Where to See Art Outside Art Basel Hong Kong
Eschewing contemporary art, de Sarthe Gallery is focusing on the first wave of 20th-century Chinese artists who lived and worked in Paris. The group includes Lin Fengmian, Sanyu and Wu Guanzhong, three artists whose works have risen exponentially in ...
(May 12, 2014, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Christie's Record-Setting Auction Is A Win Against Sotheby's
Murphy was also betting on the personal brand of Loic Gouzer, the company's charismatic contemporary art expert who seems to get as much press for his good looks as his good eye. The Geneva-born Gouzer, 33, handpicked each of the 36 pieces ...
(May 13, 2014, Businessweek)
Fast forward: how China's art world is changing
Colin Chinnery, the artistic director of Wuhan Art Terminus, a contemporary art centre being developed in the capital of Hubei province, defends the artists. “I always thought it was a little unfair to judge them for jumping from gallery to gallery ...
(May 14, 2014, Art Newspaper)
In the footsteps of Big Hans
The title of the exhibition, “5,000 Names”, is born of a mystery. It alludes to the unfinished project of Hans van Dijk, a Dutchman who arrived at Nanjing University in 1986 to study Chinese, and went on to become a key figure in contemporary art in ...
(May 14, 2014, Art Newspaper)
The man making M+ add up to somewhere special
At that time Guan Yi gave 37 works of contemporary Chinese art, including all the works from “Canton Express”, the exhibition at the 2003 Venice Biennale. M+ also has a substantial acquisition budget earmarked by the Hong Kong government of around ...
(May 14, 2014, Art Newspaper)
The collector with a cool head for the art of China
A new film about Uli Sigg pulls no punches about the Swiss collector's detachment from much of the vast collection of Modern and contemporary Chinese art he donated and sold in 2012 to Hong Kong's M+ museum. In a frank interview, Sigg presents himself ...
(May 14, 2014, Art Newspaper)
The man who knew everyone in the Chinese contemporary art world
The title of the exhibition, “5,000 Names”, is born of a mystery. It alludes to the unfinished project of Hans van Dijk, a Dutchman who arrived at Nanjing University in 1986 to study Chinese, and went on to become a key figure in contemporary art in ...
(May 14, 2014, Art Newspaper)
Christie's $745 Million Contemporary Art Sale is Most Expensive Single Auction ...
Christie's $745 Million Contemporary Art Sale is Most Expensive Single Auction ...
(May 14, 2014, GalleristNY)
Tianhua to Transform 97-Year-Old Chinese Textile Mill into Art Gallery
Planned for a site in the Hexi district of Tianjin, the Shanghai-based practice will soon transform a 1917 textile mill into a contemporary art gallery and private museum. The architects, who have adapted their design to emphasize the gridded layout ...
(May 15, 2014, ArchDaily)
Contemporary art shows running alongside Art Basel
A good example is the Hong Kong Contemporary art fair, which makes a particular point of promoting the concept of cultural exchange between countries and providing a platform for up-and-coming local artists. Now in its third year, the fair will run ...
(May 15, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Local galleries set to shine at Art Basel Hong Kong
New pioneers of contemporary art from China such as Lin Jingjing, Wang Guofeng, Zhou Wendou and Zhao Jinhe are also highlighted at the art fair, continuing the narrative of modernisation in Chinese art. Diverging from historical precedents, these ...
(May 15, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Director Philip Tinari bridges physical divide through words
He was an academic consultant to the Chinese contemporary art department at Sotheby's where he drafted the catalogue for the house's first New York sale of contemporary Chinese art in 2006. When asked how beneficial these talks are to the public and ...
(May 15, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Conversations and Salon series added to Art Basel Hong Kong
The 2pm session "Art History: Hans van Dijk: Dialogues in the Development of Contemporary Art in China" discusses the immense work of Hans van Dijk, who almost single-handedly wrote the book on modern Chinese art and its artists and developed a show ...
(May 15, 2014, South China Morning Post)
What Else to See During Art Basel Hong Kong
Eschewing contemporary art, de Sarthe Gallery is focusing on the first wave of 20th-century Chinese artists who lived and worked in Paris. The group includes Lin Fengmian, Sanyu and Wu Guanzhong, three artists whose works have risen exponentially in ...
