In a world of new Silk Roads, we need new Marco Polos
For the 50th anniversary of the establishment of French-Chinese diplomatic ties, there has been a major exhibition of Chinese contemporary art in Paris. At this exhibition, I am very impressed to see the presence of cultural and ethnic minorities and ...
(Jun 26, 2014, gulfnews.com)
Colombia's Art Scene Heats Up
Currently, at least 30 wealthy Colombian families are amassing notable collections of contemporary art, up from only five a decade ago, says local dealer Beatriz López. "Once the foreign curators started coming, people here started paying attention ...
(Jun 26, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
China's wealthy building new museums to display the country's treasures
Another collector at Art14 was Wang Wei, who, with her billionaire financier husband, Liu Yiqian, has amassed one of China's largest private collections, ranging from antiquities to contemporary art. Liu, born to a working-class family in Shanghai ...
(Jun 26, 2014, Financial Times)
Interview with Winnie Wong, author of Van Gogh on Demand
Her book, Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade is about the town of Dafen, which has been portrayed by Chinese and Western media as the epicenter of "fake art" in China. Van Gogh on Demand offers a surprising portrait of Dafen ... communities ...
(Jun 27, 2014, Shanghaiist)
Photography Friday: Interview with Lise Li, director of the Vanguard Gallery ...
Photography Friday: Interview with Lise Li, director of the Vanguard Gallery ...
(Jun 27, 2014, Shanghaiist)
'The Los Angeles Project' Brings Local Art to Beijing
West meets east as LA artists prepare to take China by storm. ... LA-based artist Alex Israel's Self-portraits at Isbrytaren, 2013, produced by Carl Kostyál, is representative of the work Israel will show at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art ...
(Jun 27, 2014, Los Angeles Confidential)
Andy Warhol's steady influence on contemporary art
In recent years some licensing agreement highlights include arrangements with Hysteric Glamour, Levi's, Paul Frank and Uniqlo for apparel; Burton for snowboards and apparel; Philip Treacy for hats; Rosenthal for china and glassware; S.T. Dupont for ...
(Jun 27, 2014, Business Mirror)
The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg Co-Hosts "My Generation: Young ...
The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg Co-Hosts "My Generation: Young ...
(Jun 27, 2014, WTSP 10 News)
Sotheby's sues art sale glamour girl for £3m after client fails to pay
She opened her own gallery in St James's, London, in 2005, specialising in Chinese contemporary art but had a “meltdown” in 2009 when prices fell. “I prefer to concentrate on doing deals,” she said of her decision to move out of the gallery business ...
(Jun 27, 2014, Telegraph.co.uk)
What can art tell us about the economy?
Auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's are selling impressionist and modern art one week, post-war and contemporary art the next. But no matter what era ... "When China wants to spend some serious money, they have it," says Crow. "And they ...
(Jun 27, 2014, Marketplace.org)
How to paint van Gogh's 'Sunflowers,' in 20 steps
She documented his instructions in a new book, “Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade,” which looks at the recent interest of the contemporary art world in Dafen's strange trade. A standard-size 20-x-24-inch painting can be completed by the ...
(Jun 27, 2014, Boston Globe)
A "twofold solo" that brings Chinese and international New Media Art into ...
A "twofold solo" that brings Chinese and international New Media Art into ...
(Jun 28, 2014, ArtSlant)
Sotheby's Sues Olyvia Kwok Over Unpaid-for Artworks
Kwok successfully bid £2.49m for Water-Worshipper by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and £386,500 for Idilli by Cy Twombly, at the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in Februrary. At the time, Kwok described the Basquiat purchase as “a bargain,” adding: “I believe ...
(Jun 28, 2014, Artinfo UK)
Barter is Back
Not for Russian artist Sergey Balovin, who in the last year has travelled to 33 countries, including Kazakhstan, China, Singapore, India, Italy and France, without any cash. And all of it through his project, In Kind Exchange, where he barters his art ...
(Jun 29, 2014, Daily News & Analysis)
Fiftieth anniversary of Civil Rights Act is a milestone
... Beirut Martyr's Square; Stratford Market Square, and the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art. The design firm recently won international competitions for a planning exhibition hall in Changzhi, China and for the revitalization of Copley Square in ...
