Expanding Contemporary Chinese Art Program, Guggenheim Hires Two New Curators
To expand its Chinese contemporary art programming, the Guggenheim's appointed two new curators, according to Julia Halperin in the Art Newspaper. Hou Hanru's being brought on as a consulting curator, and Xiaoyu Weng will serve as an associate ...
(Aug 14, 2015, Artforum)
Danh Vō Splits With Berlin Gallery Amid Appeal of Dutch Court Ruling
Anny Shaw reports in The Art Newspaper that artist Danh Vō has parted ways with his Berlin gallery, Isabella Bortolozzi, and will subsequently be fighting his appeal to a Dutch court ruling by himself with a new legal team. The artist's former lawyer ...
(Aug 14, 2015, Artforum)
Anish Kapoor Claims Chinese City Plagiarized His Iconic Chicago Sculpture
To expand its Chinese contemporary art programming, the Guggenheim's appointed two new curators, according to Julia Halperin in the Art Newspaper. Hou Hanru's being brought on as a consulting curator, and Xiaoyu Weng will serve as an associate ...
(Aug 14, 2015, Artforum)
Sotheby's and Christie's Jostle for Sales
Christie's dominated the market-defining contemporary-art auctions in New York in May. Christie's “Looking Forward to the Past” selection of 20th-century masterworks and its accompanying contemporary evening sale reaped $1.4 billion, dwarfing the $379 ...
(Aug 14, 2015, New York Times)
South African artist William Kentridge on his Beijing retrospective
A vast collection of his works is now on show at Beijing's Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA). The retrospective features an array of media including artworks in India ink, ... Instead of creating a single coherent piece that addressed his ...
(Aug 15, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Raven Software: Still alive and thriving, at 25
Stronger than ever after a harrowing period during the last recession, Raven is adding staff, manages a studio in China, and, as a subsidiary of Activision, is part of the team that develops one of the most successful video games: “Call of Duty.” Raven ...
(Aug 16, 2015, Madison.com)
Hong Kong contemporary art show to strike a chord in Taiwan
The city's latest artistic roadshow is expected to strike a chord in Taiwan on a very human level, the chief curator says. Eve Tam Mei-yee, director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art since 2012, said “In the Name of Art – Hong Kong Contemporary Art ...
(Aug 16, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Susanne Hilberry (1943–2015)
To expand its Chinese contemporary art programming, the Guggenheim's appointed two new curators, according to Julia Halperin in the Art Newspaper. Hou Hanru's being brought on as a consulting curator, and Xiaoyu Weng will serve as an associate ...
(Aug 16, 2015, Artforum)
Melva Bucksbaum
To expand its Chinese contemporary art programming, the Guggenheim's appointed two new curators, according to Julia Halperin in the Art Newspaper. Hou Hanru's being brought on as a consulting curator, and Xiaoyu Weng will serve as an associate ...
(Aug 17, 2015, Artforum)
Langham Hospitality Group Introduces Cordis, Hong Kong - The Flagship Hotel ...
Langham Hospitality Group Introduces Cordis, Hong Kong - The Flagship Hotel ...
(Aug 17, 2015, Hospitality Net)
Langham sets date for launch of first Cordis branded property.
Stunning works of over 1,500 pieces of contemporary Chinese art valued at over HKD$35 million adorn the walls and public spaces of the hotel. With the hotel's recently refurbished private Club Lounge located on the 36th level, guests staying on the ...
(Aug 17, 2015, 4Hoteliers)
Langham Hospitality Group Introduces Cordis, Hong Kong - The Flagship Hotel ...
Langham Hospitality Group Introduces Cordis, Hong Kong - The Flagship Hotel ...
(Aug 17, 2015, Hospitality Net (press release))
Pulse of the Future
Sinan Liu《melancholy》 150×120cm 2013 oil painting Showcased at the Katzen Art Center at American University, this exhibit focuses on the contrast between contemporary Chinese art of the 1980s and the next generation of Chinese artists, who seek to ...
(Aug 17, 2015, Home & Design Magazine (blog))
Preview: Art in the City 2015
We want the Art In The City Festival to be a place of new discoveries, a search engine for look closely at new art and creativity in China, and to meet the new wave of dealers and curators who are shaping the emerging art scene of China. Davide ...
(Aug 18, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Langham Place, Mongkok, Hong Kong to Become a Cordis
In addition, the hotel features more than 1,500 works of contemporary Chinese art, with an estimated value of US$4.5 million, as well as a full-service spa; four restaurants, bars and lounges; and a private club lounge on the 36-floor. The hotel is ...
(Aug 18, 2015, Meetings & Conventions)
For New York Arts, Fresh Leadership
In addition to meeting with museum Director Thomas P. Campbell, that also meant sitting in on board meetings, lectures, dinners and the May opening of the Met's “China: Through the Looking Glass” show. ... In the coming months his to-do list will ...
