012, Missouri S&T News and Research)
Chinese Soldiers Interpret 2012 Election Through Performance Art…With Live ...
Chinese Soldiers Interpret 2012 Election Through Performance Art…With Live ...
(Jan 24, 2012, Mediaite)
A Message in the Landscapes
By LEE LAWRENCE Despite its sweeping title, "Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution" showcases a single 20th-century artist, Fu Baoshi—painter, seal carver, teacher and art historian. Although he is well known in China, this is his first big ...
(Jan 24, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
Sundance review: "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"
A visitor stands at an instillation entitled "Forever Bicycles" by the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei at the “Ai Weiwei is Absent” exhibition in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. The exhibition opens Oct. 29 ...
(Jan 25, 2012, Salt Lake Tribune (blog))
On Exhibit: The Silent Strength of Artist Liu Xia - Record
Poet, painter and photographer Liu Xia has been a noteworthy figure on the contemporary Chinese art scene for more than three decades. Today she is better known as a symbol of the Chinese government's displeasure with her husband Liu Xiaobo, ...
(Jan 25, 2012, Columbia News)
DU museum hosting opening reception for new exhibits
This exhibit features a selection of black and white photographs by the contemporary Chinese artist Rong Rong (b.1968). From 1993 to 1994, a group of experimental artists took up residence in an impoverished neighborhood in Beijing that they dubbed ...
(Jan 25, 2012, The Newark Advocate)
Furniture Consignment And Art Sales; Chinese New Year Celebration
Green Teahouse, 40-42 Isham Road in West Hartford's Blue Back Square, hosts a Chinese New Year's celebration Saturday from 1 to 5 pm Festivities include samples of Chinese teas and candies, five-minute chair massages and discounts on select teas and ...
(Jan 25, 2012, Hartford Courant)
Acclaimed artist offers workshops
By Anonymous Two bold and expressive Chinese art forms will be explored in two workshops taught by visiting Weiner Distinguished Professor Dr. Lampo Leong this spring at Missouri University of Science and Technology. A Chinese Brush Painting Workshop ...
(Jan 25, 2012, The Rolla Daily News)
Japan's role in the 19th-century modernization of Chinese art
By MATTHEW LARKING Last year was an excellent one for engaging Chinese art in western Japan. A series of exhibitions got underway with the airing of the Ueno Collection at the Kyoto National Museum in January, the superlative holdings of the Osaka ...
(Jan 25, 2012, The Japan Times)
Zhong Gallery, the First Chinese Owned and Operated Gallery in Europe, Opens ...
Zhong Gallery, the First Chinese Owned and Operated Gallery in Europe, Opens ...
(Jan 26, 2012, ARTINFO)
Where to celebrate the Year of the Dragon
That same day, Washington, DC's Chinatown Community Cultural Center will host a Chinese New Year Festival with hands-on arts and craft projects, cultural displays and performances. On Feb. 3, the Textile Museum opens “Dragons, Nagas, and Creatures of ...
(Jan 26, 2012, msnbc.com)
Celebrate Chinese New Year with Golden Dragon Acrobats
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon (Chinese New Year) with the Golden Dragon Acrobats from China. Contortionists, jugglers and acrobats perform in the traditional style and costume of the Chinese art form that has been presented to audiences for more ...
(Jan 26, 2012, Chicago Tribune)
Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Receives Painting From Chinese ...
Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Receives Painting From Chinese ...
(Jan 26, 2012, ArtfixDaily (press release))
Museum and Gallery Listings for Jan. 27-Feb. 2
The show shies away from troublemaking work by contemporary artists, but examples of exceptional draftsmanship and satiric imagination from the past abound. Watercolors by the great British cartoonists James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson alone make a ...
(Jan 26, 2012, New York Times)
History Unfolding on a Hand Scroll
In some ways it might have made more sense for the Met's first 20th-century Chinese artist to be a better-known figure, like Fu's contemporary Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) or the elder Qi Baishi (1864-1957). (Their work has been in the news because, ...
(Jan 27, 2012, New York Times)
The art of making money
As a result, China is now home to almost half of the world's 100 top-earning contemporary artists. This example of Chinese contemporary sculpture was displayed at 798 Art District in Beijing in the fall.[Photo/Provided to China Daily] Chen Yifei is one ...
(Jan 27, 2012, China Daily)
The art of making money
Valuating the contemporary Chinese art market purely by auction sales would be like judging a book by its cover. The art scene certainly lies deeper than that. In fact, much of the business is conducted though private, underground dealers or galleries, ...
(Jan 27, 2012, People's Daily Online)
The West's Race to China, Traced in Art
NEW YORK — Few politicians think of scrutinizing decorative-art auctions in order to set current international developments in perspective. They might like to reconsider. The rush to China, with Americans and Europeans vying to get in and eager to ...
(Jan 27, 2012, New York Times)
Art for art's sake?
The most recent Percent-for-Art commission, Ring Stone by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, was largely selected for its metaphorical embodiment of strong relations – cultural and business – between MIT Sloan and China. Bob Mooney, alumnus and chief ...
(Jan 27, 2012, Financial Times)
India Art Fair Opens Strong With Major Western Galleries — But Local Art ...
India Art Fair Opens Strong With Major Western Galleries — But Local Art ...
(Jan 27, 2012, ARTINFO)
Xu Bing on His Plans to Light a Giant Cigarette at the Aldrich Museum, Even ...
Xu Bing on His Plans to Light a Giant Cigarette at the Aldrich Museum, Even ...
