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Contemporary Chinese Art News 05/2012 (Page 2)

work seeds record-breaking auction

The work, made up of one tonne of porcelain sunflower seeds that can be arranged in myriad shapes, broke the previous record for his works by more than $US100,000 when it went under the hammer at Sotheby's as part of a record-breaking contemporary art ... (May 11, 2012, The Australian)

Forget megayachts and private jets: Asia's superrich want to build their own ...

Forget megayachts and private jets: Asia's superrich want to build their own ... (May 11, 2012, Vancouver Sun)

Record $45m for Lichtenstein pop-art painting

The Gershes were noted collectors and lifelong patrons of the arts, founding members of the city's Museum of Contemporary Art. Earlier in the sale, a tonne of porcelain sunflower seeds by Ai Weiwei fetched $782500, an auction record for the Chinese ... (May 11, 2012, Casey Weekly Berwick)

Rising to the challenge

The sculpture's creator, contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan, was on hand and stood waiting in front of a black curtain that had been hiding his work ever since it was stealthily delivered and installed several weeks ago. Upon instruction, the crowd ... (May 11, 2012, yourhome.ca)

Asia's super rich building their own art museums

Aside from giving her a space to show off her collection of Chinese revolutionary and contemporary art, Wang said it will also help her give her nouveau riche compatriots a cultural education. “The rich housewives have money but do not know how to ... (May 11, 2012, Auction Central News)

'We will create a vibrant arts scene'

She explains why it has taken her so long “I define Chinese contemporary art as the reinvention of tradition, reacting to and embracing western tradition too, and creating a new form of expression, a new visual language,” says Pearl Lam, ... (May 11, 2012, Financial Times)

Keeping it at home

Li founded the Collectors' Club in Beijing with the aim of “speeding up the learning process in China, where contemporary art developed late and people still don't understand the international scene”. The club invites collectors from across the country ... (May 11, 2012, Financial Times)

NYC spring art auctions abound in records

Artist records also were shattered at the two auction houses for works by Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and others. The art market remains one of the few ... (May 12, 2012, Wall Street Journal)

Asia's superrich build their own art museums

Aside from giving her a space to show off her collection of Chinese revolutionary and contemporary art, Wang said it will also help her give her nouveau riche compatriots a cultural education. "The rich housewives have money but do not know how to ... (May 13, 2012, Knoxville News Sentinel)

Asian Art Museum's 'Phantoms of Asia' connects

With "Phantoms of Asia," which features the works of 31 prominent artists from Japan, Indonesia, Iran, China, the Philippines, India and elsewhere, the museum is trumpeting its intention to focus seriously on contemporary art - and connect it to the ... (May 13, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle)

Abstracting wisdom from Iowa's art collectors: Shopping with the Pappajohns

John and Mary Pappajohn of Des Moines look at a painting titled “South” by Joan Mitchell as they wait for the start of an auction of contemporary art at Sotheby's in Manhattan on Wednesday. The Pappajohns, along with several family members, ... (May 13, 2012, DesMoinesRegister.com)

Asia's superrich build their own art museums

Aside from giving her a space to show off her collection of Chinese revolutionary and contemporary art, Wang said it will also help her give her nouveau riche compatriots a cultural education. "The rich housewives have money but do not know how to ... (May 13, 2012, msnbc.com)

Jing Daily Q&A: France Pepper, Founder, China Insider

Although the focus was contemporary art, I arranged exclusive visits to museums of traditional art as well as to closed sections of the Forbidden City in order to provide a perspective on Chinese art history. At the other end of the spectrum, ... (May 14, 2012, Jing Daily)

Spring auctions in New York show art market flourishing

International Art and Design Gallerist Pearl Lam Opening New Space in Her ...

International Art and Design Gallerist Pearl Lam Opening New Space in Her ... (May 15, 2012, In the Air, Art+Auction's Gossip Column (blog))

Visual Culture

Palermo's contemporary art museum, Palazzo Rizo, was shuttered after a government official reportedly tried to install his wife as director weeks after the European Union awarded millions in funding to the museum. But the city's art scene is ... (May 15, 2012, New York Times (blog))

Trinity International's May 19 art auction spans centuries

Of interest is lot 124, a Chinese archaic bronze vessel with markings, estimated at $800 to $1200; lot 125, a pair of Asian 19th century lacquered panels with ivory figures, conservatively estimated at $600 to $800; and lot 127, a Chinese green jadite ... (May 15, 2012, Auction Central News)

