Chiu-Ti Jansen Launches Columns with Sotheby's International and Financial ...
Chiu-Ti Jansen Launches Columns with Sotheby's International and Financial ...
(Mar 12, 2013, DigitalJournal.com (press release))
So Sorry! Jonathan Dee's Abundantly Apologetic New Novel
Mr. Dee's new novel, A Thousand Pardons (Random House, 224 pp., $26), takes this business—crisis management PR—as its subject, in much the same way that his previous books took advertising, or finance, or celebrity, or contemporary art as boldface ...
(Mar 12, 2013, New York Observer)
State of the art market[1]|chinadaily.com.cn
Chinese contemporary art, which had risen dramatically in sales in previous years, not surprisingly experienced the largest decline among all categories. Sotheby's Hong Kong raised HK$2 billion ($258 million; 198 million euros) in its 2012 autumn ...
(Mar 13, 2013, China Daily)
New BMAC exhibits showcase contemporary art of China
BRATTLEBORO—Two remarkable new exhibits of Chinese contemporary art and photography will be on display at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) beginning Saturday, March 16. Featuring the work of renowned photographer Liu Bolin and 20 ...
(Mar 13, 2013, Commons)
Sale of the Week, March 17-23: A Trove of Asian Art Takes Over New York
The state of the market is in flux — last year in March, traditional Chinese art soared in value and traditional Indian and Himalayan art proved popular, while fewer buyers came out for Japanese, Korean, or contemporary Indian art — so it will be ...
(Mar 13, 2013, ARTINFO (blog))
Chinese slump dents global art market in 2012 - study
That helped boost auction sales of post-war and contemporary art by five percent in 2012 to almost 4.5 billion euros and took that sector's overall market share to 43 percent. Modern art was the next biggest sector with auction sales of 3.2 billion ...
(Mar 14, 2013, Reuters)
Mr Darcy's home hosts William Turnbull exhibition
Most of the head paintings created in late 1950s are abstract and figurative, demonstrating the rising trend of contemporary art style at that time. "My father ... Alex also said his mother, a Singapore Chinese, had influenced his father very much in ...
(Mar 14, 2013, China.org.cn)
Chinese slump dents global art market in 2012 - study
That helped boost auction sales of post-war and contemporary art by five percent in 2012 to almost 4.5 billion euros and took that sector's overall market share to 43 percent. Modern art was the next biggest sector with auction sales of 3.2 billion ...
(Mar 14, 2013, Reuters India)
BMAC showcases art from China
On Saturday, two new exhibits of Chinese contemporary art and photography open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Representing the strong individual voices of 21 Chinese artists working today, the exhibits also serves to shed a little light on ...
(Mar 14, 2013, Brattleboro Reformer)
Asia Week dealers make up for loss of fairs with significant shows
Criticised in the past for an excessively traditional focus, Asia Week now embraces contemporary Chinese art and the highlight of Martha Sutherland's show, “Chinese Abstraction Now”, is Abstract No.4, 2007, by Zhu Jinshi (born 1954), a former factory ...
(Mar 14, 2013, Art Newspaper)
Chinese slump dents global art market
That helped boost auction sales of post-war and contemporary art by five per cent last year to almost 4.5 billion euros and took that sector's overall market share to 43 per cent. Modern art was the next biggest sector with auction sales of 3.2 billion ...
(Mar 14, 2013, South China Morning Post)
US retakes top spot in art sales from China
Post-war and contemporary art had the strongest sales, with a 43% share of the fine art market's value. Within this sector, the “flight to safety” among art buyers was obvious, with the heaviest buying concentrated on well-established artists who have ...
(Mar 14, 2013, Art Newspaper)
Pope Francis's Fearsome Art Record, Twombly Foundation Riven by Strife, and ...
Pope Francis's Fearsome Art Record, Twombly Foundation Riven by Strife, and ...
(Mar 14, 2013, ARTINFO)
Making it real
"The Chinese fine-art world keeps wondering if there are still realism painters working in Europe. I believe Jan Worst has answered the question," Chen says. "Only when contemporary art takes root in the womb of tradition, can it excite bigger energy ...
(Mar 15, 2013, China Daily)
Sotheby's Hong Kong to hold Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale 2013 on 5 April
In fact, this work marked the inception of Fang's internationally-renowned bald head icon, which heralded the Cynical Realism movement in the history of contemporary Chinese art. Fang presented three sketches entitled Bald Heads in the groundbreaking ...
(Mar 15, 2013, Art Daily)
Sotheby's to offer the Didier Hirsch Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art ...
Sotheby's to offer the Didier Hirsch Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art ...
(Mar 15, 2013, Art Daily)
New York's immersion in Asian Art
Among the many exhibitions on display during Asia Week New York are Chinese Porcelain Company's "Magnificence Within: New Ink Paintings," which will feature 15 new works by the contemporary ink painter Tai Xiangzhou; "From Curiosity to Devotion," at ...
