The 'Post-Mankind' Vision of Photographer Lori Nix
Her first major show was in Chicago, where she stumbled into a Richard Misrach exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Misrach is best known for his monumental photographs of humans' effects on the American landscape. “All these different images of ...
(Feb 9, 2015, Newsweek)
Asia Art Archive's Mobile Library travels to Myanmar
But in Myanmar, eager students and artists are lapping them up in the five-month Mobile Library project, which is co-organised by Asia Art Archive, the Hong Kong organisation that records and promotes the development of Asian contemporary art. ... All ...
(Feb 10, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Latest News: ISIS, Alabama, Measles
It said it would pay $975 million for violating China's antimonopoly law. NOTEWORTHY ... A rare double self-portrait by the British painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) could be sold for as much $27 million at a Sotheby's sale of contemporary art in London ...
(Feb 10, 2015, New York Times)
Art with a Dose of Imperialism: Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
LOS ANGELES — Art world elitism permeates Pierre Huyghe's retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which seems tailored to an insider audience of artists and collectors that contrasts with the museum's stated mission ...
(Feb 10, 2015, Hyperallergic)
Back (Again) from Havana: A Report from the Publisher
I witnessed that with Chinese contemporary art 15 years ago. More awareness brings a supply-and-demand situation. But from what I saw, that hasn't happened. They're still doing great work. It's something I stress to the artists I've been seeing: Don't ...
(Feb 10, 2015, Cuban Art News)
Exhibition imagines united Asia
The Art Sonje Center is one of Korea's leaders in current and experimental contemporary art. And their ... The exhibition is in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and brings together 12 artists from four different countries: China, Korea, Japan and ...
(Feb 10, 2015, Arirang News)
Museum Leaders Share Resources Across Borders
The hurdles of running a contemporary-art museum in the West African country of Benin might seem light years away from the concerns of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world's largest and wealthiest. ... of Art and Archaeology at the ...
(Feb 11, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
Gerhard Richter Nets $46.3 Million at Sotheby's London Contemporary Art ...
Gerhard Richter Nets $46.3 Million at Sotheby's London Contemporary Art ...
(Feb 11, 2015, artnet News)
CAMPUS Brushing through history: Chinese ink art exhibit opens at Univ. of ...
CAMPUS Brushing through history: Chinese ink art exhibit opens at Univ. of ...
(Feb 11, 2015, Diamondback Online)
Exclusive interview: Polish Ambassador to China on cultural exchange
Featuring 300 precious objects from oil paintings to porcelain and sculpture, this exhibition at the National Museum of China shows that there is more to Poland than the famous composer Chopin. Julian Waghann sits down with Poland's ambassador to China ...
(Feb 11, 2015, CCTV)
Meet China's New Power Collectors: What Do Key Art Market Players Think ?
... Century and Contemporary Art Department; Nick Simunovic, Director of Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong and Bao Yifeng, co-founder of Art021 art fair, and of the Chinese Young Collectors' Council, an upscale organization connecting young collectors in ...
(Feb 11, 2015, Forbes)
Chinese New Year Miami Dadeland Mall Feb. 12-28 culture celebration
Speakers include Dr. Fu Xin of the Fu Xin Gallery Contemporary Art and painter Su Yue Lee. The festivities will feature traditional Chinese music and dance performances. A schedule of the Art Talks and performances will be made available at our guest ...
(Feb 11, 2015, Miami's Community Newspapers)
Gallerist Almine Rech's Eclectic and Elegant Paris Apartment
The space is decorated with an imposing chandelier, Louis XVI chairs, a 1940s leopard-print sofa and 18th-century Chinese porcelain lamps, but amid all this grandeur sits a plump black garbage bag that seems to have been dumped in a corner of the ...
(Feb 11, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
Cy Twombly's $30 Million New York City Win at Christie's London $178 Million ...
Cy Twombly's $30 Million New York City Win at Christie's London $178 Million ...
(Feb 12, 2015, artnet News)
Cy Twombly's $30 Million New York City Wins at Christie's London $178 Million ...
Cy Twombly's $30 Million New York City Wins at Christie's London $178 Million ...
(Feb 12, 2015, artnet News)
Travel Tips: An Artful Approach to Staying Fit
Meesha Chang is international gallery director of Erarta Galleries, which specializes in Russian contemporary art. The New York-based American ... I want to improve my Chinese first so I can fully experience the country and its culture. Favorite city ...