(Jun 29, 2014, MiamiHerald.com)
GableStage to close out its season with Terrence McNally's 'Mothers and Sons'
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University has announced a new series of major international exhibitions titled 3 Giants of Chinese Contemporary Art, which opens this month and runs through May 2015. The works of three ...
(Jun 29, 2014, MiamiHerald.com)
Governor Helps Clark Art Open its Doors
The new Clark Center will allow the Clark to expand its scholarly programming and continue a commitment to contemporary art that began with 2008's opening of the Stone Hill Center, rechristened the Lunder Center at Stone Hill this weekend. And the 1955 ...
(Jun 30, 2014, iBerkshires.com)
What's on in Edinburgh this week
Continuing: GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Venues include the Scottish Gallery .... Children's Flower Painting and Face Painting: come and learn about Chinese flower painting and get your face painted too! Free, all ages welcome, ...
(Jun 30, 2014, The Edinburgh Reporter)
Around the Art World in Six Minutes
Forbes took a tour of the pad, coming across countless works by Ai—including his Zodiac Heads—as well as pieces by other Chinese contemporary artists including Huang Yong Ping and Chen Yu. “Weiwei has a number of serious collectors now—that's a ...
(Jun 30, 2014, artnet News)
Buy, Sell, Hold: Andy Warhol
Christie's is offering one 40″ × 40″ version in red and yellow on July 1, which is estimated to sell for £6–9 million (roughly $10–15 million), while Phillips is offering a 22″ × 22″ iteration in purple, which will be in the contemporary art ...
(Jun 30, 2014, artnet News)
MAD Man: Glenn Adamson on Making New York City's First Craft Biennial
During an exchange year at Harvard, Adamson took a course with Robert D. Mowrey on Chinese ceramics. When the professor passed a Tang dynasty bowl from the 10th century around the room, Adamson was enthralled: “You could sort of feel the maker's ...
(Jun 30, 2014, Artinfo UK)
Sotheby's Sues Olyvia Kwok Over Unpaid-For Basquiat and Twombly Works
Kwok successfully bid £2.49 million for “Water-Worshipper” by Jean-Michel Basquiat and £386,500 for “Idilli” by Cy Twombly at the Contemporary Art Evening Auction back in February. At the time, Kwok described the Basquiat purchase as “a bargain ...
(Jun 30, 2014, In the Air, Art+Auction's Gossip Column (blog))
Huang Yong Ping Tapped for Monumenta 2016
Fresh off the heels of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's appropriately monumental commission The Strange City for Monumenta 2014, French culture minister Aurélie Filippetti announced the selection of China-born, Paris-based artist Huang Yong Ping for ...
(Jun 30, 2014, artnet News)
Russian street art, Hong Kong's bodybuilders and observing Ramadan | June 30
This picture taken on June 28, 2014 shows a butterfly on a tourist's face in the “butterfly valley” in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province. The butterfly valley, with a collection of some 400 butterflies ... This year will mark the 20th ...
(Jun 30, 2014, Baltimore Sun)
Bacon's Lover Leads Sotheby's $159.3 Million London Sale
Sotheby's (BID) sold 93.1 million pounds ($159.3 million) of contemporary art in London yesterday as wealthy buyers around the globe chased trophy works by postwar and contemporary artists. The tally exceeded the high estimate of 89.7 million pounds ...
(Jul 1, 2014, Bloomberg)
Tim Johnson: Eye to eye exhibition opens new Nancy Sever Gallery
Against the shimmering background of Aboriginal dot painting, Johnson suspends his personal iconography with borrowings from Buddhist, Tibetan, Japanese and Chinese art, and what he terms "Ufology" with strange ET-like aliens which punctuate his ...
(Jul 1, 2014, Sydney Morning Herald)
How Soon Is Now? A Precarious Environment Roots in Art
Included are Yao Lu's photographs, which give Chinese mounds of construction rubble and landfills draped in protective netting a harrowing, Song dynasty–style beauty. “Champs d'Ozone,” by Paris-based ... He adds that “there has been a growing tendency ...
(Jul 1, 2014, Hyperallergic)
Artists investigate their Chinese-Indigenous Australian mixed heritage
Yiban Yiban – Yellah Fellah opened on a sweltering summer afternoon at Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province in southern China. While the contemporary art scene in Guangzhou is less pronounced than ...
(Jul 1, 2014, The Guardian (blog))
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