Snapshot: Airports become art galleries + Chinese parents can sue kids
*To see some of the best contemporary art in U.S. cities, buy an airline ticket, says The Wall Street Journal. Airports have been spending heavily on public art during the past 10 years, thanks to a heavy focus on turning what historically have been ...
(Sep 19, 2013, Atlanta Business Chronicle)
Adrián Villar Rojas: why I made Kurt Cobain out of clay
Using a traditional potter's wheel, Villar Rojas and his team make vases that look like vessels from ancient China. But those objects have survived ... A kind of ironic pessimism – planning to fail – is a bit of a cliche in contemporary art. Villar ...
(Sep 19, 2013, The Guardian)
Museum and gallery listings Sept. 18-25
Prague Castle-Beijing-Prague Traveling exhibition of Contemporary Chinese art with works from 40 artists. Ends Sept 29. Imperial Stables, Praue Castle. Open daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m.. Prague Castle-Marilyn Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Marilyn ...
(Sep 19, 2013, Prague Post)
Travel briefs: Free admission at new LA museum; Southwest gets tough on no ...
Travel briefs: Free admission at new LA museum; Southwest gets tough on no ...
(Sep 19, 2013, San Jose Mercury News)
Museum and Gallery Listings for Sept. 20-26
Objects on view are not limited to examples of calligraphy; they include Chinese-influenced ink paintings, decorative objects, large screens and woodblock prints. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Rosenberg). ☆ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Julia ...
(Sep 19, 2013, New York Times)
Hong Kong hosting "From Warhol, With Love" selling exhibit
"We've really been seeing both in our private sales and in our auction sales that China is becoming a very big part of our business," Jacqueline Wachter, a contemporary art specialist at Sotheby's, said. "It is important to bring him to a new market ...
(Sep 20, 2013, PanARMENIAN.Net)
The buildings that have shaped Australia
Brisbane already had the fine Robin Gibson-designed Queensland Art Gallery, opened in 1982; could the city do it again with a splendid new museum for contemporary art? QAG's sister institution, the Gallery of Modern Art, opened in 2006 and was ... When ...
(Sep 20, 2013, The Australian)
China Goes Postal for Stamp Collecting
Like contemporary art and wine, the Chinese market for stamps shot up spectacularly in the year preceding 2011, then fell by 30 percent the following year, and is now starting to come back up in 2013. Stamp experts say buyers should expect the postal ...
(Sep 20, 2013, Wall Street Journal)
Christie's Latest Find
Paik lived in the U.S. and Europe for most of his life, and since his arrival Korean contemporary artists haven't had much muscle in the global art market, dwarfed as they are by the rapid growth and popularity of contemporary Chinese artists. But the ...
(Sep 20, 2013, Barron's (blog))
Events in New Jersey
HALEDON The Centennial Commemoration of the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike, historical photos, artifacts and original contemporary art. Through Dec. ... “Maples in the Mist: Chinese Poems for Children Illustrated by Jean and Mou-sien Tseng.” Through June 22 ...
(Sep 20, 2013, New York Times)
Monetary policy and the art market; is there a bubble forming?
And buyers worldwide are participating in the binge. Russian investors spent freely at Christie's and Sotheby's spring sales, where the Russians reportedly bid on paintings by Kandinsky, Renoir, Vuillard and van Gogh. Chinese bidders were also active ...
(Sep 21, 2013, Truckee Times)
Art: Nine exhibitions to see in Dallas-Fort Worth
A contemporary art survey will appear Sept. 29 in Arts & Life. There are, to my mind, four not-to-be-missed exhibitions for 2013-14: two at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and two at the Dallas Museum of Art. The two Kimbell shows fall on either ...
(Sep 21, 2013, Dallas Morning News)
Fall exhibits to inspire young artists
“Inspire,” the latest in the Young@Art Gallery series at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, celebrates dedicated educators who continue to make sure the arts stay in classrooms. “Latino Folktales: Cuentos Populares” at the Heard Museum was ...
(Sep 21, 2013, Arizona Republic)
Top 5 events in visual arts for 2012-13 season
The building will be worth the visit alone, but opening day will reveal some top-notch exhibitions, starting with the survey of superstar Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei, and also including shows of the seminal Cuban painter Amelia Peláez and contemporary ...
(Sep 22, 2013, MiamiHerald.com)
Framing contemporary Asian art
The private museum is hosting a show of 40 works from more than 30 Asian artists, named Clues of Asia - Asian Contemporary Art from Long Collection. "For the past 30 years of China's cultural exchanges with other countries, America and Europe has been ...
(Sep 22, 2013, ecns)
Art: An artist's dazzling monuments to duality
She also traveled in Egypt and later, after marrying Magnum photographer Marc Riboud in 1961, in the Soviet Union and China. Chase-Riboud began living in Paris in 1961 and, even after her divorce in 1980, has lived there since. ... The Hopper money ...
(Sep 22, 2013, Philly.com)
Brenner Studio opens Newcastle showroom
''I helped set up the first contemporary art leasing company there, because until then there had only been traditional Chinese art,'' she said. Hired by corporates including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Suncorp, she placed art pieces ...
