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Contemporary Chinese Art News 12/2014 (Page 3)

Visual Arts 2014: Looking Backwards

2014 has been a strong year for the visual arts in Sarasota. Selecting the top five exhibitions is tough, but here's my take. Criteria? I looked for good art, obviously. But I looked for something more. Beyond precious objects on walls and pedestals, I ... (Dec 19, 2014, Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Staten Island's Best Landmark: Snug Harbor, Staten Island Ferry among 2014 ...

Staten Island's Best Landmark: Snug Harbor, Staten Island Ferry among 2014 ... (Dec 19, 2014, SILive.com)

A Centennial for Asian Art at the Met

“In 1981, when the Chinese paintings galleries opened, we had only enough A-class paintings to rotate them once,” Mr. Hearn recalled, explaining that these works are light-sensitive and cannot be continuously on view. “Sixteen ... The political ... (Dec 19, 2014, New York Times)

Things to Do in Shanghai, China: A Weekend Guide to Shanghai

Shanghai was carved into foreign-run concessions following the 1840-42 Sino-British Opium War; you can still find evidence of those historic influences in the architecture and attitude of its downtown neighborhoods. From the grandiose British-built ... (Dec 19, 2014, Condé Nast Traveler)

Art critic Eva Diaz focuses on the flaws of 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 ... (Dec 19, 2014, NOLA.com)

Medieval Art Finds Niche Market

LONDON — Contemporary art dominates the minds and wallets of today's collectors. With New York's biannual series of .... A 12th-century stone font, priced at £100,000, was among six sales Mr. Fogg made at this year's Frieze Masters to collectors who ... (Dec 19, 2014, New York Times)

Museum & Gallery Listings for Dec. 19-25

They represent a marvelous variety of styles and influences, including Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, classic Chinese traditions and European folk art. ..... Institute of Contemporary Art: 'Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013' (through Dec. 28) The ... (Dec 19, 2014, New York Times)

Rome's Maxxi art museum aims to build creativity out of crisis

The contemporary art gallery, designed by London-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, took 10 years to build and was saddled with a huge funding deficit almost from the moment it opened. , with The culture ministry reduced its initial funding for the building ... (Dec 19, 2014, The Guardian)

Hong Kong Gears Up for Virtuoso Symposium in April 2015

Hong Kong will showcase itself as a luxury travel destination with than 60 Michelin-starred restaurants, 70,000 hotel rooms and vibrant contemporary art scene when it hosts Virtuoso's 2015 Symposium, April 25-29. Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) and ... (Dec 19, 2014, TravelPulse)

Events on Long Island for Dec. 21-27, 2014

ROSLYN HARBOR Nassau County Museum of Art “Celebrate Winter Solstice.” On the shortest day of the year, creating nature-inspired lanterns, a collaborative ice sculpture and a tea sampler using traditional Chinese chop stamps to take home. Dec. 21, 1 to ... (Dec 20, 2014, New York Times)

Virgin Mary exhibition is flawed by exclusion of modern works

How can a museum that wants to be taken seriously as a site for contemporary art ignore works such as Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, the locus of a major art scandal in Brooklyn in 1999. Easy. It wanted a feel-good show. But Mary isn't entirely a ... (Dec 20, 2014, South China Morning Post (subscription))

India's art scene is the new big draw for bidders

Chinese buyers have been snapping up art across the world in recent years and, while Indians may not be buying as aggressively, the subcontinent is still an important market that is only expected to grow, he adds. Rajan Sehgal, who is Credit Suisse's ... (Dec 20, 2014, The National)

Exhibitions in Oklahoma, Arkansas offer glimpses into global state of the arts

For the young Chinese, as for Americans, globalization, alienation, pollution and rebellion are daily realities, though the gifted Chinese artists live very well and are “treated like rock stars,” in a hyper-Capitalist society, according to “My ... (Dec 21, 2014, NewsOK.com)

A ground report from India's biggest art show in Kochi

A total of 94 main works by artists from 30 countries, including the US, UK, China and Pakistan, are on display at the biennale, alongside a number of works featured as collateral events. Among those that were the most talked-about was UK-based ... (Dec 21, 2014, Hindustan Times)

COEXISTs Bonehead Bumper-Sticker Politics

China is squeezing Tibet in an anaconda grip of cultural homogenization. Buddhists are causing violence in ... The museum is a private institution in Jerusalem that describes itself as a “socio-political contemporary art museum.” In its original form ... (Dec 21, 2014, Daily Beast)

