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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis Denounces the Vatican Elites 'Spiritual Alzheimers'
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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



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