6 artists to look out for at Singapore Art Week
His controversial works containing swastikas were banned from Documenta 1992, a major contemporary art event held every five years in Kassel, Germany. He continues to stick with what he believes in. You often see swastikas re-emerging with crucifixes ...
(Jan 19, 2015, The Straits Times)
XU BING: WRITING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH OPENS FEB. 21 AT THE ...
XU BING: WRITING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH OPENS FEB. 21 AT THE ...
(Jan 19, 2015, Miami's Community Newspapers)
This Former UBS Banker Got Fed Up Of Not Being Able To Find Events When ...
This Former UBS Banker Got Fed Up Of Not Being Able To Find Events When ...
(Jan 19, 2015, Business Insider Australia)
Bryant Park resurgence continues with billion-dollar sale
It's across 42nd Street from the Durst Organization's 1 Bryant Park and two blocks north of Hines' under-construction 7 Bryant Park, which Bank of China plans to buy for around $600 million. (What happened to 2 and 6 Bryant Park is a question mark ...
(Jan 20, 2015, New York Post)
Art Sales: Christie's beats annual art sales record
And while contemporary sales lagged Christie's at $1.4 million, Sotheby's will claim market leadership for sales in a number of significant categories including Impressionist and Modern Art, Chinese works of art and contemporary art, Old Masters, and ...
(Jan 20, 2015, Telegraph.co.uk)
Vitamin Creative Space Opens Its “Mirrored Gardens”
Founded in 2002 and co-directed by Hu Fang and Zhang Wei, Vitamin Creative Space is one of China's most experimental and progressive contemporary art galleries, functioning as both an independent art space and as a “commercial” gallery. With Mirrored ...
(Jan 20, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Chinese artists to participate in residency
Xu Weixin, a professor and artist in the School of Arts at Renmin University of China, will discuss “Chinese Contemporary Art Observation ¬– Thinking and Practice” from 9 to 10 a.m. Feb. 12. He will work on an oil painting called “The Miner” from 1 to ...
(Jan 20, 2015, California Lutheran University)
FX Harsono bags Freedom of Art award
Chinese artist Gu Wenda also received the Prudential Eye lifetime achievement award, one of the six special awards handed out at the event. Other awardees, for their contribution to Asian contemporary art, included: FuturePerfect (best gallery), No ...
(Jan 20, 2015, TODAYonline)
'Arts Build Communities' grants around state
Focusing on one underserved rural town, three artists create contemporary art installations based on concepts from local cultural or natural history and community input. The installations transform vacant storefronts, signs of .... Portland Classical ...
(Jan 20, 2015, KTVZ)
Hong Kong Phooey street art replica fetches HK$2 million at auction
Alias HK_58, a version of a work by French street artist Invader, sold for HK$1.96 million at Sotheby's Hong Kong contemporary art sale, including the buyer's premium. The successful bidder was a European private collector. The item first appeared in ...
(Jan 21, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Can Hong Kong Handle Another Art Fair?
The art consultant observes that new models for art fairs are appearing in Asia and do seem to be working such as Shanghai's ART021, a fair that successfully focused on newly-minted Chinese collectors in its debut edition (see ART021 is the Chinese ...
(Jan 21, 2015, artnet News)
Hong Kong Phooey takes his revenge at Sotheby's with record $307k price for ...
Hong Kong Phooey takes his revenge at Sotheby's with record $307k price for ...
(Jan 21, 2015, ABC Online)
'Trophy' buyers push art sales to new heights at Christie's and Sotheby's
Christie's chief executive Patricia Barbizet, who took over from ousted former chief Steven Murphy last month, says the company owes much of its success to the “strong appetite” of contemporary-art collectors, but she says “other departments have been ...
(Jan 21, 2015, The Australian)
In Beijing's Caochangdi Village, First-Rate Art and Live Poultry Mix
Nowhere is this gold rush more evident than in the neighborhoods that are home to the Chinese capital's explosive contemporary art scene. Despite recent reports of weakness, evidence of ruddy health abounds. There may be a clampdown on excessive ...
(Jan 21, 2015, artnet News)
La Jolla's Best Bets for events Jan. 22-29
San Diego Chinese Historical Museum will screen “Frosted Yellow Willows: Her life, times and legend,” a documentary that chronicles Anna May Wong's (1905-1961) ascent from humble beginnings in a Los Angeles Chinese laundry to international film stardom ...
(Jan 22, 2015, U-T San Diego)
Beijing's Caochangdi Village Mixes First-Rate Art and Live Poultry
Nowhere is this gold rush more evident than in the neighborhoods that are home to the Chinese capital's explosive contemporary art scene. Despite recent reports of weakness, evidence of ruddy health abounds. There may be a clampdown on excessive ...
(Jan 22, 2015, artnet News)
The Best LA Art Parties This Week
The same night, the Arts District Alliance, in tandem with Art Share L.A. and the L.A. Art Show, presents the multi-venue installation Uniting the World through Art. Four artists from China's 798 Arts District and four from L.A.'s Downtown Arts ...
