Chinese artist given pride of place at Chatsworth
The classic vista of Chatsworth will appear very different this summer as one of its best known landmarks is replaced by a work of Chinese contemporary art. The Sea Horse Fountain has graced the South Lawn of the Derbyshire stately home, seat of the ...
(Aug 11, 2014, ecns)
Moscow's Garage Art Museum Goes Back to '90s
"The New International," an exhibit currently on at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, takes a look at art that appeared in the 1990s. The 1990s saw the fall of communism, the rise of the Internet and the social impact of late capitalism, said Kate ...
(Aug 11, 2014, The Moscow Times)
LA's Art Insider: Bettina Korek
And in September, she'll be in Beijing distributing an FYA-produced map of L.A. in Chinese, commissioned by the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art for the opening of its exhibition "The Los Angeles Project." As a Los Angeles native, Korek has seen the ...
(Aug 11, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
Talking points
... Chi-yan, members will discuss the public engagement exercise on the park to be built at the West Kowloon site, the acquisition policy of the M+ Museum and the public exhibition of its collection, which includes a large donation of Chinese ...
(Aug 11, 2014, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Boatloads of sick animals and seas of ink at Cai Guo Qiang's provocative ...
Boatloads of sick animals and seas of ink at Cai Guo Qiang's provocative ...
(Aug 12, 2014, Straight.com (blog))
Australian artist Danie Mellor's supernatural showcase at Edinburgh Festival
Mellor has presented works in his signature blue palette, echoing the patterns of traditional Spode china (a curious contrast with the blockbuster Ming dynasty exhibition upstairs, with replicas of the era's ceramics filling the gift shop near Mellor's ...
(Aug 12, 2014, Sydney Morning Herald)
The 10 most beautiful tapestries
Kiki Smith is one of the major exponents of a revived romanticism in contemporary art, reintroducing questions of nature and spirituality after decades of formal purgation. Well known for her drawings and sculptures, Smith has lately turned to tapestry ...
(Aug 12, 2014, BBC News)
David Bowie Is Makes Its U.S. Debut In September At Chicago's Museum Of ...
David Bowie Is Makes Its U.S. Debut In September At Chicago's Museum Of ...
(Aug 12, 2014, Live Design)
Luxe Hotels Signs Five Year Contract with Shenzhen Hazens Real Estate Group ...
Luxe Hotels Signs Five Year Contract with Shenzhen Hazens Real Estate Group ...
(Aug 12, 2014, Rock Hill Herald (press release))
An avant-garde artist in Shanghai plays a balancing act Drawing a line
Mr Cai is an unusual figure in China's contemporary-art world. He was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, an eastern coastal town. He emerged with the wave of rebel artists, including Ai Weiwei and Yue Minjun, who began rebuilding comtemporary art after the ...
(Aug 12, 2014, The Economist (blog))
Nie Zhengjie's First Solo Show in the UK
Nie Zhengjie, who is the 2012 China Winner for the Liverpool John Moores Painting Prize, is currently holding "Urban Farmers," his first ever UK solo exhibition at the Center for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester through August 31. Nie is ...
(Aug 13, 2014, Artinfo UK)
'Turbulence: A Survival Story' author arrives in Vietnam
An international symposium on contemporary art, history and current issues in Asia will gather curators from Viet Nam, Thailand, Taiwan, Chinese mainland, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia. Nguyen Nhu Huy, curator of Zero Station ...
(Aug 13, 2014, VietNamNet Bridge)
Leon Black To Buy Online Art Sales Startup Artspace?
Black and his wife, Debra, consistently rank on the list of the top collectors in the world and are known to buy Old Masters, Impressionist and modern paintings, Chinese sculptures, and contemporary art. Black bought Phaidon in 2012. The company was ...
(Aug 13, 2014, artnet News)
Cooking Art History: Graff-EAT-i
It is rare that I get to develop a class around contemporary art and the opportunity to teach from ESMoA's latest Experience, SCRATCH, is quite a treat. The show combines 16th through 18th century manuscripts from the Getty Research Institute's (GRI) ...
(Aug 13, 2014, Huffington Post)
Lux Art Institute announces five, new Artists in Residence for 2014-2015
1) This season, their eighth, begins with Ye Hongxing, a collage artist from Beijing who is one of the stars of China's contemporary art world. (In studio Sept. 6-Oct. 5, 2014; on exhibit through Nov. 1, 2014.) Lux director Reesey Shaw of La Jolla said ...
(Aug 13, 2014, La Jolla Light)
The greatest art you can't see
Recent acquisitions, for instance, include photography by the Chinese artist Yang Fudong. “Look at the way that contemporary art has changed in China, India or Latin America,” McCoubrey says. “That helps to tie together a huge organisation spreading ...
