Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 17-23
(Ken Johnson) Asia Society and Museum: 'Sarah Sze: Infinite Line' (through March 25) Promising a new angle on Sarah Sze's mesmerizing, minutely detailed installations, this midcareer solo reveals that Ms. Sze, who is Chinese-American, ...
(Feb 16, 2012, New York Times)
A US Flag Over London Art Sales
By KELLY CROW Global art collectors converged on London during the past two weeks for major auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art. These sales are usually dominated by Europeans, but this time, the biggest players came from the US ...
(Feb 17, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
In the zone
In June 2006, Tinari decided it was time to move back to Beijing and make contemporary Chinese art his full-time job. Five years later, he found himself back in 798, this time as the fifth director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), ...
(Feb 17, 2012, China Daily)
Trading places for grander spaces
By Zhu Linyong (China Daily) China's oldest art biennial will have a new look when it opens in early October. The 2012 Shanghai Biennale will be the inaugural event of the China Art Palace at the Shanghai Expo site. It will be staged under the theme ...
(Feb 17, 2012, China Daily)
Art beat ... finger on the pulse
The Guangdong Museum of Art is staging an exhibition of Chinese contemporary art. More than 100 works, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and other visual devices, will be on show. Every piece will feature artists' explanations of their ...
(Feb 17, 2012, China Daily)
In the zone
In June 2006, Tinari decided it was time to move back to Beijing and make contemporary Chinese art his full-time job. Five years later, he found himself back in 798, this time as the fifth director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), ...
(Feb 17, 2012, Chinadaily USA)
The Art Market: The quick and the dead
By Georgina Adam The sales of contemporary art at Christie's and Sotheby's in London this week continued their gravity-defying upwards trajectory, both topping their high estimates and handing in high sell-through rates. Christie's on Tuesday had the ...
(Feb 17, 2012, Financial Times)
This week's new exhibitions
Hamish Fulton's exhibition, along with his show at Margate's Turner Contemporary, records his almost ritualised walking expeditions, politically orientated treks taking in the top of Everest and London's Chinese embassy. Ikon Gallery, to 22 Apr Robert ...
(Feb 18, 2012, The Guardian)
Fajr Intl. visual arts festival focuses on Islamic Awakening
... held at Palestine's Contemporary Art Museum held in Tehran. The event holds features in 9 categories including painting, poster, pottery, illustration, miniature, and caricature. Over 200 artists from thirty-eight countries including Brazil, China, ...
(Feb 19, 2012, Press TV)
Fajr International Visual Arts Festival opens in Tehran
The 2012 edition of Fajr International Visual Arts Festival has kicked off during a ceremony held at Palestine's Contemporary Art Museum in Tehran. Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini attended the opening ceremony ...
(Feb 19, 2012, Press TV)
Inaugural Art Wynwood Reports Strong Sales Over the Weekend
Other galleries that reported sales for undisclosed amounts were New York-based Barry Friedman Ltd; London-based Olyvia Fine Art; Miami-based Now Contemporary Art; New York-based Hollis Taggart Gallery; New York-based Nancy Hoffman Gallery, ...
(Feb 20, 2012, Examiner.com)
Dubai gears up for art in March
... London, Beijing), Galerie Perrotin (Paris) and Platform China (Beijing). Art Dubai is part of Art Week, the umbrella initiative that includes Sikka Art Fair (March 15-25) and a range of contemporary art and design events, major museum shows, ...
(Feb 20, 2012, DI-VE)
Philanthropy, Multiculturalism and Contemporary Art in Sydney
Next stop was White Rabbit, which holds the Chinese Contemporary collection of Kerr and Judith Neilson. Refuting the exclusivity presumed an essential part of the Contemporary art scene in London and New York, Judith Neilson was in the café talking to ...
(Feb 20, 2012, Spear's WMS)
Ten Thousand Waves: Cinematic Art
Currently on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the hour-long movie weaves together three stories set in ancient and present-day China, blending Chinese legend with actual events to tell a tale of a foreign, complex race of people whose ...
(Feb 20, 2012, BU Quad)
Hollyworld: US filmmakers play by Beijing's rules
Berry warned that it's not just Hollywood that's watering down its goods to fit inside officially sanctioned China. Contemporary art, dance, theater, literature and media are also at risk, he said. “The average consumer is not going to be aware of the ...
(Feb 21, 2012, GlobalPost)
Milwaukee's Special Entertainment heads to LA, celebrates 5 years of “What ...
Milwaukee's Special Entertainment heads to LA, celebrates 5 years of “What ...
(Feb 21, 2012, A.V. Club)
Special Entertainment heads to LA, celebrates 5 years of “What What (In The Butt)”
Milwaukee filmmakers Andrew Swant and Bobby Ciraldo—the two minds behind Special Entertainment—projected the image from a cargo van onto LA buildings, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Grauman's Chinese Theater, ...
