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Eight Things to Do in Hong Kong in 48 Hours

The Chinese are very competitive when it comes to their cities and Hong Kong is fighting to maintain her lead over the fast-growing economic hubs of mainland China. So I gave myself 48 hours to discover how Honkers fared in a competition with my ... (Feb 13, 2014, Huffington Post UK)

Hotel Review: My Humble House

The Design: Created by hospitality-focused Hirsch Bedner Associates, the hotel's clean lines and minimalist interior design serve as backdrop to a 600-piece collection of contemporary art, provided by Taiwanese owners and art dealers My Humble House ... (Feb 13, 2014, Wall Street Journal)

Sotheby's contemporary art sale starts week 2 of London auctions

Andy Warhol's "Mao", (1973), part of the Mao series he painted just after U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, was bagged for 7.6 million pounds, almost 20 times its price when it was last sold at auction in 2000, Sotheby's said ... (Feb 13, 2014, Yahoo!7 News)

Art and Theater Listings

“How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of the Shaman in Vietnam and Southern China,” Through March 21. Painted scrolls, masks ... Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St., Portland. www.meca.edu/ica. “Intersections ... (Feb 13, 2014, Press Herald)

The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art From Havana explores a longing for ...

The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art From Havana explores a longing for ... (Feb 13, 2014, Straight.com)

Everyday Existence, With Eyes Wide Open

“Art at the Core: The Intersection of Visual Art, Performance and Technology” at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill feels more like an arbitrary collection of artworks than a specially curated show. Nonetheless, there is some ... (Feb 13, 2014, New York Times)

The Waldorf Astoria Beijing to Open on March 1

The hotel is also filled with contemporary Chinese art including the Waldorf Astoria Clock (found in each Waldorf Astoria hotel) which "appears weightless while resting in its glass cabinet, creating the illusion that it is floating, or of 'time being ... (Feb 13, 2014, HotelChatter)

Place des Arts opens its doors to Spectacular China

An exhibition of Chinese contemporary art is already on display at PdA. Spectacular China runs Saturday to March 1 at Place des Arts. For tickets and complete information, call 514-842-2112 or visit pda.qc.ca. Carnaval 2014: Chinese Springtime Gala, ... (Feb 13, 2014, Montreal Gazette)

Buyers Chase Bacon's Lover to Koons's Egg in London Sale

The event was the last and the largest of four evening postwar and contemporary art sales this week in London that generated a combined 260.9 million pounds. Bidding was global and wealthy new buyers from China, Middle East and Russia helped push up ... (Feb 14, 2014, Bloomberg)

Amalgam of creative worlds

... modern art in 2008, Christian Dior, then under the creative directorship of John Galliano, mounted an exhibition, Christian Dior and Chinese Artists, in collaboration with 20 contemporary Chinese artists, at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art ... (Feb 14, 2014, The Age)

Amalgam of creative worlds

London art market buzzing after Christie's contemporary art sale

The post-war and contemporary art auction at Christie's on Thursday evening highlights a series to be held in the British capital this month, shining the spotlight once again on a buoyant art market that experts say is driven by a growing pool of ... (Feb 14, 2014, Reuters UK)

Francis Bacon painting brings in about $70 million at auction

The painting, which was completed in 1966, was sold as part of an auction of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's in London. ART: Can you guess the high price? The $70 million brought in by the Bacon comes a few months after the $142.4 ... At a ... (Feb 14, 2014, Los Angeles Times)

London art market buzzing after Christie's contemporary art sale

The Art Market: safe bets vs rising stars

After the remarkable totals achieved in last week's impressionist and modern art sales in London, contemporary art week was awaited with considerable optimism, and the results did not disappoint. The four evening sales between Monday and Thursday ... (Feb 14, 2014, Financial Times)

Higher Inclined Planes and the Lessons of War

On the floor of a modest Lower East Side gallery with a distinct pop-up ambience (a Chinese food-court awning still hangs over its facade) lie 20 access ramps ranging from the recently and professionally manufactured to the competently homemade and the ... (Feb 14, 2014, Wall Street Journal)

Phoenixes Rise in China and Float in New York

Before coming to New York, the birds made a stop at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, where they were on view in a converted factory building for nearly a year, starting in 2012. When they were at that museum, “what I found ... (Feb 14, 2014, New York Times)

