At Brussels Antiques And Fine Arts Fair BRAFA, It's All About Quality, Not Cool
And at the extraordinary Steinitz booth, set among spectacular De la Fontaine Art Nouveau mahogany wall panels fitted with 18th-century Chinese wallpapers (the walls, at €500,000, were sold prior to the fair's opening, though the wall papers remain ...
(Jan 21, 2013, ARTINFO (blog))
Rocky year for China's art market
THE year 2012 was a year of deep adjustment for the Chinese art market, as contemporary art remained cool, auction sales slowed and the government cracked down on art tax evaders. Wang Jie reports. The year 2012 will go down as a year of challenges in ...
(Jan 21, 2013, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
In China, An iPad And Foxconn Contract Is Considered Art
I can usually appreciate the paintings, but when it comes to showing off an iPad in a Chinese Museum, I'm just left confused. The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing has begun displaying an iPad, as well as a white uniform, badges, and ...
(Jan 21, 2013, Macgasm)
Hundreds unite to draw on artist Song Dong's memories
The museum's acquisition of Swiss collector Uli Sigg's contemporary Chinese art collection last year also took up one of the drawings. Hong Kong wasn't just one small city, added Song, but an international platform that played a part in the global ...
(Jan 22, 2013, South China Morning Post)
Asia's Art-Fair Boom: Hong Kong and Singapore Compete for Cultural Top Slot
But as the Asian art market has boomed over the past decade, so too have art fairs that allow galleries like Silverlens to hook up with nouveau riche collectors from China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and beyond. Rillo says they were early to jump on the ...
(Jan 22, 2013, TIME)
Twelve Imminent Domain Designers' Biography
Repertoire of his designs includes contemporary art jewelry, interior architecture and product design. .... Kai-Yin Lo Kai-Yin Lo is renowned for having pioneered the creation of a contemporary and easy-to-wear style of traditional Chinese jewelry ...
(Jan 22, 2013, Asia Society)
Boston-area to do list
Fraser reenacts the discussion in Men on the Line, KPFK, 1972. Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m. $5 (museum admission free 5-9 p.m.) Institute of Contemporary Art, Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, 100 Northern Ave., Boston. 617-478-3103, www.icaboston.org ...
(Jan 22, 2013, Boston Globe)
Off the Stage, What Else to See in Singapore
... “The Artist Researcher”: For its first big exhibition at its new location in Gillman Barracks, ShangArt is showing a retrospective of Chinese contemporary artist Geng Jianyi, including photography, a 20-channel video installation and a wood-based ...
(Jan 23, 2013, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Art13 Announces Projects Programme For London's Newest Contemporary Art Fair
At the heart of Art13 London will be Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi's remarkable new 12-metre-long installation Boat (2012). Composed of bamboo, cotton and 10,000 sheets of rice paper, the sheer size and visual impact of Boat sits in stark contrast with the ...
(Jan 23, 2013, ArtLyst)
Feature story: A lost city remembered
About a decade ago, Stanford's archeological center and anthropology department teamed up with History San Jose, Past Forward Inc., and the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project to study and catalog the artifacts, and make them accessible for ...
(Jan 23, 2013, Palo Alto Online)
A history of exhibition on paper
As the most famous centre of display and marketing for contemporary art in China during the recent 10 years, 798 Art District promoted the process of the socialization and commercialization of Chinese contemporary art. Firstly, 798 Art District ...
(Jan 24, 2013, People's Daily Online)
Top travel ideas including China's city of ice
Europe gets two new capitals of culture - Marseille Provence in France and Kosice in Slovakia and in Amsterdam the Stedelijk Contemporary Art Museum reopens after a nine-year renovation. Get in touch with Fast Track via email or Facebook. And follow us ...
(Jan 24, 2013, BBC News)
Art Stage Singapore 2013 (VIDEO)
New this year is the Indonesian Pavilion Feature Exhibition, highlighting Indonesian contemporary art. The Pavilion features 36 Indonesian artists and art collectives, which ... A man walks past a monumental ash sculpture of a Buddha figure by Chinese ...
(Jan 24, 2013, Huffington Post)
Xijing Men Coming to Kansas City
The Artspace is hosting the Xijing Men: Tsuyoshi Ozawa of Japan, Chen Shaoxiong of China and Gimhongsok of Korea in partnership with The Spencer Museum. Kansas City, MO - infoZine - The H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City ... by anti-Japanese ...
(Jan 24, 2013, Kansas City infoZine)
Hong Kong art dealers head south to Art Stage Singapore
The fair also attracted big name collectors including Uli Sigg, who earlier donated and sold a major part of his collection of Chinese contemporary art to West Kowloon's M+ visual culture museum, Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein and German collector ...
(Jan 24, 2013, South China Morning Post)
Best Bets: Wine, Beer and Whiskey Taste, 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert'
“Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945,” “Face and Figure in European Art, 1928-1945” and “Women: Contemporary Chinese Art”: Opening reception 7 to 9 p.m. Friday • Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington ...