(Feb 12, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
Chinese New Year
Speakers include Dr. Fu Xin of the Fu Xin Gallery Contemporary Art and painter Su Yue Lee. The festivities will also feature traditional Chinese music and dance performances. A schedule of the 'Art Talks' and performances will be made available at ...
(Feb 12, 2015, Miami New Times)
Post-Soviet Union aftermath on display in 'Specters of Communism'
The space contains a collection of videos, found objects, photographs, and other pieces of art that come together to form a reflection of contemporary art in post-Soviet Russia. “It [the exhibit] reflects a certain ambivalence in contemporary Russian ...
(Feb 12, 2015, CU Columbia Spectator)
Valentine's Day doesn't have to cost a fortune with on-campus events
The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is offering a Chinese-language tour of the Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China exhibit at 11 a.m. At 2 p.m.there will also be a Collection Show and Tell, led by Director of Education Michelle Word, discussing ...
(Feb 12, 2015, MSU State News)
Phillips London Gains New Luster with $26.9 Million Contemporary Art Evening ...
Phillips London Gains New Luster with $26.9 Million Contemporary Art Evening ...
(Feb 13, 2015, artnet News)
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei Exhibition To Open in 2016
But the exhibition will "explore the meticulous observation of modern and contemporary art, life, and politics through the activities of two exemplary figures." The Andy Warhol Museum, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, houses 900 paintings, 100 ...
(Feb 13, 2015, artnet News)
Exhibit helps to build community by featuring new works by New Mexico artists
That Gallery's more traditional collections moved to the building on the north side of the parking lot, while the Peters Project is focusing on contemporary art. “I'm still trying to get the word out that we're here,” Kessler said. While the art will ...
(Feb 13, 2015, Albuquerque Journal)
Museum & Gallery Listings for Feb. 13-19
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. Most ...
(Feb 13, 2015, New York Times)
Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads Hit $4.4 Million At $26.9 Million Phillips London ...
Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads Hit $4.4 Million At $26.9 Million Phillips London ...
(Feb 13, 2015, artnet News)
Pompidou Branches to Pop Up in France, Big Arts Gifts Fall, and More
Pompidou Plans Peripatetic Pop-Ups: France's flagship contemporary art museum will soon allow municipalities across the country the opportunity to host a temporary outpost for a period of four years. The effort follows the recently announced Centre ...
(Feb 13, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Review: Art market's old vices go global
In “Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century” Georgina Adam describes how today's contemporary art boom is reshaping the business of art. Much of what goes on in the global market, worth 47 billion euros ($65 billion) in 2013 ...
(Feb 13, 2015, Reuters Blogs (blog))
Animator Sun Xun's 'Stately Shadows' at Manchester Centre for Chinese ...
Animator Sun Xun's 'Stately Shadows' at Manchester Centre for Chinese ...
(Feb 13, 2015, Financial Times)
Sotheby's Brushes Up Its Image With London Auction
LONDON— Sotheby's shook off doubts stemming from the ouster of its chief executive late last year, earning this past week its highest total for artwork auctioned in London from its contemporary art department. The company's annual February auction ...
(Feb 14, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
Chinese New Year around Australia
... privately owned gallery houses an important collection of contemporary Chinese art, with some 1000 works by 350. Collections are rehung every six months. Admission is free and it might be better to have someone on hand to interpret the contemporary ...
(Feb 15, 2015, Herald Sun)
Canadian landscape art graces Beijing
The opening ceremony of the exhibit, the second stop of the show that debuted last August in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi province, was held on Jan 31. The Canadian Ambassador Guy Saint-Jacques, Yang Chao, director of Xi'an Art Museum and Gao ...
(Feb 16, 2015, ecns)
Cai Quo-Qiang's gunpowder art goes on show in Manchester
A piece of stunning work by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang Saturday went on show in the northern UK city of Manchester for the first time outside Asia. The painting, Unmanned Nature, dominates the brand ... The work has been shown previously at the ...
(Feb 16, 2015, WantChinaTimes)
Arts Etc. – February 14, 2015
The Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver BC, Canada has the following. 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 ...
(Feb 16, 2015, The International Examiner)
Ai Weiwei Zodiac Heads Sculptures Set New Auction Record For The Artist
... Animals / Zodiac Heads, 2010 for £2.8m ($4.3m) at the Contemporary Art Evening Sale which took place on Thursday, 12 February. The twelve gold-plated sculptures portraying the signs of the ancient Chinese zodiac had a pre-sale estimate of £2,000 ...
(Feb 16, 2015, ArtLyst)
de Sarthe Gallery Opens Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective
In the context of today's contemporary Chinese art production, what lessons might we draw from a historical analysis of Zao's oeuvre? Zao was not afraid to experiment with new ideas and concepts that were different from the artistic traditions that he ...