Explore London's Global Art Fair: Art 14 At Olympia London

A dazzling variety of modern and contemporary art from 40 countries lands in London for global art fair, Art 14. Art lovers, shoppers and the art-curious are as welcome as collectors and curators and there are ... Over 180 galleries are participating ... (Feb 14, 2014, Londonist)

BenCab unveils Swatch's 'happy horse' at Art Fair

This contemporary art exhibition opened in Venice, Italy, June 1 and ran through Nov. 24, 2013. ... Jose Santos III—Award-winning visual artist who has held solo and group exhibitions in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and China. Several of his ... (Feb 15, 2014, Inquirer.net)

Auctioneer hammers home the importance of arts education

"Contemporary art is now a huge chunk [of the market]. Classical art and ceramics are only very minimal." In comparison, the situation in China is the opposite: "Collectors are only comfortable buying Chinese artwork, and it's not even contemporary. A ... (Feb 16, 2014, South China Morning Post)

Private museums flavor of the month

In Beijing, there is now the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, set up by collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens; in Shanghai, Yuz, by Chinese-Indonesian agriculture magnate Budi Tek; and The Long Museum by power collector couple Liu Yiqian and his wife ... (Feb 16, 2014, Hong Kong Standard)

West Kowloon's M+ museum's design has versatility down to a 'T'

The Arts Pavilion, to be designed by a team of local architects, namely Vincent Pang, Tynnon Chow and Lisa Cheung, was expected to be ready next year for “Right Is Wrong”, a three-stage exhibition of Chinese contemporary art featuring the M+ Sigg ... (Feb 17, 2014, South China Morning Post)

Shanghai developer to build big in LA

"Founded in Shanghai 22 years ago, Greenland Group has since expanded to more than 80 cities across China and is known as a leading developer of high-quality, high-rise residential and commercial buildings and urban complexes," said Zhang Yuliang ... (Feb 17, 2014, Chinadaily USA)

For the Love of Art, and Money

The painting eventually sold to an undisclosed American buyer represented by Brett Gorvy, Christie's international head of postwar and contemporary art, for £42.2 million, or $70 million. The price was an auction record ... Asian clients, comprising ... (Feb 17, 2014, New York Times)

Local artist smashes $1M vase on exhibit at museum

Caminero, whose own works have been displayed over the years locally at Babacar M'Bow's Multitudes Contemporary Art Gallery in Little Haiti, Miami Dade College, JF Gallery in West Palm Beach and Giovanni Rossi Art Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, said he ... (Feb 18, 2014, MiamiHerald.com)

Ai Weiwei Vase Is Destroyed by Protester at Miami Museum

MIAMI — Officials at the recently inaugurated Pérez Art Museum Miami confirmed on Monday that a valuable vase by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei had been deliberately destroyed by a visitor in what appeared to be an act of protest. A ... (Feb 18, 2014, New York Times)

10 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Should Know

So why is it then, that most Western audiences would be hard pressed to identify the leaders in Chinese contemporary art -- at least, those who aren't Ai Weiwei or Cai Guo-Qiang? An upcoming show at the Tampa Museum of Art is trying its hand at ... (Feb 18, 2014, Huffington Post)

London art market buzzing after Christie's contemporary art sale

Who's the vandal: Ai Weiwei or the man who smashed his Han urn?

On Sunday, a man called Maximo Caminero has smashed an artwork by Ai Weiwei, one of the most famous artists of this century and a hero to many for his defiance of the Chinese state. Cue appalled face. But this is not such a simple story. Caminero's ... (Feb 18, 2014, The Guardian (blog))

Interview with Hassan Abdullah and Michel Lasserre

It can be from China, Argentina, it can be Art Deco, it can be contemporary, it doesn't really matter. It's about where we've been, who we've met. Price doesn't come into it either; it's more about the aesthetic of something rather than the value. And ... (Feb 18, 2014, Christie's)

UPDATE 1-Banksy work 'Kissing Coppers' auctioned for $575000 in Miami

Art Wynwood, a contemporary art fair held a short walk away from Miami's fast-rising arts district, hosted more than 30,000 visitors over the long President's Day weekend, browsing works by popular street artists Shepard Fairey and Stinkfish, as well ... (Feb 19, 2014, Reuters)

Banksy work 'Kissing Coppers' auctioned for $575000 in Miami

Huqiu Road

After a three-year renovation led by architect David Chipperfield, the building opened as the Rockbund Art Museum in 2010, devoted to supporting contemporary Chinese art. Currently, the museum is displaying works by contemporary painter and sculptor ... (Feb 19, 2014, Global Times)