(Sep 22, 2013, Newcastle Herald)
ArtPrize 2013 venue review: Site:Lab is again a muse for creativity
Although for many much of what is presented will be challenging, the reality is that this site is the most in dialogue with the true currents of contemporary art from around the globe. If one holds to the notion that ArtPrize is a conversation, then to ...
(Sep 22, 2013, MLive.com)
Horse talk leads to arts festival for University of Kentucky, Inner Mongolia ...
Horse talk leads to arts festival for University of Kentucky, Inner Mongolia ...
(Sep 22, 2013, Lexington Herald Leader)
In the Lumière spotlight: Janice Jackson
SYDNEY — Contemporary art projects will fill downtown Sydney on Saturday night as part of the third edition of Lumière. Organized by the Lumière Arts ... The writing style for 'Howl – Amore' makes use of vocal techniques from all over the world ...
(Sep 23, 2013, Cape Breton Post)
Framing contemporary Asian art
The private museum is hosting a show of 40 works from more than 30 Asian artists, named Clues of Asia - Asian Contemporary Art from Long Collection. "For the past 30 years of China's cultural exchanges with other countries, America and Europe has been ...
(Sep 23, 2013, China Daily)
Framing contemporary Asian art
The private museum is hosting a show of 40 works from more than 30 Asian artists, named Clues of Asia - Asian Contemporary Art from Long Collection. "For the past 30 years of China's cultural exchanges with other countries, America and Europe has been ...
(Sep 23, 2013, China Daily)
Framing contemporary Asian art
The private museum is hosting a show of 40 works from more than 30 Asian artists, named Clues of Asia - Asian Contemporary Art from Long Collection. "For the past 30 years of China's cultural exchanges with other countries, America and Europe has been ...
(Sep 23, 2013, China Daily)
Confucius Institute showcases artwork as part of Chinese culture month
The “Chinese Impressions: Chinese Paintings” exhibit will showcase two types of contemporary art styles: landscape and flower-and-bird styles. Both are painted with a Chinese paint brush onto rice paper. But the styles are not alike at all, according ...
(Sep 23, 2013, Daily Nebraskan)
Esprit Dior
Couture house Christian Dior brings a dash of Parisian glamor and elegance to the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai) with the "Esprit Dior" exhibition that opened on September 13 and runs until November 10. The exhibition ... It ...
(Sep 23, 2013, ecns)
DALeast: The street artist breaking out of China
He is also concerned that the art syllabus in China is stunting students' creativity. “At university we weren't taught art after Van Gogh. They won't teach contemporary art because it is against the system. They teach you what is really old so they can ...
(Sep 23, 2013, The Independent)
The way of chopsticks
“The PAA had never shown contemporary Chinese art before, and neither Song Dong nor Yin Xiuzhen, whose work speaks so powerfully to everyday experience and domestic life, had ever shown their work in the context of a former residence like the ...
(Sep 23, 2013, Philly.com)
Tiancheng International Autumn Auctions 2013 to be held on 25 November and ...
Tiancheng International Autumn Auctions 2013 to be held on 25 November and ...
(Sep 23, 2013, Art Daily)
Hong Kong contemporary art museum M+ takes shape
Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District project lunged forward this June with the release of a blueprint for the M+ visual culture museum, to be built on Victoria Harbor. The project, which kicked off in 2008 with the appropriation of a HK$21.6 ...
(Sep 24, 2013, WantChinaTimes)
Christie's hopes for more openess in China ahead of first auction
Murphy's remarks came as Christie's unveiled a three-day exhibition of items, ranging from Asian contemporary art to Western masterworks and jewelry, ahead of an auction Thursday evening. Highlights include a contemplative 1963 still-life by Giorgio ...
(Sep 24, 2013, GlobalPost)
Christie's Brings Picasso, Patek Philippe to China Debut
... and branding as it is about selling. The Christie's evening sale contains just 42 lots, combining wine, jewelry, contemporary Chinese art, contemporary western art and watches, which normally exist as distinct categories in London, New York or Hong ...
(Sep 24, 2013, Bloomberg)
Christie's holds 1st mainland auction in Shanghai
It will also hold private sale exhibitions featuring masterpieces of foreign and Chinese artists, including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Zhang Daqian, Dong Qichang and others. In addition, lectures and forums on Western and contemporary art and on the ...
(Sep 25, 2013, China.org.cn)
'Chimeras' chimes with international audiences
A parallel storyline follows seminal Chinese contemporary art figure Wang Guangyi, who made his name with western-style avant-garde art in the 80s. However, as the film delves deeper into Guangyi's conflicted character, the multi-millionaire pop-artist ...
(Sep 25, 2013, YLE News)
Digital art museum to go onli
Also part of the World Expo site, Power Station of Art is the first official museum of contemporary art in China. Power Station of Art will celebrate its first anniversary with a series of events and performances that runs from 9 am to 9 pm on Oct 1 ...
