Asia Week New York rallies Asian art collectors with an unprecedented array of ...
Asia Week New York rallies Asian art collectors with an unprecedented array of ...
(Feb 12, 2013, Art Daily)
Picture this: Art world canvasses Cohen plans
“The market is very large and very international,” says Allison Rodman, head of communications for The Armory Show, a huge contemporary art exhibit that takes place in Manhattan in March. “But one player can affect sales in theory.” Sources in the art ...
(Feb 12, 2013, New York Post)
Art Wynwood Returns
Geller is in town to create a rectangular mural that will hover over the VIP lounge at Art Wynwood, an international contemporary art fair that opens with a ritzy private preview for collectors this Thursday, Valentine's Day, and runs through this ...
(Feb 12, 2013, Miami New Times)
China for First Timers
... to China to marvel at the skylines of cranes, innovative architectural projects and the country's artistic endeavours. They should head to the financial and commercial hub of Shanghai, as well as to Beijing's Olympic Village and the capital's ...
(Feb 12, 2013, Newstalk 106-108 fm (blog))
Los Angeles arts scene: What's coming in 2013
Building the Broad. In downtown L.A., the much-anticipated Broad Museum is under construction and slated to open in 2014 with about 2,000 works of contemporary art collected by .... The new Chinese Garden is also worth a visit. I could have spent the ...
(Feb 13, 2013, San Jose Mercury News)
Marcel Duchamp: His influence is still everywhere in contemporary art
Duchamp's Fountain of 1917 – a china urinal laid on its back and signed R Mutt – has taken on the iconic status once reserved for creations of the order of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. It has become the work that removed art to the cerebral realm ...
(Feb 13, 2013, Telegraph.co.uk)
The Dallas Opera Will Perform Turandot, and Screen Bugs Bunny, at Cowboys ...
The Dallas Opera Will Perform Turandot, and Screen Bugs Bunny, at Cowboys ...
(Feb 13, 2013, Dallas Observer (blog))
Enter the long-awaited Bruce Lee show
From May, mainland critic Pi Daojian will guest curate The Eternal Tao: New Dimensions in Chinese Contemporary Art at the Museum of Art - a look at Chinese art from a diaspora perspective, featuring works by more than 40 Chinese artists from the ...
(Feb 13, 2013, South China Morning Post)
Hong Kong museums exhibit ambition ahead of M+ opening
M+, which is still in its early stage of development, has the Sigg collection, which features 1,510 works of Chinese contemporary art (1,463 pieces donated and 47 acquired at HK$177 million, including works by Hong Kong artists Pak Sheung-chuen and Lee ...
(Feb 13, 2013, South China Morning Post)
Fashion reality: Fall shows blow hot and cold, commercial to creative
The four-day event, showcasing styles for next fall and winter from about 20 designers was held for the second season in a symbol of the new, creative Montreal, the grand Arsenal contemporary art centre in Griffintown — where guests shivered in some ...
(Feb 13, 2013, Montreal Gazette)
Industry experts team up for Year of the Snake
The night began amongst the Snake, Snake, Snake Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition held in the Lower Town Hall, which was installed by the team at Decorative Events & Exhibitions several weeks earlier. After a selection of Asian inspired cocktails and ...
(Feb 13, 2013, SpiceNews)
China media: North Korea backlash
The Chinese government is also having to reassure the public that their country is safe from nuclear contamination, the Beijing News reports. The test site is about 100km away from the border. "North Korea's nuclear test has not affected China's ...
(Feb 14, 2013, BBC News)
Art: a borderless market?
Now the face-to-face occurs between the USA and China, which combined reach 70% of the market for contemporary art. Although the majority of international fairs and major events are still held in the West, the dynamic of new markets, hitherto regarded ...
(Feb 14, 2013, AMA)
On the List | Valentine's art walk, Taiko festival, Cornish dance (+26 more ...
On the List | Valentine's art walk, Taiko festival, Cornish dance (+26 more ...
(Feb 14, 2013, CHS Capitol Hill Seattle)
“Collecting Art of Asia” Opens at Smith
Included in the contemporary art display are works given by Joan Lebold Cohen '54 and Jerome A. Cohen, who have a collection of post-Mao art from their travels to China. The contemporary art section also includes a collection of contemporary ceramics ...
(Feb 14, 2013, The Sophian)
Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 15-21
Museum of Modern Art: 'Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi' (through May 6) It would be hard to find another work of contemporary art that protests war with such soulful grace as Meiro Koizumi's “Defect in Vision” (2011), the main attraction of this small show ...
(Feb 14, 2013, New York Times)
Western Art is Barking at China
“We are aiming to bring here the best of Chinese contemporary art of the 21st century”. Ms. Keenan walked me from floor to floor and from one avant-garde masterpiece to another. Inside White Rabbit there are canvasses, statues, structures and other art ...
