Arts Etc. — May 9, 2015
Advance warning—Noted architect/sculptor/installation artist Maya Lin who designed the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C. will give a talk as part of the “SAM TALKS” series on June 29th at Seattle Art Museum. Go to seattleartmuseum.org and look ...
(May 11, 2015, The International Examiner)
Reimagining the urban – art and public space
The 2015 conference, titled Cities in a Climate of Change: Public Art and Environmental and Social Ecologies, is jointly hosted by Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and Shandong University of Art and Design, China. Held at the ...
(May 11, 2015, Scoop.co.nz (press release))
The art of collecting: It's all about opportunity, says Chinese art investor
One of these displays took place in 2008, when he invited University of Pittsburgh professor Gao Minglu, a leading critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art, to curate a series of retrospective exhibitions for the No Name Group. The group is one ...
(May 12, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Christie's Auction NYC Expected To 'Break Records' With Help Of $140 Million ...
Christie's Auction NYC Expected To 'Break Records' With Help Of $140 Million ...
(May 12, 2015, International Business Times)
Chris Burden, a Conceptualist With Scars, Dies at 69
One of Mr. Burden's most discomforting works — for spectators and for him — “Doomed” was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. There, as museumgoers looked on and a clock ticked away above him, Mr. Burden lay on the floor ...
(May 12, 2015, New York Times)
Picasso work goes for $179 million, beating records and expectations
Employees of Christie's auction house hold up Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's 'Les femmes dAlger (Version O)' during a press preview in London on April 10, 2015. Photograph by Justin Tallis — AFP/Getty Images ...
(May 12, 2015, Fortune)
Morning Links: Turner Prize Edition
Ana Gallardo's contribution to “All the World's Futures,” on view at the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale. [Contemporary Art Daily]. The French Ministry of Culture and Communication secretly organized a restitution to China for a collection of 2,000 ...
(May 12, 2015, ARTnews)
Jitish Kallat: The writing's on the wall for non-violence
The work was shown at the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane in 2006. In Public Notice 2, he referred to Gandhi's speech calling for non-violence and civil disobedience ... Kallat is being shown alongside Chinese artists Ai ...
(May 12, 2015, The Australian)
7 Events and Exhibitions at Frieze New York 2015 That You Don't Want to Miss
Participating galleries include New York's Acquavella, Blue & Poe, JTT, McKee Gallery, Pace and more along with international galleries like hailing from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France ...
(May 12, 2015, Forbes)
The white hot art market in charts
The 2014 distribution of sales by value in the global art market was dominated by three major centres — the US, China and the UK. China accounted for less than 5 per cent of the market in 2006, but had risen to 22 per cent by 2014. The Chinese art ...
(May 12, 2015, Financial Times)
Jefff Gundlach Says Auctions Like $179 Million Picasso Depend On Russian ...
Jefff Gundlach Says Auctions Like $179 Million Picasso Depend On Russian ...
(May 12, 2015, Forbes)
The Asian art market is expanding but is Australia looking in the right direction?
Reflecting on her time in the region Grace says, “In Hong Kong you have this tremendous flowering of contemporary art. Local art is starting to become prominent. [There is] the onslaught of Chinese mainland artists and the interesting dialogues going ...
(May 13, 2015, ABC Local (blog))
Today's Chinese artists explain an evolving country
Such socially critical work has given the artist a reputation as enfant terrible in Chinese contemporary photography. He questions the way consumerism and materialism are taking over China and how the country's cultural tradition is evolving. The work ...
(May 13, 2015, Deutsche Welle)
Seattle Center Festal to Present 'A GLIMPSE OF CHINA', 5/16
The festivals highlight the diverse cultures and common threads of ethnic communities in our region with traditional and contemporary art, music, foods, youth activities, workshops, marketplaces and more. This collection of 23 cultural events is ...
(May 13, 2015, Broadway World)
Nine Latin American artists display their works in Beijing
An art festival in Beijing has invited nine Latin American artists to the Chinese capital, for a contemporary art exhibition reflecting their cultural heritage in combination with Chinese traditions. The 3rd Latin America Contemporary Art Festival ...
(May 13, 2015, CCTV)
How Do Museums Collect? Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold Lehman Breaks It ...
How Do Museums Collect? Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold Lehman Breaks It ...
(May 13, 2015, New York Observer)
Why Africa is the buzz at this year's Venice Biennale
(CNN) -- It's the glittering jewel that tops the contemporary art calendar every two years -- yes, the Venice Biennale is back. Often described as the "Olympics of the art world," this year 53 countries will come together at venues scattered amid the ...
(May 13, 2015, KTVQ Billings News)
Germany opens its largest-ever show of modern Chinese art
There's never before been an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art of this magnitude: Eight cities, nine museums, 120 artists, 500 works. For audiences in Germany, the question is on the tip of their tongues: Just how much influence did Chinese ...
