FXE (Friends X Enemies)
They have their own unique style of work, concept and style, but together they create unlimited possibilities of contemporary art, be it in style, size or place. They've created an impressive wall painting project that measures 3x30m in size at the ...
(Apr 17, 2012, Bangkok Post)
Italian Gallery Burning Art to Protest Cuts
Antonio Manfredi, the director of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum torched the first one, a painting by French artist Severine Bourguignon, on Tuesday, with Bourguignon's blessing, of course. Manfredi says he'll burn three paintings a week in his ...
(Apr 18, 2012, The Mark)
The Menil Collection Selects Short List of Four Architecture Firms to Design ...
The Menil Collection Selects Short List of Four Architecture Firms to Design ...
(Apr 18, 2012, Dallas Art News)
Japanese art still struggles in China
At the heart of the problem is the lack of Chinese market interest in international art. Mainland Chinese art buyers are snapping up ancient works, from calligraphy scrolls to jade sculptures. The handful that are interested in contemporary art are ...
(Apr 18, 2012, The Japan Times)
Jean-Michel Othoniel's 'Personal Stubborn Journey'
The works were chosen for Documenta, a contemporary-art expo in Germany that propelled him onto the global stage. Since then his work has shown at the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art, but next week he returns to the region that started it all with ...
(Apr 19, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Chinese art is rare at Art Cologne
China has claimed its place as leader of the global art market. But contemporary art from China can hardly be found at Art Cologne. When it does appear, it plays with stereotypes or is barely indentifiable as Chinese. "China is number one on the ...
(Apr 19, 2012, Deutsche Welle)
CONTEMPORARY ART INSTALLATIONS BY CAO | PERROT STUDIO IN THE US AND FRANCE ...
CONTEMPORARY ART INSTALLATIONS BY CAO | PERROT STUDIO IN THE US AND FRANCE ...
(Apr 19, 2012, www.DiamondNe.ws)
Maya Lin Creates Online Ode to Animals, Posh & Becks's Damien Hirst Baby ...
Maya Lin Creates Online Ode to Animals, Posh & Becks's Damien Hirst Baby ...
(Apr 19, 2012, ARTINFO)
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Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei reveals a shirt bearing his portrait as he walks into the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau after being accused of a multimillion dollar tax evasion. After being detained for nearly three months last spring, ...
(Apr 19, 2012, WBEZ)
China's Cashed-Up Collectors “The Biggest Thing In The Art World In 20 Years”
Emerging seemingly out of nowhere in the last decade, this group of wealthy buyers has scoured the globe for every rare imperial antique, top-quality piece of Chinese contemporary art, and historical ink painting they can get their hands on, ...
(Apr 19, 2012, Jing Daily)
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is Pleased to Present Yellow Signal ...
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is Pleased to Present Yellow Signal ...
(Apr 19, 2012, MarketWatch (press release))
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is Pleased to Present Yellow Signal ...
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is Pleased to Present Yellow Signal ...
(Apr 19, 2012, SYS-CON Media (press release))
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is Pleased to Present Yellow Signal ...
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is Pleased to Present Yellow Signal ...
(Apr 19, 2012, Broadcast Newsroom)
Artist showers with Chinese ink
"The black ink, the green plants and I express ourselves through our own language," she explains at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, where her work is on display until May 27. Her 20-meter-long, 3-meter-wide and 8-meter-high ...
(Apr 20, 2012, China Daily)
Western art with a modern perspective
High Country dwellers who love modern art and who also fancy contemporary art will want to make the trek down to Denver's LoDo Art District before May 5 to pay a visit to the Robischon Gallery of Contemporary Art. Robischon is currently featuring ...
(Apr 20, 2012, Summit Daily News)
Asian Works of Art Session I & II
Asian Art auctions at Skinner present the best in Chinese, Korean, Indian, and Japanese artwork and antiques, including fine calligraphy, rare jade, furniture, decorative arts, and contemporary Chinese art. Skinner Asian art auctions consistently ...
(Apr 20, 2012, ARTINFO)
Museum director burns art to protest against austerity
By Steve Scherer in Rome (China Daily) An Italian museum director in the mafia-influenced northeast of Naples has pledged to burn three works of art per week to protest against the lack of spending on culture. Antonio Manfredi plans to torch a ...
(Apr 21, 2012, China Daily)
Events in Westchester
KATONAH Katonah Museum of Art Chinese Arts and Culture Day, performances and hands-on art activities. April 22, noon to 4 pm $5 to $10. Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay Street. katonahmuseum.org; (914) 232-9555. LARCHMONT The Voracious Reader Writopia ...
