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Contemporary Chinese Art News 03/2012 (Page 3)

Asia Week for Beginners: New York Experts on the Chinese, Korean, Japanese ...

Asia Week for Beginners: New York Experts on the Chinese, Korean, Japanese ... (Mar 21, 2012, ARTINFO)

Great Art for Deep Pockets

Art Basel, the most prestigious market for contemporary art. And then, TEFAF Maastricht, where you come to shop for the best of the best, whether it's Egyptian, Greek or Roman antiquities, Medieval and Renaissance art, or paintings, drawings and ... (Mar 22, 2012, Huffington Post (blog))

Ai Weiwei's "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold" at MCASD Downtown

"Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold," a group of sculptures by the Chinese artist/provocateur Ai Weiwei, is now on view in the Strauss Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's Downtown Jacobs Building. The installation consists of 12 ... (Mar 22, 2012, Huffington Post)

Sotheby's Hong Kong to sell earliest work from Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline ...

Sotheby's Hong Kong to sell earliest work from Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline ... (Mar 22, 2012, Art Daily)

artnet Auctions Announces Images of Women in Asian Contemporary Art sale

artnet Auctions is proud to present a special sale, Images of Women in Asian Contemporary Art, 2000-Present. This sale features select works by Asian Contemporary artists that explore the changing roles and attitudes of women in a part of the world ... (Mar 22, 2012, PR Web (press release))

China Gets Post-War American Art At Gagosian Hong Kong

He had his first retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1971, followed by more than one hundred one-person exhibitions, including "John Chamberlain: Sculpture, 1954-1985," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1986); ... (Mar 22, 2012, ArtLyst)

İstanbul feasts eyes on Chinese films celebrating China Culture Year

Asked about plans for future cooperation with İstanbul Modern to celebrate China Culture Year, Yu said the Chinese Embassy is planning to open an exhibition of modern and contemporary Chinese art in İstanbul in September. All films in the İstanbul ... (Mar 22, 2012, Today's Zaman)

İstanbul feast celebrates Chinese film week

Art and life: yoga comes to the Contemporary Art Gallery

Shaodian, coloured ink on rice paper, is one of the drawings by Guo Fengyi at the Contemporary Art Gallery. The Contemporary Art Gallery is blurring the line between art and daily living in Vancouver when one of the city's leading yoga instructors ... (Mar 22, 2012, Vancouver Sun (blog))

Broad Art Museum at MSU appoints Adjunct Curator, Development Director, and ...

Broad Art Museum at MSU appoints Adjunct Curator, Development Director, and ... (Mar 23, 2012, Art Daily)

Editor's picks

People familiar with the contemporary Chinese art scene may find it interesting to play the game of deciphering who did which. 10 am-9 pm, until May 20. Minsheng Art Museum, Bldg. F 570 Huaihai Road, Shanghai. 021-6282-8729. Unlike most small theater ... (Mar 23, 2012, China Daily)

Fair focus

... including an exhibition of all-female Chinese artists titled Half the Sky at Drexel University, Philadelphia, late last year. She has also exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, ... (Mar 23, 2012, China Daily)

Contemporary Art Gallery offers yoga amid Guo Fengyi's pulsating drawings

Self-taught, Guo came to art in mid-life in an effort to heal arthritis and other ailments after working in a Chinese solvent plant for years. The artist, who died in 2010, was drawn to the healing practices of Qiqong, a traditional Chinese health ... (Mar 23, 2012, Vancouver Sun)

Face to face with portrait paintings

Some have presented words with a touch of satire or mischief, and Zhu presents them anonymously. People familiar with the contemporary Chinese art scene may find it interesting to play the game of deciphering who did which. Face to face with portrait ... (Mar 24, 2012, China Daily)

Welcome 'om': Seek and find Shambhala at MFA

Organized by Jacki Elgar, head of Asian Conservation and International Projects, this exhibition offers ancient and contemporary art wrapped in history and legend along with the science of conserving fading artworks. Displayed in a gallery arranged to ... (Mar 24, 2012, Milford Daily News)