(Jan 22, 2015, LA Weekly)
Setting the Stage: What to See at Art Stage Singapore 2015
The Gillman Barracks complex, Singapore's contemporary arts enclave, also hosts the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, which is currently showing a must-see exhibition by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Yang Fudong. And Friday evening the ...
(Jan 22, 2015, Huffington Post)
Japanese art group wins big at Prudential Eye Awards
Contemporary Chinese artist Gu Wenda, known for his innovative use of materials while drawing on Chinese cultural traditions, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Asian Contemporary Art. Other key winners include Singapore's Future ...
(Jan 23, 2015, AsiaOne)
A bridge to China
MILLERS FALLS — Documentarian Richard Widmer, lately of Beijing, has purchased the former St. John's Church with plans to establish a cultural bridgehead to the Chinese contemporary art world. A Somerville native, Widmer said he encountered Franklin ...
(Jan 23, 2015, The Recorder)
Art Fair 'Fatigue' May Resolve Itself
In addition, tastes are changing: The Lesters cited an “80 percent shift” in the fine art market to Impressionist, modern and contemporary art for the demise of their event. But there is also an even more seismic shift taking place in the art market ...
(Jan 23, 2015, New York Times)
Why You Need to Go to Europe Now
When asked about current bargains to Europe, George Hobica, founder and president of the travel site Airfarewatchdog, said, “There have been some good fares to Scandinavia, Barcelona, Lisbon; and also to Taipei, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam in Asia from ...
(Jan 23, 2015, Men's Journal)
A new curator for living artists — and the undead
Stothart will begin at the museum next month. She replaces David Rubin, who resigned last year. Until recently, Stothart served as assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. “Coming into the job, I want to be respectful of my ...
(Jan 24, 2015, San Antonio Express-News)
The latest Hennessy nominees
Hennessy New Irish writing The new year heralds a new home for New Irish Writing, the renowned literary page that has discovered many of Ireland's leading writers. Launched by David Marcus in the 'Irish Press' in 1968, and edited since 1988 by Ciaran ...
(Jan 24, 2015, Irish Times)
Brussels fair offers a mixed bag of art surprises, from decomposing head to ...
Brussels fair offers a mixed bag of art surprises, from decomposing head to ...
(Jan 24, 2015, Art Newspaper)
A look at Toronto's new Aga Khan Museum
At a time when anything associated with Muslims or Islam may produce responses ranging from unease to outright hostility, the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto counters those sentiments with a thoughtfully-designed, tranquil place that honors centuries of ...
(Jan 25, 2015, Boston Globe)
Jacksonville overflowing with new thrills
And the Museum of Contemporary Art has expanded its downtown quarters; Riverside's Cummer Museum of Art charms all ages inside and in its fairy-tale riverfront gardens. Frequent special exhibitions ensure there's always something new. The same goes ...
(Jan 25, 2015, TBO.com)
Art Review: Mana Contemporary in Jersey City
The concept harnesses the exponential growth in contemporary art values to subsidize free exhibitions in Jersey City. Mana just announced that the Florence Academy of Art has opened its first American satellite campus ... "The logic of building things ...
(Jan 25, 2015, NJ.com)
Priced Out of Contemporary Art? Try Old Masters for $200 Million
... estimated at $3 million to $5 million, was exhibited as early as 1791 in London. Part of the disconnect between the prices commanded by Old Masters and contemporary art are a result of provenance, or the history of ownership, and a work's ...
(Jan 26, 2015, Bloomberg)
Beyond Bali: Your Next Destination Is Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This means that if you're interested in the contemporary art of Asia, Indonesia is a very interesting place right now. The reinstitution (after a seven-year absence) of the Indonesia Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale—underwritten by billionaire ...
(Jan 26, 2015, Condé Nast Traveler)
Art World Abstracts: A Mondo Show of Maoist Mangoes, and More!
Per The Times: “'Mao's Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution,' a China Institute exhibition organized by the art historian Alfreda Murck, perfectly captures the devotional fervor of that moment. And a mere moment it was. Within a year, the fad was ...
(Jan 26, 2015, New York Observer)
Bruegel, Tiepolo, Reubens Shine at Sotheby's Old Master Sales
With an overall estimate of $73.9–106 million for five Old Master sales, the value of Sotheby's series (January 28-29) this week in New York represents just a fraction of the hundreds of millions it reaps in a typical fall or spring New York season for ...
(Jan 26, 2015, artnet News)
The Old Masters Market Is Restoring Its Image to Make It Sexy
This year's season brings a new initiative to introduce some of the spontaneity and explosive energy of the contemporary art scene to this quiet corner of the art market. Certainly the Old Master field deserves greater ... Similarly, to lure a new ...
