Artist Mel Chin says he's still becoming an artist
Thus the title of the huge retrospective "Rematch" opening this week at an unprecedented four venues - the Blaffer Art Museum, Asia Society Texas Center, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art; with an adjunct ...
(Jan 9, 2015, Houston Chronicle)
Abstract art: from the radical to the everyday
Neither the Tate nor the Contemporary Art Society wanted them, and the two that sold went to the exhibition organiser Nicolete Gray and her friend, the patron and collector Helen Sutherland. This resistance to abstract art is on the whole ignored by ...
(Jan 10, 2015, The Guardian)
Go beyond the beach in the new Miami
Nearby is the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM to Miamians), a cutting-edge contemporary art museum opened in 2013 and designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss firm famous for Beijing's “bird's nest” stadium. The New York Times calls the PAMM building ...
(Jan 10, 2015, Fort Worth Star Telegram)
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 ...
(Jan 11, 2015, Bend Bulletin)
Glen Ellyn company among shows for debut puppet fest
Chicago locations: Pulaski Park Fieldhouse, 1419 W. Blackhawk St.; Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier, 800 E. Grand Ave.; Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave.; Dance Center of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan Ave.; Field Museum ...
(Jan 11, 2015, Chicago Daily Herald)
Want to go
In the first, Chinese and Japanese paintings, lacquerware and ceramics show how Chinese arts and ideas influenced medieval Japan between 1192 and 1867. The second looks at 17th-century Japanese vessels fired in Motoyashiki multi-chamber climbing ...
(Jan 12, 2015, Washington Post)
Seven Days, Seven Nights: SuperHeroes, Igloofest among week's highlights
The SuperHeroes group show at the contemporary-art Abyss Galerie (which doubles nicely as a tattoo parlour) in Griffintown (1520 Notre-Dame St. W.) features superhero portraits by 21 up-and-coming Montreal artists. “I come up with a theme each ... The ...
(Jan 12, 2015, Montreal Gazette)
Art and Culture Resolutions for 2015
Do a search of 'Contemporary art in China', or 'Saatchi gallery's emerging talent' and see what you find. It can be your mission to educate yourself with what's going on in the art world. Read up on exhibitions and reviews. It's as cultural as reading ...
(Jan 12, 2015, Huffington Post Canada)
Weekly Book List, January 16, 2015
Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan by Pedro R. Erber (University of California Press; 224 pages; $65). Examines the origins and evolution of an avant-garde movement that included such artists as Helio Oiticica and ...
(Jan 12, 2015, Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription))
a sunny stroll into the dark side
Zhang has erected a five-metre aluminium cast of a seated Buddha and, facing it, a Buddha cast from the same mould in 20 tonnes of incense ash from temples in China. The ash Buddha, so monumental and fragile, had lost its raised hand and ... It is ...
(Jan 12, 2015, The Australian)
Rem Koolhaas and Dasha Zhukova Build a Moscow Museum
For the past two years, the most exciting attraction in this cosmopolitan Arcadia has been cultural: the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Zhukova's ambitious attempt to connect Moscow to the international art world. Garage was named for its original ...
(Jan 12, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
A Multifaceted Singaporean Painter Breaks Barriers
Guo Yuanchao, Poly Auction's modern and contemporary art consultant, said from Beijing that Chinese collectors were noticing exceptional artists outside China whose works reflect Eastern traditions and cultures. While works by the most famous Chinese ...
(Jan 12, 2015, 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 ...
(Jan 12, 2015, The News)
Hot cars at the Detroit auto show
The Infiniti Q60 concept is unveiled at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015 in Detroit. .... It said it plans to sell the SUV in China starting in April and parts of the Middle East, Africa, South America and eastern Europe in ...
(Jan 12, 2015, Bellingham Herald)
Prospect.3 bus service and special events mark the close of the international ...
Prospect.3 bus service and special events mark the close of the international ...
(Jan 13, 2015, NOLA.com)
Gago Recreates Moore's Studio, NEA Shows Upped Arts Engagement, and More
Koolhaas's Garage Museum Plans: Starchitect Rem Koolhaas is building a new home for the first space dedicated to contemporary art in Moscow, founded by Russian heiress Dasha Zhukova. “Rem likes to challenge the white-cube tradition of Western museums ...
(Jan 13, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Meditating on Zhang Huan's Giant “Sydney Buddha”
Chinese artist Zhang Huan's “Sydney Buddha,” which is currently on show at Carriageworks in Sydney in conjunction with the Sydney Festival, is more than just a powerful and poignant work of art; it is also a feat of engineering. Standing over five ...