(Feb 16, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Chinese New Year 2015: Manchester to stage one of Europe's biggest ...
Chinese New Year 2015: Manchester to stage one of Europe's biggest ...
(Feb 16, 2015, Mancunian Matters)
18 things to do today, Feb. 16, in Boulder County
"Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art" "Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art" explores the tensions between an ancient culture's unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven contemporary art world. ... Chinese New Year Celebration Welcome the ...
(Feb 16, 2015, Boulder Daily Camera)
Artprice: the Art Market heading towards billion-dollar auction prices.
This 13th Annual Global Art Market Report, the fruit of very in-depth research, required the full support of its publishing partner AMMA/ARTRON (Art Market Monitor of Artron), the only Chinese quasi-State institution allowing both partners to produce ...
(Feb 16, 2015, Nasdaq)
Chinese New Year of the Goat: How, where to celebrate in Dubai
Chinese New Year is around the corner, on Thursday, February 19. Just as with other popular festivities and important days on the calendar, restaurants and shopping malls in Dubai are gearing up to welcome and celebrate it with the growing Chinese ...
(Feb 17, 2015, Emirates 24/7)
A restaurateur who's an artist outside the kitchen
In the apartment's soaring atrium, designed like a traditional courtyard home, a chef carves roast duck alongside banquet tables stacked with sushi, lobster and Chinese cuisine. Koi swish silently in a pond, beneath a tree illuminated with ... In the ...
(Feb 17, 2015, Los Angeles Times)
TOWIE meets Sex And The City in new reality TV show Taking New York
In fact, moving to New York was always Megan's dream – Amy just got there first after Megan fixed up an internship at a contemporary Chinese art gallery downtown. Two years later, it has turned into a full-time curator role complete with apartment in a ...
(Feb 17, 2015, Daily Mail)
4 Questions: Xu Bing
But the motivation and inspiration I have got still stems from the contemporary China. Mr. Kerry is the presenter of the award, who is very amiable. He said that I created Monkeys Grasping the Moon in the American Embassy in Beijing and also another ...
(Feb 17, 2015, Forbes)
Calendar of Events // What's Up
Verizon Wireless at Pearlridge Mall, 9-10 a.m., free. Attend this workshop and learn about the great features of your iPhone. During this workshop Verizon experts will show you how to use features like Maps, Siri (not available on all models), FaceTime ...
(Feb 17, 2015, Midweek)
photos pierce the dark of Lac-Mégantic
A meticulous visual chronicler, Aquin has brought a socially engaged approach to subjects as diverse as the Indonesian tsunami, man-made desertification in China, food shortages along the Nile in Egypt, Quebec's contaminated Yamaska River and the ...
(Feb 17, 2015, Montreal Gazette)
Market Square's 'Winter Landscape' will gradually come alive
A very small forest in Market Square — not leafy green yet, but the color of black Chinese ink. “A Winter Landscape: Cradling Bits of Sparkle” by artist Jennifer Wen Ma, is the second major installation in the ... 19 when the barriers come down and ...
(Feb 18, 2015, Tribune-Review)
Terry Biviano reveals smooth forehead and tight smile after recently ...
Terry Biviano reveals smooth forehead and tight smile after recently ...
(Feb 18, 2015, Daily Mail)
Interview: China's international image improving, more efforts needed: U.S ...
Interview: China's international image improving, more efforts needed: U.S ...
(Feb 18, 2015, GlobalPost)
XU BING'S “WRITING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH” OPENS FEB. 21 AT ...
XU BING'S “WRITING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH” OPENS FEB. 21 AT ...
(Feb 18, 2015, ArtfixDaily)
Interview: China's international image improving, more efforts needed: US scholar
... products that China has introduced to other countries were either traditional folk performances, such as folk music, Peking Opera, ink painting and traditional Chinese calligraphy, or artistic pieces inspired by the Western classics, pop or ...
(Feb 18, 2015, Xinhua)
Is painting dead?
Others prefer observation without cameras, such as Josephine Halvorson, who paints modest tableaux of rural buildings from arm's length, or Liu Xiaodong, whose plein-air paintings of young Chinese students recall Manet and Courbet. Perhaps the biggest ...
(Feb 18, 2015, BBC News)
Sydney MCA exhibition by IAPA: Chinese design under the influence of ...
Sydney MCA exhibition by IAPA: Chinese design under the influence of ...
(Feb 18, 2015, Infolink Architecture & Building)
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