(Jan 24, 2013, STLtoday.com)
Art work as wall décor
However, I wanted to understand the growing global fascination with Chinese contemporary art. Of late, Chinese artists have been garnering a lot of media attention in the art world, not to mention the prices of their art works have been rising ...
(Jan 25, 2013, New Straits Times)
Sparks of youth
But we believe that words, themes or symbols are not enough to reflect the young generation of Chinese artists today," says 34-year-old Bao Dong, one of the curators of the exhibition at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. "We are here to ...
(Jan 25, 2013, China Daily)
Making a french connection
Zhan says contemporary art works are like crops in the field and to understand the crop, one needs to know the field. And that explains why audiences to the exhibition understand the works by Chinese artists best. A large installation, Round Table by ...
(Jan 25, 2013, China Daily)
Unknown horiz ons
Such a way of painting distinguishes him from other vanguard contemporary Chinese artists and - at the same time - makes him very "contemporary". "Chinese Realism and Chinese contemporary art have never interacted on real significance," comments ...
(Jan 25, 2013, China Daily)
Liu Xiaodong: Unknown horizons
Such a way of painting distinguishes him from other vanguard contemporary Chinese artists and - at the same time - makes him very "contemporary". "Chinese Realism and Chinese contemporary art have never interacted on real significance," comments ...
(Jan 25, 2013, China.org.cn)
Sparks of youth
But we believe that words, themes or symbols are not enough to reflect the young generation of Chinese artists today," says 34-year-old Bao Dong, one of the curators of the exhibition at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. "We are here to ...
(Jan 25, 2013, Chinadaily USA)
Year of the Snake stirs desire to head for the sun
Extra flights between China and Australia have been added to meet the demand, with visitor numbers expected to be up 200 per cent from a decade ago, when just 26,200 international guests arrived for the event. ''It's a huge festival that's growing, and ...
(Jan 25, 2013, Sydney Morning Herald)
At Penn, Making a Difference Through Art
In China, Lum co-founded a journal of contemporary Chinese art. In the six months he's lived in Philadelphia, he's considered ways he can make a difference possibly through an art exhibit to raise awareness of some of the city's issues. One issue that ...
(Jan 25, 2013, Penn: Office of University Communications)
Top 10 places off the beaten path
A great comparison between old China and new Shanghai can be seen by strolling Dongtai Road's antiques shops, followed by a visit to Moganshan Road, the buzzing location of many Chinese contemporary art galleries. Lastly, don't forget to take in the ...
(Jan 25, 2013, Irish Independent)
LA Art Show is taking a broad view of art
It occupies 8,000 cubic feet of the cavernous entrance pavilion of the Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall, through which attendees pass en route to displays from more than 140 exhibitors, including this year a large contingent of galleries from ...
(Jan 26, 2013, Los Angeles Times)
DIY billionaire turns dairy into gallery to rival Charles Saatchi's
Frank Cohen and Nicolai Frahm, owners of the Dairy gallery in Bloomsbury. Two leading collectors have transformed a former dairy in the heart of London into a vast gallery that will compete with the Saatchi collection for the attention of contemporary ...
(Jan 27, 2013, Observer)
In the name of identity
"Hong Kong Eye" is the latest project by Parallel Contemporary Art - a foundation set up by Ciclitra and her husband, David - which has previously mounted two similar presentations of art from countries with "emerging art markets". The "Indonesian Eye ...
(Jan 27, 2013, South China Morning Post)
The art of Ai Weiwei
"Ai Weiwei: According to What?" at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is the first major exhibition in North America of works by one of the foremost figures to emerge from China's contemporary art scene. The full-floor exhibition ...
(Jan 27, 2013, CBS News)
Rungs of success
It's no surprise, then, that The Truth 25 Times A Second, which the company will perform at the Festival, has been created by Flamand in collaboration with acclaimed Chinese architect and visual artist Ai Weiwei. Ai has transformed the performance ...
(Jan 28, 2013, The West Australian)
Sparks of youth
But we believe that words, themes or symbols are not enough to reflect the young generation of Chinese artists today," says 34-year-old Bao Dong, one of the curators of the exhibition at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. "We are here to ...
(Jan 28, 2013, People's Daily Online)
A day in the life of a Kemper curator
... and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945” will be on display in the Ebsworth Gallery of the Kemper Art Museum until April 21. Also new at the museum are the exhibits “Face and Figure in European Art, 1928-1945” and “Women: Contemporary Chinese Art.” ...
(Jan 28, 2013, Student Life)
Chinese Art Proves A Hit At Buoyant Art Stage Singapore 2013
Despite a strong Southeast Asian flavor, this year's edition, held at the Marina Bay Sands Exhibition and Convention Center, presented contemporary art in a dynamic intercultural context, with a Project Stage for emerging Asian art and a dedicated ...