Whirling with Time

What continues with this show is a certain concern with the asking of questions, and the using of space of contemporary art as a platform for a kind of playful philosophical reflection. What has changed is that we have never had such a situation where ... (Dec 21, 2014, The Indian Express)

Arts Etc. — December 20, 2014

15th and on view until April 6th is “Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art” which looks at how Chinese artists today view their tradition. Re-working traditional aesthetics in conceptual ways, artists use new forms and media ... (Dec 22, 2014, The International Examiner)

The Biggest Auction Year Ever

In addition to a burst of energy from new buyers in Latin America focusing on contemporary art—particularly in Brazil and, more recently, Argentina—she says, “China now has graduated from the term 'emerging' and is really a blue chip country." And ... (Dec 22, 2014, artnet News)

TOP 10 art exhibitions of 2014

seven sculpture, sound, and mixed-media works by chinese artist ai weiwei infill alcatraz island for his exhibition '@large' as an investigation of human rights and freedom of expression in the context of the historic space. the site-specific ... (Dec 22, 2014, Designboom)

Prospect.3 artist Theaster Gates' appearance on The Colbert Report

The past and the present meet

“Being here,” she said of her trip to China, “you are not in a film anymore. You are backstage.” The program introduced students to contemporary art through the lens of history. It focused on current work while familiarizing students with the ancient ... (Dec 22, 2014, FIU News)

Artprice: Outlook for 2015

These prohibitions to the free practice of art auctions on the Internet are beyond comprehension for a country like France, which now accounts for less than 4% of the global art market and less than 2% of the Contemporary art segment of that market ... (Dec 22, 2014, PR Newswire (press release))

The art of investing in high-end assets

Property and shares are all very well but increasing numbers of well-heeled investors are looking to posher assets such as wine and art to bolster their returns. The growing affluence in new markets such as China and India is driving much of the demand ... (Dec 22, 2014, AsiaOne)

How to be bold: Nick Cave's secrets

Beside it were coffee-maker size spinning tops, constructed from fine china. Each piece, made by artist Cheryl Pope, sat tipped on its side, precariously. ... He has never seemed entirely a part of the contemporary art scene — certainly not in Chicago ... (Dec 22, 2014, Chicago Tribune)

2014: The Year in New Orleans Entertainment

The New Orleans Museum of Art said goodbye to contemporary art curator Miranda Lash, but its year has been marked by major additions, including sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein (Five Brushstrokes, placed in front of the main entrance) and others donated ... (Dec 23, 2014, bestofneworleans.com)

3 art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence

"Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting," a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla, charts the painter's career in 60 canvases installed in series. The earliest is a haunting group of black panels with soft, vaporous ... (Dec 23, 2014, Los Angeles Times)

Abstract paintings and sculptures were once the gold standard of...

Abstract paintings and sculptures were once the gold standard of... (Dec 23, 2014, FindItWestValley.com)

Prospect.3 artist Kerry James Marshall featured in 'ART21' video documentary

The Year in Books: Asian America's Must-Reads of 2014

Yang fills in the blanks of that origins story with a new graphic novel that tells the story of Hank Chu, a mild-mannered Chinese-American teenager growing up in 1930's Chinatown who wants a quiet life working in the family's grocery, but whose mom ... (Dec 23, 2014, NBCNews.com)

10 Of The Most Wildly Expensive Artworks Sold In 2014

Even though no one's forked over $100 million for a GIF out of China, just yet, there were still enough surprises at the auction block to keep us guessing. Check out the highlights below, from an Elvis triptych to Georgia O'Keeffe's history-making ... (Dec 23, 2014, Huffington Post)

Pope Francis Denounces the Vatican Elites 'Spiritual Alzheimers'

Chinese Community Reels After Brooklyn NYPD Shooting

Standing in the back of his shop on Broome Street not far from Manhattan's Chinatown, the owner of MNC EBike, a Chinese immigrant who called himself "Mister Lin," folded his arms tightly together as he reflected on the death of another immigrant from ... (Dec 23, 2014, NBCNews.com)

Documenting change in China through art

The show at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art includes the seven-screen installation "The Fifth Night (II) Rehearsal" (above) as well as works that document the lives of labourers and of rising Chinese actress Ma Sise. There is also a 76-minute ... (Dec 23, 2014, THE BUSINESS TIMES)

