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OCT Group takes the spotlight at Shenzhen cultural industries fair
... an eco-friendly lifestyle and contemporary art. The group generated more than 6 billion yuan ($948.6 million) last year from its cultural industry sector. It has been honored as among the top 30 Chinese companies in the cultural industry for three ...

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

Authoritarian Art
The contemporary art scene in China is a mixed one. The state is both a patron and a censor of art. Large investments have been made by the government to promote artistic activities. The recent partnership between the government-run Shanghai Art Museum ...

Chinese ink art paints the world
It has been excluded from so-called contemporary Chinese art, which includes oil painting, prints, video art, sculptures and installations. As an art educator, painter and official, Feng has held various posts in art academies, artists associations, ...

The Booming Asian Art Market and Its Influence on Britain
China is the elephant in the room of many discussions concerning politics, economics, and the environment, yet the contemporary art market did not appear to be a topic of contest with record sales coming from the major art auction houses across Europe ...

Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past
The exhibition focuses on contemporary art while also exploring its deep connection to art of the past, and features the works of 31 prominent artists from all over Asia. Some art works featured include ancient Chinese and Indian sculptures, ...

Petrus, Diamonds Test Chinese Demand at $258 Million Sale
Christie's International estimates its Hong Kong sale of wine, contemporary art, traditional Chinese paintings, watches, jewelry and antiques over the next six days will raise as much as HK$2 billion ($260 million). “From the number of hotel bookings ...

Artnet's silly indices
To put this in perspective, here's the chart that Artnet loves to send out to reporters, featuring its first index, the C50 index of contemporary art. The message of this chart is very clear. Contemporary art is an asset class, it's a strongly ...

Frieze London: Details of its tenth edition announced
Frieze London is one of the world's most influential contemporary art fairs and brings an international focus to the dynamic contemporary art scene in the UK capital every October. Frieze London is a carefully selected presentation of the most ...

Hong Kong, the new hub for art
Market research firm ArtTactic said in its May 12 report that confidence in the Chinese contemporary art market is slowing down after three years of rapid growth. Simon Lee and Pearl Lam's galleries, that last week opened in Hong Kong's historic Pedder ...

First Biennale of Modern Art Opens in Kyiv
... director of Contemporary Art at the Warsaw Center "Zamek Ujazdowski". Some of the exhibits that really stood out were Waste Not by artist Song Dong of China - exploring the notion of poverty and powerlessness, and the one by Erbossyn Meldibekov, ...

Art HK 12: highlights from the contemporary art fair
New York-based David Zwirner featured Chinese painter Yan Peiming together with Luc Tuymans, while the Gagosian Gallery showed Picasso, Hirst, Lichtenstein and Japanese stars Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami. This year Asia One, a platform for artists ...

The Art Market: Courting controversy
By Georgina Adam A chilling talking point at the Hong Kong art fair last week was the recent crackdown by Chinese customs authorities on under-declaration of the value of artworks shipped to the mainland. Two employees of the China-based Integrated ...

62 artists, 120 works, four years in the making, 100 per cent Canadian
But should the largest not-for-profit contemporary-art and performing-arts space in the United States be in a sleepy former mill town tucked in the northwest corner of Massachusetts? Probably not. But it is – it being the Massachusetts Museum of ...

BEST BET: Blue Star program kicks off for military families
... the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation, Japanese Friendship Garden, Mingei International Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, ...

Christie's Spring Sales of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art achieve ...
Christie's Spring Sales of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art achieve ...

Plymouth museum to mark Jubilee with far east flavour
On Wednesday, June 6 there's a chance to create patterned wallpaper based on Chinese images and the Museum's new Sinopticon: Contemporary Chinoiserie in Contemporary Art exhibition. A second workshop on Thursday 7 June, also based on the Sinopticon ...

3 sales of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art by Christie's achieved US ...
3 sales of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art by Christie's achieved US ...

Art and Money
An oil based house paint and wax crayon on canvas by Cy Twombly, who died last year, its provenance listing two sales by Contemporary Art's global guru Larry Gagosian from his New York Gallery, auction priced between $15 to $20 million, ...

Asia's wealthy fuel boom in museum construction
The trend is particularly visible in China, where a reported 395 museums opened last year as the government's drive to achieve world status embraces culture as well as economic might. "Asia has a very rich history and heritage so it is only natural ...

From Morocco to Indonesia: Beirut Art Fair to showcase more than 40 ...
From Morocco to Indonesia: Beirut Art Fair to showcase more than 40 ...

