China's Invisible Man Fights For The Future Through Art
“At that time, contemporary art was in quick development in Beijing, but the government decided it did not want artists like us to gather and live together.” He says. 'Also many exhibitions were forced to close. 'The situation for artists in China is ...
(Sep 18, 2015, Carbonated.tv (blog))
Private Collectors Get Into the Museum Business
Last week, critics made their first assessments of The Broad, the 120,000-square-foot private museum in downtown Los Angeles to showcase the contemporary art collection of the billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. The museum has an ...
(Sep 18, 2015, International New York Times)
Political art
NEAR the entrance of Ai Weiwei's new exhibit at the Royal Academy in London is a sign saying that the works represent a powerful exploration of Chinese culture, history and material. ... China. Here, at last, is contemporary art that actually means ...
(Sep 18, 2015, The Economist (blog))
Ai Weiwei opens retrospective in London and Spain
Chinese dissident artist Ai has a major exhibition opening at the Royal Academy on September 19. — Reuters pic. People walk around the sculpture exhibition titled 'Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads' by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the Contemporary Art ...
(Sep 19, 2015, Malay Mail Online)
Localism: What to see at mima's current exhibition - Art From Elsewhere
... and exchange, urban and international migration, frontiers and failed utopias. Highlights include A Ton of Tea, 2006, by well-known Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei - a cubic metre block of compressed Pur Er tea leaves sculpture. David Elliott ...
(Sep 19, 2015, Gazette Live)
3 Parallel Artworlds: 100 Art Things from Chinese Modern History
A thinker and platform-builder as well as a commercial actor, few figures in the last 30 years have been more engaged with and influential in the interpretation of contemporary Chinese art and the construction of a durable market. At the heart of this ...
(Sep 19, 2015, Caixin Media)
8 highlights of the Urals Industrial Biennale of contemporary art
The former Iset hotel is hosting the main project of the biennale prepared by its two international curators, Li Zhenhua (China) and Biljana Ciric (Serbia). The 10-story building is one of the best works of art at the biennale. The constructivist ...
(Sep 19, 2015, Russia Beyond the Headlines)
Fall Arts Guide 2015
New York's Guggenheim Museum has indicated that their interest is their growing contemporary Chinese art program is serious by hiring Jou Hanru and Xiaoyu Weng as new Curators of Contemporary Chinese Art. Singaporean curator and arts administrator ...
(Sep 20, 2015, The International Examiner)
Street Art Is Finding a Home With Collectors
... of an exhibition of 55 street artists from 30 countries at the MdM Museum in Porto Cervo, along the northern coast of Sardinia. He says world-wide names in the movement include JR and Invader (France), OsGemeos (Brazil), Blu (Italy), José Parlá ...
(Sep 21, 2015, Wall Street Journal)
Things to do this week: Sept. 21-27
Swiss artist collective Com&Com combines contemporary art with traditional popular culture. Artists, musicians, poets, performers ... 25: Chinese Festival, 2-8:30 p.m., Oxford Uptown Park, Main and High streets, Oxford. Features food, music, art ...
(Sep 21, 2015, Cincinnati.com)
Politics and art inseparable, says Asia Society's new museum director
Although Asian art has long exerted an influence on artists working in New York, it was generally an unknown quantity for gallery-goers until the Chinese contemporary-art boom in the new millennium. The public is better informed today, Tan says. "Due ...
(Sep 21, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Has Los Angeles, now flush with arts, finally found its heart?
The Broad Museum for contemporary art opened in downtown Los Angeles this weekend, adding to a flourishing of culture in the city's once-barren downtown. A fresh sense of civic identity is emerging, but slowly. ... Numerous foreign investments include ...
(Sep 22, 2015, Christian Science Monitor)
Sydney University receives $15 million donation to build new Chau Chak Wing museum
"A multi-disciplinary museum where the arts and sciences meet and ancient worlds encounter contemporary art and ideas." The new museum will house artistic, scientific and archaeological artefacts from the Macleay, Nicholson and University Art Gallery ...
(Sep 22, 2015, Sydney Morning Herald)
Danqing Li on Christie's Inaugural +86 First Open Sale
Beyond the inaugural October sale next month, Li also seeks to make +86 First Open a platform for educating the art market on emerging trends in contemporary Chinese art. “Although major institutions and private museums have now begun promoting ...
