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Contemporary Chinese Art News 04/2014 (Page 2)



Brendan Tang: the collision of high and low art in Manga Ormolu
We saw that in the 80s, 90s and early oughts when ceramics was not part of the contemporary art discourse. I think that's partially ... It was derivative from looking at the original ormolu which was this gold filigree on top of Chinese vases. They ...

Cleveland Arts listings for April 11-17: "Van Gogh Repetitions" at Cleveland ...
Cleveland Arts listings for April 11-17: "Van Gogh Repetitions" at Cleveland ...

Houston family of four sold their Heights home to create this artful abode in ...
Houston family of four sold their Heights home to create this artful abode in ...

Worcester Art Museum's show of armor shines, surprises
Photos: Ultimate warriors at WAM; 3/29: Higgins collection finds home in WAM galleries; WAM hires Higgins Armory curator; 2/31/13: Closing time at Worcester's showplace of armor; 1/11/14: Worcester's 'You Are Here' captivates with contemporary art ...

Downtown LA Goes From Gritty to Glitzy
And in 2003, after years of false starts, the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall opened on Grand Avenue, crystallizing downtown's revitalization by giving the area its first major landmark alongside monumental buildings like the Museum of ...

East meets West in MECA art education connection
"It's a Chinese contemporary art exhibit in the context of 5,000 years of history. What's happening in China right now — there's so much interesting discussion about art theory. It's so wonderful to be connecting MECA with this discussion, on an ...

Komagata Maru exhibit recalls ship that was turned away
Attending high school in East Vancouver, Naveen Girn recalls only a single week dedicated to some of the great shames of this region: the Chinese head tax, Japanese-Canadian internment, and the Komagata Maru. When he later learned more about the ... At ...

Stanley Chow's 'simple geometric shapes and sweeping curves'
"The eventual illustration was given the thumbs up, but it messed with my head a little having to do that portrait." Now his achievement is being recognised with an exhibition at Manchester's Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art. He says he is delighted ...

Mixed media artist reflects Chinese traditions
Huang views his current solo exhibition at the National Museum of China, The Phenomenology of Life: Chapters in a Course of Study, as a work report of his craftsmanship in the past eight years, as well as his thoughts from an artistic career spanning ...

New York gentrification: Stories from the East Side
A few doors along, a very different crowd is gathering outside the New Museum, one of the city's edgiest contemporary art galleries, to get a taste of its latest show. This group look as sharp as the ... Lower East Side Workers' Centre. There is a ...

Arts funding debate ponders colour of money from corporate sponsors
The second was a smaller but equally passionate protest by anti-fracking activists Generation Alpha who targeted coal-seam gas company Santos's sponsorship of a major show by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang at Queensland's Gallery of Modern Art. That ...

Wang Gongxin: Beauty in the everyday
He has been credited as one of the catalysing forces in the Chinese video art movement - which has since produced artists such as award-winning filmmaker and photographer Yang Fudong, photographer and video artist Wang Qingsong and young video artist ...

What's on this weekend in Toronto
Enjoy a Chinese cultural celebration with live music and dance performances, shopping, dining and more. Activities include interactive workshops aimed to bring China's rich history to life and kids crafts ranging from making your own Chinese lantern or ...

The art world we deserve?
Unlike the traditional art of representation, which sought to manifest the power and influence of the Church, the aristocracy and the haute bourgeoisie as beautiful, good and true, today's art world stands for the complex referential system of ...

Throwing down the gauntlet
None of the artists featured in My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia has been curated into the Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland's flagship showcase for contemporary art. ... The Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium ...

The Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Greater China Curatorial Residency ...
The Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Greater China Curatorial Residency ...

Architectural delights in Sydney's centre
At the back of the park, White Rabbit Gallery hosts a private collection of contemporary Chinese art. Collections rotate every three months and admission is free. From here, walk along Balfour St to see some of the country's best examples of 1920s ...

Architectural delights in Sydney's centre
At the back of the park, White Rabbit Gallery hosts a private collection of contemporary Chinese art. Collections rotate every three months and admission is free. From here, walk along Balfour St to see some of the country's best examples of 1920s ...

Scripps College Presents Annual “Senior Art Show,” Showcasing Original Art by ...
Scripps College Presents Annual “Senior Art Show,” Showcasing Original Art by ...

Scripps College Presents Annual "Senior Art Show," Showcasing Original Art by ...
Scripps College Presents Annual "Senior Art Show," Showcasing Original Art by ...

China Arte Brazil curated by Ma Lin, Tereza De Arruda
Because contemporary Chinese art is only 30 years old, the three themes discussed in this article, “art intervenes in society,” “history, memory, and the future,” and “image and form” are continuing to develop. ChinaArteBrazil exhibition is a positive ...

-- Merging the Asia Pacific and North American markets in order to accelerate ...
-- Merging the Asia Pacific and North American markets in order to accelerate ...

Strong signals
In the end the final auction price wiped any doubts from people's minds as to the worth of Chinese contemporary art. "Zhang's works have been viewed as demonstrating the performance of the overall contemporary Chinese art industry over the past 10 ...

Forget Sydney Harbour, take a walking tour around Central and Broadway and ...
Forget Sydney Harbour, take a walking tour around Central and Broadway and ...

Art of cultural diplomacy opens doors
The interest in contemporary art and art in our region is fostered by organisations such as the Australia China Art Foundation dedicated to the promotion of Australian and Chinese contemporary art and the integration of art and the community. It is ...

China and USA to create global marketplace for online trade of artworks
These figures also show that there is a clear distinction between interests in Chinese art both in China and overseas; in international markets, modern and contemporary Chinese art accounts for 15% of the total turnover and thus provides further ...