(Jan 14, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
"Latency" by Jihwan Park
He says the work is meant to represent the regenerative power of an artist and the flow of art movements while it draws connections between money and masterpieces, alluding to the contemporary art world's use of hype to make or break an artist. Hype is ...
(Jan 14, 2015, Rochester City Newspaper)
Australian Crowdfunding Platform Pozible Wraps Up a Successful 2014
Pozible China It may not be in your mailbox, but Australia-based crowdfunding platform Pozible just posted a thank-you letter to the community, wrapping up a busy 2014. The company hosted more than 3,000 projects, raising AU$14,151,243—a 49 percent ...
(Jan 14, 2015, Crowdfund Insider)
Book review: Paint By Numbers
They're now a category of “contemporary art,” in other words anything the creator cares to call art other than painting pictures on a canvas. The history of such things in China is the subject of this new book, Paint by Numbers. The author, Claire van ...
(Jan 14, 2015, Taipei Times)
Gu Wenda Gets Lifetime Achievement Prudential Eye
"Gu Wenda is an artist who has brought together a specific cultural tradition rooted in Asia with a global, ambitious outlook,” said Serenella Ciclitira, co-founder of Parallel Contemporary Art, the organizers of the Prudential Eye Awards. The artist's ...
(Jan 15, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
10 Things to Do
... set in Chicago neighborhoods, illustrated with images by local artists. Jan. 20, 6 p.m. Free with Museum admission. Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., 312-280-2660 ... The offerings include everything from experimental tiny tabletop ...
(Jan 15, 2015, Crain's Chicago Business)
The Sights of Shanghai
Shine Art Shine is one of the galleries in the M50 art district on Moganshan Road, the nerve center of the city's contemporary art scene. It specializes in modern Chinese work, like this solo exhibition of paintings by artist Mao Tongqiang entitled ...
(Jan 15, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
“New Artrends”Talk Series: Ni Gu Lu – Principle as a Method
From the perspective of the artist, the aesthetic theory of late Ming philosophers Wang Shizhen and Dong Qichang might hold the key to establishing an independent Chinese modernity and explain China's suspended process of reformation. His works also ...
(Jan 15, 2015, The Beijinger)
The High List
Soak your eyeballs in the photography and sculpture of City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India, a SAM exhibit exploring contemporary Indian society and its influences, including "Bollywood movie culture, venerated politicians, religious traditions ...
(Jan 15, 2015, TheStranger.com)
Gu Wenda: Liberating artistic creation tools to the universe
Not only is the Chinese contemporary artist going to be in town next week to receive the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2015 Prudential Eye Awards, his installation, United Nations — a massive screen of 188 national flags made out of human hair ...
(Jan 15, 2015, TODAYonline)
Shanghai Is Full of Surprises
Shine Art Shine is one of the galleries in the M50 art district on Moganshan Road, the nerve center of the city's contemporary art scene. It specializes in modern Chinese work, like this solo exhibition of paintings by artist Mao Tongqiang entitled ...
(Jan 15, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
LA Art Show 2015 Kicks Off With Celebrity Gala
With a focus on historic, modern and contemporary art, the show has almost no focus at all. “It's for the retail collector but then also somebody that's learning about art and wants to collect, or for a serious collector,” general manager, Kim ...
(Jan 15, 2015, Hollywood Reporter)
P J Harvey set to begin month-long residency inside glass recording studio at ...
P J Harvey set to begin month-long residency inside glass recording studio at ...
(Jan 16, 2015, The Independent)
China artist Gu Wenda to receive lifetime achievement award
Not only is the Chinese contemporary artist going to be in town next week to receive the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2015 Prudential Eye Awards, his installation, United Nations — a massive screen of 188 national flags made out of human hair ...
(Jan 16, 2015, Malay Mail Online)
Tracing S'pore history in rare, old maps
Those maps, dating back to the 16th century, indicated to those on board that they had reached the straits connecting the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. They form part of a collection of 140 rare maps in the National Library Board's (NLB) first ...
(Jan 16, 2015, AsiaOne)
2015: The year that the bubble bursts?
This outlook, however, chose slighty different areas for growth, selecting “emerging art markets such as India, China and Middle-East”, “whilst forecasters foresee slower growth in the European contemporary art markets.” Zacke also predicted India as ...
(Jan 16, 2015, AMA)
Gallery owner donates $10m to architecture school for displaced design
Widely known in fine-art circles as the owner of one of the world's finest collections of contemporary Chinese art, housed in the White Rabbit Gallery in inner-Sydney's Chippendale, Ms Neilson said she has been thinking for many years of some form of ...
(Jan 16, 2015, The Australian)
A Brief History Of Art Censorship From 1508 To 2014
Chinese artist and activist Ai was supposed to exhibit his porcelain sunflower seeds at an exhibition honoring the 15th anniversary of the Chinese Contemporary Art Award in 2014 -- he was, after all, a founding, three-time jurist. Yet due to pressure ...