Banksy street art up for auction in Miami

A Mexican Showcase for Ambition

Museo Jumex, right, a contemporary art museum in Mexico City sponsored by the art patron Eugenio López Alonso, is next to the hourglass-shaped Museo Soumaya. Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times. MEXICO CITY — Churning and wired, this city is a ... (Feb 19, 2014, New York Times)

High art, high stakes

When asked why he was willing to spend huge sums to establish a private art museum in Shanghai, Chinese-Indonesian agribusiness entrepreneur and art collector Budi Tek (Yu Deyao) replied with a well-known saying of Confucius: Zhiqi bukewei erweizhi ... (Feb 20, 2014, Global Times)

Chinese Auction House Plans IPO

The auction division, Poly Auction, held its first sale in 2005, featuring only traditional Chinese paintings, but has since grown to sell Chinese antiques, contemporary art, stamps, coins and historical books among others. Poly Auction is the largest ... (Feb 20, 2014, Wall Street Journal)

Video: Ai Weiwei's “Million Dollar” Vase Smashed

That this illegal attack on art exposes the shallowness of the high end of contemporary art, where it's cool to smash Han antiquities or doodle on Goya prints? Ai Weiwei is courageous and eloquent but this incident and his response – for he has ... (Feb 20, 2014, China Digital Times)

Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27

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 21, 2014, New York Times)

Biennale backs wealthy sponsor despite Manus protests

The Biennale is Sydney's largest international contemporary art event, taking place across numerous venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of NSW and Cockatoo Island. In 2012, the ... Apart from Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, other ... (Feb 21, 2014, Herald Sun)

Fade to Black

Further contextualization – for me anyway – comes from the fact that contemporary art from China has finally been given a big exhibition at the Met, accompanied by thoughtful reviews and a catalogue, and heralded by street musicians. The show ... (Feb 21, 2014, Caixin Media)

MUSEUM MATTERS: Art arrest - Million-dollar pot protest

L ast Sunday afternoon, a man walked into the newly inaugurated Pérez Art Museum in Miami, picked up a pot from an installed work of 16 titled “colored vase” by the famous Chinese dissident artist Ai WeiWei, and smashed it to the ground as a mark of ... (Feb 21, 2014, Odessa American)

Investors in Poly Culture IPO should take note of its firepower

China's art market has soared to become the world's second-largest after the United States and most of the top 10 deals last year involved Chinese artists. Now its top auction house is doing a public share offering. But before jumping on to the Poly ... (Feb 21, 2014, South China Morning Post)

What happens when priceless art breaks at museums? A look inside the vase ...

What happens when priceless art breaks at museums? A look inside the vase ... (Feb 21, 2014, MiamiHerald.com)

Vase smashing incident sparks discussion among local artists

Another component of the exhibit features a series of three black-and-white photos of the artist, in protest mode, as he holds a Chinese vase and lets it smash to the ground. According to a report from Miami Police, Caminero picked up one of the vases ... (Feb 22, 2014, MiamiHerald.com)

A show of hands at Art Fair Philippines

The annual Art Fair Philippines is an outstanding exhibit that showcases the best in Philippine contemporary art. Open until today, Feb. 23, the fair is staged on two floors at The Link car park building ... The headpiece was a redo, having had its ... (Feb 22, 2014, Inquirer.net)

Modern Chinese art to get exposure at a major New York art fair

Chinese contemporary art will come under the spotlight of the American art market for the first time in a long while at a major art fair in New York. Organisers of The Armory Show said the US had a limited understanding of the Chinese contemporary art ... (Feb 22, 2014, South China Morning Post)

For London's Art 14, Arthouse Flaunts Five Nigerian Artists

There is also the fact that this will be an opportunity for collectors, curators, buyers and visitors to enjoy and acquire modern and contemporary art from regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In addition, two specially selected sections ... (Feb 23, 2014, THISDAY Live)

Contested Space: Banksy's 'Kissing Coppers' from Prince Albert Pub Fetches ...

Contested Space: Banksy's 'Kissing Coppers' from Prince Albert Pub Fetches ... (Feb 23, 2014, Classicalite)

The Visbile Vault celebrates the art of telling stories

Peterson said contemporary art is informed by the past. So the trove of historic works, ... For example, during the Chinese New Year, works showcasing horses were added to the exhibit because 2014 is the year of the horse. Most of the works that will ... (Feb 24, 2014, Billings Gazette)

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