(Jan 27, 2012, ARTINFO)
Art Market Watch ARTNET AUCTIONS 2011: A YEAR OF TOP LOTS by Jessica Mizrachi
In a year when Zhang Daqian, a Chinese painter, overtook Pablo Picasso as the year's top auction earner, it comes as no surprise that a set of ten prints by five leading Chinese artists also makes our list. The Giants of Contemporary Chinese Art (2005) ...
(Jan 27, 2012, Artnet)
Art museum in Kansas City opens renovated Chinese galleries
27 (Xinhua) -- The Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art celebrated Chinese New Year on Friday with the grand opening of two renovated Chinese art galleries. The new galleries showcase the museum's prized collection of jade disks, ancient vessels, ...
(Jan 28, 2012, Xinhua)
Chinese lantern workshop highlights Oklahoma City Museum of Art activities for ...
Chinese lantern workshop highlights Oklahoma City Museum of Art activities for ...
(Jan 28, 2012, NewsOK.com)
Fu Baoshi: Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution
He died in 1965, months before China's Communist regime unleashed the Cultural Revolution, which aggressively persecuted the country's writers, artists and other intelligentsia, sometimes unto death. Fu, a fervent devotee of the ancient tradition of ...
(Jan 28, 2012, China Digital Times)
Chasing the Dragon...and the Monkey and the Rooster
Stamp collecting is ultimately for the art, rather than for the money, he muses. China Post seems to agree and each year, it invites renowned Chinese artists to submit designs for the zodiac stamps. Their contributions are assessed by a committee of ...
(Jan 29, 2012, China Daily)
As a new museum season opens, many Missouri exhibits are worth a day trip
Additionally, there are two Missouri museums celebrating 10-year anniversaries with special exhibitions this year: St. Louis' Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia. These museums share an emphasis on ...
(Jan 29, 2012, Columbia Daily Tribune)
Shanghai: Art deco capital of the East
It's done in a mixture of Chinese and art deco styles." (The original Chinese name of the building is carved above the front door, which remains fully intact.) "Completed in 1929 and designed by the British firm Palmer & Turner, it's a lovely, ...
(Jan 29, 2012, CNNGo.com)
Sculpture museum opens in Qingdao
The Chinese National Academy of Sculpture (CNAS) Qingdao Branch and the Qingdao Sculpture Museum were officially open to visitors in Qingdao of East China's Shandong province on Jan 19. CNAS President Wu Weishan, a leading Chinese sculpture artist and ...
(Jan 30, 2012, China Daily)
Forget Stocks—Chinese Turn Bullish on Booze and Caterpillar Fungus
"There really are very few investment channels," says Ren Jun, a 30-year-old media entrepreneur with investments in contemporary art, antiques, gold and silver. "That's why I'm kind of forcing myself to be brave in trying new options." China's central ...
(Jan 30, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
'Smalls' are big values at upcoming sales
Most are authentically antique, dating from the earliest years of the past century and are a perfect lead in to the sale's selection of Chinese and Japanese art. The large art offering is from another unnamed collector whose tastes covered Japanese ...
(Jan 30, 2012, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Chop-socky fest to kick into action
It was also a time when the world was exposed on a greater (and more commercial scale) to the martial arts, through the medium of film. Movies such as The Chinese Connection, Enter the Dragon, The Way of the Dragon, Drunken Master and more contributed ...
(Jan 30, 2012, Independent Online)
ALHI expands to Asia
The hotel also features four restaurants, Chuan Spa with 10 treatment rooms, a fitness center with panoramic city views, a heated rooftop swimming pool, and an inspiring collection of contemporary Chinese art. The hotel is within walking distance of ...
(Jan 30, 2012, Travel Daily News International)
Linking Nation's and China's Ceramic Arts
The event also included the end of the 40th Anniversary celebrations of the Establishment of China-Rwanda Diplomatic relations. According to Alphonse Bartson Umullisa, Director of the Institute of National Museums Rwanda, Chinese artists will be ...
(Jan 30, 2012, AllAfrica.com)
The Chinese challengers to Sotheby's and Christie's
According to a report in the China Daily in October, Zhang Xiaogang, one of China's best-known contemporary artists, declared on a micro-blogging website that a portrait of a young girl purported to be by him and part of a sale by a Beijing auction ...
(Jan 30, 2012, BBC News)
Chinese artist Kwong Lum presents artwork to Johnson Museum
NEW YORK - The Chinese artist Kwong Lum, who is best known for ink splash paintings, a technique that adapts the ancient art of calligraphy to abstract paintings, recently endowed Cornell University's Johnson Museum with a painting titled Excerpt from ...
(Jan 30, 2012, Auction Central News)
Asia's top choice - eTravelBlackboard
Asia's dynamic lifestyle hotel appearing again at AIME 2012 as a Hong Kong partner and known for its contemporary Chinese art and stimulating hospitality, was recently awarded a spot in the highly coveted Condé Nast Traveler 2012 Gold List, ...
(Jan 31, 2012, Asia Edition)
Asia Week NY rolls out an 8-day extravaganza of gallery open houses and museum ...
Asia Week NY rolls out an 8-day extravaganza of gallery open houses and museum ...
(Jan 31, 2012, Art Daily)
I.M. Chait to host March 21 auction of Important Chinese Ceramics & Asian ...
I.M. Chait to host March 21 auction of Important Chinese Ceramics & Asian ...
(Jan 31, 2012, Art Daily)
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