Art museums gave us big new shows in 2014 plus plans for new museums

The most impressive was "My Generation: Young Chinese Artists" because it was the first survey in the United States of Chinese artists born after 1976, a watershed year politically for China. And, historically, it was the first time an art exhibition ... (Dec 23, 2014, Tampabay.com)

Chinese artist Wang Jianwei's exhibit well-recieved in NYC museum

“He represents a particular intellect so a lot of people get to think about the meaning of contemporary art through his work,” Berghuis added. Born in 1958 in China's western Sichuan Province, Wang Jianwei is one of the country's leading artists of the ... (Dec 24, 2014, CCTV-America)

House of the week: 78 Wychwood Park

First of all she is Asian, you don't know if she is Chinese. Also if you watch the youtube video of this. The worker states that the... House of the week: 78 Wychwood Park Those vines on the front of the house look very beautiful, but they should take ... (Dec 24, 2014, blogTO (blog))

Ann Claire "Acey" Wolgin, 90, art backer

Mrs. Wolgin also was a supporter of other art organizations across the region: the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Center for Architecture, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the University of ... (Dec 24, 2014, Philly.com)

White Rabbit Probes “Play” in First Show for 2015

According to White Rabbit Gallery, “State of Play” reflects the experimentation that is reshaping Chinese contemporary art. More than half of the 45 works in the exhibition are new to the collection of the founder and director of White Rabbit Gallery ... (Dec 24, 2014, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

The Most Admired Art Dealers of 2014

The gallery was one of the first Western names to take the plunge in China, around 2008, shortly after the contemporary art market boom that started there around the mid-2000s. Highlights of the past year included celebrating the 50th Anniversary of ... (Dec 24, 2014, artnet News)

TOP STORIES OF 2014: No. 6 – OSU Museum of Art Postal Plaza Gallery opens ...

TOP STORIES OF 2014: No. 6 – OSU Museum of Art Postal Plaza Gallery opens ... (Dec 24, 2014, Stillwater News Press)

Why Jewelry Is the Ultimate Inefficient Market: Q&A with Seller Fiona ...

Why Jewelry Is the Ultimate Inefficient Market: Q&A with Seller Fiona ... (Dec 24, 2014, Bloomberg)

TOP STORIES OF 2014: No. 6 – Oklahoma State University Museum of Art ...

TOP STORIES OF 2014: No. 6 – Oklahoma State University Museum of Art ... (Dec 24, 2014, Stillwater News Press)

Galleries & Museums: Dec. 25-31

Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art Gallery: 1288 N. Palm Ave. "Bruce Marsh: Now and Then," .... "Seeing the Unseen," a contemporary photography and video art exhibit by eight renowned Chinese artists, on display through Feb. 28. "Expressive Bodies: Works ... (Dec 25, 2014, Bradenton Herald)

Chinese avant-garde artist hold solo exhibition in NYC

Born in 1958 in China's western Sichuan Province, Wang Jianwei is one of the country's leading artists of the reform-era avant-garde movements. "He represents a particular intellect so a lot of people get to think about the meaning of contemporary art ... (Dec 25, 2014, CCTV)

Lee Lee-nam, reinventor of masterpieces

The only thing I knew before were stereotypical sculptures, but anything could become art from ready-made objects to garbage in contemporary art," Lee said at an interview with The Korea Times on Dec. 15. He was busy putting the final touches to his ... (Dec 25, 2014, Korea Times)

From tradition to trash: Tokyo's art in 2014

Held in early March at Tokyo International Forum, it was a typically bustling affair that seemed to point in several different directions at once — cutting-edge contemporary art jostled with antiques, ceramics and nihonga (Japanese-style painting ... (Dec 25, 2014, The Japan Times)

Museum & Gallery Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1

They represent a marvelous variety of styles and influences, including Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, classic Chinese traditions and European folk art. What they share is a love for processes and materials and a candid way with the human touch ... (Dec 25, 2014, New York Times)

Oh the places you'll go

Cleveland is also home to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Best time .... There are authentic Chinese food and artefacts, a cutting-edge art center in MoMA PS1, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, informal sheesha bars at Little Egypt. Best time ... (Dec 26, 2014, The Hindu)

Michael Shvo Needs an Assistant

This summer, Mr. Shvo led a group including Bizzi & Partners plus dough from additional Howard Lorber's New Valley and a mysterious “unidentified Chinese public company” in acquiring some $240 million of land from the Fisher Brothers to develop what ... (Dec 26, 2014, New York Observer)

New Orleans music website weighs in on Prospect.3 artist Douglas Bourgeois

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