The China Factor: Jingdezhen porcelain draws foreigners
While many Chinese artists have given up the craft and turned to more profitable lines of work, foreign designers and artists have come to the "Porcelain Capital" of Jingdezhen. They have ... It's a kind of contradiction, very much used in contemporary ...
(Feb 1, 2014, CCTV)
Spring Exhibition Opens at Waterworks Visual Arts Center
His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in such public collections as the Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, Ill.; the Lakeview Museum in Peoria; and private collections including the Administrative Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art ...
(Feb 1, 2014, Salisbury Post)
China shows interest in Indian art scene at India Art Fair
Indians, have not seen Chinese contemporary art that's making waves internationally, unless it is at a Western metropolis. In 2012, “star” dissident artist Ai Weiwei was to come to India to take part in the inaugural Kochi-Muziris Biennale, but he was ...
(Feb 2, 2014, Daily News & Analysis)
American International Fine Art Fair to opens with 'big dealers and good art'
The lineup includes longtime exhibitors such as paintings dealer Richard Green, antique arms and armor purveyor Peter Finer, 20th century silver and decorative arts dealer The Silver Fund and Chinese art gallerist Michael Goedhuis. New and returning ...
(Feb 2, 2014, Palm Beach Daily News)
Tickets on itself
... company performed exclusively at QPAC for a sold-out season. The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is the largest contemporary art gallery in the country, centrepiece of a bustling arts precinct along the southern bank of the Brisbane River ...
(Feb 2, 2014, Sydney Morning Herald)
School Notes: Feb. 5.
World Heritage Student Exchange Program is looking for host families for high school boys and girls from Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Thailand, China, South Korea and former Soviet Republics. Couples, single parents and families with or without ...
(Feb 3, 2014, Cary News)
Go off-track from the famous harbour and discover a city bursting with art ...
Go off-track from the famous harbour and discover a city bursting with art ...
(Feb 3, 2014, Irish Times)
MAKING POTTERY ART Exhibition on View at the Met Museum, Beg. Today
Artist-potters found inspiration in Asian ceramics, particularly Japanese stoneware (a hard, dense type of pottery), as well as in the forms, glazes, and techniques of Chinese porcelain and pottery. ... These Continental and British ceramics, dating ...
(Feb 4, 2014, Broadway World)
Sotheby's HK's Boundless art returns
IF given time and “more money,” I'd invest not only in Philippines art, but also in Chinese. Let me count the ways. The “Boundless: Contemporary Art” sale of western and Asian works at Sotheby's Hong Kong achieved HK$34.69 million ($4.45 million), ...
(Feb 4, 2014, Business Mirror)
Michael Green: Natural Solutions to Complex Problems
Drawing form a wide range of projects, from a 20-storey vertical farm to a contemporary art gallery in China, in locations that include the summit of mountains and the Canadian arctic, Vancouver- and New York-based architect Michael Green will speak at ...
(Feb 4, 2014, Canadian Architect)
The best in Philippine contemporary art at Art Fair Philippines
MANILA, Philippines - Last year, Makati denizens were treated with a great visual feast and unique experience of the best in Philippine modern and contemporary art with the inauguration of the first Philippine Art Fair. Still uniquely set in an urban ...
(Feb 4, 2014, Philippine Star)
Sothebys (BID) news: The Consequences Of Sotheby's Special Dividend
They are now vulnerable to a severe art market correction or one US Attorney who starts an investigation into the manipulation of American, German, English and Chinese Contemporary Art Market prices by outsiders that Sotheby's may have failed to detect ...
(Feb 4, 2014, Seeking Alpha)
Mane frame: equine art in the Year of the Horse
From cute cats and winsome dogs, to large-eyed cows and rearing horses: caught between the over-sentimental and the purely representational, it can be hard to find a place for animals in contemporary art, and no animal, it seems, has fallen further ...
(Feb 5, 2014, Irish Times)
Sydney Biennale celebrates art at AGNSW
The Biennale of Sydney is Australia's largest and most exciting contemporary visual arts festival, held every two years across multiple venues in Sydney including the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Carraigeworks, Artspace and Cockatoo Island ...
(Feb 5, 2014, artsHub Australia (subscription))
Contemporary home in Medina is filled with eclectic art collection (slide show)
All of the couple's passions – African and contemporary art, wine and thrifting – come together in the high-ceilinged great room. A collection of 20 authentic ... I spotted Shirley's collection of 40 examples of The Hall China Co.'s Ice Lip Ball ...
(Feb 5, 2014, The Plain Dealer (blog))
District brand promotion, pride hopes
The launch was timed to coincide with two events, Southern Field Days - which is on next week - and an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art. Mr Parry said the Gore district brand would be free for businesses and organisations to use. However, quality ...