Art exhibition listings

By Noah Buchan / Staff reporter Video, photography, painting and sculpture will be displayed in It Takes Four Sorts (四不像), an exhibition that brings together artists and curators from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, in what TFAM calls a ... (May 15, 2012, Taipei Times)

Contemporary Chinese art gets NY showing

"The significance of this exhibit is that it marks the start of contemporary art going out of China, and being known by the Western world," Cong said. "It's a good platform for the American public to learn about the spirit and ideals of contemporary ... (May 15, 2012, Chinadaily USA)

For the record

James Franco: In the May 14 Calendar section, an article about James Franco and the "Rebel" exhibition at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art said that filmmaker Harmony Korine shot a six-minute video for the show featuring real girl gangs on BMX ... (May 16, 2012, Los Angeles Times)

New contemporary art fair slated for Hong Kong

HONG KONG — A new art fair devoted to "affordable" contemporary art will be held in Hong Kong next year, organisers said Wednesday, confirming the city's new status as a regional art hub. The fair is being put together by Affordable Art China, ... (May 16, 2012, AFP)

Priorities For Rich In Shanghai: Wealth Management, Art & Philanthropy

Over the past several years, this has been particularly true for the city's ultra-wealthy, among them super-collectors Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, who have spent an estimated US$317 million on Chinese modern, revolutionary and contemporary art and ... (May 16, 2012, Jing Daily)

Christie's Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art Auction In Hong Kong: Top ...

Christie's Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art Auction In Hong Kong: Top ... (May 16, 2012, Jing Daily)

Fine Art News China Comes to New York

"Prescritp" by artist Cheng Yong at a recent contemporary art exhibition in Nanjing, east China. Beijing Poly International Auction Co. Ltd is not even seven years old, but it is the world's third largest auction house, selling RMB 12.2 billion worth ... (May 16, 2012, Live Trading News)

German Held on Art Smuggling in China as Buyers Dodge Tax

Customs officials raided the Beijing office of Integrated Fine Arts Solutions Ltd., which specializes in contemporary art, on March 30, seizing records and arresting Nils Jennrich, 32, and his Chinese colleague, according to Torsten Hendricks, ... (May 16, 2012, Bloomberg)

German Held on Art Smuggling in China as Buyers Dodge Tax

Adrian Wong solo show at Chinese Culture Center

25 at Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St., third floor (inside the Hilton Hotel). Wong also has been selected as one of 31 international artists to participate in the Asian Art Museum's "Phantoms of Asia" contemporary art exhibition, ... (May 16, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle)

'Inhabiting the World' and 'the Yangtze River' exhibiting in Chengdu

... an annual China-France culture and arts festival. Hosted by the France Consulate General in Chengdu, Institut Français and Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, these exhibitions are open and free to the public until May 26 at the Chengdu Contemporary ... (May 17, 2012, China Daily)

What Chinese collectors are really buying

But it is still predominantly domestic, with the Chinese mainly buying in segments of the market ranging from archaic bronzes to “wet paint” works by the brand names of Chinese contemporary art, such as Yue Minjun and Zeng Fanzhi, jade, ceramics, ... (May 17, 2012, Art Newspaper)

5th annual Hong Kong International Art Fair

We look forward to seeing the very best in both Eastern and Western contemporary art come together at this year's ART HK, and building on our ongoing partnership with Asia's leading art fair”. Over the next four days, the 2012 Fair is the platform for ... (May 17, 2012, Jing Daily)

Investors get the picture with art

Beijing Bonwin Contemporary Art Investment Co, launched its first art fund in cooperation with China Minsheng Banking Corp in 2007. Setting the entry level at 500000 yuan, the fund targeted high-end customers and according to a post on the bank's ... (May 18, 2012, China Daily)

Broadening its reach

Cruising the floor was Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China, who may be the largest collector of contemporary Chinese art. The Asia Society hosted a lunch for 80 collectors from Indonesia, Korea and the mainland, who are now building the kind ... (May 18, 2012, The Economist (blog))

Hong Kong in art bonanza - but will it last?

