Five Trends to Watch from China's Fall Auctions So Far
The decline is most stark in the previously glamorous category of Asian Contemporary Art (and particularly Chinese Contemporary Art), which turned in a disappointing performance last Sunday. The anemic result was mostly down to the difficulty Sotheby's ...
(Oct 12, 2012, ARTINFO)
Christie's London contemporary art sale down on 2011
But Sotheby's saw its Hong Kong autumn sales of Asian and Chinese artwork and luxury goods fall well short of last year's levels, fetching $258 million or 37 percent less than in the same period of 2011. At Christie's, the top price was for Martin ...
(Oct 12, 2012, Reuters)
Christie's London contemporary art sale down on 2011
But Sotheby's saw its Hong Kong autumn sales of Asian and Chinese artwork and luxury goods fall well short of last year's levels, fetching $258 million or 37 percent less than in the same period of 2011. At Christie's, the top price was for Martin ...
(Oct 12, 2012, Reuters)
Christie's London contemporary art sale down on 2011
But Sotheby's saw its Hong Kong autumn sales of Asian and Chinese artwork and luxury goods fall well short of last year's levels, fetching $258 million or 37 percent less than in the same period of 2011. At Christie's, the top price was for Martin ...
(Oct 12, 2012, Chicago Tribune)
India wows Beijing Biennale with special art panorama
In response to the Indian exhibition in Beijing, China will bring a similar a strong contingent of contemporary art to the forthcoming India Triennale, Sharma said. "Thus, the Indian special exhibition in Beijing is a step towards a serious art ...
(Oct 12, 2012, Newstrack India)
Artist Yue Minjun: Sometimes All You Can Do Is Laugh
A leading figure in the wave of Chinese contemporary art that flourished in the early 1990s, as Chinese art saw its first “boom” in the early 2000s Yue — like contemporaries such as Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi and Zhang Huan — not only became very ...
(Oct 12, 2012, Jing Daily)
Why Contemporary Art worships Ugliness
... the huge amounts of cash that are swilling round the contemporary art world. You can forget the recession here – there are million pound plus price tags on these works, being sold by Germans, Americans, South Americans and British. And the Chinese ...
(Oct 12, 2012, Telegraph.co.uk (blog))
The art factory
Song says that with the frequent art exchanges between China and the world, 798 has become the place where foreigners can find out about the latest developments in modern and contemporary art in China. Federica Beltrame, director of Galleria Continua, ...
(Oct 13, 2012, China Daily)
India wows Beijing Biennale with special art panorama
New Delhi: The India pavilion at the fifth Beijing Biennale - a sprawling art showcase - in the Chinese capital is drawing young crowd who are eager to know about the contemporary art movements in India, an official of the Lalit Kala Akademi that has ...
(Oct 13, 2012, Zee News)
10 Years at 798 art zone
"It's important to have the public involved." "798 art district was a test lab for artists but now it serves more as a platform to introduce contemporary art world to Chinese audiences. "It's hard to imagine a city like Beijing without a red-hot art ...
(Oct 14, 2012, China Daily)
Bid of confidence
The focus for modern and contemporary art is on names like Zhao Wuji and Zhang Xiaogang, while works from Zhang Daqian and Wang Liben dominate the attention of fine Chinese paintings. Beijing starts to boom. After the creation of suxiu (Su-style ...
(Oct 14, 2012, Global Times)
10 Years at 798 art zone
"It's important to have the public involved." "798 art district was a test lab for artists but now it serves more as a platform to introduce contemporary art world to Chinese audiences. "It's hard to imagine a city like Beijing without a red-hot art ...
(Oct 15, 2012, China Daily)
Bid of confidence: Sotheby's five-day auction in HK
The focus for modern and contemporary art is on names like Zhao Wuji and Zhang Xiaogang, while works from Zhang Daqian and Wang Liben dominate the attention of fine Chinese paintings. Beijing starts to boom. After the creation of suxiu (Su-style ...
(Oct 15, 2012, People's Daily Online)
Social Responsibility Could Be Key To Deeper Connections With Chinese ...
Social Responsibility Could Be Key To Deeper Connections With Chinese ...
(Oct 15, 2012, Jing Daily)
Lehmann Maupin to Open Branch in Hong Kong's Pedder Building
Lehmann Maupin is to open in Hong Kong at the Pedder Building,which is already home to heavy hitters Gagosian, Pearl Lam, Simon Lee, Ben Brown, and pioneer of the Chinese contemporary art scene Hanart TZ. Lehmann Maupin will hold its inaugural ...
(Oct 16, 2012, ARTINFO)
Big 10 at 798 Art Zone
It's not an overstatement to say that 798 Art Zone, an abandoned factory that comprises a variety of galleries, design studios and art exhibition spaces, is a cradle of Chinese contemporary art. "The Ten Years Poster Exhibition of 798 Art Zone," which ...