(Aug 19, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
New Annie Leibovitz photo exhibition coming to Hong Kong
After next year's tour, portraits in the exhibition will be added to the UBS Art Collection, which compromises more than 35,000 works of contemporary art. Jervoe said UBS wanted the free exhibition to reach as many people as possible. “We're also ...
(Aug 19, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Brothers Grimm get new museum in Germany
Ai Weiwei brought 1,001 Chinese people and Ian Hamilton set up guillotines in the garden. Germany's international art ... Despite the absence of Ai Weiwei, Germany's massive eight-city exhibition of Chinese art has plenty to criticize. Both established ...
(Aug 19, 2015, Deutsche Welle)
Contemporary Chinese Artists To display Monumental Works At Cass Sculpture ...
Contemporary Chinese Artists To display Monumental Works At Cass Sculpture ...
(Aug 19, 2015, ArtLyst)
Contemporary Chinese Artists To display Monumental Works At Cass Sculpture ...
Contemporary Chinese Artists To display Monumental Works At Cass Sculpture ...
(Aug 19, 2015, ArtLyst)
Sydney gets a taste for art
Lowry worked with QT Sydney's mixologist Jared Thibault to create the cocktail for Sydney Contemporary art fair, which will be held at Carriageworks from September 10 to 13. "Fiona and I worked together to create a cocktail that was complex in flavour ...
(Aug 20, 2015, The Australian Financial Review)
The world of Grace Lim
She's an artist, from inside to out, living frugally, studying the art of Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, internalizing the feeling of this and that and how they relate, and painting contemporary abstract art that has drawn rave reviews in China and ...
(Aug 20, 2015, Portland Tribune)
WAC Issues "Dreamscapes" Call for Entries
She convenes the museum's biannual Asian Art Council, a curatorial think tank, and heads The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation initiative in contemporary Chinese art. Raised in Japan, Munroe is former Vice President of Japan Society, New York, and ...
(Aug 20, 2015, HamletHub (press release) (registration) (blog))
Art museum takes on a 'Visual History of Lake Tahoe'
That necessarily went from Native American cultures up to contemporary art.” The exhibit covers 15,000 square feet and two floors of the museum and consists of more than 400 objects by 175 artists. Many of ... For the exhibition, Lin created three ...
(Aug 20, 2015, Reno Gazette Journal)
Things to Do on Long Island, Aug. 23 to 29, 2015
EAST MEADOW Holy Trinity Orthodox Church Summer Festival, live Slavic music by Barynya, bouncy castles and children's games, Chinese auction, flea market, vendors and more. Sept. 5, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, 369 Green Avenue ...
(Aug 20, 2015, New York Times)
Museum & Gallery Listings for Aug. 21-27
7) 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 ...
(Aug 20, 2015, New York Times)
City art break in Beijing
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's first solo shows on mainland China are currently under way in Beijing in two adjacent spaces. At the Gallleria Continua until year-end, and spread into the Tang Contemporary Art Center, the exhibition has for its ...
(Aug 21, 2015, The Malaysian Insider)
Arthena Talks to Acclaimed Contemporary Artist, Zhang Huan
In the middle of my forehead, the text means 'Move the Mountain by Fool (Yu Kong Yi Shan)'. This traditional Chinese story is known by all common people, it is about determination and challenge. If you really want to do something, then it could really ...
(Aug 21, 2015, Huffington Post)
Triple-Major's Ritchie Chan on China's sophisticated shoppers
But all of that changed in 2009, when I went to Beijing for the first time and held an exhibition at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art. I noticed the enthusiasm the Chinese audience had for emerging designers and decided to open a multi-brand ...
(Aug 22, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Charles Garabedian
He was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1966 and 1981), Cal State, Los Angeles (2003-04), and a retrospective at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2011), curated by Julie Joyce. In New .... So I will do China ...
(Aug 23, 2015, Hyperallergic)
Diane Howse on the wild art of Bronte country
They feature words again extracted from the works of the Brontës, which have been translated into Chinese. Produced in Hong Kong, there is a sense of how the sisters' work, having travelled around the world, ... When she opened the Terrace Gallery in ...
(Aug 23, 2015, Yorkshire Post)
Sarah Sze Aims for Precise Randomness in Installing Her Gallery Show
A Chinese-American who grew up in Boston, Ms. Sze (pronounced zee), 46, graduated from Yale in 1991 and earned a master's at the School of Visual Arts in 1997. ... “I think that's a good question if we're making contemporary art,” Ms. Sze said. “How do ...
(Aug 23, 2015, New York Times)
Bosnian WWII Battlefield Becomes Art Laboratory
For the past two weeks, participants from Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Italy, Brazil and China have been working on artworks, performances and exhibits that are now laid out all over the former World War II battlefield. Among them is a ... Ars Kozara's ...
