Healing Waters: Film premiering at MCASD conveys reverence, respect for ...
Healing Waters: Film premiering at MCASD conveys reverence, respect for ...
(Jul 9, 2014, La Jolla Light)
Liverpool Biennial 2014
Anyone irritated by the pretensions of the contemporary art scene will find their suspicions amply confirmed in the first room, where a solar-powered fridge spills water on to the floor. This is the work of someone called Norma Jeane who, the wall ...
(Jul 9, 2014, Times Higher Education)
Artistic dialogue
The use of many familiar faces in Chinese and Western contemporary art reminds viewers of the impact foreign colonialism had on Chinese art history and the borrowed nature of Chinese contemporary art. Italian artist Pistoletto's Fracta is an ...
(Jul 10, 2014, ecns)
Bruce Iverson on view at Just Us Chickens
He has traveled to China for a deeper understanding of the context of brush painting and calligraphy and his work is grounded in a 3,000-year-old tradition in which the tools, techniques and philosophy of this Asian art form have had a lifelong ...
(Jul 10, 2014, Seacoastonline.com)
Vietnamese galleries penetrate int'l art markets
The fairs draw artists from all continents, which shows that the world's contemporary art flow is changing rapidly. However, changes in Vietnamese art remains limited considering both topic matter and materials,” said Hang of Hanoi Studio. According to ...
(Jul 10, 2014, Tuoitrenews)
Exposing the art world's moneyed secrets
Throughout the course of the film the Lamour sisters and Granet, all in their late 60s, travel from one art fair to another, each in its time — Basel in the spring, the Venice Biennale in May, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris in ...
(Jul 10, 2014, Haaretz)
ICAPE's First Sino-US Culture and Art Exchange Exhibition Brings Noted ...
ICAPE's First Sino-US Culture and Art Exchange Exhibition Brings Noted ...
(Jul 10, 2014, Business Wire (press release))
Sundaram Tagore | Exploring culture through art
Everyone is interested in contemporary art today. If you are educated, if you are well-heeled, you are interested in contemporary art—whether it is the West or the East. In that context, you can create an audience—whether they are a knowledgeable ...
(Jul 10, 2014, Livemint)
Art will challenge viewers' senses
They include the Bay Area Art Workers Alliance - professional art preparators who create ephemeral works with crumpled plaster, tape and other humble materials from their museum day jobs - and n/a, the Oakland exhibition space that, as it puts it ...
(Jul 10, 2014, San Francisco Chronicle)
Museum & Gallery Listings for July 11-17
(Ken Johnson). ☆ Brooklyn Museum: 'Ai Weiwei: According to What?' (through Aug. 10) On the last stop of its tour, this 2012 survey of the courageous Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei is much improved by the addition of two new installation pieces ...
(Jul 10, 2014, New York Times)
Become the art at Del. Art Musem's new performance art exhibit
"Certainly the audience can become an active participant in some of the performance art pieces," said Margaret Winslow, associate curator of contemporary art at the Delaware Art Museum. Click here to listen. You'll also get your exercise! "Our visitors ...
(Jul 10, 2014, WDEL 1150AM)
Horses and dragons kick off art show
In Chinese his surname name — Ma — means horse. He's always had a thing for horses. And it is the year of the horse. So what better way to kick off a series of major international exhibitions 3 Giants of Chinese Contemporary Art in Miami this ...
(Jul 11, 2014, Chinadaily USA)
Made in St. Louis: Celebrated designer creates wearable fiber art
I was born in Beihai, China. Since the age of 7, art has been the central theme of my life. I began my creative career with drawing and painting, which soon led to fashion and interior design. My interests took me to Paris, where I studied contemporary ...
(Jul 11, 2014, STLtoday.com)
The Ai Weiwei Museum Of All Of Our Dreams Is Coming
It's a famous story in Christopher Tsai's family, of his grandfather, who had flown in for a visit in the mid-1960s, demanding an explanation for “that thing on the ceiling.” The “thing,” dangling from the Tsai family home in Connecticut, was a mobile ...
(Jul 11, 2014, Huffington Post)
Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Appoints Iria Candela and ...
Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Appoints Iria Candela and ...
(Jul 11, 2014, Broadway World)
Home News Local Guelph's public art: Touch it, climb it, hug it –...
Home News Local Guelph's public art: Touch it, climb it, hug it –...
(Jul 12, 2014, Orangeville Banner)
New analysis of the Detroit Institute of Arts responds to creditors and unions
Plummer further explains that of the four sectors constituting 98 percent of the value of the fine art market, European Modern Art, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art, European Old Master Paintings and Post-War and Contemporary Art, three have ...
(Jul 12, 2014, World Socialist Web Site)
Artist Wilson Shieh brushes up on political activism
Wilson Shieh Ka-ho is an unlikely political activist. The artist made his name in the late 1990s with highly stylised, often erotic images in the traditional Chinese gongbi, or fine brush, technique. These were thought to be thoroughly original - and ...