(Oct 16, 2012, People's Daily Online)
Bringing Life to His Paintings in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has a diverse and cosmopolitan population with collectors and art lovers from all over the world, as well as the increased attention from China, and it has naturally blossomed into a greater and more influential contemporary art center. This ...
(Oct 16, 2012, Jakarta Globe)
5 Art-Market Trends Revealed by the Recent Hong Kong Auctions
The decline is most stark in the previously glamorous category of Asian Contemporary Art (and particularly Chinese Contemporary Art), which turned in a disappointing performance last Sunday. The anemic result was mostly down to the difficulty Sotheby's ...
(Oct 16, 2012, ARTINFO)
Gillman Barracks: Singapore's new contemporary art centre
2013 will see the arrival of Chinese gallery Pearl Lam and Japan's Kaikai Kiki Photography: courtesy of Singapore Economic Development Board. Gillman is Singapore's latest scheme ... While Hong Kong's art world has seen a steady stream of gallery ...
(Oct 16, 2012, wallpaper.com)
A Contemporary Art Fair Showdown: Frieze Versus Fiac
At the Fiac, interest in the works on display was very strong, particularly in regards to contemporary art, which has proven to be a safe haven in investment security. Billionaires from India, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and around the world ...
(Oct 17, 2012, Haute Living)
Pussy Riot Joins Power Art List, Led by Documenta Curator
The contemporary art show is held every five years in Kassel, Germany. Art dealer ... Last year's winner, the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, slid to third position on the 2012 list, while German painter Gerhard Richter rose from 11th to 6th ...
(Oct 18, 2012, Businessweek)
Pussy Riot named among most important contemporary art figures
She may not be a household name, but the Italian-American curator of Germany's Documenta 13 exhibition was chosen because “her engagement of ideas and practices from outside the sphere of contemporary art are particularly influential, prompting ...
(Oct 18, 2012, Telegraph.co.uk)
Art beat ... finger on the pulse
The exhibition is designed to reveal the energy of Asian art and seeks to bring arts from different parts of the world for a global dialogue about the future of contemporary art, says curator Victoria Lu from Taiwan. 10 am-5 pm, until Oct 29. Today Art ...
(Oct 19, 2012, China Daily)
Yunnan's modern art
An ongoing exhibition for modern and contemporary art from Yunnan province at National Museum of China offers visitors a chance to trace back the active art trends in the remote, landlocked province, best known for its rich and diverse ethnic cultures ...
(Oct 19, 2012, China Daily)
Yunnan's modern art
An ongoing exhibition for modern and contemporary art from Yunnan province at National Museum of China offers visitors a chance to trace back the active art trends in the remote, landlocked province, best known for its rich and diverse ethnic cultures ...
(Oct 19, 2012, China Daily)
A mirror of change
The art of the region was still largely seen as of ethnographic interest rather than as contemporary art. But that too was changing, not least as Bob Hawke and Paul Keating stepped up Australia's engagement with the region, particularly China post ...
(Oct 19, 2012, The Australian Financial Review)
Kadhafi corpse inspires contemporary art
The day after Moamer Kadhafi died, Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming set to work painting a wall-sized oil of his corpse -- the first in an unlikely trio of artworks inspired by the Libyan strongman's grisly demise. “He died such a dramatic, cruel death ...
(Oct 21, 2012, Hurriyet Daily News)
Chinese gallery owner arrested in Madrid
Gao opened Gao Magee, a 700 sq. meter gallery in Madrid in 2010 and in 2008 he opened a 4,000 sq. m private space in Beijing called the Iberia Centre for Contemporary Art, which has organised shows by leading Chinese and Spanish artists. El País ...
(Oct 22, 2012, Art Newspaper)
China Topical: Street Art Oppressed
I had seen Chinese artist Ma Yongfeng's work years ago at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and so I was excited to meet him and learn more about his work in Beijing. Fortunately, I was able to attend the opening of a group show he was in at ...
(Oct 22, 2012, KCET (blog))
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7)
Since 1993, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) has been the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art's flagship contemporary art exhibition. The only major series in the world to focus exclusively on Asia, the Pacific and ...
(Oct 23, 2012, E-Flux)
BritCham, PwC 7th Annual Financial Report, Oct. 26th
Jing Yi Art Space exemplifies 798's artistic area, its studio highlighting contemporary Chinese art. Catering to the domestic market as people look to advance their interest beyond property and into taste and culture, it shows how far the Chinese art ...
(Oct 23, 2012, Agenda Magazine)
Shanghai gearing up to be China's new art destination
Another renovated structure from the World Expo has been turned into the Power Station of Art, a contemporary art museum that is currently housing the 2012 Shanghai Biennial until March 31st, 2013. The building was previously the Nanshi power station, ...
(Oct 23, 2012, TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific)
Art is more than just for enjoyment
It is one of the top 10 countries for contemporary art in terms of auction turnover, according to the latest Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report, and Capgemini and RBC estimated in their Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2012 that Singapore's art auction ...