(Jan 26, 2015, artnet News)
Nonconformist Art Pioneer Dies in St. Petersburg
He has long been part of St. Petersburg art history, not a single exhibition could be held without his work," Alexander Borovsky, head of the contemporary art department at the State Russian Museum, wrote on Facebook. Ovchinnikov was born in the Perm ...
(Jan 26, 2015, The Moscow Times)
Wang Jianwei's artwork Time Temple is inspired by quantum physics
Art and science often make uneasy bedfellows, but that's not the case for Chinese artist Wang Jianwei. His works, which are conceptual and highly theoretical, have their foundations in theoretical physics, specifically the ideas of Danish physicist ...
(Jan 26, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
CalArts Alum One of 7 Artists Honored by State Department
A new body of work will be presented at The Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China in 2015. Selected public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; ...
(Jan 27, 2015, SCVNEWS.com)
Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010, gold-plated bronze. Estimate ...
Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010, gold-plated bronze. Estimate ...
(Jan 27, 2015, Telegraph.co.uk)
Tribal art collector and ardent adventurer, Senta Taft-Hendry, dies
The pair travelled to Africa together, India, Germany, France, England, China and America. They travelled to New Guinea and all of the Pacific ... Her collection grew to thousands of pieces of tribal and contemporary art. Although her taste was ...
(Jan 27, 2015, Sydney Morning Herald)
Acclaimed artist Maya Lin has first major Florida exhibition in Orlando
"She's right on track with what's going on in contemporary art. She's revealing things ... Her selection was not without controversy — because of her youth, her heritage (she's Chinese-American) and the nontraditional look of her memorial wall ...
(Jan 27, 2015, Orlando Sentinel)
What's new, what's next for ArtPrize 2014 grand-prize winner and her work
In the aftermath of Agha's double grand prize win last October, artists from as far away as China and Turkey sought her advice and counsel about Grand Rapids' exhibition and $560,000 competition. Thousands of people on Facebook sent friend requests to ...
(Jan 28, 2015, MLive.com)
With the Economy Improving, Museums Go on a Buying Spree
According to Susan Taylor, director of the New Orleans Museum of Art and president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, the high prices of artworks at auction, “especially in the area of Modern and Contemporary art, has precluded a number of ...
(Jan 28, 2015, New York Observer)
Art World Abstracts: A Fair in a Wild West Ghost Town, and More!
Kipper's gift will augment the museum's collections of Indian, Himalayan, Central Asian, Southeast Asian, and Chinese art.” [Artforum]. There's a glut of Vincent van Gogh biographical concern recently, which means austere British publications can run ...
(Jan 28, 2015, New York Observer)
10 Investments for High Rollers
The $25 billion initial public offering of China's biggest online commerce company made history in 2014 as the largest on record. But there's more ... Contemporary art. You don't have to be an art lover to fall for the potentially enormous returns ...
(Jan 28, 2015, U.S. News & World Report)
CalArts Grad Wins US Department of State's 2014 Medal Of The Arts
A new body of work will be presented at The Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China in 2015. Selected public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; ...
(Jan 28, 2015, KHTS Radio)
10th Anniversary of Free Museum Day
Some of the participating Free Museum Day participants includes, Zimmer Children's Museum, Andy Warhol at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On regular days ...
(Jan 29, 2015, Daily Sundial)
The Scout List: Built City lecture, The Operators concert and vintage finds
The official skinny: “Chinese contemporary art in Unscrolled and the legacy of Emily Carr in Landon Mackenzie's Wood Chopper and the Monkey. Take out a selection from the Human Library, experience an interactive installation by Hong Kong Exile and ...
(Jan 29, 2015, The Globe and Mail)
FX Harsono : Exposing the beauty of ugly truth
Four of the 12 first graduates have become recognized names in the contemporary art scene at home and overseas, including photographer Stephany Yaya Sungkharisma, also known as Yaya Sung, who created installations to commemorate murdered human ... “I'm ...
(Jan 29, 2015, Jakarta Post)
Chinese New Year to light up New York City
... in "The Scene in the Future" while Lu Shengzhong, a CAFA professor of experimental art, will show both his "Little Red People" series and "Creativity Market" which is both a real market selling handicrafts from across China and a contemporary art ...
(Jan 29, 2015, ecns)
Penny Liu Appointed Editor in Chief of artnet News China
Penny (Pinyu) Liu, a reputable media practitioner and member of the contemporary art world cognoscenti, has been named editor-in-chief of artnet News China (artnetnews.cn). artnet's newest platform launches February 2015. Previously Ms. Liu was chief ...
(Jan 29, 2015, artnet News)
Art abounds this weekend in three new shows
Jacob Hicks returns to Midland from New York, where he curates contemporary art exhibitions in Brooklyn and Manhattan and writes for art review publications. He's shown in New York, Germany, France and now back home in Midland. He will showcase a ...
(Jan 29, 2015, Midland Reporter-Telegram)
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