(Sep 23, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Danqing Li on Christie's Inaugural +86 First Open Sale
Christie's has appointed Shanghai-based Danqing Li as specialist head of its new “+86 First Open” sale that seeks to offer a fresh, innovative perspective on Chinese contemporary art. Named for China's country code, the inaugural auction takes place at ...
(Sep 23, 2015, Blouinartinfo UK)
Heritage Auctions announces first Modern and Contemporary Art Auction in New York
... of Modern and Contemporary Art in New York. “We have a carefully curated selection of works to perfectly capitalize on our recent New York and international expansions and capture collector's attention in a very real way.” Critics hail Chinese ...
(Sep 23, 2015, ArtfixDaily)
Saverio Lucci's contemporary portraits go on show in Hong Kong
A feature of Lucci's Hong Kong visit is the unveiling of a portrait of Hong Kong model Jocelyn Luko-Sandstrom that will be exhibited at the Asia Contemporary Art Show from October 8-11. Modern Italian Master by Saverio Lucci, until October 23, Fabrik ...
(Sep 23, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Global Private Museum Summit Moves to Shanghai, Launches Network
The Summit was a major attraction of the London fair ensuring the presence of major international contemporary art collectors from Don and Mera Rubell (USA), Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Italy), Wang Wei and Budi Tek (China). Art16 will be the ...
(Sep 23, 2015, artnet News)
Ai Weiwei exhibit re-opens Helsinki Art Museum
An exhibit by one of the contemporary art world's most influential artists opens in Helsinki on Friday. The contemporary ... It's not uncommon for activists and government critics to be arrested in China, but Ai was particularly outspoken. He already ...
(Sep 24, 2015, YLE News)
Surprises as museum 'Oscars' shortlist revealed
... the "Oscars for museums" -- honor the world's most visionary art institutions and emerging cultural hotspots. While plenty of the usual suspects make the list -- MoMA in New York, London's Tate Modern -- there are new arrivals like the jaw-dropping ...
(Sep 24, 2015, CNN)
VIDEO: Why Now Is the Time to Collect Chinese Contemporary Ink Art
Chinese ink artists are profoundly relevant to contemporary Chinese society, yet until recently have been largely neglected by curators and critics alike. Gallerist Michael Goedhuis, who has been collecting and dealing contemporary Chinese art since ...
(Sep 24, 2015, artnet News)
Why Americans Shouldn't Take Chinese President Xi Jinping's Compliments Seriously
When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Seattle on Tuesday for his U.S. visit and joked that his anti-corruption drive was no House of Cards power play, he wasn't just showing his familiarity with American pop culture: He was adding a page in a PR ...
(Sep 24, 2015, Slate Magazine)
Chinese art meets cooking at San Antonio Museum of Art
The San Antonio Museum of Art is combining culinary and visual art in a program called ArtBites, in conjunction with 28 Chinese, a new exhibit of contemporary Chinese art. Each session will offer a gallery talk followed by a hands-on cooking class ...
(Sep 24, 2015, mySanAntonio.com (blog))
The Grand Opening of the 6th Beijing International Art Biennale - Memory and Dream
The exhibition attracts 685 pieces of art from 96 countries covering paintings, sculptures, installations, videos and mixed media (188 from China and 497 from abroad). Besides the Theme Exhibition, there are six Special Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, ...
(Sep 25, 2015, PR Newswire (press release))
Ai Weiwei the star attraction at Helsinki Art Museum reopening
The Helsinki Art Museum has reopened with an exhibition by influential Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, following a year of renovation that has seen gallery space more than double. Inside the 1930s Tennis Palace, a culture and shopping space in the city's ...
(Sep 25, 2015, The Guardian)
This Stunning Contemporary Art Captures Terror, Wonder and Wit in the Anthropocene
In 2014, she curated “The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art.” The show's inspiration was the centennial of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. Earlier, in 2010 ... The work depicts the first Chinese hydrogen bomb test in 1967 ...
(Sep 25, 2015, Smithsonian)
The Art Market: A postcard from Paris
Next Saturday the firm is holding its first contemporary art sale in Hong Kong since he arrived. Simply titled Modern & Contemporary Art, the catalogue has 88 lots estimated at US$23m-US$30m, and is dominated by Asian art with a few non-Chinese works, ...
(Sep 25, 2015, Financial Times)
Exhibit features 40 pieces of Chinese artwork
The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum hosted the first Along the Silk Road exhibit curated by Sun featuring artwork from Northwest China in 2010. Sun said he is happy to bring a new exhibit of contemporary Chinese art to Coshocton, and his goal is to one day ...