(Feb 15, 2013, CounterPunch)
State of exposure
Like so much else in recent China, the great boom in Chinese contemporary art has happened too fast for complete analysis. There are fixed points, however, on the way to understanding. One of them is that in China, as everywhere else, photography has ...
(Feb 15, 2013, Financial Times)
Highlights: Policymakers' quotes at G20 summit in Moscow
China welcomed their declaration and expects that they will genuinely carry out their promises, strengthen the financial oversight aspects of the G20 agreement and increase confidence in the G20." FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER PIERRE MOSCOVICI ...
(Feb 16, 2013, Reuters)
Analysis: North Korea's nuclear ambitions can only be stopped by China
They knew that their country was backward and poor compared to South Korea, or even China, but here at last was a real achievement – South Korea did not have nuclear weapons, but now their country did. Others were more thoughtful. They asked me how ...
(Feb 16, 2013, Telegraph.co.uk)
City guide-Macao, Hong Kong
One Central Macao and MGM Macao welcomes the Year of the Snake with a glittering exhibition in two venues featuring the designs of contemporary Chinese artist Wang Kaifang. Glorious China, Auspicious Macao - Wang Kaifang's Gold Brick Exhibition ...
(Feb 17, 2013, China Daily)
Element of surprise
"Because of that exhibit," he says, "I became one of the main organisers in the Japanese contemporary art world." This adaptability has ... People are looking at the success of the Chinese art market and realising the creative industry here may be ...
(Feb 17, 2013, South China Morning Post)
Taking Stock
Larson hopes to become an art historian and curator of contemporary Chinese art. The UWSP Disc Golf Club ranked ninth in the nation, won first place at the 2012 Great Lakes qualifier and was featured on the website of the Professional Disc Golf ...
(Feb 17, 2013, Stevenspointjournal)
Taking Stock
Larson hopes to become an art historian and curator of contemporary Chinese art. The UWSP Disc Golf Club ranked ninth in the nation, won first place at the 2012 Great Lakes qualifier and was featured on the website of the Professional Disc Golf ...
(Feb 17, 2013, Wausau Daily Herald)
British Worker Feared Kidnapped In Nigeria
Chinese construction workers have also been killed by gunmen around Maiduguri, the northeastern city in Nigeria where Boko Haram first began. Setraco Nigeria, a construction and civil engineering company, is a subsidiary of Setraco International ...
(Feb 18, 2013, Sky News)
Magic realism showcased in University Art Gallery Feb. 22-March 22
Ghosts, humans in bat costumes, and anthropomorphized birds are among the images in the University Art Gallery's exhibition "Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art." On display from Feb. 22 through March 22, the exhibition includes ...
(Feb 18, 2013, Indiana State University)
See 50m snake skeleton hanging from ceiling on gallery tour
EXPERIENCE the breathtaking sights of The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) on the next Hervey Bay Friends of the Gallery bus trip to Brisbane. A 50m snake skeleton by senior Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping spiralling from the ...
(Feb 18, 2013, Fraser Coast Chronicle)
Security chiefs warned data at Indian calls centres could be easily stolen
Under the cyber security deal Britain and India will join forces to combat cyber espionage and industrial hacking by China. Cyber-crime costs Britain £27billion every year – more than £1,000 for every family. Bat man: David Cameron plays cricket with ...
(Feb 19, 2013, Daily Mail)
Exploring identities
Panel discussions at MOCA, as the museum is known, have touched on topics such as basketball player Jeremy Lin, the history of Asian-American grassroots political activism and Chinese slam poetry. Eugenie Tsai, curator of contemporary art at the ...
(Feb 19, 2013, China Daily)
What Weiwei-isms reveals
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei has been probably the most political artist in contemporary art. Born Chinese, for Weiwei leaving his country is neither an option nor a desire despite its repressive government and the communist and contradictory ideas that ...
(Feb 19, 2013, AMA)
Life and art
Spread over 14 venues at Fort Kochi and Ernakulam, the biennale is an attempt to showcase contemporary art in its diverse forms from paintings to installations and video art in the rare ambience provided by some of the antique buildings in Kochi with ...
(Feb 19, 2013, Frontline)
Concern over Ofgem's warning of higher energy costs
Compounding factors include expected gas supplies from the Russian Shtokman field being cancelled, China's demand rising by 20% a year and Asian gas costing 60% more than UK supplies. Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said: "Consumers will ...
(Feb 19, 2013, The Independent)
Flights of Feathered Fancy
Do they belong with other contemporary art or with works from the land of their birth? More and more the answer seems to be "both." For Mr. Carpenter, this means choosing works he feels have a connection to Japan's older art forms and leaving the rest ...
(Feb 19, 2013, Wall Street Journal)
Cyber-assault HQ: how US is under attack
A 60-page report released by Mandiant, a Virginia-based firm that specialises in cyber-espionage, concludes that hundreds or perhaps thousands of English-speaking Chinese computer experts toil daily inside the anonymous-looking 12-storey building in ...
