Masterpieces worth $1.3b donated to Kowloon hub
Sigg said he found it odd that in the 1990s, no individual or institution was systematically collecting contemporary Chinese art in what is widely known to be the ...
(Jun 12, 2012, Hong Kong Standard)
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Journalists Brood on an Art Market Crash
The approximate total sales in the entire global contemporary art market in a year is around $6 billion, or what would likely be only two or three days' worth of trading in Google stock. If these companies' young billionaire founders, Sergey Brin or ...
(Jun 12, 2012, GalleristNY)
Top China Stories from WSJ: $163 Million Gift, Gun Scheme, Asia's ...
Top China Stories from WSJ: $163 Million Gift, Gun Scheme, Asia's ...
(Jun 13, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Swiss art collector donates 1463 pieces of Chinese contemporary art to HK
By Agencies Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority said Tuesday that it received 1463 pieces of Chinese contemporary art from Swiss art collector Uli Sigg. These collections, conservatively estimated for 1.3 billion HK dollars, ...
(Jun 13, 2012, Global Times)
M+ Museum Gets $163 Million Art Donation
Years ahead of its anticipated opening date, Hong Kong's visual-arts museum M+ received a significant boost on Tuesday when collector Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China, donated the majority of his Chinese contemporary art collection to the ...
(Jun 13, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Collector donates US$167.5 million worth of Chinese contemporary art to Hong ...
Collector donates US$167.5 million worth of Chinese contemporary art to Hong ...
(Jun 13, 2012, CNN International)
Collector donates US$167.5M in art to Hong Kong museum
Hong Kong (CNN) -- A huge trove of artwork from the world's premier collection of Chinese contemporary art has been donated to a new visual culture museum ...
(Jun 13, 2012, CNN)
Collecting art is a way of life for some
It's true that contemporary art is not always easy to understand, but there is a lot happening, it's diverse, heartwarming, with exceptional moments, sometimes a little madness and so much the better for it. We just sort of let it happen and the works ...
(Jun 13, 2012, swissinfo.ch)
Swiss collector donates 1400 art works
More than 1400 works of contemporary Chinese art from his private collection will go to the M-Plus (M+) museum slated for opening in 2017. The museum will pay another 22 million francs for an additional 47 pieces from the 1970s and '80s, according to ...
(Jun 13, 2012, World Radio Switzerland)
Photos: A $163 Million Trove of Chinese Contemporary Art
View highlights from Hong Kong visual-arts museum M+'s new Sigg Collection, which includes artworks by Ai Weiwei, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Xiaogang and Lee ...
(Jun 13, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
The Stagnation of the Middle Market: Beneath the High-End Hype, Art Prices Are ...
The Stagnation of the Middle Market: Beneath the High-End Hype, Art Prices Are ...
(Jun 13, 2012, ARTINFO)
Collector Donates $165-Million in Art to Hong Kong Museum
A leading collector of contemporary Chinese art has pledged more than 1400 works collectively valued at about $165-million to a future Hong Kong museum, ...
(Jun 13, 2012, Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) (blog))
Hong Kong to Get Trove of Chinese Contemporary Art
His collection is conservatively estimated to be worth 167 million USD and is the biggest trove of contemporary Chinese art. "At some point I realized that nobody, no individual, no institution, neither in China nor abroad, was collecting Chinese ...
(Jun 13, 2012, NTDTV)
Jing Daily Interview: Young Chinese Artist, Mu Lei
How do you feel about the impact that technology has had on contemporary art in China? ML: Well, I don't only work in easel painting, I also create new media ...
(Jun 13, 2012, Jing Daily)
Swiss donates vast Chinese art collection
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Former Swiss ambassador to China Uli Sigg has donated his vast collection of contemporary Chinese art, valued at $170 million, to a ...
(Jun 13, 2012, GenevaLunch (blog))
New Documentary On Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Out This Summer
Locally, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego staged a 24-hour silent protest last May to show its support of the artist and voice disapproval with the Chinese government's actions. Artists, community members and museum staff were invited to sit in ...
(Jun 13, 2012, Kbps)
Art beat ... finger on the pulse
Chinese landscape painting is said to have become its own genre during the ... Top Contemporary Art Center, Building 5, 18 Wuwei Lu, next to ShanghART ...
(Jun 15, 2012, China Daily)
Hong Kong's Cultural Ambitions, in a Nutshell
The art scene veteran — an eccentric, petite figure with bouffant violet hair — eschewed the trends that made contemporary Chinese art so popular. There were ...
(Jun 15, 2012, New York Times)
A coup for Hong Kong
In a shot aimed straight at the Chinese government, Mr Sigg said this week it would behove the authorities to understand that contemporary art, though often ...
(Jun 15, 2012, The Economist (blog))
Art & About: Diversity of Indian art
Compared to contemporary Chinese art it seemed tame, accomplished and familiar. Now that the word most closely associated with Chinese art is “bubble”, ...
(Jun 16, 2012, New Straits Times)
Art attack
China's art market has been rocked after a series of prominent figures were ... Huang Yujie, chairman of Beijing Bonwin Contemporary Art Investment Co, and ...
(Jun 17, 2012, Global Times)
Swiss Philanthropist Uli Sigg donates Contemporary Chinese Art ...