(Jan 28, 2013, Jing Daily)
Stocks' Art Gift Honors Brothers
Their imagery reflects the profound influence of China's prehistoric cave paintings, and they have won awards both within China and across the globe. “The Stocks' gift to the Permanent Collection of Contemporary Art serves several important functions ...
(Jan 28, 2013, Wabash College)
Fair Weather in Los Angeles: Making the Rounds at Art LA Contemporary
“There's a lot of good work here,” said Franklin Sirmans, chief curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “And L.A. deserves that.” Collector Stanley .... People are coming from China, from Italy, from Greece… L.A. is on ...
(Jan 28, 2013, GalleristNY)
Xbox 720 and PS4 Coming to China? Gaming Console Ban Could Be Lifted ...
Xbox 720 and PS4 Coming to China? Gaming Console Ban Could Be Lifted ...
(Jan 28, 2013, Latinos Post)
The LA Art Show: Historic & Traditional
The Chinese galleries do this remarkably well, making a lasting impression on the show's spectators. As the “China Projects” are a central feature this year, emphasized by their prominence in the exhibition pamphlet, the collections from Beijing and ...
(Jan 29, 2013, Neon Tommy)
Chinese art maintains distinctive presence in the Asian art market
Chinese artists formed the second largest contingent after Singapore in this year's just-ended Art Stage Singapore, one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the Asia-Pacific region. Representing Shanghai were the Purple Roof Art Gallery and ...
(Jan 29, 2013, China Daily)
India Art Fair Irons Out Red Tape
He added that within a decade demand for contemporary art in India would reach the levels currently seen in China and Europe. “There is a very broad cross-section of rich Indian middle-class whose aspirations will turn towards collecting contemporary ...
(Jan 29, 2013, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Athi-Patra Ruga leads the way with an exhibition of Contemporary Art from ...
Athi-Patra Ruga leads the way with an exhibition of Contemporary Art from ...
(Jan 29, 2013, Media Update)
Chinese art maintains distinctive presence in the Asian art market
Chinese artists formed the second largest contingent after Singapore in this year's just-ended Art Stage Singapore, one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the Asia-Pacific region. Representing Shanghai were the Purple Roof Art Gallery and ...
(Jan 29, 2013, China Daily)
Mazzocca Exhibition Celebrates Printmaker's Passion, Four Decades of Students
From cloth printing in ancient China and Egypt, to woodcuts in 14th century Europe, and later silk screening and lithography, even as the art of printmaking evolved, many artists remained steeped in traditional techniques. ... The exhibition is hosted ...
(Jan 29, 2013, UConn Advance (blog))
Spring 2013 coming attractions: Chinese rock 'n roll, The Secret Garden, your ...
Spring 2013 coming attractions: Chinese rock 'n roll, The Secret Garden, your ...
(Jan 29, 2013, UC Berkeley)
Chinese art maintains distinctive in Asian market
China remains an important factor in the international contemporary art market today with a distinctive presence in the Asian art market, which, according to art fair director, Lorenzo Rudolf, "has proven itself to be a mainstay and has forged global ...
(Jan 30, 2013, China.org.cn)
A City That Sings With Porcelain
Robert Scanes visits the stunning new contemporary Chinese art exhibit at the Fitzwilliam. by Robert Scanes. Wednesday 30th January 2013, 06:57 GMT. Following in the footsteps of last year's exemplary Han tombs exhibition was always going to be a ...
(Jan 30, 2013, Varsity Online)
In Indonesia, a New Freedom to Explore
“So it is like a commercial space,” said FX Harsono, one of the founders of the influential 1970s group the New Art Movement, also known as Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru, which has been credited with introducing contemporary art practices to Indonesia. The ...
(Jan 30, 2013, New York Times)
Dilemmas of dissidence
He has been feted at home and abroad for the so-called Bird's Nest, the emblematic stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which he designed with Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, yet he has also been detained, banned from leaving China and ...
(Jan 30, 2013, The Australian)
Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript
The Ashmolean Museum kicks off its 2013 exhibition programme with its first major contemporary art show. “Landscape Landscript” concentrates on the Chinese artist Xu Bing's landscape paintings, which are modern twists on traditional Chinese art. “We ...
(Jan 30, 2013, Art Newspaper)
Yue Magazine Publisher Chiu-ti Jansen Presented the Inaugural Phoenix ...
Yue Magazine Publisher Chiu-ti Jansen Presented the Inaugural Phoenix ...
(Jan 30, 2013, PR Web (press release))
Speaking the language of art at First Friday
The Xijing Men are three artists from China, Korea and Japan who are known for their satirical performances addressing global issues. In conjunction with an overview of their videos and artworks at ... The last time Andy Brayman showed a large body of ...
(Jan 30, 2013, Kansas City Star)
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