(Aug 14, 2014, BBC News)
New York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang
8 to kick off his latest environment-themed contemporary art expo entitled The Ninth Wave at Power Station of Art. According to Cai, the exhibition is inspired by the recent environmental challenges faced by China, including the toxic smog levels in ...
(Aug 14, 2014, WantChinaTimes)
Christie's employees handle a Picasso, 'Femme au costume turc dans un ...
Christie's employees handle a Picasso, 'Femme au costume turc dans un ...
(Aug 14, 2014, The Australian)
Art fair a sight for sore eyes
Barry Keldoulis, director of the fair for the first time this year, says its focus “is to present the best contemporary art from Australasia … Galleries will present a diverse range of works spanning paintings, work on paper, photography, sculpture ...
(Aug 14, 2014, The Australian)
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Collection of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein and SFMOMA (John Caldwell, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, 1989–93, Fund for Contemporary Art purchase), 2007.97.A-B. © Janine .... "Within and Without: Transformations in Chinese Landscapes." Through ...
(Aug 14, 2014, SFGate)
Attracting the international art world through mid-sized art events
Regarding contemporary art, the answer to the question of documenta 12 (“is modernity our antiquity?”) is an univocal “yes.” documenta focused on modernity was organized seven years ago, in the heyday of record hits of contemporary auctions. Although ...
(Aug 15, 2014, Visegrad Insight)
Columbia entertainment calendar, Aug. 15-21
The Heavy Hitters Tour features some MVPs in Christian comedy, including Akintunde, Marcus D. Wiley, Bone Hampton and Chinitta Morris (aka Chocolate) along with musical guests Bass Man Sam Jenkins, John Lakin & B.O.W. and Big Redd. 7:30-10 p.m. ...
(Aug 15, 2014, The State)
Christie's follows the money to China
The Western art resides in Shanghai's new free-trade zone, meaning it can be brought into China, shown to the public and taken out again without any tax having to be paid. The auction also included Asian contemporary art and fine wines, in recognition ...
(Aug 15, 2014, FinanceAsia)
Damien Hirst Opens Gift Shop in New York
Damien Hirst has opened a gift shop called 'Other Criteria' in New York's SoHo, The New York Times, reports. It is the first shop opened outside of the artist's home country of England, where he has already opened three such shops. Art lovers can ...
(Aug 15, 2014, artnet News)
Grey Areas: Book Banning and Censorship in China
Most recently, a major group show at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing was to feature a piece by Ai Weiwei. Under pressure from local authorities, the curator pulled the artist's work from the exhibition and accompanying catalogue. The ...
(Aug 15, 2014, Fair Observer)
Jockey Club to rethink plans for police station art operator
The Jockey Club CPS (JCCPS), the body overseeing the Central police station revitalisation project, is having to rethink how the contemporary art element of the scheme will be operated. This is because Lai See understands that after interviewing ...
(Aug 15, 2014, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Aspen, on peak form for culture
This transparency was important to the architect and to Zuckerman Jacobson so that, from its upper floors, visitors can marvel at the mountains and the entrance to Independence Pass, which marks the Continental Divide, and “because contemporary art can ...
(Aug 15, 2014, Financial Times)
'Mad Men' reflected in mod design of Brighton home
The home was built in 1959 by a locksmith who was fond of installing expansive safes—so expansive that they're used now to hold coats, toys and china. The home itself ... "We left the stone wall but added bright, brilliant accent colors like ...
(Aug 15, 2014, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
The Three Layers: A New Era of Collectors In China
The first layer is a new generation of collectors, aged between 20 and 30 years old, keen to get involved in contemporary art specifically, with a very different approach to collecting than the ones of their elders. They do not only look at Chinese art ...
(Aug 16, 2014, Forbes)
Escape to Beijing: Tijuana artists explore ties with China
Just two years earlier, the New York Times had hailed Tijuana as the center of a “vibrant new art movement” during the landmark “Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. That exhibition ...
(Aug 16, 2014, Al Jazeera America)
Desperate housewife?
Featuring mostly contemporary art by Asian female artists, Women and Home is a picture of how modern women view their connection with the domestic sphere. It's a 48-artist showcase of paintings, sculptures, films and installations, including ...
(Aug 16, 2014, Taipei Times)
Gwangju's art biennale is all fired up
In 2003, Chinese artist Geng Jianyi asked his friends to give him stuff they considered to be rubbish. He got boxes ... The Gwangju Biennale - one of the biggest and most significant contemporary art exhibitions in the region - is entering its 10th ...
(Aug 16, 2014, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Wexner Center celebrates 25 years of artistic vitality
Artists in a range of specialties have visited from myriad countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iran, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom. The SITI Company, a New York ensemble led by ...
(Aug 17, 2014, Columbus Dispatch)
Infiniti hits the fast lane with 'Dare to Love'
Earlier this month, Infiniti announced its sponsorship of famed Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang's solo exhibition called The Ninth Wave at Shanghai's Power Station of Art, the nation's first publicly funded contemporary art museum. The artistic endeavor ...