Market research firm ArtTactic said in its May 12 report that confidence in the Chinese contemporary art market is slowing down after 3 years of rapid growth. "The biggest change from 12 months ago, is the decrease in confidence at the very high end of ... (May 18, 2012, Reuters)

In Nepal, After Revolt,' Art Was Changed Forever'

Common themes in the show captured the zeitgeist in the capital of this mountain nation between India and China. Urban landscapes choked by electrical wires and labyrinthine roads evoked the chaotic congestion of Katmandu. One work re-interpreted the ... (May 18, 2012, New York Times)

An egg, a guard — much is in flux at the Nelson

By ALICE THORSON Television screens looping snippets of historic events and popular programs from the '60s and '70s have been installed in the contemporary art galleries in the Bloch Building. The public seems to like them, but some art types aren't so ... (May 18, 2012, Kansas City Star)

Street Art Star Gets Macy's Parade Balloon, Invisible Art Spotlighted in ...

Street Art Star Gets Macy's Parade Balloon, Invisible Art Spotlighted in ... (May 18, 2012, ARTINFO)

Investors Get the Picture with Art

Rebellion, identity underpin three Nerman shows

By ALICE THORSON Ceramic artist Lauren Mabry transforms simple cylindrical vessels into paintings in the round, as seen in her exhibit of recent works at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.. “Zack Balber: Tamim,” “Chris Biddy: Kids” and “Lauren ... (May 18, 2012, Kansas City Star)

"Phantoms" at the Asian Art Museum

Phantoms, exploring Asian cosmology, is the museum's first large scale exhibit of contemporary art, and the museum is pulling out all the stops - parties, galas, conversations with the artists, a talk by Holland Cotter, a New York Times art critic, ... (May 18, 2012, SF Weekly (blog))

POST-COLONIAL CONTEMPORARY ART by Barbara Pollack

White Cube unveiled new works by Anselm Kiefer, inspired by his 1993 trip to China. Kiefer's appeal to Chinese collectors was evident at the opening, with several mainland buyers picking up works before the evening was over. Several blocks away crowds ... (May 18, 2012, Artnet)

Events in Westchester

PEEKSKILL Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art “Circa 1986 Redux: Rick Prol, A Retrospective Look.” Through June 17. “Circa 1986,” group show. Through July 22. $2 to $5; members, free. $2 to $5; members, free. Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 6 pm; ... (May 19, 2012, New York Times)

Big Apple speaks through photos

By Chen Nan (China Daily) The adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" may be a cliche but it appropriately sums up an ongoing exhibition, Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker. The exhibition displays more than 100 photographs taken between ... (May 20, 2012, China Daily)

Charleston's Spoleto Festival celebrates birthday of composer Philip Glass

It features an orchestra of four traditional Chinese instruments blended with Western instruments. The visual arts offering is the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art's show by Motoi Yamamoto, who uses salt to create large-scale art installations that ... (May 20, 2012, The Augusta Chronicle)

Elizabeth Kramer | Museum of Art and Craft spotlights Art21 series

It screened an episode of an award-winning documentary series focusing on contemporary art and artists, and it will follow it up this Thursday with another. Called “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” this series, which has been airing on PBS (and KET in ... (May 20, 2012, The Courier-Journal)

The Week In Culture (PHOTOS)

Students of the Superior Art Institute perform "Jesus Against The Universe" by the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch as part of the 11th Havana Biennial contemporary art exhibition in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano) A model ... (May 20, 2012, Huffington Post)

Throckmorton Fine Art presents Colors of Passion, an exhibition pairing two ...

Throckmorton Fine Art presents Colors of Passion, an exhibition pairing two ... (May 21, 2012, ArtfixDaily (blog))

Van Cleef creates new designs for China exhibit

By Kathryn Bishop Luxury jeweller Van Cleef & Arpels has created a number of new jewellery designs to celebrate the opening of its Timeless Beauty exhibition at Shanghai's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). The heritage exhibition will be shown from ... (May 21, 2012, Professional Jeweller)

ART HK REPORTS GOOD SALES AT ITS FIFTH EDITION

Furthermore, Magnus was named one of the 10 most influential figures in the Asian Art Scene by Chinese Contemporary Art News in February 2009. Strong sales were reported at the fifth and last edition of ART HK. The 4-day event ran 17–20 May at the Hong ... (May 21, 2012, ArtLyst)

Frederick J. Brown, Painter of Musicians, Dies at 67

His work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo. Influenced by the German Expressionists and Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning, ... (May 21, 2012, New York Times)

James Fallows Visits SMoCA Lounge to Talk Aviation and Politics in China and ...

James Fallows Visits SMoCA Lounge to Talk Aviation and Politics in China and ... (May 21, 2012, Phoenix New Times (blog))

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