Swiss Philanthropist Uli Sigg donates Contemporary Chinese Art ...
(Jun 17, 2012, Haute Living)
New buyers may lift London art sales to $1 billion
... buyers from Middle East, China, Russia boost buzz* Miro, Constable, Renoir, ... 310 million pounds from its sales of impressionist, modern, contemporary art ...
(Jun 18, 2012, Reuters)
Documenta 13: Europe's Most Important Contemporary Art Fair Has ...
Documenta 13: Europe's Most Important Contemporary Art Fair Has ...
(Jun 19, 2012, PolicyMic)
DEBUTING CHINESE INK PAINTING AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY ...
DEBUTING CHINESE INK PAINTING AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY ...
(Jun 20, 2012, Artnet)
Sixth edition of Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
The SH Contemporary is one of the major contemporary art fairs in China, because it takes into account the dynamism of the Chinese art market, the emerging ...
(Jun 22, 2012, AMA)
India's Largest Contemporary Art Exhibition Opens In Beijing
India's Largest Contemporary Art Exhibition Opens In Beijing. BEIJING, June 25 (Bernama) -- Chinese art lovers had a taste of Indian contemporary art works as ...
(Jun 25, 2012, Bernama)
Luxury Hotels In China Combine Art & Accommodations
With the number of hotels under construction in China skyrocketing in the last few ... Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibitions Increasing At Western Museums ...
(Jun 25, 2012, Jing Daily)
See the Highlights from Uli Sigg's Legendary Chinese Art Collection ...
See the Highlights from Uli Sigg's Legendary Chinese Art Collection ...
(Jun 26, 2012, ARTINFO)
Singapore Woos Millionaires With Murakami, Leibovitz
Its M+ museum, opening in 2017, on June 13 a $170 million donation of contemporary Chinese art from Swiss collector Uli Sigg that will anchor the museum's ...
(Jun 26, 2012, Bloomberg)
SJICA's 'City Beneath the City' Unearths Lost History
City Beneath the City at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art presents ... one of the largest Chinese communities in the country at the time, second only to ...
(Jun 27, 2012, KQED)
The Shock of the Old
Johnson Chang, the man largely credited with introducing Chinese contemporary art to the West, is not difficult to spot in an art-world crowd. At Hong Kong's China Club—a glamorous venue known for its high-powered clientele, and featuring a riot of ...
(Jun 28, 2012, Wall Street Journal)
Porcelain homecoming
Of the roughly 25000 Chinese items, including ceramic shards, nearly 4000 non-light sensitive objects are on permanent display across the museum. And the museum continues to acquire objects for its Chinese collections, particularly contemporary art ...
(Jun 29, 2012, China Daily)
Chinese pianist to build musical bridge to Japan
The series of events include a traditional Chinese dress show, China's contemporary art show, photo gallery reflecting China-Japan relations and a music recital by Li Yundi. Li said he performed with Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa and Japan is a land ...
(Jun 29, 2012, China Daily)
Wary Buyers Still Pour Money Into Contemporary Art
LONDON — The market for contemporary art is holding up remarkably well in the midst of the deepening concerns that are engulfing the global economy. Enlarge This .... China's economy still pulsates with the confidence of its growing entrepreneurial ...
(Jun 29, 2012, New York Times)
Luxury Concierge China, a boutique travel consultancy based in Shanghai, will ...
Luxury Concierge China, a boutique travel consultancy based in Shanghai, will ...
(Jun 29, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle)
No, The Sky Is Not Falling In China's Art Market. Here's Why
(Whether that's centuries-old calligraphy or modern or contemporary art.) In this way, it can be said that China's collectors remain broadly “nationalistic,” with few knowledgeable enough about collecting Western artwork to make a major impact. Aside ...
(Jun 29, 2012, Jing Daily)
Cultural evolution
Architects are already competing to design the complex's first building, the Xiqu Chinese opera venue. And this month came the announcement of a large donation of Chinese contemporary art, which will become an impressive centrepiece of the district's ...
(Jun 29, 2012, Financial Times)
Art Unlimited
Interest in Asian contemporary art, especially Chinese, is on the up-and-up. “Galleries and collectors are drawn to the energy that has emerged in the country since the Cultural Revolution,” said Sarah Goulet of Pace Gallery, NY, which sold the Richter ...
(Jun 30, 2012, The Hindu)
Sumesh Senan with his photo Life in a Metro. Photo: Atul Aneja
For all the buzz that Chinese and Indian contemporary art is generating in Western auction houses, the two countries remain ignorant about the thriving art scenes on either side of the Himalayas. How many people in India — even in art circles — have ...
(Jun 30, 2012, The Hindu)
Indian embassy launches art show
The embassy of India, in collaboration with the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing, hosted a preview last weekend of "the most comprehensive international exhibition of contemporary art from India ever to be mounted in China" with more than ...
(Jul 1, 2012, China Daily)
HK turns into global hub for contemporary Chinese art
From the inception of the West Kowloon Cultural District to the inscription of intangible cultural heritage on the national list, Hong Kong has made big strides in establishing itself as a global hub for contemporary arts with increased recognition of ...
(Jul 1, 2012, China Daily)
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