(Sep 25, 2013, China.org.cn)
Christie's Brings Picasso, Patek Philippe to China Debut
Tomorrow's Christie's evening sale contains just 42 lots, combining wine, jewelry, contemporary Chinese art, contemporary western art and watches, which normally exist as distinct categories in London, New York or Hong Kong. “They have to sell ...
(Sep 25, 2013, Businessweek)
Christie's prepares for its first auction in mainland China
The Shanghai auction will feature a mix of Western and Chinese contemporary art, including pieces by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and Ed Ruscha. Christie's, which already has a lucrative presence in Hong Kong, claims that it is the ...
(Sep 25, 2013, Los Angeles Times)
Iranians eager for change disappointed Rouhani didn't offer more
said Ali Hasanzadeh, who voted for Rouhani, as he scanned the arrayed newspapers on a sidewalk near Tehran's Contemporary Art Museum. Several reform-minded ... Execution of Chinese street vendor sparks Internet outcry · Kenya mall attack: Questions ...
(Sep 25, 2013, Los Angeles Times)
Hedge fund owner invests in design futures
The contemporary Chinese art collection put together by Daniel and David was called Droga8, named after their places in the family pecking order – Daniel as the third son, David the fifth. They have donated or lent works from this collection to the Art ...
(Sep 26, 2013, The Australian Financial Review)
Meet the hedge fund owner investing in design futures
The contemporary Chinese art collection put together by Daniel and David was called Droga8, named after their places in the family pecking order – Daniel as the third son, David the fifth. They have donated or lent works from this collection to the Art ...
(Sep 26, 2013, The Australian Financial Review)
China to establish stronger relations with Indonesia
During the celebration, the ambassador also officially opened the Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, which will take place until Sept. 29. The exhibition displays around 61 well-known pieces of Chinese art. Also present at the exhibition opening were ...
(Sep 26, 2013, Jakarta Post)
Autumn art fairs and auctions
The goods Pieces from Mainland China – ceramics, modern and contemporary art, jewels and watches, classical calligraphy and ink works – will go under the hammer. Price range Ballpark starting price of $20,000. The crowd Local and international buyers ...
(Sep 26, 2013, Time Out Hong Kong)
Museum and gallery listings Sept. 25-Oct. 2
Prague Castle-Beijing-Prague Traveling exhibition of Contemporary Chinese art with works from 40 artists. To Sept. 29. Imperial Stables, Prague Castle. Open daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m.. Robert Guttmann Gallery-Truth and Lies: Filming in the Terezín Ghetto, ...
(Sep 26, 2013, Prague Post)
Christie's holds first independent auction in mainland China
Hundreds of people showed up as 42 items -- from Asian contemporary art and Western masterworks to jewellery, watches and wine -- went under the hammer with estimates for their combined totalling 100 million yuan ($16.3 million). Highlights include a ...
(Sep 26, 2013, Channel News Asia)
Christie's first mainland China auction
Hundreds of people attended the auction as more than 40 items -- from Western masterworks and Asian contemporary art to jewellery, watches and wine -- went under the hammer to fetch 153 million yuan ($25 million). Among the highlights, a Picasso ...
(Sep 26, 2013, Fox News)
Christie's Opens for Business in Mainland China With Its First Auction
But compared to the $495 million record sale of postwar and contemporary art sold at Christie's in May at Rockefeller Center in New York, the Shanghai sale was on a much smaller scale. Mostly Chinese buyers attended the sale in a vast ballroom at the ...
(Sep 26, 2013, New York Times (blog))
News Summary: Christie's 1st auction in China
ON SALE: Along with Pablo Picasso's 1969 Homme Assis, Andy Warhol's 1980-81 Diamond Dust Shoes, and a 1963 still life by Giorgio Morandi, items include works of Asian contemporary art and fine wines. BACK STORY: China, the world's second largest ...
(Sep 26, 2013, MiamiHerald.com)
YUE Magazine Introduces a New Design in September 2013
A native speaker and write of Mandarin Chinese, Ms. Jansen holds advanced degrees from Yale University and Columbia Law School and serves on the Contemporary Art Advisory Committee of China Institute in America and the Board of the Couture ...
(Sep 26, 2013, Newsday)
Museum and Gallery Listings for Sept. 27-Oct. 3
Objects on view are not limited to examples of calligraphy; they include Chinese-influenced ink paintings, decorative objects, large screens and woodblock prints. ..... (Smith). ☆ 'Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art' (through Dec ...
(Sep 26, 2013, New York Times)
The flowing colors of 798 art district
Texan arts book publisher Robert Bernell was the first foreigner from the arts world to arrive at 798, full of passion and enthusiasm for contemporary Chinese art. With belief in his promising artist friends and dynamic works of art, he started his own ...
(Sep 27, 2013, ecns)
flowing colors of 798 art district
Huang Rui, one of the pioneers of Chinese contemporary art who was once unofficial spokesman for the 798 arts district, said, "The artists' hub reflected the ebb and flow of the development process, similar to that in the SoHo district of New York, but ...
(Sep 27, 2013, Chinadaily USA)
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