Beijing Gallows: The Hanging Man Reviewed
Martin has written a pacey, root-level account of post-Imperial Chinese history and contemporary art, a book about modern China 'using an account of Ai Weiwei's life as its backbone.' Martin illuminates the early pieces and major exhibitions, from the ...
(Mar 24, 2013, The Quietus)
Sotheby's moves onto galleries' turf with exhibit
Contemporary Chinese art prices surged to an all-time high in 2012, taking 29 of the top 50 hammer prices in public auctions worldwide, according to Artprice's annual report. The new and rapidly emerging field of contemporary Chinese water-ink painting ...
(Mar 25, 2013, Chinadaily USA)
Asian art sales in New York exceed expectations
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A week of Asian art auctions exceeded expectations as Christie's and Sotheby's together sold more than $130 million worth of contemporary and Chinese art, rare bronzes, furniture and antiquities at their semi-annual Asia week sales ...
(Mar 25, 2013, Reuters)
Asian art sales in New York exceed expectations
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A week of Asian art auctions exceeded expectations as Christie's and Sotheby's together sold more than $130 million worth of contemporary and Chinese art, rare bronzes, furniture and antiquities at their semi-annual Asia week sales ...
(Mar 25, 2013, Reuters India)
Hong Kong deserves better public art
So imposing a traditional Chinese-style archway, which would more commonly be found in a Chinatown, on the place is more than an uncomfortable mismatch. ... (This does not mean it has to utilise the global language of so-called "contemporary art".) ...
(Mar 26, 2013, South China Morning Post)
Back by Cai Guangbin Photo: Courtesy of G. Dot Art Space
Three Chinese artists currently based in Beijing want to bring Chinese ink painting back into contemporary Chinese art. By using inks traditionally applied in Chinese landscapes dating back to the Tang dynasty (618-907), they aim to preserve the ...
(Mar 26, 2013, Global Times)
Artprice's 2012 report on the art market
A fall of about 8.5 points in the sector of traditional paintings and Chinese calligraphy was also observed, while the Chinese share of the contemporary art market followed an opposite path with 3 additional points in 2011, although there was a decline ...
(Mar 26, 2013, AMA)
Asian art shines in New York auction
NEW YORK: A week of Asian art auctions exceeded expectations as Christie's and Sotheby's together sold more than $130 million worth of contemporary and Chinese art, rare bronzes, furniture and antiquities at their semi-annual Asia week sales. The four ...
(Mar 26, 2013, mydigitalfc.com)
Sharjah looks East, and West
A fluent Japanese (and Russian and Chinese) speaker and highly knowledgeable about contemporary art, she turned eastward for her next curator: Yuko Hasegawa, the chief curator at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art. Cultural relativism. This was not ...
(Mar 26, 2013, Art Newspaper)
Chen Man interview
These days, I'm regarded as one of the more successful commercial fashion photographers in China. It's only recently, when I was invited to exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai and Beijing's Today Art Museum, that people recognised there's ...
(Mar 27, 2013, Time Out Hong Kong)
Seoul Gallery Scene Sees Dispersion to Hyoja-dong
Artside, noted for being the one of the first to introduce contemporary Chinese art to Korea, moved to Hyoja-dong from Insa-dong in 2010. It has stood watch over the last few years, seeing a steady increase in gallery concentration in its new home as ...
(Mar 27, 2013, ARTINFO)
Global treasure, local address
Indeed, throughout the past decade, the price of modern and contemporary Chinese art works has soared to the height of the world market. According to artprice.com, a world leading company in providing art market information based in Lyons, France ...
(Mar 28, 2013, People's Daily Online)
The Graffitist Who Moved Indoors
He was supposed to be talking about his traveling midcareer retrospective, which opens Saturday at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Instead, he was revisiting some of the places where he'd spent time in the late 1980s and early '90s, as he ...
(Mar 28, 2013, New York Times)
Falling sales paint a bleak picture for China's art market
The hot pursuit of contemporary art seen eight years ago has cooled. Before 2009, the best contemporary works, accumulated and stored during the preceding decades, had been sought and bought by insightful collectors, said Zhu Qian, independent ...
(Mar 29, 2013, China Daily)
Cornering the market
Poly and Guardian will also hold their first Hong Kong spring sales in early April, offering Chinese paintings and calligraphy, antiques, modern and contemporary Chinese art, jewelry and timepieces. "Chinese auction houses have to charge less to retain ...
(Mar 29, 2013, China Daily)
Sotheby's Asian art sale moves into new territory
Sotheby's is hosting its first public exhibition of Asian art with fixed sale prices at its New York headquarters, and more than half the 45 contemporary water-ink paintings by 14 Chinese artists have sold, according to the auction house. The ...
(Mar 29, 2013, China Daily)
Price and prejudice
In 2007, My Lonesome Cowboy, a sculpture by Murakami Takashi, auctioned for $15.16 million in New York - a sky-high price for contemporary art. By contrast, the highest record for Chinese contemporary art work is from Zhang Xiaogang whose 1988 triptych ...
(Mar 31, 2013, Global Times)
The national question
A group of people with a shared history? An ethnicity? Ideas like these, with a specific relation to Southeast Asia, are explored in a thought-provoking exhibition called "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia" at the Guggenheim ...
(Mar 31, 2013, South China Morning Post)
Chinese artist Maleonn pends year travelling the country in mobile photo ...
Chinese artist Maleonn pends year travelling the country in mobile photo ...
(Mar 31, 2013, Daily Mail)
Price and prejudice
In 2007, My Lonesome Cowboy, a sculpture by Murakami Takashi, auctioned for $15.16 million in New York - a sky-high price for contemporary art. By contrast, the highest record for Chinese contemporary art work is from Zhang Xiaogang whose 1988 triptych ...
(Apr 1, 2013, People's Daily Online)
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