Contemporary Art from China on display at Dayton Art Institute

“People don't need to know anything about China or anything about contemporary art to enjoy it,” she says. “ They just need to leave themselves open to the experience.” The 48 artists represented have competed for the honor of being part of China's ... (Mar 24, 2012, Dayton Daily News)

Urge to create

By Rebecca Lo (China Daily) Macao's artists and designers may have the advantage of public support, but many of them miss the good old days of working quietly in their studio. "The contemporary visual art scene was much richer 15 years ago," says ... (Mar 25, 2012, China Daily)

Arab artists deal with turmoil, war memories

Regional civil unrest and conflicts have left their footprint in the Arab art scene, as can be seen at the ongoing Art Dubai 2012, the Middle East's largest contemporary art gathering. The fair which takes place in the luxury resort Madinat Jumeirah, ... (Mar 25, 2012, China.org.cn)

Urge to create

By Rebecca Lo in Macao (China Daily) Macao's artists and designers may have the advantage of public support, but many of them miss the good old days of working quietly in their studio. "The contemporary visual art scene was much richer 15 years ago," ... (Mar 26, 2012, China Daily)

Block of the new creates more head space for art

Ah Xian's porcelain China China - Bust 81 sits in one of the newly refurbished galleries at the Museum of Contemporary Art, which reopens on Thursday. Photo: Dean Sewel ART usually takes centre stage at galleries, but at the unveiling of the revamped ... (Mar 26, 2012, Sydney Morning Herald)

Young cartoonist is Saatchi favourite

The Asian art sales in New York last week saw modern and contemporary Indian art struggling while classical Chinese paintings from the 13th and 14th centuries took off. Both Sotheby's and Christie's experienced weak demand for modern Indian art as a ... (Mar 26, 2012, Telegraph.co.uk)

Ten Expert Tips For Investing in the Art Market

Contemporary art – which is what makes most of the headlines these days — remains the most volatile market. It is also therefore the one offering the top rewards, so long, as Bocart notes, that you “buy wisely, sell wisely, and take care regarding ... (Mar 26, 2012, Forbes)

Sotheby's appoints Ryoichi Hirano as International Senior Specialist for ...

Sotheby's appoints Ryoichi Hirano as International Senior Specialist for ... (Mar 27, 2012, Art Daily)

Is Hong Kong a desert for artists?

While Hong Kong garners international acclaim and press coverage for its record-busting contemporary art sales, little attention is given to our city's local artists. Then again, where are they? Despite the foundation some 20 years ago of a ... (Mar 27, 2012, Time Out Hong Kong)

Saffronart announces its Spring Online Auction of Modern and Contemporary ...

Saffronart announces its Spring Online Auction of Modern and Contemporary ... (Mar 27, 2012, Business Standard)

Art Market Watch ASIA WEEK NEW YORK 2012

Chinese antiquities and classical paintings dominated the sales last week, which were for the for the most part devoid of contemporary art -- this market segment's other cash cow -- since the auction houses will be offering contemporary wares in Hong ... (Mar 27, 2012, Artnet)

What's new

The 3rd Golden Palm and Golden Raspberry Award of Chinese Contemporary Art 2011 recently announced its results in Beijing. Co-hosted by Art Time magazine and "Chinese Modern Art File" project, the annual award was initiated by young Chinese art critics ... (Mar 28, 2012, China Daily)

Critics reward and dish

Pacific Cinematheque and Yellow Signal: New Media in China Presents the ...