(Feb 5, 2014, Otago Daily Times)
Triumph Of The Bookworms: Two Novels To Cure Your Winter Blues
detail from cover of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles. Alena, a reworking of Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca, takes place in the contemporary art world, while The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles is a "delicious French romp. ... The story centers on a shy scholar of ...
(Feb 5, 2014, KUHF-FM)
Adrian Paci: Lives in Transit and Collages: Gesture and Fragments - February 6 ...
Adrian Paci: Lives in Transit and Collages: Gesture and Fragments - February 6 ...
(Feb 5, 2014, Canada NewsWire (press release))
Love beds to baseball bats: Art goes beyond borders
Mumbai artist Shilpa Gupta's work " 1:14.9," a hand-wound ball of thread symbolizing the 1,907 kilometres of the border between India and Pakistan that have been fenced, opens the exhibition "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia ...
(Feb 6, 2014, Times of India)
The future of museums in China
One was the Long Museum, a 10,000 square metre private art gallery owned by one of the biggest art collecting couples in China. The other was the Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai's first public museum of contemporary art, named for the enormous ...
(Feb 6, 2014, The Guardian (blog))
Flower power
... Cai Guoqiang, who Tzarev says is not afraid to reinterpret tradition. "Much of China's contemporary art facilitates the exchange of ideas across borders, contributing to a new art world that is defined by its diversity, not its divides," Tzarev ...
(Feb 6, 2014, Global Times)
Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 7-13
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China' (through April 6) This museum's first survey of recent Chinese art uses the lens of the culture's ancient brush and ink tradition so basic to its landscape painting and ...
(Feb 7, 2014, New York Times)
City joins country in grand brand embrace
The launch was timed to coincide with two events epitomising the Rural City Living brand - the Southern Field Days, being held next week, and an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art. Gore District mayor Tracy Hicks said the brand, which features ...
(Feb 7, 2014, Southland Times (blog))
NY / Region|Events in New Jersey for Feb. 9-15
BEDMINSTER The Center for Contemporary Art “Photography as Painting,” works by Christopher Fjelde, Aubrey J. Kauffman and Francesca Picone; curated by Mel Leipzig. Through Feb. 22. Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Center for Contemporary ...
(Feb 7, 2014, New York Times)
Van Gogh lures bidders from 44 countries as art season starts on a high
... International tallied £177m during its sale on Tuesday, kicking off auctions that represent the first big test of the art market this year. Modern and Impressionist art sales have been trailing those of post-war and contemporary art with fresh ...
(Feb 7, 2014, Irish Independent)
36 Hours in Yangon, Myanmar
It's also home to River Gallery I, opened by a Kiwi expatriate, Gill Pattison, in 2005 and the ideal place to explore Yangon's buzzing contemporary art scene. Last year Ms. Pattison expanded, with River Gallery II, just up the street in a lofty ...
(Feb 7, 2014, New York Times)
London art auctions bring in record-breaking £340 million
Sotheby's employees hold up Vincent Van Gogh's L'Homme est en mer (1889) during the Sotheby's Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art auctions press preview in London on January 29, 2014. The art work was expected to fetch £6-8 million but went for ...
(Feb 7, 2014, The Voice of Russia)
IFAE Presents Miami Art + Design, an Inaugural Showcase Featuring Fine and ...
IFAE Presents Miami Art + Design, an Inaugural Showcase Featuring Fine and ...
(Feb 7, 2014, PR Web (press release))
Cultural revelation
Each tour is different, but might begin with an historical look at the area and of the contemporary art in China, followed by visits to both well-established and avant-garde galleries and even studios. "If you're interested in the history of ...
(Feb 8, 2014, Sydney Morning Herald)
Feasts for the eye and mind
This is arguably the most prestigious and influential international contemporary art event. This year, 88 ... Germany featured an installation by Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist who because of his political views has had several run-ins with the Chinese ...
(Feb 8, 2014, Jerusalem Post)
Monique Lhuillier shows her darker side
Lhuillier, whose guests included Anna Kendrick, said she was influenced by architecture and contemporary art merged with old world Parisian couture techniques she researched. One fitted gown in white was covered in swirly black lace that exploded in ...
(Feb 9, 2014, WGCL Atlanta)
Asheville area art openings, receptions, tours
'Tender Buttons,' 1999 by Gertrude Stein. Etchings by Susan Weil. Now on exhibit at Asheville Art Museum in 'Blueprints: A Collaboration,' through May 25. The show celebrates the collaboration of Weil and José Betancourt. Learn more at ...
(Feb 9, 2014, Black Mountain News)
This is so contemporary!
Some delight, others scurry away only to be followed by a somewhat hysteria pack, and others flee - while watching today a family of Chinese tourists turned on their heels and headed straight back out, a little girl's trailing voice could be heard ...
(Feb 9, 2014, artsHub Australia (subscription))
Finding common ground through art
Differences aside, Zhu feels that there is much that the art worlds in India and China could learn from each other. “The language of art in Asia is very different from the West. Tradition is very important in both our countries. Contemporary art is the ...
