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Contemporary Chinese Art News 12/2015 (Page 2)

British DIY collective win Turner Prize

The £25,000 (US$37,490) contemporary art prize, which is named after painter William Turner, has been awarded annually since 1984 to an artist aged under 50 who is living in, or was born in, Britain. The award is closely followed as a marker for art ... (Dec 8, 2015, China Post)

Playing Koi

In 2006, while finishing my last art degree in Photography, at Pecks School of the Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I had the opportunity to travel around china for three months to study ancient and contemporary art. Being in China definitely had a hug ... (Dec 8, 2015, NOLA Defender)

Business Watch

Sales of new cars—including sedans, sport-utility-vehicles and multipurpose vehicles—are expected to grow 10% in China in 2016, said the China Passenger Car Association, a Beijing-based trade group. Data from the association show that sales of new ... (Dec 8, 2015, Wall Street Journal)

Mary's is Now Delivering Burgers

Work Uniform: Mikala Tai. Take a look inside the wardrobe of 4A Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art's brand new director. The KitX Flagship. Kit Willow has followed up the launch of her new label with a Paddington store. ArtDesignThe Journal ... (Dec 8, 2015, Broadsheet)

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TOP 10 art exhibitions of 2015

for the first time in his life, chinese artist ai weiwei shows a solo exhibition in his home country, following the development of the project from conception to realization on site. curated by cui cancan and presented by galleria continua, the exhibit ... (Dec 9, 2015, Designboom)

Christian Kerez Nominated for Swiss Pavilion at 2016 Venice Biennale

Switzerland will also be represented by <<Salon Suisse>>, a platform for discussion and debate on contemporary art and architecture. Kerez studied at ETH Zürich and has been teaching there as a ... with his project at the Swiss Pavilion in the Giardini ... (Dec 9, 2015, ArchDaily)

Art scene wrap-up

May's Of Woods and Wonderlands brought together Pang Yun's overlapping trees and dense woods and Li Yuming's oil works that fervently revisit imageries reminiscent of China's classical paintings, while Affect/Effect in November displayed Li Wei's ... (Dec 9, 2015, Global Times)

'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses

"China," from 1995, also exploits the conventions of the camera. Eight scenes ... Viewers also play a part in the layered imagery of "Chernobyl," from 2011, on view with four other works in LACMA's Broad Contemporary Art Museum building. (Two pieces ... (Dec 9, 2015, Los Angeles Times)

China's faltering luxury-goods market hits local businesses hard

Which it is: LVMH, a producer of champagne and handbags, recently closed three shops in China, while Christie's annual auction of Asian 20th-century and contemporary art in Hong Kong earned only HK$508m ($XXm) in November, down from HK$935m in ... (Dec 9, 2015, The Economist)

$2,58M for the sale of modern and contemporary Chinese art at Sotheby's Beijing

It is therefore more contemporary art, indeed very contemporary that has dominated this sale. It also included works by big names such as Mao Yan, Zeng Fanzhi, Liu Dan and Jiang Hongwei. Sotheby's was the first international auction house to establish ... (Dec 9, 2015, AMA)

Asia Society Opens First Center in Europe

Culture in particular can offer a key for understanding," said Dr. Uli Sigg, Collector of Chinese Contemporary Art, former Ambassador to China, Mongolia and Korea, and Asia Society Switzerland board member. With the launch of Asia Society Switzerland, ... (Dec 9, 2015, Asia Society)

ZENG FANZHI with Phong Bui

Li Xianting (renowned critic, curator, and art advocate active since the late 1970s, and a key figure in Chinese avant-garde and contemporary art) suggested that he should speak with me. Immendorff liked my work. I was doing the “Hospital” series at ... (Dec 9, 2015, Brooklyn Rail)

The Best Classical Music of 2015

Sonic Blossom Unlike most of the visitors accosted on an October morning in the Blanche and A.L. Levine Court in the modern and contemporary art wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I had a vague idea of what to expect when I was approached by ... (Dec 9, 2015, New York Times)

The Best in Art of 2015

In the fall, MoMA's International Curatorial Institute, joined by the Center for Curatorial Leadership, hosted a conference of curators from museums in China, Greece, Nigeria, Palestine, Poland, Russia and Senegal. The visitors were in town to learn ... (Dec 9, 2015, New York Times)

Why $400M Worth of Contemporary Art Didn't End Up at Chicago's Museum of ...

