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Contemporary Chinese Art News 11/2014 (Page 2)

Christie's Offers $400 Million of Art, Wine and Handbags

While buyers from mainland China still dominate Hong Kong sales, Christie's is casting a wider net in search of affluent collectors from elsewhere in Asia with the modern and contemporary art offerings from Nov. 22 to 26. “Chinese buyers are more low ... (Nov 20, 2014, Bloomberg)

Christie's Hong Kong Evening Sale of Asian Art Draws $82 Million

... KONG—Buyers snapped up works by Japanese and Southeast Asian artists at Christie's evening sale in Hong Kong on Saturday totaling 635 million Hong Kong dollars ($82 million), the auction house's second-highest total in the city for Asian 20th ... (Nov 22, 2014, Wall Street Journal)

Shanghai Biennial begins at Contemporary Art Museum

A vital front for modern art in China the city is playing host to a large art exhibition. The Shanghai Biennial presents work from over 70 artists and centers on the theme of social change. The artists hope to deliver on this theme through interactive ... (Nov 24, 2014, CCTV)

9 Out Of Top 10 Buyers Hail From Asia At Christie's Second-Highest Hong Kong ...

9 Out Of Top 10 Buyers Hail From Asia At Christie's Second-Highest Hong Kong ... (Nov 24, 2014, Jing Daily)

Prospect.3 artist Andrea Fraser produces a poignant pyramid of cast off ...

Prospect.3 artist Andrea Fraser produces a poignant pyramid of cast off ... (Nov 24, 2014, NOLA.com)

Southeast Asian Art Unmasked by Collectors

The market for Chinese contemporary art may be cooling if Christie's auction results from last weekend are any guide, but there are signs the auction house's efforts to showcase art from Southeast Asia may be paying off. Works from several artists from ... (Nov 25, 2014, Barron's)

Fine Arts: Project Rooms in Lambertville features works by 5 artists

They have been exhibited in the Montclair Art Museum and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in California and in venues in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. He has recently been layering and digitally manipulating his photographs. In this ... (Nov 25, 2014, NJ.com)

Which Top 50 Living Artists Performed Surprisingly Well at Auction in 2014?

Born in 1958 in Sichuan Province, China, Wang Jianwei's experimental work pushes the boundaries of contemporary art. Working in sculpture, performance and installation art, Wang explores with the concept that the creation of art can be continuous, ... (Nov 25, 2014, artnet News)

Have you seen Prospect.3?

The artists were selected by Franklin Sirmans, the curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). ... (Uganda), Douglas Bourgeois (Louisiana), Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Thomas Joshua Cooper (USA), Charles Gaines (USA ... (Nov 25, 2014, NOLA.com)

Sociologist Sarah Thornton scrutinizes the insular art world

... in a stylishly skinny black pantsuit and comically towering Stella McCartney platforms — has been nosing around the prop drawers of conceptual photographer Cindy Sherman and crunching around on Chinese contemporary art star Ai Weiwei's “Sunflower ... (Nov 25, 2014, Washington Post)

Iranian artist Monir Farmanfarmaian's mirror sculptures dazzle during Prospect.3

Chinese Artwork Brings Auction Record of $45 Million

Much of the couple's collection, made up of mostly traditional and contemporary Chinese art, is on display at their privately owned Long Museum, which has two locations in Shanghai. The thangka, Mr. Liu said, will also occasionally be put on display in ... (Nov 26, 2014, New York Times)

Artforum's Prospect.3 story is a who's who of museum world movers and shakers

Fears for Hong Kong protest artwork

He would like to take them back to mainland China for people there to see and hoped he would have time to take some work away with him; but at the same time had no objections if authorities did destroy them. “The art works are part of society. If they ... (Nov 27, 2014, euronews)

Chinese Art Buyers Go Shopping Overseas

She moved to contemporary Chinese art in 2005, acquiring works by Yue Minjun, Zeng Fanzhi and Zhang Xiaogang, just as their popularity started to grow. Although Western collectors tend to focus on one area, Chinese collectors are mixing and matching ... (Nov 27, 2014, Wall Street Journal)

Chinese Art Buyers Go Shopping Overseas

Wang Wei, Mr. Liu's wife and co-owner of two museums in Shanghai, started out about 20 years ago collecting Chinese revolutionary art. She moved to contemporary Chinese art in 2005, acquiring works by Yue Minjun, Zeng Fanzhi and Zhang Xiaogang, just ... (Nov 27, 2014, Wall Street Journal)

Huang Zhou, Lai Shaoqi Lead China Guardian Autumn Auctions

BEIJING — China Guardian's four-day 2014 Autumn Auctions for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Porcelain and Works of Art, 20th Century and Contemporary Chinese Art, and Important Watches and Jewelry drew to a close last weekend, November 23, ... (Nov 28, 2014, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson's glittering collages captivate at Prospect.3

Hadid remains at the center of controversy

... found only in dusty Chinese classics, yet even in 21st-century Japan, an architect-bunjin's words may yet be the strongest building material. “Arata Isozaki: 12×5=60″ at the The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art runs till Jan. 12; www.watarium.co ... (Nov 28, 2014, The Japan Times)

Sean Scully: Artist's 'Follow the Heart' in Shanghai

Abstraction plays little part even in the boisterous realm of contemporary Chinese art, although some commentators insist that the ancient practice of calligraphy — at least to those who cannot read it — figures as abstract art. Scully's works on ... (Nov 28, 2014, SFGate)

At Auctions, Russian Oligarchs Start to Hedge Their Bets

Some dealers at the sale hailed the result as proof that the market for contemporary art had finally become impervious to the economy's fluctuations. Over the next nine months, auction prices plummeted by as much as 50 percent. There was no such time ... (Nov 29, 2014, New York Times)

Shanghai exhibit may signal China's new openness to art world

Founded in 1996, the Shanghai Biennale is China's biggest state sanctioned and funded contemporary art show, now bolstered by a cohort of commercial sponsors. It attracts collectors, art professionals and tourists from all over the world. Its central ... (Nov 29, 2014, San Francisco Chronicle)

The ticket: Art

FIBER: SCULPTURE 1960-PRESENT Featuring works by Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, and Claire Zeisler, among others, this bold and colorful survey looks at developments in fiber art from the mid-20th century to the present. Through Jan. 4. Institute of ... (Nov 29, 2014, Boston Globe)

'Art Space Germany' exhibit opens in Beijing

Beijing is also playing host to an event that looks to create bridges of understanding through the fusion of cultures. An exhibition featuring German contemporary art has kicked off in the Chinese capital. What makes this exhibit special is that all ... (Nov 30, 2014, CCTV)

5th New Star Art Festival kicks off in Beijing

The award ceremony announced winners from categories such as Newcomers, Experimental and the Public Prize. Chinese contemporary art has been rising in its prominence on the world stage with artists exhibiting their works in New York, Paris, Berlin and ... (Nov 30, 2014, CCTV)

Singapore artwork sold for S$4.4m at Beijing auction

This is a great learning experience and I feel blessed and honoured," he added. Guo Yuanchao, Modern and Contemporary Art Consultant at Beijing Poly Auction, said: "Based on today's and his previous showing in 2012, it shows that Chinese art collectors ... (Nov 30, 2014, Channel News Asia)

Shanghai exhibit may signal China's new openness to art world

Facts of Life

I finally made it to the massive Power Station, China's only state-run contemporary art institution and the biennial's current home, just in time for the 2 PM Saturday preview. The VIP and media desks were busy sorting out the different versions of ... (Nov 30, 2014, Artforum)

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