What happened in 2014: American Indian art took center stage
The celebrations culminated with a big Hung Liu overview, featuring the Chinese-born artist's large paintings based on historical photographs. Too bad Liu's source material is more compelling than what she does ... They're both on view now and ...
(Dec 26, 2014, Kansas City Star)
Dipping Into a French Melting Pot
The current exhibits include a multimedia roundup of contemporary art from Morocco, including visual art, fashion, film and architecture, plus a live demo/crafts tent serving tea that can accommodate 500. At the same time, the Louvre coordinated ...
(Dec 26, 2014, New York Times)
2014's most memorable moments for Arts staff and critics
China is right up there with Israel when it comes to preconceived popular notions. This exhibit of contemporary Chinese photography and video art did a fine job shattering them. Ten featured artists. Young. Defiantly hip. Not only informed by the ...
(Dec 26, 2014, Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Art Stage Singapore Lorenzo Rudolf Sees Africa as "The Next Trend"
He returned to art after three years and in 2007, co-founded and directed the first international contemporary art fair of Asia, the ShContemporary in Shanghai. Next came Art Stage ... Has the region been able to come out of China's shadow? Without a ...
(Dec 27, 2014, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Good looking shows in 2014
7) "Kristin Skees: Cozy Up," Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach. Sept. ... This landmark exhibit of some 200 objects provided an eye-opening look at the secret lives of the emperors who ruled from behind the gates of China's Forbidden ...
(Dec 27, 2014, Daily Press)
The 38 biggest surprises of 2014
That we would suddenly reopen relations with Cuba and reach a landmark climate accord with China? Here in Boston, we suffered surprising losses, notably that of beloved longtime mayor Thomas M. Menino. (That's not even to get into the losses of our ...
(Dec 28, 2014, Boston Globe)
Art broadens its reach
The Nicole Eisenman retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, catches a matchless American painter in midcareer. » An overview of the French-born Venezuelan artist Marisol that originated at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art ...
(Dec 28, 2014, Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
An Artist Finds His Place in the Sun
Best known for his animated films critiquing the Chinese government, one of which screened in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's group exhibition “Ink Art” that closed in April, Mr. Sun was taking a break from working on a painted scroll. It mixed ...
(Dec 29, 2014, Wall Street Journal)
More arts and culture coming to town in 2015
One harbinger of what may be on the way was a first-time exhibition of contemporary Chinese art took center stage at the beginning of October within the walls of the newly renovated Robert Livingston Estate at Southwood. Located at 726 Woods Road and ...
(Dec 29, 2014, The Register Star)
Europe's 10 Best Art Fairs in 2014
Following the opening of Frieze Masters in 2012, Frieze London sometimes felt like the lesser-loved sibling, but the 2014 edition proved that the London contemporary art fair has now regained the organizers' full attention. A grand design overall made ...
(Dec 29, 2014, artnet News)
Staten Island's Best Place to Bring Out-of-Towners: Snug Harbor, Richmond ...
Staten Island's Best Place to Bring Out-of-Towners: Snug Harbor, Richmond ...
(Dec 29, 2014, SILive.com)
A City at the Edge of the Horizon: The 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale
In the centuries that followed, the city of Kochi, sought after by explorers and traders -- Portuguese, Dutch, English, Chinese, and Arab—became at once the center of the spice trade and a vital outpost for Western colonizers. Along with the conflux ...
(Dec 29, 2014, Huffington Post)
Power Station of Art Grows Up With a 10th Biennale
SHANGHAI — Few knew what to expect of the Power Station of Art when it blew onto the contemporary art scene here in 2012. Just one year earlier, the Power Station — the first state-owned contemporary art museum in China — had been but a half-baked ...
(Dec 29, 2014, New York Times)
Hong Kong's booming contemporary art scene
Avant-garde multimedia dominates the four-floor Opera Gallery and Agnès B's Librairie Galerie. Chinese and Vietnamese output rules Zee Stone, while Connoisseur Contemporary focuses on emerging East Asian names. Walk west to up-and-coming nabe ...