Hong Kong Auctions Showed Strength for Wine and Contemporary Art, Defying ...
Hong Kong Auctions Showed Strength for Wine and Contemporary Art, Defying ...

New Van Cleef & Arpels creations celebrates China exhibit
Beijing, China (4E) – To celebrate its freshly launched Timeless Beauty exhibition at Shanghai's Museum of Contemporary Art, luxury jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels has debuted a special collection of new designs. The exhibit showcases some 370 pieces of ...

Frieze Art Fair London Tenth Edition Line Up Announced
Frieze has become one of the world's most influential contemporary art fairs and brings an international focus to London's dynamic contemporary art scene, every October. Frieze is a carefully selected presentation of the most forward-thinking ...

Art Market Watch SPEED! MONEY AND THE GLOBAL ART MARKET by Piroschka Dossi
What distinguishes the global contemporary art market from its predecessor, the avant-garde art market that led to success for the great artistic innovators of the 20th century? On the face of it, the contemporary art market appears as a seamless ...

Ai Weiwei the architect
Ai Weiwei, 55, is a global superstar of contemporary art. In 2011, Art Review placed him top of its annual Power 100 list and he was a runner-up in Time magazine's Person of the Year last year. His work ranges from early minimalist musing on Chinese ...

"Hong Kong Is a Place With Much More Freedom": Curator Pi Li on Why He Left ...
"Hong Kong Is a Place With Much More Freedom": Curator Pi Li on Why He Left ...

Falling Behind Competitors In China, De Beers Expands
... raise upwards of US$1 billion to fuel further China expansion, while Van Cleef & Arpels recently launched a Shanghai exhibition of 370 rare pieces from its archives at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. Looking to attract younger consumers, ...

Gallery Report: June 2012
An 1855 Chinese Year 5 Board of Revenue 3-Taels issued banknote, graded very fine, sold for $10620 at an auction held May 15 by Archives International Auctions in Fort Lee, NJ Also, an uncut sheet of 64 experiment specimen postage stamps (circa ...

Hollywood Road - the essential tour - About
In recent years, this historical trade has almost been eclipsed by the cluster of art galleries who have opened up and established themselves as the place to go for those seeking out Chinese contemporary art. This booming trade has seen paintings swap ...

May 30 Photo Brief: Cute cat, wet cat, stuffed cat, flower portraits and a ...
May 30 Photo Brief: Cute cat, wet cat, stuffed cat, flower portraits and a ...

Asia art sales dispel some, not all, China uncertainty
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global auction house Christie's sold HK$2.7 billion ($351.7 million) worth of Asian and Chinese art, wine and jewelry in its Hong Kong spring sales, a steady showing despite a gathering pall of economic uncertainty in the euro ...

Election season requires listening, not just talking
He is the first winner from China to receive the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for the built environment. Wang Shu designs buildings, most notably the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, that hope to harmonize local needs with respect for China's ancient ...

Beyond The Scream: May Auction Highlights
Confirming the strength of the market for blue-chip contemporary art, Sotheby's followed on May 9th with their contemporary art sale raking in $266.6 million in total sales. Roy Lichtenstein's iconic Sleeping Girl was fought over by six buyers before ...

Asia art sales dispel some, not all, China uncertainty
By James Pomfret | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global auction house Christie's sold HK$2.7 billion worth of Asian and Chinese art, wine and jewellery in its Hong Kong spring sales, a steady showing despite a gathering pall of economic uncertainty in the euro ...

A Zhang Daqian Masterpiece and a “Martian Pink” Gem Boost Christie's $352 ...
A Zhang Daqian Masterpiece and a “Martian Pink” Gem Boost Christie's $352 ...

Beyond the Scream: May Auction Highlights
Confirming the strength of the market for blue-chip contemporary art, Sotheby's followed on May 9th with their contemporary art sale raking in $266.6 million in total sales. Roy Lichtenstein's iconic Sleeping Girl was fought over by six buyers before ...

Art beat ... finger on the pulse
National Art Museum of China, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng district, Beijing. 010-6400-1476. Today Art Museum is holding Czech artist Milan Grygar's first solo show in Asia. Grygar's art is unique in the contemporary art world, yet it stems from the simple ...

Work of art
She developed a keen interest in contemporary Chinese art, meeting many of the artists and developing into something of an expert. In fact, Maggio became so passionately involved in the art world that she decided to make it a career, quitting the day ...



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