(Feb 21, 2012, A.V. Club)
Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animal / Zodiac Heads - Internationally Acclaimed Public ...
Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animal / Zodiac Heads - Internationally Acclaimed Public ...
(Feb 22, 2012, MarketWatch (press release))
Film artist to speak at Museum of Contemporary Art Thursday in advance of his ...
Film artist to speak at Museum of Contemporary Art Thursday in advance of his ...
(Feb 22, 2012, La Jolla Light)
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), Metropolitan ...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), Metropolitan ...
(Feb 22, 2012, Financial Times)
American International Fine Art Fair 2012 reports strong gate
Michael Goedhuis – long-time exhibitor specializing in Chinese and Asian contemporary art and antiques – reported numerous sales with mid six-figure range. Mark Borghi Fine Art reported the sale of a Sam Francis acrylic painting, Untitled, 1994; ...
(Feb 22, 2012, Antique Trader)
Ai Weiwei's Defiant Images, Berenice Abbott's New York: Review
By harassing and arresting Ai Weiwei, the Chinese authorities have catapulted him to international stardom. In June 2011, the conceptual artist, architect and photographer was released on bail after being detained for 81 days on charges of tax evasion ...
(Feb 23, 2012, BusinessWeek)
Welcome to Birdhead World Again, London
Founded in 2004 and comprising Ji Weiyu (1980) and Song Tao (1979), Birdhead use photography to capture, mediate and occupy their contemporary experience of daily life in Shanghai, China's greatest metropolis whose ever increasing scale and vitality is ...
(Feb 23, 2012, Creative Boom)
Asian Galleries Set for Basel's 'Young Art Fair'
While most of the gallery names hail from Europe or the US, two this year come from Asia: Beijing's Platform China and 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, from Hong Kong. “They only accept 10 new galleries per year from 300 applicants, so this is huge for 2P ...
(Feb 23, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 24-March 1
(Ken Johnson) Asia Society and Museum: 'Sarah Sze: Infinite Line' (through March 25) Promising a new angle on Sarah Sze's mesmerizing, minutely detailed installations, this midcareer solo reveals that Ms. Sze, who is Chinese-American, ...
(Feb 23, 2012, New York Times)
Ties bind China and Germany
The city, known for its Kassel Documents Exhibitions, will see a comprehensive art exhibition from Chinese artists, especially young artists. China New Design, a series of programs initiated by Beijing-based Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, ...
(Feb 24, 2012, China Daily)
Art Wynwood drops fashion
... paintings, photography, sculpture, art video and new media, conceptual art and street art by 500 celebrated and emerging artists, as represented by more than 50 galleries from Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, ...
(Feb 24, 2012, Examiner.com)
Nordic exposure
"Because the majority of the audience had little knowledge of China, they were very surprised at the booming contemporary art scene in Beijing, which is so open and forward," Seng says. The success of Beijing Beijing reinforced Seng's determination to ...
(Feb 24, 2012, China Daily)
"The Time for Minor Narratives Has Come": Curator Gayatri Sinha on the Next ...
"The Time for Minor Narratives Has Come": Curator Gayatri Sinha on the Next ...
(Feb 24, 2012, ARTINFO)
Room for a view
By Xu Xiao (China Daily) A traveling abstract art exhibit opens at Kempinski Hotel Beijing, leaving reporter Xu Xiao wondering about varied perceptions of reality. Today, people don't have to go to a museum to see the artwork of the highly creative - a ...
(Feb 25, 2012, China Daily)
Asia Week New York capitalizes on surging world market for Asian art and antiques
For example, in his primary residence in Palm Beach, as well as in Southampton and New York, Wilbur Ross, chairman of WL Ross & Co., has enhanced the interiors with a variety of contemporary Asian art ranging from Chinese paintings, watercolors, ...
(Feb 25, 2012, Art Daily)
Common art in regional memory
Kim wanted to make the show "happy, warm and comfortable", because too often, contemporary art can be cynical, bitter and cryptic for audiences. When the show was presented in Seoul last year, 12 artists from China, Japan and South Korea were featured, ...
(Feb 26, 2012, China Daily)
The new Mandarins
Berry warned that it's not just Hollywood that's watering down its goods to fit inside officially sanctioned China. Contemporary art, dance, theatre, literature and media are also at risk, he said. “The average consumer is not going to be aware of the ...
(Feb 26, 2012, Postnoon)
From petroglyphs to contemporary art, Rizal art fest an 'experience'
PVAF too has an international dimension since the festival was attended by artists from China. Satellite exhibits were also held at the Kanlungan ng Sining, Rizal Park in Manila, Naga City, and Mandaluyong City's SM Megamall. The festival is grounded ...