(Sep 25, 2015, Coshocton Tribune)
Contemporary Indian Art: Fine Works at Good Prices
When the recession hit, sales of India's top 100 modern and contemporary artists fell by three-quarters. The Chinese market, in contrast, continued to explode. Kiran Nadar, considered perhaps India's foremost collector of modern and contemporary art ...
(Sep 26, 2015, Barron's)
Artists reinterpret works by Picasso at Wexner Center
“After Picasso” was organized in cooperation with Deichtorhallen Hamburg, a German museum that first staged the exhibition as “Picasso in Contemporary Art” to commemorate its own 25th anniversary. The angular Wexner Center galleries provide an ideal ...
(Sep 27, 2015, Columbus Dispatch)
Galleries from 24 countries take part in Contemporary İstanbul
Galleries that will be taking part in Cİ for the first time include Art Lexing (Miami), the Australia China Art Foundation (Shanghai), Galerie Bernard Ceysson (Paris), Corridor Contemporary (Tel Aviv), Dubner Moderne (Lausanne), l'étrangère (London ...
(Sep 27, 2015, Today's Zaman)
China's economic slump set to hit art auctions in Hong Kong, insiders say
While Bonhams will host its first sale of modern and contemporary art in the city, Sotheby's Hong Kong is offering 3,909 lots of artworks and luxury items for its autumn sale, which is estimated to fetch HK$2.3 billion. Among the highlights are ...
(Sep 27, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Ink artworks set for revival in Hong Kong with series of exhibitions, fairs ...
Ink artworks set for revival in Hong Kong with series of exhibitions, fairs ...
(Sep 27, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Galleries from 24 countries to take part in Contemporary İstanbul
Galleries that will be taking part in Cİ for the first time include Art Lexing (Miami), the Australia China Art Foundation (Shanghai), Galerie Bernard Ceysson (Paris), Corridor Contemporary (Tel Aviv), Dubner Moderne (Lausanne), l'étrangère (London ...
(Sep 28, 2015, Today's Zaman)
Hong Kong's autumn auction fever
There's a busy two weeks ahead for auction-goers and art lovers in Hong Kong, with no fewer than nine sales occurring in the space of nine days. The action starts on October 3: Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Art auction. October 3, Suite 2001, One ...
(Sep 28, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Hong Kong art auctions offer quality pieces despite economic slowdown
It is a good thing that two of the world's largest auction houses - China's state-owned Poly Culture Group and Sotheby's - are listed on stock markets because their financial disclosures have to tell it like it is. On August 25, Poly's half-year report ...
(Sep 28, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Art Sales: Frieze Masters mixes the old and new
All art and antique fairs experience a turnover of exhibitors as galleries come and go. But in the highest-profile fairs such as Frieze or Art Basel, stands are so coveted that changes are much rarer. When they happen there, they tend to signify some ...
(Sep 29, 2015, Telegraph.co.uk)
AU to welcome two contemporary Chinese digital print/potographers for weeklong ...
AU to welcome two contemporary Chinese digital print/potographers for weeklong ...
(Sep 29, 2015, AU News)
The Mini Vinnie Bini is where a maximalist First Friday starts
Read the mission statement of the Rocket Grant program, the longtime artist-funding mechanism fostered by the Spencer Museum of Art and the Charlotte Street Foundation, and you'll be reminded that part of the design is to launch “innovative, ...
(Sep 29, 2015, Pitch Weekly)
The Koreans at the Top of the Art World
Specific to the Korean context yet resonant with Western abstraction, Tansaekhwa came to dominate international shows of Korean contemporary art by the late nineteen-seventies. Over time, the movement gradually fell out of favor; only its most ...
(Sep 30, 2015, The New Yorker)
Art museum gains new curators
Tianlong Jiao is the Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art and comes from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where he was department head and curator of Chinese art. ... Rebecca R. Hart is named the Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and ...
(Sep 30, 2015, Centennial Citizen (registration))
New Art building with gallery opens at Stanford.
... Fund, an anonymous estate, Roberta & Steve Denning, Susan & John Diekman, Jill & John Freidenrich, Deedee & Burton McMurtry, Cantor Membership Acquisitions Fund, an anonymous acquisitions fund, Pauline Brown Acquisitions Fund, C. Diane Christensen ...
(Sep 30, 2015, San Francisco Chronicle (subscription))
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