(Jan 16, 2015, Huffington Post)
Paws & Claws: Animals in Art
Jeff Koons' joyful Puppy (1992) has been planted in Rockefeller Center (2000), and Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art (1995), and today this flowering 43-foot West Highland terrier permanently stands guard at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and on the ...
(Jan 16, 2015, Huffington Post)
New Report Builds a Profile of the Elusive Art Collector
The United States has 25 percent of the world's contemporary art collectors, by far the largest proportion, followed by Germany with 8 percent and Britain and China with 7 percent each. Switzerland, the home of Art Basel, the world's biggest ...
(Jan 16, 2015, New York Times)
Pacific Asia Museum: Signs of progress after first year under USC
The artists – Ali Kazim, Imram Qureshi and Muhammad Zeeshan – were among the 13 Pakistani artists featured in a 2010 exhibition at the museum, “Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art in Pakistan.” ... Yu Yu, who arrived in ...
(Jan 16, 2015, Los Angeles Times)
Sotheby's vote of confidence in Irish art market
Arabella Bishop, Sotheby's director for Ireland, said that given the huge interest internationally in contemporary art, Sotheby's would try to “promote a new generation of Irish artists to collectors at home and abroad”. ... Sotheby's experts will ...
(Jan 17, 2015, Irish Times)
LA Art Show: Intersection of Latin America and Pacific Rim
A special exhibition of contemporary Chinese ink paintings are modern and witty -- one painting, by Zhang Yujun, is a close-in, black-and-white portrait of Bruce Lee. Others, by Li Gang, are abstract, graphic works with text elements reminiscent of ...
(Jan 17, 2015, Los Angeles Times)
The 10 Most Expensive Auction Trophies of 2014
Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis–showing the star as a cowboy and pointing a gun was estimated in the region of $70 million at Christie's record-smashing November sale of Postwar and contemporary art. Bidding opened ... Chinese collector Liu Yiqian, who ...
(Jan 17, 2015, artnet News)
University of NSW receives $10m to research affordable housing for displaced ...
University of NSW receives $10m to research affordable housing for displaced ...
(Jan 17, 2015, Sydney Morning Herald)
LA Art Show 2015: 'There will be works of remarkable mediocrity'
Whether your tastes run to historic or contemporary art, LA Art Show 2015 has something for everybody. That's certainly good for art collectors who can get their hands on a piece for considerably less than ... Running through Sunday, the annual show ...
(Jan 17, 2015, The Guardian)
Xu Bing's WRITING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH to Open 2/21 at Frost Art ...
Xu Bing's WRITING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH to Open 2/21 at Frost Art ...
(Jan 17, 2015, Broadway World)
Joseph C. Thompson
Joseph C. Thompson is the director of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which this fall announced plans to double its already mammoth size. Until then, its 130,000 ... I'm really fascinated with new art coming out of China. There's a book ...
(Jan 17, 2015, Boston Globe)
Joseph C. Thompson
Joseph C. Thompson is the director of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which this fall announced plans to double its already mammoth size. Until then, its 130,000 ... I'm really fascinated with new art coming out of China. There's a book ...
(Jan 17, 2015, Boston Globe)
Art Fairs Galore in Paris in March
This year, the Art Paris Art Fair brings together 140 galleries, continuing its focus on a geographic theme. After Russia in 2013 and China in 2014, the 15-year-old event, running from March 26-29, continues to look to Asia with Singapore and Southeast ...
(Jan 18, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
5 free things to do in that other Vancouver
... tile-topped Chinese walls amid the bustle of downtown Vancouver. Yet it remains an oasis of peace in the eye of the urban storm. Across the street is the Rennie Gallery at Win Sang boasting a collection of contemporary art. Tours are free by ...
(Jan 18, 2015, The Columbian)
Art Gallery of NSW narrows architecture firms down to five finalists for ...
Art Gallery of NSW narrows architecture firms down to five finalists for ...
(Jan 19, 2015, WA today)
LA Art Show 2015 celebrates twenty years of exceptional art
This year's special exhibitions featured contemporary Chinese artwork including the exhibition Inspirations: Highlights of 2015 Chinese Contemporary Art and the National Exhibition of China: Light of Ink. The exhibitions included artwork by ink ...
(Jan 19, 2015, Examiner.com)
Oei Hong Djien and His “24 Hour Art Practice”
... with “Uli Sigg, China's Art Missionary”, which took a similar approach to profiling the legendary Swiss collector who accumulated one of the world's most extensive holdings of Chinese contemporary art, before deciding to donate most of it to Hong ...
(Jan 19, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
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