(May 13, 2015, Deutsche Welle)
Chinese delegation meets Tourism Min ahead of Modi's visit
Sharma also mentioned that India is in the process of developing various circuits out of which Buddhist Circuit and Himalayan Circuit can be of great interest to the Chinese tourists coming to India. India is also organising an exhibition of ...
(May 13, 2015, Business Standard)
Xi's Attempt to Control Media Extends to Artists, Echoing Mao
State control over art has always existed, but Xi is more “blunt” in his approach, said Guan, who lived and painted in the late 1980s in Yuanmingyuan Artist Village in the west of Beijing -- the kernel of the Chinese contemporary art movement. Before ...
(May 13, 2015, Bloomberg)
Jeff Gundlach Says Auctions Like $179 Million Picasso Depend On Russian And ...
Jeff Gundlach Says Auctions Like $179 Million Picasso Depend On Russian And ...
(May 13, 2015, Forbes)
Pride & Passion brings the Forbidden City to TMA
The Tampa Museum of Art has stepped up their presence with an internationally co-presented Chinese contemporary art exhibition, active participation in local arts events and most recently a high-profile Norman Rockwell exhibition. Most recently, the ...
(May 13, 2015, Creative Loafing Tampa)
Christie's Has Art World's First $1 Billion Week
On Wednesday, Christie's said it sold $658.5 million worth of work at its postwar and contemporary art auction, added to the $705.9 million for 20th-century works auctioned off on Monday. The billion-dollar threshold was a symbolic coup for Christie's ...
(May 14, 2015, New York Times)
Latest News: Arab Allies, Amtrak Crash and More
India's prime minister is in China for a visit that officials on both sides are promoting as a business trip. ... Frieze New York, the American version of one of Britain's largest contemporary art events, opens today, featuring works by more than 1,000 ...
(May 14, 2015, New York Times)
In a Venice Biennale full of moving stories, the British appear to have ...
In a Venice Biennale full of moving stories, the British appear to have ...
(May 14, 2015, New Statesman)
Chicago-area classical music recommendations
Five Elements Project: Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, pipa virtuoso Yang Wei and other artists present the fourth and final concert of the Chinese Fine Arts Society's yearlong festival of music inspired by ancient Chinese philosophy. The program will ...
(May 14, 2015, Chicago Tribune)
Contemporary Auctions Push Toward $2 Billion
The blockbuster “Looking Forward to the Past” sale at Christie's on Monday night was a tough act to follow, but results from the evening sales of postwar and contemporary art at Sotheby's and Christie's proved it was no fluke: Yes, the art world is ...
(May 14, 2015, Vulture)
Museum & Gallery Listings for May 15-21
16) Designed to illustrate the influence of Chinese culture on Western fashion, this visually extravagant exhibition fills both the basement-level Anna Wintour Costume Center and the Chinese galleries on the second floor, and claims a repurposed ...
(May 14, 2015, New York Times)
CHINA 8 Contemporary Art opens in Germany
A man takes pictures of a painting during the opening ceremony of the CHINA 8 Contemporary Art from China along the Rhine and Ruhr, in Kueppersmuehle, Duisburg, Germany, on May 13, 2015. More than 500 Chinese contemporary artworks will be shown ...
(May 15, 2015, ecns)
Art Market Sees New Auction Highs, New Rules
At Wednesday's auction of contemporary art at Christie's International, which netted $658 million, an electronic screen flashed bids in seven currencies including rubles, Swiss francs and Hong Kong dollars. Collectors from ... David Norman, a four ...
(May 15, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
Preview: Asian Contemporary Art at Christie's HK, May 2015
Elsewhere, Chinese artist Liu Wei's oil on canvas “N5-1” (2010), estimated to go for HK$1,600,000-2,600,000 (US$205,100-333,300), is an enigmatic response to the vertiginous pace of change in China's megacities. “In Liu Wei's paintings, our modern, ...
(May 15, 2015, Artinfo UK)
Preview: Asian Contemporary Art at Christie's HK, May 2015
Elsewhere, Chinese artist Liu Wei's oil on canvas “N5-1” (2010), estimated to go for HK$1,600,000-2,600,000 (US$205,100-333,300), is an enigmatic response to the vertiginous pace of change in China's megacities. “In Liu Wei's paintings, our modern, ...
(May 15, 2015, Artinfo UK)
"Phantom of Civilization": Contemporary art from Taiwan at Casino Luxembourg - Luxemburger Wort
The youngest artist of the trio, Wu, born in 1981, creates installations that immerse visitors in dream-like landscapes and meditative environments steeped in Chinese culture and pictorial tradition, while simultaneously confronting them with panoramic ...
(May 15, 2015, English Edition)
The Art Market: big spenders in the Big Apple
In a knockout blow to the opposition, its curtain-raising Monday sale scored $705.9m for “Looking Forward to the Past”, a “curated” sale of 34 lots which mixed categories, from early 20th century to contemporary art. Picasso's “Les femmes d'Alger ...