(Apr 21, 2012, New York Times)
Art is a safe haven for Hong Kong investors
Buyers are particularly enamoured by Chinese contemporary art, reflecting China's rising economic and cultural power, with artists such as Liu Wei, Luo Zhongli and Zhang Xiaogang attracting multi-million US dollar price tags. In 2011 Christie's Asian ...
(Apr 21, 2012, gulfnews.com)
Czech-China art exchanges go to more public forums
The couple will open the Czech-China Contemporary, dedicated to research and promotion of contemporary art in both countries, on May 28 in the Songzhuang art village in suburban Beijing. Skoda China president Gerrit Marx presented the ambassador with a ...
(Apr 22, 2012, China Daily)
Classic & contemporary: Artist Kristy Gorden's conjures a bewitching mix
This summer she'll spend two months in China, which, in my unscholarly opinion, is the future of contemporary art. Her wanderlust combines on canvas into portraits that are clearly contemporary and just as clearly based on classical styles and even ...
(Apr 23, 2012, Ottawa Citizen)
Artist showers with Chinese ink
"The black ink, the green plants and I express ourselves through our own language," she explains at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, where her work is on display until May 27. Her 20-meter-long, 3-meter-wide and 8-meter-high ...
(Apr 23, 2012, People's Daily Online)
Canvas the new 'safe haven' for Hong Kong investors
Buyers are particularly enamoured of Chinese contemporary art, reflecting China's rising economic and cultural power, with artists such as Liu Wei, Luo Zhongli and Zhang Xiaogang attracting multi-million US dollar price tags. In 2011 Christie's Asian ...
(Apr 23, 2012, The Malaysian Insider)
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 invites entries
Panel A: Contemporary Chinese painting and calligraphy, seal carving and related creations including multimedia and works of other media. Panel B: Contemporary art, including a wide range of media such as painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, ...
(Apr 23, 2012, 7thSpace Interactive (press release))
China Extends Reach Into International Art
Here, in the nation's financial center, the city government recently gave its blessing to a museum of contemporary art to be called an “art palace” — actually an expansion of the China Pavilion of the 2010 World Expo — that will bring the space to ...
(Apr 23, 2012, New York Times)
Morning Links: Torture Edition
[Hartford Courant] Chinese contemporary art museum to be one of the largest in the world when it opens Oct. 1 and will be called an “art palace.” The move is part of China's drive to attain global status in contemporary art. [NYT] Tate Modern begins ...
(Apr 24, 2012, GalleristNY)
Oldenburg Sculpture Tagged by Anti-Kony Activists, China's Museum-Building ...
Oldenburg Sculpture Tagged by Anti-Kony Activists, China's Museum-Building ...
(Apr 24, 2012, ARTINFO)
International March Of Chinese Art Continues To Gain Pace
Last summer, Jing Daily profiled the increasing frequency of Chinese art exhibitions in countries like the United States, concluding: With more home-grown Chinese museums putting on larger and more comprehensive contemporary art shows every year, ...
(Apr 24, 2012, Jing Daily)
What's new
"The past decade has witnessed the amazing hike of contemporary Chinese art auction prices, but I think the mostly political paintings that fetch astronomical prices do not necessarily represent the real beauty, vitality and depth of Chinese ...
(Apr 25, 2012, China Daily)
Major US exhibit opens for Chinese artist Wu
By Sebastian Smith NEW YORK: The first major US retrospective of Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong opens Wednesday in New York, fulfilling the painter's dying wish to be better known in the West -- and signaling the continued rise of Chinese art on the ...
(Apr 25, 2012, The Daily Star)
Art on the move through space and time
The Lingsheng Art Institution Ltd, Beijing Bloom Gallery and the Royal Scottish Academy will hold an exhibition tour for innovative Chinese artists next January in Edinburgh. Entitled Moving Beyond, the show will feature cutting-edge works by selected ...
(Apr 25, 2012, China Daily)
Rare works on display in Xi'an
An exhibition of rare, ancient relics and contemporary art works will be held in the Chang'an Tower in Xi'an, capital of China's Northwest Shaanxi province, from April 28 as a celebration of the opening of the Xi'an Expo Park. A total of 242 exhibits, ...
(Apr 25, 2012, China Daily)
Event Watch: Viessmann & UCCA “Embedded Creation” (Beijing, April 28-May 6)
By Jing Daily A partnership with Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) and Zcontemporary, from April 28-May 6 the German heating technology manufacturer Viessmann's Chinese subsidiary will hold a new art project designed to explore the ...
(Apr 25, 2012, Jing Daily)
Let's appreciate the big art show that isn't there
It begins, rather awkwardly, “Next Art Chicago, opening Thursday, April 26, to invited guests and April 27-29 to the public, is a merger of Art Chicago, the longest running contemporary art fair in the United States, and NEXT — the Invitational ...