(Jul 12, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Private view
Contemporary Chinese art is often cleverly calibrated for a western market, and it can fetch millions. But is this calculation part of its mastery? by Ben Lewis / June 29, 2008 / Leave a comment. Published in June 2008 issue of Prospect Magazine ...
(Jul 12, 2014, Prospect)
Private view
Just as today there is a huge interest in the artists coming out of the “new” geographical territories of contemporary art—China, India, the middle east—so, three and a half centuries ago, there was huge curiosity about the exotic plants that were ...
(Jul 13, 2014, Prospect)
Art will challenge viewers' senses
They include the Bay Area Art Workers Alliance - professional art preparators who create ephemeral works with crumpled plaster, tape and other humble materials from their museum day jobs - and n/a, the Oakland exhibition space that, as it puts it ...
(Jul 13, 2014, SFGate)
Chiru in awe of Sachin
And so she set out to the city centre of Shanghai and even though she is accustomed to the fancy price tags of artworks, she was blown away with the exorbitant pricing of Chinese contemporary art. She gaped at the works and headed to the old bookshops ...
(Jul 13, 2014, Bangalore Mirror)
Wilwayco's 'Recalibration': Stock-taking of impressive body of work
Recalibrate: to correct a measuring process by checking or adjusting again in comparison with standard. It may at first seem curious that Edwin Wilwayco should ascribe to his most recent series of works a word that alludes to the rectification of a ...
(Jul 13, 2014, Inquirer.net)
Mayfair hails convicted faker John Myatt as a genuine artist with new exhibition
... the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art, after it was stolen around 2000 and an accomplished copy put in its place. It was not until 2002 that the Venezuelan museum's curators realised they were the custodians of a fake. The Chinese art market, now ...
(Jul 13, 2014, The Independent)
French Art Curator Praises China's Influential Traditional Art
Sophie Makriou, Director of the Guimet Museum of Asian Art in Paris, visited Beijing in July for the opening of the "Everlasting Beauty of Dunhuang: Applying Elements of Classical Art to Contemporary Art" exhibition at the Today Art Museum. The ...
(Jul 14, 2014, Women of China)
Burma's Fledgling Contemporary Art Market
Pundits in the art world predict that Burma's art market is poised to follow in the footsteps of China, whose contemporary art market took off in the 1990s following a wave of economic reforms that began in the late seventies. Today, China's top ...
(Jul 14, 2014, Democratic Voice of Burma)
eBay and Sotheby's Partner to Bring World Class Art and Collectibles to a ...
eBay and Sotheby's Partner to Bring World Class Art and Collectibles to a ...
(Jul 14, 2014, The Wall Street Transcript)
A Skateboarder's Guide to His Galaxy
Since his death in 1994, the town — with a big assist from the Chinati Foundation, a contemporary-art museum founded by Judd that sponsors symposiums, internships and artist-in-residence programs — became an increasingly potent magnet for artists and ...
(Jul 14, 2014, New York Times)
The art of WeChat
Zhu Xiaojun, executive director of an art foundation, bought several items that included paintings by young Chinese artists on WeChat. "It is more like a recreational game played by people in art circles. The pieces sold via WeChat are more like ...
(Jul 15, 2014, ecns)
Digital art and relations between France and China on show in Shanghai
"The digital art world may currently be a very small, almost niche community but I think it will become a bigger part of contemporary art, especially in China," says Cheng, who was recently invited to sit on the Tate Modern's Asia-Pacific acquisitions ...
(Jul 15, 2014, South China Morning Post)
Inking a new future
It has only been in recent decades that artists, influenced by Western contemporary art, have made innovative breakthroughs in the art form. Rendering the Future reflects the diversity of styles and forms with which artists seek to revive the ...
(Jul 15, 2014, ecns)
Ten things to do
A plaque on the wall of the Casino contemporary art forum marks the occasion on which Liszt played his last ever piano recital. The renowned Hungarian composer and pianist died just two weeks later in Bayreuth, Germany. Since 1996 the Casino has been ...
(Jul 15, 2014, Delano.lu)
SIR NORMAN ROSENTHAL with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro
Most famous for organizing two exhibitions of contemporary art, A New Spirit in Painting (1981) and Sensation: Young British Artists (1997), he has also been involved with countless other exhibitions, many devoted to a variety of old masters—Frans ...
(Jul 15, 2014, Brooklyn Rail)
Artists flash the cash in exhibition about finance
Signs and song are in my head – along with the street stall selling nectarines, five for £1 – as I enter nearby Sunderland City Library and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art where the new exhibition is called Show Me The Money (a line from another ...
(Jul 15, 2014, The Journal)
From Two Arises Three – The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael ...