(Aug 24, 2015, Balkan Insight)
Cross-Cultural Collaborations in India
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art held in southern India. In 2012 it was the first ever biennale to take place in India, an initiative of the Kochi-Biennale ... As well as profiling exceptional Indian artists ...
(Aug 24, 2015, Huffington Post)
Interview: New Asia Society Museum Director on Why Art and Culture Are the ...
Interview: New Asia Society Museum Director on Why Art and Culture Are the ...
(Aug 24, 2015, Asia Society (blog))
Museo d'Arte e Scienza presenta: ORIGINAL HOME - Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition
Dal 27 agosto al 4 settembre. Una collettiva da non perdere che contiene tutto il fascino dell'espressione orientale all'interno delle meravigliose sale del MAS, il Museo della famiglia Matthaes. Dal 1990 il Museo si occupa principalmente dell ...
(Aug 25, 2015, Mi-Lorenteggio)
Chen Zhen: Shanghai Remembers a Native Son With Art Retrospective
It was the early 1980s, and China was beginning to loosen travel restrictions on its citizens, so in 1986 Mr. Chen left his parents and his hometown of Shanghai and headed to Paris, where he studied art and worked as a sidewalk portrait artist. Mr ...
(Aug 25, 2015, New York Times)
Right at Home: Decor Goes Global at the NY Now Show
It's fun to find an artisan-forged wall hook, a uniquely carved stool, a cool contemporary art piece or a hand-painted tablecloth, each from some far-flung corner of the world. The NY Now show is one place where retailers can find goods like those all ...
(Aug 25, 2015, ABC News)
Belgian Artist Wim Delvoye Creates Works That Don't Hold Back, Pushing The ...
Belgian Artist Wim Delvoye Creates Works That Don't Hold Back, Pushing The ...
(Aug 25, 2015, Forbes)
Ex-SAM director to head museum in New York
“The Asia Society Museum is renowned for its pioneering programming, for example, it was the first institution to introduce contemporary Chinese art to the USA,” Mr Tan, 45, told TODAY. “Many of the landmarks shows of Asian art have been organised by ...
(Aug 25, 2015, TODAYonline)
Top 5 Private Collector Museums to Visit
Whether these buildings are meant to cement their legacies, increase their exposure or increase tax breaks, they still have the same effect -- allowing the general public to see contemporary art that would otherwise be held in storage units and private ...
(Aug 25, 2015, Huffington Post)
The costliest art mishaps
... a discussion on what constituted contemporary art, not least because Ai himself has been criticised for destroying artworks by buying ancient urns, splashing them with paint, and smashing them. Ai however told the South China Morning Post: "I ...
(Aug 26, 2015, BBC News)
Things to do and see in Marin County, Aug. 27 through Sept. 3, 2015
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art: 500 Palm Drive and 781 Hamilton Parkway, Novato; 415-506-0137; www.marinmoca.org. Aug. 29 through Oct. ... Through August: “China Camp: A Photographic Journey,” solo exhibition by Osher Levi. 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. ...
(Aug 26, 2015, Marin Independent Journal)
Asian Contemporary Design to Auction at Christie's Shanghai
The success of the 2014 auction of Chinese Contemporary Design is an indication of strong international interest in objects and traditions originating from China, said Géraldine Lenain, International Director of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art at ...
(Aug 26, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Shaping contemporary art history
Although the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) has suffered criticism about the prolonged lack of a leader and sinking attendance after the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, its Seoul branch is steadily attracting ...
(Aug 27, 2015, Korea JoongAng Daily)
Calling All Artists for the Westport Art Center's Annual Group Show!
She convenes the museum's biannual Asian Art Council, a curatorial think tank, and heads The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation initiative in contemporary Chinese art. Raised in Japan, Munroe is former Vice President of Japan Society, New York, and ...
(Aug 27, 2015, HamletHub (press release) (registration) (blog))
New museum on Silk Road breaks the Chinese mould
“We chose that [approach] because people in China's interior don't understand Chinese contemporary art, and as Ningxia is the main concentration for Hui, it resonates with people here,” says Suchen Hsieh, the art supervisor for MoCA Yinchuan. The city ...
(Aug 27, 2015, Art Newspaper)
Museum & Gallery Listings for Aug. 28-Sept. 3
7) 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 ...
(Aug 27, 2015, New York Times)
Property Boom Drives Out Galleries That Changed N.Y.'s Chelsea
As emerging art galleries are priced out, those with deeper pockets see Chelsea as an opportunity. Eli Klein, co-owner of Klein Sun Gallery, which specializes in Chinese contemporary art, moved from Soho last year. “In China, they recognize it as the ...
(Aug 28, 2015, Bloomberg)
Art Market Bracing for an Uncertain Sales Season
The market for Indian miniatures, like that for Italian maiolica, archaic Chinese bronzes and almost everything made before 1900, has a far smaller client base than that for international contemporary art. “When I started, there were only two ...
(Aug 28, 2015, New York Times)
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