Third China Private Art Museum Development Forum
The forum was jointly organized by the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Today Art Museum, the Long Museum, the Himalayas Art Museum, the Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Aurora Museum. The Third ...
(Oct 19, 2015, E-Flux)
Sydney to get $32m Phoenix gallery by DBJ & John Wardle Architects
The new project is only a few streets away from the White Rabbit Gallery, a free-entry space funded by the Neilson Foundation that features a large collection of contemporary Chinese art. The approval grants permission for the new space to be open to ...
(Oct 19, 2015, Architecture AU)
Plenty of spirit in Chinese artist Li Lei's Hong Kong show of abstract ...
Plenty of spirit in Chinese artist Li Lei's Hong Kong show of abstract ...
(Oct 20, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
The Director's Guide: Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Founded by the Yuz Foundation in 2014, Shanghai's Yuz Museum is already regarded as one of China's most significant contemporary art galleries. As well as hosting a programme of high-profile temporary exhibitions, the attraction also houses significant ...
(Oct 20, 2015, Telegraph.co.uk)
Sucking up to China won't be an issue – we have plenty of practice
There stands William gazing up in awe at a Chinese giant as they shake hands, while Yao Ming, a 7ft 6in tall basketball player, coolly looks down on the Prince with a courteously aloof smile. The one imperfection in an otherwise immaculate geopolitical ...
(Oct 20, 2015, The Independent)
Art biennale in Makassar, Indonesia, celebrates 40000 years of creativity
An hour or so down the road, at the first Makassar Biennale (until 31 October), artists are celebrating 40,000 years of artistic heritage, and seizing the chance to raise the profile of contemporary art in the region. Although treated by foreigners ...
(Oct 21, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Traditional and Contemporary Artistic Worlds Collide in New CSU Exhibitions
It explores and addresses numerous relevant themes, such as historical traditions, environmental issues, life experiences and economic developments as well as the impact of contemporary art in everyday life in modern-day China. Participating artists ...
(Oct 21, 2015, Cleveland Scene Weekly)
ArtReview names Swiss power couple most influential in contemporary art world
Chinese dissident artist and free-speech activist Ai Weiwei, who has previously topped the list, took the number two spot. — Reuters picLONDON, Oct 22 — Swiss husband-and-wife art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth, who offer clients a lush English ...
(Oct 22, 2015, Malay Mail Online)
International Art Show Extended
Lew trained in traditional and contemporary Chinese art with master painter Cheng Shifa in Shanghai, China. He later worked as a staff painter at the International Gallery in central Hong Kong while attending Hong Kong University's art school, and ...
(Oct 22, 2015, The Independent)
At FIAC, a Museum Cruise Along the Seine
Giant replicas of 12 Chinese bronze animal heads by the dissident artist Ai Weiwei will surround one of the park's ponds. The heads are copies of 18th-century originals, made by Jesuit priests in China, that were sacked by foreign invaders in the 19th ...
(Oct 22, 2015, International New York Times)
Exploring the Darker Sides of Ceramics
The exhibition will travel next spring to Paris, where it will be split between two venues: La Maison Rouge, a contemporary art foundation, and the Sèvres Ceramics Museum, just outside the capital. “What unifies all the work in the show is that it's ...
(Oct 22, 2015, International New York Times)
Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 23-29
Museum of Modern Art: 'Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection'(through April 10) MoMA's latest installation of works from its permanent collection fills the second-floor contemporary galleries with videos, installations ...
(Oct 22, 2015, New York Times)
Ai Weiwei No 2 on list of contemporary art world's most influential; Hong Kong ...
Ai Weiwei No 2 on list of contemporary art world's most influential; Hong Kong ...
(Oct 23, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
The Art Market: Tout va bien à Paris
He was among the numerous dealers who had exhibited at Frieze the week before and, with just two days' breathing space, was back on his feet in his booth at France's leading modern and contemporary art fair, now in its 42nd edition. ... Shanghai's Bank ...
(Oct 23, 2015, Financial Times)
Art
“Exquisite Nature: 20 Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the 14th-18th Centuries.” Through Nov. 1. “Picturing Sound, Creating ... Through Nov. 1. “In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art: David Wilson and Francesco Spagnolo.” Through Jan. 3. “NEAT ...
(Oct 24, 2015, SFGate)
Pottery Winner: An Artist's Dark, Funny Ouevre Gets Major Show
Ron Nagle is a lot like his ceramics: compact, tidy, quirky — and colorful. The artist, who has helped take clay to the heights of the contemporary art world, recently sported black pants, a blue-and-white striped T-shirt, white shoes, red socks and a ...
(Oct 24, 2015, NPR)
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says Lego refused order for Melbourne exhibition on ...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says Lego refused order for Melbourne exhibition on ...
(Oct 25, 2015, Sydney Morning Herald)
Lydia Ko wins LPGA Taiwan to regain No. 1 spot in world
The tournament was the third in the five-event Asian Swing. The Blue Bay LPGA is next week in China, followed by the Japan Classic. Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or ...