(May 15, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
East Meets West at Hong Kong Art Fair, but Who Is Buying?
Mr. Cheng is planning a show of contemporary Chinese art at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and has even more ambitious plans for an “ecosystem” of artists' villages and “lifestyle art malls” bearing his K11 brand across China. “Art Basel is a great ...
(May 15, 2014, New York Times)
Greyson Perry's Walthamstow Tapestry acquired by prestigious Chinese gallery
Even two years ago, the contemporary art market, according to the report, saw Chinese buyers concentrate on works by their countrymen. Yet it said at the time that the auction houses were “preparing the ground to open the Chinese market to European and ...
(May 15, 2014, The Independent)
Grayson Perry's Walthamstow Tapestry acquired by prestigious Chinese gallery
Even two years ago, the contemporary art market, according to the report, saw Chinese buyers concentrate on works by their countrymen. Yet it said at the time that the auction houses were “preparing the ground to open the Chinese market to European and ...
(May 15, 2014, The Independent)
Second acts can be tough in China's second-tier cities
Lu has taken the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and Dia:Beacon in New York state as the models for the Sifang Art Museum.“The way we approach art is very different in Sifang Art Museum,” he says. “For example, Movement Field [2013], ...
(May 17, 2014, Art Newspaper)
Hong Kong grows ever closer to China's mega-city
She says: “The political climate is different. Hong Kong artists are more likely to focus on their everyday lives and find Hong Kong's identity through their practices. In recent years China's own contemporary art has been looking for its place in the ...
(May 17, 2014, Art Newspaper)
Tradition mission, redefined
"Advance through retreat" is a military strategy first proposed by Sun Tze in his Art of War in the 6th century BC. Curator Martina Koeppel-Yang has borrowed the idea for an exhibition of contemporary art in Shanghai. China's traditional ink-and-wash ...
(May 18, 2014, Chinadaily USA)
United Nations Hosts Exhibit of Contemporary Chinese Farmers' Art
Chinese Farmers' Art, the genre that is gaining in popularity among folk artists of rural China, will be on view at the United Nations headquarters in New York City for three days, May 21- 23. The exhibition will be followed by a benefit auction at ...
(May 19, 2014, ArtfixDaily)
African art: a good investment?
British colonies were mainly in the east and south, where the contemporary art scene is less developed – and where historically there was less of a tradition of tribal art, masks and figures. African tribal antiques can command huge prices, but you can ...
(May 20, 2014, Telegraph.co.uk)
The Art World Lands in Hong Kong: Art Basel Has Gained a Foothold in China
Those dealers left New York just before art market history was made: On Tuesday night, Christie's Rockefeller Center salesroom set a record for the most expensive contemporary art auction ever, $745 million, citing aggressive buying from Asia. Would ...
(May 21, 2014, GalleristNY)
Dollar signs on a canvas
On the opening night in the lush gardens of the Musee Theodore Monod, a cream-coloured art deco building downtown, young artists with oversized black-rimmed glasses were mingling with curators and buyers from Africa as well as Europe, China and the ...
(May 21, 2014, The Economist (blog))
There's a lot more to our neighbour Shenzhen than cheap suits and massages
... by Western art. Not all of the good art is found inside the OCAT though. Zai Gallery at Shekou Bay, which specialises in contemporary Chinese art, has a minimalist decor intersected by white brick walls that wouldn't seem out of place in New York ...
(May 21, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Executive Director Todd Smith resigns at Tampa Museum of Art
Previously he was with Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C.. On June 7, TMA will open “My Generation: Young Chinese Artists,” an exhibition Smith initiated. It will be the largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art ever presented in the ...
(May 21, 2014, Tampa Bay Business Journal)
Talking 'bout My Generation — two museums, an array of Chinese contemporary ...
Talking 'bout My Generation — two museums, an array of Chinese contemporary ...
(May 22, 2014, Creative Loafing Tampa)
Contemporary art in China
MANY Chinese museums open with a fine first exhibition, but are soon as empty as swimming pools without water. Museum founders are good at what they do, so good that for the past few years a new museum has opened every day in China. But keeping ...