(Feb 10, 2014, The Hindu)
Southeby's to auction painter Lucian Freud's love letters
Oliver Barker, Sotheby's senior international specialist in contemporary art, said that the letters provided fascinating insights into Freud's life, thoughts and interests. "They kind of have everything," he said. "Paintings he was working on, plays ...
(Feb 10, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Brooklyn Museum's 4th Annual "Brooklyn Artists Ball" Slated for April 16
In addition, acclaimed contemporary artists Jenny Holzer, Ai Weiwei, and Kehinde Wiley will be honored with the Asher B. Durand Award, named for the artist who gave the first work of contemporary art to enter the Museum's collection. Tickets to the ...
(Feb 10, 2014, PR Web (press release))
Mia Liu Transforms 60000 Guggenheim Museum Tickets Into Art (VIDEO)
... College's Graduate School of Art. Major exhibitions include CODA Paper Art, CODA Museum, Holland (2013); A Contemporary Art Exhibition Across the Strait, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / National Art Museum of China, Taichung / Beijing (2013); ...
(Feb 10, 2014, Huffington Post)
Sotheby's to auction painter Lucian Freud's love letters
Oliver Barker, Sotheby's senior international specialist in contemporary art, said that the letters provided fascinating insights into Freud's life, thoughts and interests. "They kind of have everything," he said. "Paintings he was working on, plays ...
(Feb 10, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Michael Chow Recipe for a Painter Exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries
He and his wife Eva Chun (fashion designer and painter) are on members of the board of the Contemporary Art Museum in Los Angeles and daughter China Chow was one of the early chinese actress to make a name for herself in Hollywood. Chow always ...
(Feb 11, 2014, Butterboom)
Art Sales: London proves it's hip to be square
At Christie's, 12 per cent of bidders were from Asia, and Chinese agents bid, often successfully, on middle-price range works by brand-name artists such as Matisse, Gauguin, Cézanne, Monet and Van Gogh, as well as Surrealists Dalí and Magritte ...
(Feb 11, 2014, Telegraph.co.uk)
Why Twitter Is So Powerful in Chinese
An exhibition called Ink Art that features contemporary Chinese art from the past 30 years is showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fusion spoke with the Chairman of the Department of Asian Arts, Maxwell Hearn, to learn more about the exhibition, ...
(Feb 11, 2014, Fusion)
Talking with Tonel: The Spaces Between
With curator Keith Wallace, Tonel organized The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana, on view through April 13 at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Participating artists include Juan ...
(Feb 11, 2014, Cuban Art News)
Wang Shu and Zaha Hadid Among 14 Nominated for “Design of the Year” Award
A contemporary art centre located in an old boat warehouse. The architects ... Pritzker Prize-winner Wang Shu's guesthouse and reception centre draws on the traditions of the China Academy of Art and the city of Hangzhou itself. The new building is one ...
(Feb 12, 2014, ArchDaily)
Yoko trumps the cricket drawcard
At an event held by Tourism & Transport Forum (TTF) last week at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor quoted a BBC article in her keynote address. She said: 'I realised we really have made the leap into the ...
(Feb 12, 2014, artsHub Australia (subscription))
International set boosts sales in London
Last year, the antiques dealer Laura Bordignon, who specialises in Japanese art, reported a high volume of visitors from China and Hong Kong, while this year a Russian representative has been appointed to promote the fair. It is a trend in evidence ...
(Feb 12, 2014, Art Newspaper)
Connecting the dots
In 1982, Li graduated as a sculpture major from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now known as China Academy of Art) in Hangzhou and secured a teaching job on campus. However, a sudden attack of rheumatic fever struck ... it never occurred to me to ...
(Feb 12, 2014, Global Times)
New era in the Asia art market
The Chinese art market alone increased 10 times in value from 2004 to 2012, making Asia the premiere contemporary art market in the world in art turnover. Over US$27 million was traded by Sotheby's alone, including paintings by Filipino masters and ...
(Feb 12, 2014, Manila Standard Today)
Is this the Jurassic Park of the art world or a protected gene-pool for the ...
Is this the Jurassic Park of the art world or a protected gene-pool for the ...
(Feb 12, 2014, Art Newspaper)
War From The Perspective Of Russian Artists At The Zimmerli Art Museum At ...
War From The Perspective Of Russian Artists At The Zimmerli Art Museum At ...
(Feb 12, 2014, TheAlternativePress.com)
Things to do and see in Marin County, Feb. 13 through 20, 2014
... 339-3900; www.baykidsmuseum.org. Feb. 17: Chinese Performing Arts of America Dancers. .... MARIN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — 500 Palm Drive, Novato; 506-0137; www.marinmoca.org. Through Feb. 23: "Re/Vision." MARIN SOCIETY OF ...
(Feb 13, 2014, Marin Independent Journal)
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