(Aug 18, 2014, ecns)
Arts Etc. — 8/18/2014
Friends of Asian Art and Gardner Center present “The DunHuang Mogao Grottoes”, a talk by Jianjun Chen who is the current Director/Producer of China's conservation efforts to preserve one of the greatest repositories of Buddhist art in the world. Takes ...
(Aug 18, 2014, The International Examiner)
Asian Art Week Fall 2014: Highlights from our Chinese Works of Art and Chinese ...
Asian Art Week Fall 2014: Highlights from our Chinese Works of Art and Chinese ...
(Aug 18, 2014, Christie's)
Patrick Van der Vorst :Collecting Contemporary Art
Many collectors look to emerging art regions like India, South America and Africa to find the next big thing in art investment, citing the astronomical rise of the white-hot Chinese contemporary art market as a guide. The telegraph recently published ...
(Aug 19, 2014, Huffington Post UK)
Puppet Festival announces lineup
The full roster of artists performing as part of the first Chicago International Puppet Festival was announced on Tuesday. In January, the 11-day compilation will bring together many Chicago venues that will present works by puppeteers from the United ...
(Aug 19, 2014, Chicago Tribune)
An unwelcome reminder of why 'the law is an ass'
In our piece of July 31 headed "Tycoon bids for a piece of Central Police Station project", we wrote that two of the bidders that submitted a proposal to operate the contemporary art element of the project were "ruled out on a technicality because they ...
(Aug 20, 2014, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Edward G. Leffingwell, Curator, Dies at 72
... three important exhibitions at MoMA/P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens — most notably a survey of the experimental filmmaker Jack Smith — and who as director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery initiated a citywide biennial of contemporary ...
(Aug 20, 2014, New York Times)
The most spectacular libraries in the world
The enormous Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, was inaugurated in 2002 near the site of the original Library of Alexandria, built by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC. The building was designed by the Norwegian firm Snøhetta, which is ...
(Aug 20, 2014, CT Post)
WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO GO
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art explores contemporary Chinese art in the exhibition “Seeing the Unseen” through Feb. 28. The exhibition features photographic and video works by eight renowned Chinese artists including Cao Fei, Li Wei, Wang ...
(Aug 21, 2014, Florida Weekly)
Weekend: Places to go and things to do in Northeast Pennsylvania
SICHUAN OPERA FROM CHINA: Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Sette La Verghetta Center for the Performing Arts, Marywood University. UMPHREY'S MCGEE: Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Wilkes-Barre, $29.50. Visit www.kirbycenter.org ...
(Aug 21, 2014, Scranton Times-Tribune)
Vintage Cars Overtake Art on Luxury Asset Racetrack
It includes stamps, coins, wine, jewels, watches, furniture, and Chinese ceramics. Over a 10-year period ending in the third quarter of 2012, several categories exceeded the incredible 400 percent increase of gold, with classic cars far outpacing all ...
(Aug 21, 2014, artnet News)
Christie's Inaugurates a Grand New Home in Shanghai
Christie's is consolidating its ties with China by opening a grand new home at the Ampire Building, located on Shanghai's historical waterfront area, known as The Bund. The 1,000 sq meter, multi-purpose space will house lectures, private sales, events ...
(Aug 21, 2014, artnet News)
Edgy China works
It started out as an innocent piece about the history and growth of the Chinese contemporary art scene, but that changed just one day before the ceremony. Chinese government officials showed up at the exhibition venue and forced the removal of the ...
(Aug 21, 2014, THE BUSINESS TIMES (subscription))
China art in a state of flux
AT first glance, Chinese contemporary artist Yang Yongliang's works look like traditional Chinese ink paintings, complete with smoky majestic mountains and quaint fishing villages. But look closer, and those "mountains" turn out to be clusters of grey ...
(Aug 21, 2014, THE BUSINESS TIMES (subscription))
The Foodiest Food Festival and a Sandwich Bike
It has been hotly debated in the contemporary art world for years that painting as a medium has become obsolete, with everything from performance art to sound installations seen as more relevant. Oslo's Museum of Contemporary Art will be adding to the ...
(Aug 21, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
Petitioner says museum won't meet halfway
The woman who started a petition calling on the Aspen Art Museum to end its exhibit featuring iPads affixed to the shells of endangered African tortoises pushed the institution to do more to inform the public about the ills of keeping tortoises as ...
(Aug 22, 2014, Aspen Daily News)
Scratches in the Art Market Gilding
And what do we make of shares in China's state-owned Poly Culture Group Corporation, the world's third-largest auction house (and a possible suitor for London-based Bonhams, according to the Financial Times), trading at 28.50 Hong Kong dollars, or ...
(Aug 22, 2014, New York Times)
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