(Oct 25, 2015, KTVN)
Pottery Winner: An Artist's Dark, Funny Oeuvre Gets Major Show
The artist, who has helped take clay to the heights of the contemporary art world, recently sported black pants, a blue-and-white striped T-shirt, white shoes, red socks and a rose-colored hat. Around his neck hangs a long silver chain, filled with ...
(Oct 25, 2015, KQED)
Highlights from the Asian 20th century & Contemporary Art – Pioneers of ...
Highlights from the Asian 20th century & Contemporary Art – Pioneers of ...
(Oct 25, 2015, Christie's)
Highlights from the Asian 20th century & Contemporary Art – Singaporean Art
... distinctive artistic expression of Singaporean artists Cheong Soo Pieng and Chen Wen Hsi, in how they synthesize local subject subject matters, as seen through their modern Chinese cultural lenses, and visualized with a western post-impressionist ...
(Oct 25, 2015, Christie's)
How little we Brits have left to be proud of in our country
For her it was that, in a time of austerity, so much money was being lavished on “a Chinese ruler”. Others felt that Britain had bent, sunk too low, given too much away to a “foreign country”. Beneath the anti-foreign sentiments, I sense a river of ...
(Oct 25, 2015, The Independent)
Chinese leaders drawing up new long-range growth plan
BEIJING (AP) - Facing pressure to pep up a cooling economy, Chinese leaders met Monday to craft a new long-range blueprint to guide development through the end of this decade. The Communist Party's five-year plan is a throwback to the era of central ...
(Oct 26, 2015, ABC NEWS 4)
Korean art auctioneers ramp up sales in Hong Kong
Jackline Jiae Byun, K Auction's specialist in modern and contemporary art, says she's also noticed more interest from overseas collectors in monochrome paintings since last spring. This October, K Auction sold works by Chung Sang-hwa and Park Seo-bo to ...
(Oct 26, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Can the Single-Venue Gallery Survive?
Berlin/Beijing dealer Alexander Ochs, who specializes in contemporary Chinese art, representing artists such as Fang Lijun, discontinued his Kreuzberg gallery in Berlin last year, only to reopen as a “private salon” in his 3,200-square-foot apartment ...
(Oct 26, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Something Old, Something New: An Exhibition Weds Technologies of Yesterday and ...
Something Old, Something New: An Exhibition Weds Technologies of Yesterday and ...
(Oct 27, 2015, Hyperallergic)
Art of the nation
Art dealers in Manhattan started buying works by Chinese artists in 2008 shortly before the contemporary Chinese art boom. The works later resurfaced in a back-to-back show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. One of the pieces by ...
(Oct 27, 2015, The Star Online)
Is dissension all Chinese art can show?
The tendency of presenting Chinese contemporary art as an expression of burgeoning individualism is nothing new among international curators and Western media. This is why Ai Weiwei receives their enthusiastic admiration and is often portrayed as a ...
(Oct 27, 2015, Korea Times)
Morning Links: Declining Chinese Art Market Edition
In 2014, the Chinese art market contracted by at least 30%. Ai Weiwei is one of the few Chinese artists who has been unaffected by this trend. [The National Law Review]. Although the season's biggest auctions are still going to be held at Sotheby's and ...
(Oct 27, 2015, ARTnews)
Ai Weiwei displays the art of megalomania in Lego row
Often billed as China's most famous contemporary artist and dissident, Ai is upset that Lego, the Danish toy company, refused a bulk order he placed. He claimed the company's decision was made on political grounds that amounted to censorship ...
(Oct 27, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Online Auction House Aims to Give Big Houses a Run for Their Money
And other start-ups have drawn heavyweight backers of their own: Auctionata counts backers like Hearst Ventures and Groupe Arnault, the investor that controls LVMH, while 1stdibs has collected financing from the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group ...
(Oct 28, 2015, New York Times)
8 Things You Need To Know This AM
At the end of 2014, there were around 33 million more men living in China than there were women, and recent census data released by the National Bureau of Statistics suggests that the gender imbalance won't be corrected any time soon. ... make jokes ...
(Oct 28, 2015, Refinery29)
First lot: Auction house Phillips to hold inaugural sale in Hong Kong as part ...
First lot: Auction house Phillips to hold inaugural sale in Hong Kong as part ...
(Oct 28, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))
How Auction Houses Orchestrate Sales for Maximum Drama
Less than 48 hours after an evening sale concludes, the Sotheby's specialists Simon Shaw, co-head of worldwide Impressionist and Modern art, and Alexander Rotter, co-head of contemporary art worldwide, sit down with their business teams to analyze the ...
(Oct 28, 2015, New York Times)
Work Uniform: Mikala Tai
Tai's fixation with contemporary art informs her workday style first, but she opts for prints, patterns and colour over the standard gallery-girl uniform of head-to-toe black. Tai talks about style as a necessary form of personal expression that may ...