Invaluable Joins Forces with China's EpaiLive, Bringing Together the Two ...
Invaluable Joins Forces with China's EpaiLive, Bringing Together the Two ...

Invaluable Joins Forces with China's EpaiLive, Bringing Together the Two ...
Invaluable Joins Forces with China's EpaiLive, Bringing Together the Two ...

Award-winning fiction writer Yiyun Li to read at Hallwalls tonight
Chinese-American fiction writer Yiyun Li will read from her much-praised new novel "Kinder Than Solititude" (Random House) tonight at 7 p.m. at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 341 Delaware Avenue ( at Tupper Street) as sponsored by Talking Leaves ...

UK's Curator Beccy Kennedy to Give Talk at NCKU
She is also a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and has written scholarly articles for Third Text and Open Arts Journal. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book: Triennial City: Localising Asian Art, publish in ...

Art Monaco'14 - fifth anniversary - special edition
Art Monaco fulfills its goal by proudly presenting a new international exhibition with the participation of galleries coming from countries such as Germany, Armenia, Austria, Columbia, China, Poland, United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Monaco, Russia ...

Is 'cutting-edge' art the new 'boring'?
No surprise it's been employed so long, especially when contemporary art such as the Chapman brothers' girl mannequins with penis-noses beggars civil conversation and leaves one speechless with disgust. But the Chapmans' work can always be explained ...

FitzGerald Fine Arts' Contemporary Asian Ceramics Excite Collectors at TEFAF ...
FitzGerald Fine Arts' Contemporary Asian Ceramics Excite Collectors at TEFAF ...

FitzGerald Fine Arts' Contemporary Asian Ceramics Excite Collectors at TEFAF ...
FitzGerald Fine Arts' Contemporary Asian Ceramics Excite Collectors at TEFAF ...

Women of Chinese modernity at ShanghART
The film is inspired by Shanghai's decadent, almost hedonistic society during the 1920s and 1930s — a period which continues to influence contemporary Chinese art. Fudong's film explores the role of women in China's modernist development over the ...

Wealthy investors flock to fine art funds
Art investing is attractive to the Chinese due to limited investment options in the country. Plus, it promises big gains -- China's contemporary art market has gained roughly 15% each year in the last decade, while stocks have been largely flat, said ...

MUSEUM MATTERS Cultural institutions: A strategic industry
The Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Datong Art Gallery, Shanghai Natural History Museum and the National Museum of China are all massive undertakings in terms of size, scope and collections involving ...

Wealthy investors flock to fine art funds
Art investing is attractive to the Chinese due to limited investment options in the country. Plus, it promises big gains -- China's contemporary art market has gained roughly 15 percent each year in the last decade, while stocks have been largely flat ...

Wealthy investors flock to fine art funds
Art investing is attractive to the Chinese due to limited investment options in the country. Plus, it promises big gains -- China's contemporary art market has gained roughly 15 percent each year in the last decade, while stocks have been largely flat ...

Wealthy investors flock to fine art funds
Art investing is attractive to the Chinese due to limited investment options in the country. Plus, it promises big gains -- China's contemporary art market has gained roughly 15 percent each year in the last decade, while stocks have been largely flat ...

Wealthy investors flock to fine art funds
Art investing is attractive to the Chinese due to limited investment options in the country. Plus, it promises big gains -- China's contemporary art market has gained roughly 15 percent each year in the last decade, while stocks have been largely flat ...

Firm rolls out Boston map for Chinese tourists
In the index of top sights, the map makers purposely listed Boston landmarks that many Chinese people know, such as the library or Harvard, next to less familiar attractions, like the Institute of Contemporary Art. The map includes several directional ...

Hong Kong art: a new creative star rises in the east
While WKCD's first phase will be completed in 2015, it will be two more years before the launch of the dazzling contemporary art museum M+, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The museum has already received enough headline-grabbing donations (including ...

LOCAL BRIEFS
The Academy's artsVoyage program engages more than 200 third-graders in the animals, culture and indigenous art of Australia, Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty, a study of plants and seeds using 17th-century botanical drawings and contemporary art ...

Activist artist makes tempest on a teapot
“I became very attracted to these teapots from China,” particularly the Yixing teapots. “They were small-scale, .... “There's so much high-quality contemporary art in Helena, it would be nice to have it reflected at the airport,” Notkin said. And ...

International Arts|Can an Economist's Theory Apply to Art?
Last year, worldwide auction sales of postwar and contemporary art climbed to a historic peak of 4.9 billion euros, or $6.8 billion, a massive increase over the €1.42 billion in auction sales in 2009, according to the 2014 Art Market Report published ...

Beyond PG-13: Theaters divided on applying movie-style ratings on productions
Sex and nudity are generally the red flags, but when the Museum of Contemporary Art presented the Elevator Repair Service's “Arguendo” recently (a show based on a Supreme Court case dealing with nudity by “exotic dancers” in an Indiana bar), there was ...

Artist brings the homeless to 976 Gallery with “Existent and Nonexistent”
E.Lkhagvadorj was a recipient of a grant from the project “Promoting Democracy through Art”, by the Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association and the US State Department in 2013. He was also awarded with the Grand Prix from the Korean-Mongolian ...

Daniel Loeb keeps up pressure on Sotheby's
Loeb is a trustee of Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art and contributes to other nonprofit organizations. ALSO: Daniel Loeb of Third Point calls for Sotheby's CEO ouster · Sotheby's embarks on joint venture to auction art in China · Christie's ...

Warhol's Riots to Calder's Flying Fish Fuel $500 Million Auction
Major works by Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko are set to fuel Christie's auction of postwar and contemporary art in New York next month with a target of $500 million. ... “Fish is a symbol of good health and good fortune, of prosperity in ...



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