Pacific Cinematheque and Yellow Signal: New Media in China Presents the ... (Mar 28, 2012, MarketWatch (press release))

Asia Week New York 2012 sales ends nine-day run exceeding $170 million in sales

Other works of art, in the six- and seven-figure category, were sold to American, Chinese and European collectors. According to Peter Kang, of Kang Collection, specialists in Korean ancient and contemporary art, a number of museums have reserved or ... (Mar 29, 2012, Art Daily)

Yayoi Kusama To Headline Kiev Biennale Arsenale 2012

Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art', the Biennale will display art work by over 100 international and Ukrainian contemporary artists, including 40 new works to be made especially for the exhibition. All of the works will be on display in the ... (Mar 29, 2012, ArtLyst)

Review: James Lavadour's paintings at PDX Contemporary Art

By DK Row, The Oregonian I'm at a mild impasse with the work of James Lavadour, whose latest show is on view at PDX Contemporary Art. That show, however, revealed a feeling that blossomed more fully in Lavadour's show at PDX in 2010 and again with this ... (Mar 29, 2012, OregonLive.com)

Frabik Gallery to feature Brazilian art

The Chinese contemporary art gallery Fabrik will feature from 15 May to 16 June 2012, “Code +55 Brazilian Art Now” an exhibition dedicated to Brazil. The gallery is bringing itself up to speed with recent exhibitions of large international contemporary ... (Mar 29, 2012, AMA)

Art: The Artists Upstairs

Denise Markonish at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams noticed this void in American art exhibits, and took on the challenge of filling it. "I started to notice there are a number of artists who I liked who happen to be ... (Mar 29, 2012, Albany Times Union)

Looking past the end

His retrospective exhibition, The Important Thing is Not the Meat, which chronicles the three stages of Gu's art career since the 1980s, is ongoing at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA). Nearly 300 artworks, spanning Gu's amateur paintings ... (Mar 30, 2012, China Daily)

Ground strokes

And this open-endedness seems to derive only from ancient Chinese culture." Hsiao still flies to Taiwan twice a year. He has disciples there, and the Taiwan market for contemporary art is dynamic. In 1958 he began the Dao series that made his name and ... (Mar 30, 2012, China Daily)

Art and more from Singapore

By Zhu Linyong (China Daily) The Singapore Arts Festival comes full circle in its 35th year of celebrating Singapore's communities through rediscovering their untold stories, organizers say. The festival will see Singaporeans of all ages and walks of ... (Mar 30, 2012, China Daily)

The Art of investing

For collectors from China, Russia, America and the Middle East, art represented a safe haven to protect their investments. Europeans were the sellers. These rosy figures are possibly distorted by one new trend - the Chinese art market has rocketed ... (Mar 30, 2012, Moneyweb.co.za)

Morley Safer takes on art world again

That critique of contemporary art is a legendary "60 Minutes" moment. You can watch that report here. "60 Minutes Overtime": Safer's infamous 1993 art story Video: Making art and making money This Sunday, Morley asks the question again and also shows ... (Mar 30, 2012, CBS News)

Morley Safer takes on art world again

Cai Guo-Qiang Plays With Fire

The spontaneity and unpredictability in his site-specific work reflects his adherence to the principles of feng shui and Chinese medicine, which promote adaption to the flow of energy and nature's course. Footprints of History: Fireworks Project for ... (Mar 30, 2012, ABC News (blog))

The art market: Fire sales

By Georgina Adam Art seized from the failed Korean savings bank Busan is being sold by Seoul Auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday in an $8.25m session that includes western as well as Chinese contemporary art. Busan was at the centre of a massive ... (Mar 30, 2012, Financial Times)

Plunging into Amsterdam's Art World

And if the name of this Chinese artist rings a bell, it is because the exhibition of his explosive gunpowder drawings is scheduled to open in a few days, here in Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Rushing back to the city, ... (Mar 30, 2012, Huffington Post)

Mandarin Oriental Hotel to build Chengdu's tallest skyscraper

In addition to the hotel, the Indoor Group is investing in the US$600 million building, which will house serviced apartments and a "sky museum" featuring traditional and contemporary Chinese art and artifacts. From the building, which will be ... (Mar 31, 2012, GoChengdoo (blog))

Isaac Julien's Powerful 'Waves'

Pablo Mason • Images Courtesy of the artist; Metro Pictures, New York; and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Where: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 1100 Kettner Blvd., downtown • When: Through Dec. 1 Mazu (played by Maggie Cheung) in “Ten Thousand ... (Mar 31, 2012, U-T San Diego)

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