(Apr 25, 2012, Chicago Sun-Times)
Douglas Coupland kicks off Gallery Hop 2012
Coupland recently had a show called Welcome to the Twenty-First Century at Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto and will be part of the Oh, Canada exhibition opening at the end of May at MASS MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Once the ...
(Apr 25, 2012, Vancouver Sun)
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center to host an international conference ...
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center to host an international conference ...
(Apr 26, 2012, Art Daily)
Art on the move through space and time
"The past decade has witnessed the amazing hike of contemporary Chinese art auction prices, but I think the mostly political paintings that fetch astronomical prices do not necessarily represent the real beauty, vitality and depth of Chinese ...
(Apr 26, 2012, People's Daily Online)
"Calendar weekend
... in China by way of acclaimed contemporary Chinese artists Geng Jianyi, Huang Ran and Zhang Peili, whose exhibition is part of a city-wide, largest-in-Canada showcase of Chinese multimedia and video art. Matthew Monahan Contemporary Art Gallery; ...
(Apr 26, 2012, Vancouver Sun)
Obscured objects hiding in plain sight
The gallery is open Tues. to Sat., 11 am to 5 pm AT A GLANCE 2012 VANCOUVER GALLERY HOP When: Saturday Full details: canadianart.ca/microsites/ vancouverhop Tour One: Downtown, 1: 30 pm to 3 pm The tour begins at the Contemporary Art Gallery, ...
(Apr 26, 2012, Vancouver Sun)
Up in flames
SOMETHING odd is happening at the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), near Naples. Some paintings and sculptures are being torched. Great art has felt the lick of flames before, but often by ransacking or accident. Here, for more than a week, ...
(Apr 26, 2012, The Economist (blog))
Try to figure out chinese exhibit at HCC
That's one of the reasons why you may find yourself lingering before some of the paintings in this exhibit of contemporary Chinese art in Howard Community College's Rouse Company Foundation Gallery. Upon walking into the gallery, you're immediately ...
(Apr 26, 2012, Baltimore Sun)
Try to figure out chinese exhibit at HCC
That's one of the reasons why you may find yourself lingering before some of the paintings in this exhibit of contemporary Chinese art in Howard Community College's Rouse Company Foundation Gallery. Upon walking into the gallery, you're immediately ...
(Apr 26, 2012, Baltimore Sun)
Creative Conversation: Award-Winning Author Charles Mann
On Sunday, April 29th from 2 pm to 3 pm, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's Creative Conversation welcomes award-winning author Charles Mann to talk about tobacco—the first truly global commodity craze and the focus of Chinese artist Xu Bing's ...
(Apr 26, 2012, HamletHub)
Old and classics merge
From Sunday to May 2, patrons are invited to experience the art of Asia and the culture of China by attending the event, held at National Agriculture Exhibition Center. In previous years, Art Beijing was staged twice a year, once for contemporary art ...
(Apr 27, 2012, People's Daily Online)
A fresh look at China
Sinopticon runs across four venues this spring and summer, examining the influence of China in contemporary art. It's a 2012 update on a process that started when often fanciful images started cropping up in Western art in the late-17th century ...
(Apr 27, 2012, This is Plymouth)
London Goes Electric: Style and Art in the East End
Paley is the doyenne of East London's contemporary art scene, and—another surprise—she is American. It was Gilbert & George, two artists working as one, dressed with mock formality, and a “Fournier Street, Spitalfields” stamp on their work that took ...
(Apr 27, 2012, Condé Nast Traveler)
Opening Reception for Neil Berger & Jeremiah Donovan at Windsor Whip Works Art ...
Opening Reception for Neil Berger & Jeremiah Donovan at Windsor Whip Works Art ...
(Apr 27, 2012, WBGH)
The documentaries of tortured artists
by Brian D. Johnson on Friday, April 27, 2012 11:41am - 0 Comments We're in the ivy-walled Beijing studio of Ai Weiwei, China's most famous artist and activist. He's huddled with his colleagues around a model of a bamboo installation proposed for ...
(Apr 27, 2012, Macleans.ca)
When industry gives way to art
Here is an ironic twist: there are fewer buildings being built, yet we have a new building about to go up in London that is earmarked for nothing more substantial than the transient fads of contemporary art. If Britain's past was based on the muscular ...
(Apr 27, 2012, Financial Times)
'The Scream' Sale Could Continue Global Art Shift
... Chinese government is doing in Beijing, when you think of a museum you think of an iconic work," says Don Thompson, author of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. "If I say 'Louvre,' you think of one painting, ...
(Apr 27, 2012, U.S. News & World Report)
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