(Dec 29, 2014, New York Post)
Hong Kong's booming contemporary art scene
While Mainland China is already an established creative hotbed, commerce-driven Hong Kong has ultimately come around to the cultural and financial value of a contemporary art scene. M+, a practically 200,000-square-foot, $three billion contemporary ...
(Dec 29, 2014, Macro Insider)
Agenda: Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop on the highlights of 2014
The National Galleries of Scotland launched its largest exhibition to date with the opening of the Generation programme, the centrepiece to a landmark celebration of 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland with works of art by over 100 artists on ...
(Dec 30, 2014, Herald Scotland)
Market predictions for 2015: economic chaos, dealers under threat, leaderless ...
Market predictions for 2015: economic chaos, dealers under threat, leaderless ...
(Dec 30, 2014, Art Newspaper)
Morning Links: Video Game Edition
Here's a look at Shanghai's Power Station of Art, “one of the few public institutions in China dedicated to contemporary art,” which seems to be finding “its footing in the flourishing contemporary art scene” in the city. [The New York Times]. Dawn ...
(Dec 30, 2014, ARTnews)
Morning Links: Video Game Edition
Here's a look at Shanghai's Power Station of Art, “one of the few public institutions in China dedicated to contemporary art,” which seems to be finding “its footing in the flourishing contemporary art scene” in the city. [The New York Times]. Dawn ...
(Dec 30, 2014, ARTnews)
RedStar Macalline Art Exhibition: When Business Encounters Art
RedStar Macalline, in concert with Ullens, the most professional and influential contemporary art institution in China, jointly designed and planned the event while the artists contributed their multi-dimensional forms of expression. As each country ...
(Dec 30, 2014, PR Newswire (press release))
The Art World's Patron Satan
Over the last few years, though, a new class of speculators has emerged with crasser objectives: They are less interested in flying to Basel to attend a dinner than in riding the economic wave that has caused the market for emerging contemporary art to ...
(Dec 30, 2014, New York Times)
Beijing's Art Scene Raises Its Profile
Janice MacLeod, a 76-year-old social worker from England, was one such unassuming buyer first exposed to Chinese contemporary art at one of Surge's art fairs, while visiting her son, a journalist, in Beijing in 2013. “I was blown away by the exhibition ...
(Dec 30, 2014, New York Times)
What's On in Vancouver: Sherlock Holmes steps onstage and more
THEATRE. Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Jersey Lily. Theater Crossing returns with the B.C. premiere of a new Holmes mystery of royal intrigue. Directed by William B Davis. • Special New Year's Eve performance ($40) Includes after-show with actors, ...
(Dec 30, 2014, Vancouver Sun)
Today's Top Opinion: 2014 comes to an end
Work proceeded with the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, which will solidify the standing of the school and its home region as an arts capital. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts opened “Forbidden City,” a blockbuster show from China. The Richmond ...
(Dec 31, 2014, Richmond.com)
150 unmissable arts events for 2015: the biggest films, best TV, starriest ...
150 unmissable arts events for 2015: the biggest films, best TV, starriest ...
(Dec 31, 2014, The Guardian)
From Marvin Gaye Chetwynd to the Turner Prize: 2014 in contemporary art
Our review of the year begins in Dundee where Thomson and Craighead brought their timely, social-media inspired art to the UK's most northerly outpost of contemporary art. Some of the works were previously shown at Carrroll/Fletcher in London, but they ...
(Dec 31, 2014, Culture24)
Public transit thinkers praise ODOT report that funding would have to double ...
Public transit thinkers praise ODOT report that funding would have to double ...
(Dec 31, 2014, cleveland.com)
Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Art Books
... politics of the party-state, make true art that expresses your individuality, persevere in ignoring the market, paint only what you want to paint. Here, the bohemian trope of individual self-expression extends from Hollywood straight into Chinese ...
(Dec 31, 2014, Hyperallergic)
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