(Oct 28, 2015, Broadsheet)
Why We Love What We Love: Dan Hong's Dumplings at Mr. Wong
Work Uniform: Mikala Tai. Take a look inside the wardrobe of 4A Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art's brand new director. Tailored Up at Oscar Hunt. The team at Oscar Hunt, one of Melbourne's most distinguished tailors, unveils an elegant new showroom ...
(Oct 28, 2015, Broadsheet)
Indigenous Ideas and Agriculture at Rootstock
Work Uniform: Mikala Tai. Take a look inside the wardrobe of 4A Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art's brand new director. Tailored Up at Oscar Hunt. The team at Oscar Hunt, one of Melbourne's most distinguished tailors, unveils an elegant new showroom ...
(Oct 29, 2015, Broadsheet)
Lego blocks pour into NGV car to support Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
Weiwei — the subject of a giant summer exhibition in Melbourne — nominated the NGV as the first “international Lego collection point'' outside Beijing. And NGV senior contemporary art curator Max Delany expects the car to be filled “many times over ...
(Oct 29, 2015, Herald Sun)
Insider Guide: Best of Beijing
With contemporary Chinese art filling the hotel, Langham Place has a cheeky, creative atmosphere. Appropriate, considering the hotel is just 20 minutes' drive from Beijing's 798 Art District. If you have only a couple hours to spare between flights, it ...
(Oct 29, 2015, CNN)
Must-See Art Guide: Beijing
The temple has been disassembled into more than 1,500 pieces and painstakingly rebuilt in cooperation with the Tang Contemporary Art Center, so don't miss this stunning visit from China's past. Continue to aye gallery and admire works by Wang Yabin, ...
(Oct 29, 2015, artnet News)
Preview: Asian Art In London
'The skill involved in executing the best contemporary ink paintings draws from and echoes the Chinese art of the past, and I am particularly drawn to the fact that at a time when the world's contemporary art is often based on “concepts”, Chinese ...
(Oct 29, 2015, Apollo Magazine (blog))
Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 30-Nov. 5
Museum of Modern Art: 'Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection'(through April 10) MoMA's latest installation of works from its permanent collection fills the second-floor contemporary galleries with videos, installations ...
(Oct 29, 2015, New York Times)
A Butchery Run by Farmers
Work Uniform: Mikala Tai. Take a look inside the wardrobe of 4A Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art's brand new director. Tailored Up at Oscar Hunt. The team at Oscar Hunt, one of Melbourne's most distinguished tailors, unveils an elegant new showroom ...
(Oct 30, 2015, Broadsheet)
Luxury exceeds $1T mark due to art, auto and travel sectors: Bain
China is a mature marketplace for fine art sales, but Chinese consumers are continuing to look abroad for luxury goods, with sales in the once-sustainable markets of Hong Kong and Macau also dropping. “The contraction in Mainland China is the result of ...
(Oct 30, 2015, Luxury Daily)
Hong Kong debut for M+ museum's founding collection
The first large-scale exhibition in Hong Kong of works from the Sigg Collection of Chinese contemporary art, since its was acquired by the M+ museum in West Kowloon, will open early next year (23 February-5 April 2016). The show is organised by Pi Li ...
(Oct 30, 2015, Art Newspaper)
Nuo Hotel Beijing Joins Ultratravel Collection
Dubai -- Ultratravel Collection, a joint venture between Global Hotel Alliance ('GHA'), Travel Leaders Group and multi-media brand Ultratravel, has announced that NUO Hotel Beijing is the latest addition to the Ultratravel Collection, which strengthens ...
(Oct 30, 2015, Hospitality Net)
And also… Modern art is rubbish; Russian police pull over speeding hearse ...
And also… Modern art is rubbish; Russian police pull over speeding hearse ...
(Oct 30, 2015, euronews)
Making a Tijuana art scene built to last
On Avenida Revolución, TJ in China ProjectSpace not only shows art but it also hosts talks, seminars and international artist residencies. Across town, in the Colonia Burócrata Ruiz Cortinés, the small and ... La Caja began as a 375-square-foot gallery ...
(Oct 30, 2015, Los Angeles Times)
The evolution of Avenida Revolución and a gallery called TJ in China
Since its foundation, TJ in China has become a staple of the contemporary Tijuana's contemporary art scene. Group shows on the urban landscape, border politics and labor issues have generated attention from Mexican and American journalists. And over ...
(Oct 30, 2015, Los Angeles Times)
FIAC Week Takes Over Paris: A Recap
Visitors look at an artwork by Chinese-born Paris-based artist Huang Yong Ping with the title 'l'arc de St Gilles 2015′ at the Grand Palais as part of the FIAC international contemporary art fair in Paris on October 21, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS ...
(Oct 30, 2015, Forbes)
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