(Mar 15, 2013, Chinadaily USA)
China Is Down But Not Out and Other Lessons From the Latest Global Art Market ...
China Is Down But Not Out and Other Lessons From the Latest Global Art Market ...
(Mar 15, 2013, ARTINFO (blog))
Shanghai on a Dime? Pretty Close
Street signs in English, not-so-spicy cuisine, locals who don't stare, contemporary art galleries, modern youth hostels and even interpreter hot lines for cabdrivers who don't speak English. For independent travelers about to start an expedition into ...
(Mar 15, 2013, New York Times)
New York Asian art auctions span bronze antiquities to contemporary art
The four days of auctions, estimated to take in anywhere from $74 million to $106 million, begin on Tuesday with Sotheby's sales of contemporary Indian art and Chinese ceramics and art, and Christie's Indian and Southeast Asian sale, which includes ...
(Mar 15, 2013, Reuters India)
2 Hung Liu showings in Oakland
... they see her - though not her alone - as having led the way out of the cultural provincialism and expressive straitjacket of the Mao Zedong decades to the global attention and market that contemporary Chinese art has enjoyed for the past 15 years ...
(Mar 15, 2013, San Francisco Chronicle)
New York Asian art auctions span bronze antiquities to contemporary art
The four days of auctions, estimated to take in anywhere from $74 million to $106 million, begin on Tuesday with Sotheby's sales of contemporary Indian art and Chinese ceramics and art, and Christie's Indian and Southeast Asian sale, which includes ...
(Mar 16, 2013, Reuters India)
New York Asian art auctions span bronze antiquities to contemporary art
The four days of auctions, estimated to take in anywhere from $74 million to $106 million, begin on Tuesday with Sotheby's sales of contemporary Indian art and Chinese ceramics and art, and Christie's Indian and Southeast Asian sale, which includes ...
(Mar 16, 2013, Reuters UK)
Bonhams appoint Laure Raibaut as Senior Specialist of Modern ...
Bonhams appoint Laure Raibaut as Senior Specialist of Modern ...
(Mar 16, 2013, Art Daily)
'Chinese slump affects global art market'
That helped boost auction sales of post-war and contemporary art by five percent in 2012 to almost 4.5 billion euros and took that sector's overall market share to 43 percent. Modern art was the next biggest sector with auction sales of 3.2 billion ...
(Mar 16, 2013, Bangladesh News 24 hours)
Style over substance
Held Saturday, March 16, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing's 798 art zone, Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer Sophie Cooke and young Chinese novelist Zhang Yueran, moderated by British writer Keith Gray, discussed ...
(Mar 17, 2013, Global Times)
Pace Beijing's Leng Lin on Taking Advantage of the "Window Toward Asia"
Chinese contemporary art is still a relatively young market compared to Western art. The public acceptance of contemporary art is still weak, especially without the assistance of museums. The exchange among galleries has basically existed only since ...
(Mar 17, 2013, ARTINFO)
Leading Chinese contemporary artist enjoys ground-breaking exhibition at ...
Leading Chinese contemporary artist enjoys ground-breaking exhibition at ...
(Mar 17, 2013, Nzweek)
Leading Chinese contemporary artist enjoys ground-breaking exhibition at ...
Leading Chinese contemporary artist enjoys ground-breaking exhibition at ...
(Mar 17, 2013, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
Major coup for GoMA as it scores Chinese artist's exhibition
Arts Minister Ian Walker said it was fitting for Cai Guo-Qiang to exhibit in Brisbane because he created major works for the second and third Asia Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Art in 1996 and 1999. “The Queensland Art Gallery was one of the first ...
(Mar 18, 2013, The Age)
Storming the empire
Storming the empire. Arsenal hosts contemporary Chinese art. Written by Charles Jodoin | Photo by Arsenal. Tweet. Arsenal Montreal, a gallery in Griffintown, is currently hosting an exhibit of conteporary Chinese art, “Like Thunder out of China.” It is ...
(Mar 18, 2013, McGill Daily)
Off to the Turtle Races: Kenny Schachter, Our Man in Maastricht
Admittedly, I only wanted to know more—this is a guy who built an unrivaled collection of Chinese contemporary art early on and whose interests include ancient swords and guns. A jewelry dealer told me how he picked up some Dutch at TEFAF: just about ...
(Mar 18, 2013, GalleristNY)
From Scrolls to Seals to Snuff Bottles: Gallerist Hits Asia Week New York
“It's too high for homes here,” Mr. Grindley said, “so the Chinese will probably take it.” Nancy Wiener, who is showing at the Jack Tilton Gallery, is witnessing another new shift. “Indians are moving away from modern and contemporary art to earlier ...