From Two Arises Three – The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael ...
(Jul 15, 2014, US-China Institute)
White Rabbit explores the way we Commune
Courtesy: the artist and White Rabbit Gallery. The doors to White Rabbit Gallery were flung open in 2009, the response to a visit in 1999 to China by owner Judith Neilson that led to a decade of collecting contemporary Chinese art. That passion has ...
(Jul 15, 2014, ArtsHub (subscription))
Tsang Kin-wah to represent Hong Kong at next Venice Biennale
... in Tokyo and the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester. An exhibition related to his pavilion in Venice is scheduled to open in Hong Kong in 2016. “His work wonderfully represents the quickly maturing contemporary art scene of Hong Kong,” says Lars ...
(Jul 16, 2014, Art Newspaper)
Christie's Sells $4.5 Billion of Artwork
But Christie's said it is still betting big on Asia's purchasing power, noting that buyers from China accounted for 24% of the house's total sales for the first half, a 46% uptick in spending from last spring. When it comes to contemporary art, the ...
(Jul 16, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
Record Half Year at Christie's Art Sales of £2.7 billion ($4.5 billion), up 12%
The grand opening at the Ampire Building will coincide with our Autumn sales which feature Asian and Western 20th Century & Contemporary Art, jewellery, watches and wine, and Chinese Contemporary Design, a new category featuring a dialogue between ...
(Jul 16, 2014, Yahoo Finance UK)
Steven Holl and Athol Fugard among Winners of Praemium Imperiale Awards
Mr. Holl's noteworthy projects include the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle; the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki; and urban development projects in China. This year's other winners are Athol Fugard, the South African playwright; Arvo ...
(Jul 16, 2014, New York Times (blog))
Christie's 1H Auction Sales +12%
We continue to lead the top levels of the art market, particularly in the Post-War & Contemporary Art area, while also successfully serving the broad variety of interests through all our categories and online sales. It is a new era of excitement and ...
(Jul 16, 2014, Rapaport)
Christie's sells £2.7bn of art in just six months
Under his leadership, the London auction house group, founded in 1766, has expanded into new markets including China and India. Sales in Asia fell by eight per cent and sales of Asian art were down 22 per cent on the same time last year but the number ...
(Jul 16, 2014, Evening Standard)
Sotheby's Inc.: {English} Sotheby's Shines In Asia, Record Sales In The First ...
Sotheby's Inc.: {English} Sotheby's Shines In Asia, Record Sales In The First ...
(Jul 16, 2014, The Wall Street Transcript)
The Business Matrix: Thursday 17 July 2014
Auction house Christie's revealed a record £2.7bn of sales in the first half of the year thanks to demand from across the globe for modern and contemporary art. Buyers from Asia, Europe and ... China struggles to balance economy. The world's second ...
(Jul 16, 2014, The Independent)
The week ahead: Performing and visual arts
Hodges makes poetic, fragile works in a variety of media, from colored cloth to pencil, gold leaf and ink. Through Sept. 1. Institute of Contemporary Art. 617-478-3100, www.icaboston.org. CAST FOR ETERNITY: ANCIENT RITUAL BRONZES FROM THE SHANGHAI ...
(Jul 16, 2014, Boston Globe)
This week in the museums
Elevated: Contemporary Art In The AGO Tower, to Oct 12. Art As Therapy, to Apr 26, 2015. Manasie ... Royal Ontario Museum The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China's Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). Michael Awad, to Sep 28. Paul Kane, to ...
(Jul 17, 2014, NOW Magazine)
Tribute to Tang
The Tangs first gave back to Skidmore in 1989 with a $325,000 gift to the college's Chinese Studies Department. In 1992, the Tangs' youngest daughter graduated from ... Two exhibits that originated here — "Carrie Moyer: Pirate Jenny" and "Someday is ...
(Jul 17, 2014, Albany Times Union)
Christie's sees half-year sales rise 23pc to $3.6B
The highest-grossing artistic category was Post War and Contemporary art, which resulted in $1.3 billion in sales. Online-only art auctions generated around $15 million in sales, representing a 71 percent increase from the year-ago period. Christie's ...
(Jul 17, 2014, Luxury Daily)
Free Frida Kahlo!
The show pairs Kahlo's work with contemporary art, an attempt to illustrate how truly avant-garde she was in terms of painting style and subject matter. Miranda writes about how Kahlo was respected in her lifetime — she was the first Mexican ...
(Jul 17, 2014, Jewish Daily Forward (blog))
Artist Reimagines 'Life of Pi' on Shanghai's Sullied Waters
Beyond drawing attention to China's pollution problems, Mr. Cai's appearance Thursday kicked off a marketing push for his latest Shanghai show that runs through October. The mini-ark and a number of his more traditional items will be featured starting ...
(Jul 17, 2014, Wall Street Journal (blog))
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