(Oct 23, 2012, TODAYonline)
Contemporary art shines in Gray's auction Oct. 31-Nov.1
Standout lots include a collection of refined Chinese carved jade and hard stone figures, seals and pendants, gorgeous silver serving pieces from a prominent Cleveland home, and over 30 luxurious Persian rugs. Condition reports and shipping quotes are ...
(Oct 23, 2012, Auction Central News)
Munch Beaten by Keran Li on China Demand, Artprice Says
Since that decline in the market, auction catalogs of contemporary art in the U.S. and Europe have become more weighted with 20th-century classics, rather than works by younger living artists. New York was the biggest center for auctions of ...
(Oct 23, 2012, Bloomberg)
Munch Beaten by Keran Li on China Demand, Artprice Says
Since that decline in the market, auction catalogs of contemporary art in the U.S. and Europe have become more weighted with 20th-century classics, rather than works by younger living artists. New York was the biggest center for auctions of ...
(Oct 23, 2012, Businessweek)
China building art museums for 'the wow and the now'
In Beijing, the days are ticking down until the official word is given on the architect chosen to build the massive National Art Museum of China, a contemporary art museum that will rise next to the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium and cover an area the ...
(Oct 24, 2012, Globe and Mail)
METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE, 255 Front Street West, Toronto ...
METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE, 255 Front Street West, Toronto ...
(Oct 25, 2012, ArtSlant)
Art Stage Singapore Makes Space for Indonesia
At Art Basel Miami, Lorenzo Rudolf championed Latin America's contemporary art scene and helped raise its profile. As director of Art ... “When we talk about Southeast Asia in contemporary art, we have to talk about Indonesia,” he said. “They have some ...
(Oct 25, 2012, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Works on rice paper
"Contemporary Chinese art departs from the traditional forms in so many ways, so to revisit the basic cultural essentials is a wonderful experience for the show's viewers." The exhibition runs through Nov. 11 at 2880 Mountain Road. Hours are from 9 a.m ...
(Oct 25, 2012, Richmond Times Dispatch)
Gangnam Style Spoof Criticises China's Online Censorship
(Photo : Smithsonian's Museum of International Modern and Contemporary Art) Ai Weiwei's work is currently being exhibited at the Smithsonian's Museum of International Modern and Contemporary Art. One of China's provocative artists, Ai Weiwei, known for ...
(Oct 25, 2012, Design & Trend)
The hazards for independent Chinese cinema
A few years ago, the commercial success of contemporary Chinese art seemed to be an example for independent film-makers to follow. They hoped to duplicate the methods used in contemporary art to promote an independent film-making “movement”. In the ...
(Oct 25, 2012, New Statesman)
Is China building too many museums too fast?
China's rush to build flagship museums of contemporary art makes sense, at a time when the work of artists such as Ai Weiwei, Yue Minjun and Zhang Huan has a global reach. But the building boom – which also landed the world's largest museum of any ...
(Oct 25, 2012, Globe and Mail)
New Museum Construction In China: Too Much, Too Soon?
“In spite of this museum building boom, there's not a single place in mainland China where one could go and see the 35-year history of what we refer to as contemporary art in China exhibited in a coherent and systematic way,” says Philip Tinari, the ...
(Oct 25, 2012, Jing Daily)
Capturing the art of life
Contemporary art has no boundary date, says Qiu Zhijie, curator of the 2012 Shanghai Biennale. A special project of the city's most ... Many of his books are about old architecture in Shanghai and other parts of China. A few years ago, he expanded his ...
(Oct 26, 2012, China Daily)
Capturing the art of life
A special project of the city's most important contemporary art event this year is dedicated to history. The Zhongshan Park Project is an ... Many of his books are about old architecture in Shanghai and other parts of China. A few years ago, he ...
(Oct 26, 2012, China Daily)
The art market gets Realistic
Realistic oil paintings will highlight China Guardian Auctions' autumn sales from Oct 28-31 and all eyes will be on Chen Danqing's Research Institute of Chinese Learning, which he created in 2001 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Tsinghua University ...
(Oct 27, 2012, China Daily)
The art market gets Realistic
Realistic oil paintings will highlight China Guardian Auctions' autumn sales from Oct 28-31 and all eyes will be on Chen Danqing's Research Institute of Chinese Learning, which he created in 2001 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Tsinghua University ...
(Oct 28, 2012, China Daily)
Globetrotting with Charley Lanyon
This year saw the introduction of Focus Asia, an invitation-only section dedicated to contemporary Asian art, curated by Zheng Shengtian, managing editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Paris. Slick in Paris, the annual modern art fair ...
(Oct 28, 2012, South China Morning Post (subscription))
The power of art
Transformed from a former power plant, PSA has been heralded as the first public museum of contemporary art on the Chinese mainland, and is twice larger than the former site of SAM. Artworks on display at the ninth Shanghai Biennale Photos: Courtesy of ...
(Oct 28, 2012, Global Times)
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