(Feb 20, 2013, The Independent)
Exploring identities
Panel discussions at MOCA, as the museum is known, have touched on topics such as basketball player Jeremy Lin, the history of Asian-American grassroots political activism and Chinese slam poetry. Eugenie Tsai, curator of contemporary art at the ...
(Feb 20, 2013, China.org.cn)
The new seekers
Hickey was a prominent voice against the issue-based, politically-heavy art of the 1990s with his championing of market-friendly beauty in contemporary art in his 1993 book The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty. Lindemann is specifically ...
(Feb 20, 2013, Spectator.co.uk)
Preview of the Ashmolean Museum's 2013 programme
Unusual because it's the first major exhibition the Ashmolean has dedicated to contemporary art, and because Xu Bing, one of China's most renowned artists, has never before put together an exhibition of his landscapes. Born in 1955, growing up in ...
(Feb 20, 2013, The Oxford Times)
Czech art market receives boost from Chinese collectors
So there are not really Czech collectors who would be interested in Chinese art? “Not at all. Gallery owners tell me that these collectors are not even based in Europe, they live in mainland China.” When it comes to contemporary art, you have noted ...
(Feb 20, 2013, Radio Prague)
Will droit de suite be established in China?
The issue is extremely touchy in China, for the Chinese art market lives on contemporary art: about a half of operations would then be altered by this measure. China established copyright as late as 1991, and according to Rogier Creemers, an expert on ...
(Feb 20, 2013, AMA)
Tiancheng International announces its inaugural sale of fine Chinese paintings ...
Tiancheng International announces its inaugural sale of fine Chinese paintings ...
(Feb 21, 2013, Art Daily)
Light appetite for a taste of Francis Bacon
Total attendances, when tallied, will be considerably down from the record-setting 366,286 who saw the gallery's Picasso survey last year and fewer than the 305,611 who saw The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors the previous summer. Picasso broke ...
(Feb 21, 2013, The Australian)
Surpassing All Expectations: London Auctions Coverage Continued
... sales generated $306.8 million, 53% more than previous year sales, proving once again that the market is alive and kicking despite global economic woes, the contraction is Europe and slowing growth in much of the world, primarily China and Brazil ...
(Feb 21, 2013, Huffington Post)
Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 22-28
Museum of Modern Art: 'Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi' (through May 6) It would be hard to find another work of contemporary art that protests war with such soulful grace as Meiro Koizumi's “Defect in Vision” (2011), the main attraction of this small show ...
(Feb 21, 2013, New York Times)
In New York, 10 Countries Off the Art World's A-List
Total sales of Southeast Asian contemporary art at auctions have been doubling every few years, but still account for less than 10% of the take from Chinese works of similar vintage. The numbers of international collectors and galleries focusing on the ...
(Feb 21, 2013, Wall Street Journal)
Cultural center brings art to masses
It includes the Contemporary Art Exhibition Area, the Modern Plastic Art Exhibition Hall, the Multifunctional Art Gallery and the Chinese Art Exhibition Hall. As a public library with various functions, such as information retrieval, storage, and ...
(Feb 22, 2013, China Daily)
Feast on this
Not only opera houses and orchestras will celebrate the bicentenaries of the composers. On Friday, Beijing Symphony Orchestra will open its new season with Chinese soprano He Hui singing Verdi arias under the baton of its music director Tan Lihua, at ...
(Feb 22, 2013, China Daily)
Go! Exhibits & Galleries Ongoing Exhibits calendar: Feb. 22-28
SUNY Orange Newburgh — "Living in the Material World: Chinese Contemporary Art by Chinese and Chinese American Women Artists," works by Gao Yuan, Cui Xuiwen, Cai Jin, Hu Bing, Mimi Denise Kim, Xin Song, Nina Kuo, Feng Jiali and Hui Zhu. Exhibit ...
(Feb 22, 2013, Times Herald-Record)
Mao figures in contemporary Chinese art
Cang Xin makes charcoal self-portraits with symbols of his spiritual quest on scrolls. Photograph by: Michaelson Britt. MONTREAL - Chinese contemporary art doesn't often get to Montreal, but when it does, it makes its presence felt. Like Thunder Out of ...
(Feb 22, 2013, Montreal Gazette)
Events in Connecticut
“Chinasaurs: Dinosaur Discoveries from China.” Through April 21. $6 and $7; members and under 5 .... RIDGEFIELD Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum “Brody Condon: to Prove Her Zeal One Woman Ate Mud.” “Brad Kahlhamer: Bowery Nation.” “Brian Knep: ...
(Feb 23, 2013, New York Times)
Offbeat photos of the week
A spectacular snake goddess leads the Chinese New Year parade in Sydney on February 17, 2013. The parade featured more than 3,500 performers from Australia and China, including 120 performers from Shenzhen, Sydney's official partner city for this ...
(Feb 23, 2013, Ct Post)
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