(May 15, 2015, Financial Times)
Young artists thrive in Rochester
As a community, we should be so proud that we are home to an institution that emphasizes the value of contemporary art in craft media. Most institutions struggle with the art-centric demand to be rid of craftsmanship and material specificity to stay ...
(May 16, 2015, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
1:54 Contemporary Art Fair's Worthy Frieze Week Debut
Perhaps the most intriguing new arrival to this year's Frieze Week in New York is London's 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, which opened to the public on Friday and continues through the weekend. Occupying the main floor of Pioneer Works in Red Hook, ...
(May 16, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
China and rest of Asia make strong showing at Venice Biennale
Quantity aside, this year's China Pavilion, presented by the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, is probably the country's strongest - and slickest - presentation yet since officially joining the Biennale in 2005. The space housing "Other Future" is ...
(May 16, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
New York's spring art auctions have raked in $2.6 billion
The Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group also snapped up a Monet, "Bassin aux nympheas, les rosiers," for $20.4 million, underlining the growing influence of Asian buyers. Simon Shaw, co-head of Sotheby's Worldwide ... "With winning bids executed by ...
(May 16, 2015, Business Insider)
Corrections: May 17, 2015
The Chinese-born designer is Ms. Guo, not Ms. Pei. •. An article last Sunday about the artist ... He is Mark Rosenthal, an adjunct curator of contemporary art at the museum — not Graham Beal, the museum's director. BOOK REVIEW. Because of an editing ...
(May 16, 2015, New York Times)
Sound and vision in harmony
British cellist Oliver Coates delivered the solo in Tan Dun's concerto with considerable nuance, although necessarily lacking the penetrating nasality and searing quality of the erhu (Chinese violin) version, exquisitely performed by the MSO in 2013 ...
(May 17, 2015, The Australian)
Africa: 'the Next China' for Contemporary Art
Giles Peppiatt, from Bonhams in London, had good reason to make the trip to Nigeria's financial capital, Lagos, for the auction house's next sale of African art -- a glut of potential buyers. On a recent visit, he described Africa as "one of our ...
(May 18, 2015, Naharnet)
Record year for investing in the art market as China's role grows
It was interesting to see, for instance, that although the US remains the key centre for sales of Post War and Contemporary Art, China has now drawn level in its share of the Modern Art market. But evidence of the globalisation of the art market goes ...
(May 18, 2015, bdaily)
19 Free Art Museums You Should Visit This Summer
What: "Ever since Andy Warhol and his entourage caused a near-riot here in 1965," the ICA writes online, this museum has been bringing contemporary art to Philly. Artists like Warhol, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, and Robert Indiana had their first ...
(May 18, 2015, Huffington Post)
Welcome to Literature's Duchamp Moment
Sheila Heti spends three days at Art Basel in How Should a Person Be?, and Michel Houellebecq lampoons the contemporary art world in The Map and the Territory. Siri Hustvedt's novel What I Loved begins with the ... Vila-Matas finds this absurd, and ...
(May 19, 2015, The New Republic)
Art Sales: at what price guarantees?
In Christie's exclusively contemporary art sale, estimated to fetch at least $500 million, 50 out of the 84 works with a combined low estimate of $378 million – or about 75 per cent of the sale's value – was guaranteed. Again, some had been backed by ...
(May 19, 2015, Telegraph.co.uk)
5 Amazing New Exhibit Spaces to Add to Your Museum Radar
Opened in mid-March, the new Contemporary Art and Design wing at the Corning Museum of Glass is appropriately sheathed in a reflective opaque glass facade. Inspired by the sublime effect of light on glass works, NYC-based architect Thomas Phifer ...
(May 19, 2015, Curbed National)
Private galleries form alliance to share works of art
Organised by Philip Dodd, a former director of the ICA gallery in London and an expert in the Chinese contemporary art market, the Global Private Museum Association will formalise links built up between international collectors in recent years at Art15 ...
(May 19, 2015, Financial Times)
Below the surface: Lin Han and the art of collecting
Owning an Impressionist masterpiece is a statment of power and wealth, but Impressionist artworks themselves can no longer create art history, while contemporary art can. One of my favourites, ... The number of art lovers in China is increasing. I will ...
(May 20, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Chinese art presents at London's Art15 fair
Bryan says Chinese contemporary art has changed dramatically from the stereotype of Chinese traditional ink painting, as Chinese contemporary art is presented through a great variety of media, including installations, video work, conceptual work, ...
(May 20, 2015, ecns)
Paradise Interrupted brings East and West together in a mythical operatic garden
In Chinese artist Jennifer Wen Ma's magnificent 2012 installation "Hanging Garden in Ink," 1,500 live plants were painted jet black with traditional Chinese ink and suspended in midair. The 65-foot-long, 26-foot-high piece, which was commissioned by ...
(May 20, 2015, Charleston City Paper)
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