Art galleries are leaving Chelsea, pushed out by rising rents and office buildings
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, Crain's New York Business)
2015 Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts - Channel3000.com
Renowned contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing returns to the Chazen for his third exhibition, revealing a landscape created in situ using cardboard tubes, plastic bags, dried plants and hundreds of LED lights. A creative interplay of shadow and light ...
(Aug 28, 2015, WISC-TV3)
Anita Feldman wants to free the art
“We recently had external scholars come in and look at our Chinese painting collection, which isn't often on view,” Feldman said. “We found out it's one of the best in the world outside of Asia; certainly the strongest in the United States. That's an ...
(Aug 29, 2015, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Power Station of Art
Abstract art has occupied a special place over the three or more decades in which contemporary art has evolved in China. It stands at a distance from the flashpoints of both ideology and commerce, and its marginal position means that abstraction has ...
(Aug 30, 2015, E-Flux)
Property boom drives out galleries that changed New York's Chelsea
The U.S. contemporary art epicenter is in the middle of a transformation as small and medium-size galleries are being priced out of their expensive ground-floor spaces in Chelsea. As office ... "In China, they recognize it as the center of the art ...
(Aug 30, 2015, Chicago Tribune)
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback
The commitment to contemporary art was furthered by the influential tenure of Arthur Everett Austin Jr., known as Chick, who championed artists like Alexander Calder in the 1930s and 1940s, and it has continued to the present day, with the Matrix ...
(Aug 30, 2015, New York Times)
Ai Weiwei to Speak at Berlin's International Literature Festival
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei will speak at the International Literature Festival Berlin, in a panel discussion with fellow Chinese dissident and poet Liao Yiwu. The conversation will be moderated by the prominent German journalist and writer ...
(Aug 31, 2015, artnet News)
Fall Arts Preview: The Ultimate Guide to This Season's Cultural Happenings
First came 28 Chinese, on loan from the Rubell family and full of beautiful (but sometimes disturbing) contemporary Chinese art. Now there's First Look, an exhibition of the museum's contemporary collection, including works by artists like Zheng ...
(Aug 31, 2015, San Francisco magazine)
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
The shapes are sharply defined but the black-and-tan palette spreads shadows and murk throughout the scene, giving it the expressive mystery of a Chinese scroll. Ross's magnificent “Hurricane” fills the stifling attic of another building. To shoot this ...
(Aug 31, 2015, Financial Times)
Art & Activism: Reshaping Tradition with Ai Weiwei
Kerry Brougher, chief curator of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, states, “For me, Ai Weiwei has been one of the most important artists that has emerged from this new wave of Chinese art from the '90s and the 2000s.” (“Art, China & Censorship ...
(Aug 31, 2015, Hometown Pasadena)
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