(Feb 26, 2012, Cebu Daily News)
GO! Arts & Entertainment for Feb. 26-March 3
"Contemporary Art Wins a Beachhead" in Oceanside ---- "Contemporary Art Wins a Beachhead: The La Jolla School of Arts 1960-1964" runs through July 8 at Oceanside Museum Art; reception, 5 to 7 pm Saturday; regular hours, 1 to 4 pm (also 10 am to 4 pm ...
(Feb 26, 2012, North County Times)
Artprice's Annual Art Market Report 2011. Art Sales at Their Best
... and their governments strongly support major cultural events including Contemporary Art fairs. In addition to the 49% growth in auction revenue from artworks in China, a number of other Asian countries have also posted particularly dynamic growth, ...
(Feb 27, 2012, MarketWatch (press release))
Whitney Biennial Gets Oscar Nod, Rick Santorum's Shocking Record on Art, and ...
Whitney Biennial Gets Oscar Nod, Rick Santorum's Shocking Record on Art, and ...
(Feb 27, 2012, ARTINFO)
Chinese Architect Wang Shu Wins the Pritzker Prize
He has participated in the Venice Biennale and exhibited in Hong Kong, Brussels, Berlin, and Paris, but all of his buildings are in China. Completed projects include the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum (2005), Ceramic House in Jinghua (2006), ...
(Feb 27, 2012, Architectural Record)
China's Wang Shu Wins Pritzker Prize
His work includes the Wenzheng College library at Suzhou University, which received the Architecture Arts Award of China in 2004; the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum and Ningbo History Museum; and in Hangzhou, the first two phases of the Xiangshan ...
(Feb 27, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Leonora Hamill: 'Art in Progress'
Winner of the 2012 HSBC Prize for Photography, the Franco-British artist Leonora Hamill started Art in Progress three years ago while she was doing an artist's residency at the Academy of Fine-Arts in Guangzhou, China. Art in Progress features a ...
(Feb 27, 2012, Huffington Post)
China's Wang Shu Wins Pritzker Prize
His work includes the Wenzheng College library at Suzhou University, which received the Architecture Arts Award of China in 2004; the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum and Ningbo History Museum; and in Hangzhou, the first two phases of the Xiangshan ...
(Feb 28, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Art Basel's Young Art Fair Welcomes First Hong Kong Gallery
One — Beijing's Platform China — is a veteran of the fair with 2012 being their third outing, the other is Hong Kong's 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, the first ever gallery from the Harbor City to participate. ARTINFO HK checked in with Pui Pui To, ...
(Feb 28, 2012, ARTINFO)
For First Time, Architect in China Wins Top Prize
Mr. Wang's major projects, all in China, include two in Ningbo, a coastal city south of Shanghai: the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, completed in 2005, and the Ningbo Historic Museum, completed in 2008. With the history museum, a commission Mr. Wang ...
(Feb 28, 2012, New York Times)
It's not all about human-rights abuses
It's not that this view of the government isn't true, but there is far, far more to contemporary Chinese art than Ai Wei Wei and censorship. 'The Chinese government has vastly loosened restrictions on contemporary art over the last few years', ...
(Feb 28, 2012, Spiked)
The Bay Area's Leading Source for Antique Appraisal Michaan's Auctions ...
The Bay Area's Leading Source for Antique Appraisal Michaan's Auctions ...
(Feb 28, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle (press release))
ASIA WEEK NEW YORK CAPITALIZES ON SURGING WORLD-MARKET FOR ASIAN ART AND ANTIQUES
For example, in his primary residence in Palm Beach, as well as in Southampton and New York, Wilbur Ross, chairman of WL Ross & Co., has enhanced the interiors with a variety of contemporary Asian art ranging from Chinese paintings, watercolors, ...
(Feb 28, 2012, ArtfixDaily (press release))
Will Wang Shu's Pritzker Win Prove Pivotal for China?
His Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, for instance, reconstructs a former port building, while his Xingshan Campus for Hangzhou's China Academy of Art is roofed with two million tiles collected from traditional houses. “Up until now the perception has ...
(Feb 29, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Will Wang Shu's Pritzker Win Prove Pivotal for China?
His Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, for instance, reconstructs a former port building, while his Xingshan Campus for Hangzhou's China Academy of Art is roofed with two million tiles collected from traditional houses. “Up until now the perception has ...
(Feb 29, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
The World's Strongest Economy? The Global Art Market.
This increase was not solely generated by the Chinese market's 49% growth compared with 2010; it represented overall growth… including European. Indeed, the leading European auction markets posted strong figures: +24% in the UK ($2.24 billion in 2011 ...
(Feb 29, 2012, Forbes)
Asia Week 2012
The organisers are expanding their representation of contemporary art this year, with New York-based galleries Chambers Fine Art and Pace Prints taking part for the first time. “We want to join others in this field in celebrating Asian art and ...
(Feb 29, 2012, Art Newspaper)
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