(May 22, 2014, The Economist)
Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names
His myriad contributions include the seminal 1993 exhibition China Avant-Garde, the first major show of Chinese contemporary art in Europe; the New Amsterdam Art Consultancy (NAAC), which connected Chinese artists with collectors and curators abroad; ...
(May 24, 2014, E-Flux)
This Week
AT LEAST A HUNDRED and thirty-eight languages are spoken in Queens, and the Queens Museum reflects the borough's mosaic. It has organized shows on the diasporas of Cuba and South Asia, and it exhibited contemporary Chinese art before it was ...
(May 26, 2014, New Yorker)
Booking Open for The Floating Cinema 2014 – 12 Jun to 21 Sept
... with three leading international film festivals and cultures organizations Ambulante Documentary Film Festival (Mexico), Centre For Contemporary Chinese Art (Manchester, UK) and Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech ...
(May 26, 2014, Cult Hub Magazine)
Contemporary Chinese Art in a global context: Interview with Philip Tinari ...
Contemporary Chinese Art in a global context: Interview with Philip Tinari ...
(May 28, 2014, AMA)
Song Dynasty Dish Leads Christie's $391 Million Auctions
The New York-based auction house said it will be holding a sale of modern and contemporary Chinese art in Beijing on June 1 with an estimate of about 85 million yuan ($13.6 million). To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Frederik Balfour in ...
(May 28, 2014, Bloomberg)
A bright future for China's art market: Interview with Hadrien de Montferrand
Seven years ago — having gained extensive experience of the art market throughout his career — Hadrien de Montferrand, former Marketing Director with Artcurial, moved to China. In 2009 he founded his first gallery in the city, the first in China to ...
(May 29, 2014, AMA)
Fred Maroon's Fashion Photography in the Most Unlikely Places
I was quite excited to be a part of it and represent some of the top names in contemporary Chinese art and Southeast Asian art. What is your goal with the new gallery? What will be the gallery's specialty? I started Artist's Proof as a space to host ...
(May 29, 2014, Washington City Paper (blog))
A history of 5000 Chinese artists
Beijing's Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art is currently presenting “Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names”, the first in a series of two exhibitions to examine the life of Dutch-born, Beijing-based curator, scholar, and dealer Hans van Dijk (1946-2002). The ...
(May 29, 2014, AMA)
Sotheby's eyes young Chinese collectors
At a media preview, Evelyn Lin, head of contemporary Asian art at Sotheby's, told reporters that contemporary art is becoming more and more popular among young Chinese collectors. "There is great potential as contemporary art is more affordable for ...
(May 30, 2014, GlobalPost)
'Reformation' at Sydney's White Rabbit Gallery
Stand back and the Chinese artist Zhou Zixi's Dawn – Light Fog (2009) appears to be a monochromatic, minimalist work. But draw closer to his painting at Sydney's White Rabbit Gallery and you'll discern the faint ranks of armoured tanks and students in ...
(May 30, 2014, The Monthly (subscription))
China Inst. marks 88th with gala
The exhibit, Inspired by Dunhuang: Re-creation in Contemporary Chinese Art, opened in December and runs through June. The paintings to be auctioned are by Chinese artists Emily Cheng and Yu Hong. Hai said that the China Institute Gallery is one of the ...
(May 30, 2014, Chinadaily USA)
Investing in European masters means more bang for your buck
South Asians are indeed the predominant buyers of South Asian art.... as are the Chinese for Chinese heritage and contemporary art...or Australians for Aboriginal art.” But purchasing European masters is another story because these do have universal ...
(May 30, 2014, South China Morning Post (blog))
China Inst. marks 88th with gala
The exhibit, Inspired by Dunhuang: Re-creation in Contemporary Chinese Art, opened in December and runs through June. The paintings to be auctioned are by Chinese artists Emily Cheng and Yu Hong. Hai said that the China Institute Gallery is one of the ...
(May 30, 2014, Chinadaily USA)
Sotheby's eyes young Chinese collectors
At a media preview, Evelyn Lin, head of contemporary Asian art at Sotheby's, told reporters that contemporary art is becoming more and more popular among young Chinese collectors. "There is great potential as contemporary art is more affordable for ...
(Jun 1, 2014, WantChinaTimes)
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