(Mar 18, 2013, GalleristNY)
Vancouver resident donates $10-million to New York museum for Chinese art
Vancouver resident Robert H. N. Ho is donating, through his foundation, nearly $10 million to the Guggenheim Museum in New York to be used for a contemporary Chinese art program. During the program, the Guggenheim will commission major art from at ...
(Mar 19, 2013, Vancouver Sun)
Poly Auction Hong Kong 2013 Spring Auction & Preview to be held from 3rd to ...
Poly Auction Hong Kong 2013 Spring Auction & Preview to be held from 3rd to ...
(Mar 19, 2013, Art Daily)
Small galleries big ideas
"The best time for the art market was from 2003 to 2008, with artists like Wang Guangyi and Zhang Xiaogang," said Wang, referring to two pioneering artists who rose to fame during the boom of China's contemporary art industry. But when Wang, who ...
(Mar 19, 2013, Global Times)
Guggenheim Gets Grant to Commission Chinese Art
He added, “There is a common vision for advancing the field of contemporary art and, in the long term, achieving something deeper so that more people fully understand the art of China.” The foundation has supported the Guggenheim before. It was the ...
(Mar 19, 2013, New York Times)
Guggenheim Museum and The Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Announce ...
Guggenheim Museum and The Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Announce ...
(Mar 20, 2013, Canada NewsWire (press release))
Chinese photographer travels countryside with mobile portrait studio
... to November 2012) traveling around 25 Chinese provinces, photographing some of the 200,000 people in a mobile photo studio and posting the images on his Weibo account (the Chinese version of Twitter). “I became tired of contemporary art, the system ...
(Mar 20, 2013, Art Newspaper)
China Is Wilting, Brazil Is Blooming, and Other Trends Shaping the Art Market
Chinese painting and calligraphy — akin to the Old Master category in western auctions — continues to dominate the market, with 48 percent of the sales. Ceramics takes up another 27 percent of the market. Oil painting and contemporary art accounts ...
(Mar 20, 2013, ARTINFO)
The Chinese buyout has just begun
The best example of this is the wild and entrancing creativity shown by contemporary Chinese art, such as the new Smash Palace show at White Rabbit. It's everything art should be; cheeky, beautiful, rude and deeply thoughtful. But this creative ferment ...
(Mar 20, 2013, Sydney Morning Herald)
MOCA Snubs LACMA Offer, 4chan Mastermind Launches iPad Drawing App ...
MOCA Snubs LACMA Offer, 4chan Mastermind Launches iPad Drawing App ...
(Mar 20, 2013, ARTINFO)
Ebook: 'Passages in the Making of a Book' - a study of Xu Bing's iconic work
Digital book publisher Mapp Editions has just launched 'Passages in the Making of a Book', a chronicle of one of China's most important contemporary art installations: 'Tian shu (Book from the Sky), by the artist Xu Bing. This image from the ebook was ...
(Mar 20, 2013, wallpaper.com)
New York's Guggenheim Museum gets US$10m grant for Chinese art
It will go into commissioning new works aimed at increasing contemporary Chinese art's profile among mass audiences. "We created exceptional possibilities for the Guggenheim when we inaugurated the Asian Art Programme in 2006 [and] we are proud ...
(Mar 20, 2013, South China Morning Post)
A Building Boom in China
Until recently, museums of contemporary art in China had been privately run, either as corporate entities or as the vanity showcases of rich collectors. Last October, an important precedent was set with the opening of the Shanghai Contemporary Art ...
(Mar 20, 2013, New York Times)
Past ink sticks and stones
But Wang Chunchen, chief curator for Chinese Pavilion in the coming 55th Venice Biennale, said that it doesn't mean a shift of attention from Chinese contemporary art, but that the international art market widens the scope of interest to include ink ...
(Mar 21, 2013, Global Times)
'Chinese Girl' Painting Sells For $1.5 million At Bonham's Auction, Heads Home ...
'Chinese Girl' Painting Sells For $1.5 million At Bonham's Auction, Heads Home ...
(Mar 21, 2013, Huffington Post)
Guggenheim makes commission statement
Chinese contemporary art has become fashionable at auction houses around the world, where prices for works by established artists such as Zhang Xiaogang can fetch more than HK$20 million. But outside of the art cognoscenti, few mainstream art viewers ...
(Mar 22, 2013, South China Morning Post)
New York's Guggenheim gets a shot in the arm
"Working with the Guggenheim, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation seems to foster new creativity in the field of contemporary Chinese art," says Robert Y.C. Ho, the chairman of the foundation's board, in a statement. "The thoughtful presentation of ...
(Mar 22, 2013, Chinadaily USA)
Robert Storr lecture (p3), Museum of Contemporary Art
Robert Storr lecture (p3), Museum of Contemporary Art. Art historian, curator, critic and artistic director of the 2007 Venice Biennale Robert Storr speaks at the Museum of Contemporary Art on the role and history of biennales (and art... Related. I ...
(Mar 24, 2013, The Monthly (subscription))
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