Why $400M Worth of Contemporary Art Didn't End Up at Chicago's Museum of ... (Dec 9, 2015, Chicago Tonight | WTTW)

Hong Kong's Frog King leaps at the chance to cast off the shackles of convention

More recently, interest in Chinese contemporary art took off but Hong Kong artists have been left behind, he says. “Critics and collectors focus on promoting mainland Chinese artists and overlook the fact that Hong Kong has its unique creativity.” Frog ... (Dec 9, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))

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My political activism is helping efforts to change China, says artist Ai Weiwei

READ MORE: Ai Weiwei No 2 on list of contemporary art world's most influential; Hong Kong pair in top 100. The world-first exhibition, Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei, explores the mutual conceptual interests of the two artists. More than 300 works are being ... (Dec 10, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))

Dubai Exhibits Contemporary Art From China

In a beautiful two story gallery at Dubai's business and art haven, is a showing of more than 20 original and huge paintings by a modern and globally celebrated Chinese artist. His poems and stencils tell a story intimately about his life and the ... (Dec 10, 2015, HarpersBazaarArabia)

Guangzhou and Shenzhen flex their biennial muscles

China's artistic centre of gravity shifts south this month to Guangdong Province, with the opening of the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Guangzhou Triennial and new Asia Biennial. The exhibitions should provide a boost to the ... (Dec 10, 2015, Art Newspaper)

Yiming Min Opens First UK Exhibition At Very Art Space London

Born in June 1957, Yiming Min is graduate of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. His recent solo exhibitions include: Mention This Moment, Espace Pierre Cardin Paris, France (2014); 759 Square Feet, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China (2013); ... (Dec 10, 2015, ArtLyst)

Moy Eng, on keeping San Francisco rents affordable for artists

They've been a contemporary art gallery for some time, and they re-opened with a number of special exhibits. It's a 6,000 ... The granddaughter of immigrants, she "grew up in a Chinese laundry doing a lot of people's dirty laundry in Trenton, N.J.". 2 ... (Dec 10, 2015, Sacramento Bee)

Education can wait while Junior drinks up

Schwartz said that “Coal + Ice,” a photographic exhibit about melting glaciers — sponsored by the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations and Salesforce — was displayed at the Paris home of the U.S. Ambassador Jane Hartley. The Bay Area ... (Dec 10, 2015, San Francisco Chronicle)

Chicago's art museums add joy to the holidays

Nearby, the Chinese room is filled with shadow puppets and I can almost hear the musical instruments play in celebration of the New Year. The Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, especially the eight rooms decorated for the holidays, ... (Dec 10, 2015, Illinois Times)

No man's land

DON and Mera Rubell, with their son Jason, are among the world's most important collectors of contemporary art. They root out emerging ... Another show, “28 Chinese”, is enjoying its third iteration, at the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas until ... (Dec 10, 2015, The Economist)

TGIF: Happenings — what's coming up in Northeast Ohio starting Dec. 11

Allen Memorial Art Museum: Oberlin College, 87 N. Main St., Oberlin, presents “Body Proxy: Clothing in Contemporary Art,” through Dec. 13; “The Body: ... 17; “Chinese Landscape Duets of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney,” through Feb. 2; “Muhammead ... (Dec 10, 2015, News-Herald.com)

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Improbability of Love'

He is encouraged into the market for contemporary art, where he competes with the ambitious wife of a sheikh determined to fill her newly built museum in the desert with the best of European art. (If this seems beyond belief, it's worth noting that ... (Dec 11, 2015, Washington Times)

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor

Unfolding in three waves, Agitprop! kicks off on December 11 with five case studies in early agitprop and 20 contemporary art projects selected by the Sackler Center staff. The first round of participants will each invite an artist or collective whose ... (Dec 11, 2015, E-Flux)

Focus pays off for artist Ai Weiwei's biggest fan

"What focused me to act and was easy for me to understand was Chinese contemporary art in the early 2000s, when the pricing was not adjusted to the global market. That got my eye. But I needed expertise; I knew nothing about Chinese art." Warsh admits ... (Dec 11, 2015, The Australian Financial Review)

The world and its possibilities: photographs by Chaco Terada

Since about the year 600, calligraphy has been in practice in Japan, having first been introduced by the Chinese. Today, the time-honored tradition shows the influence of Japanese Zen Buddhist thought: clearing one's mind to allow each character to ... (Dec 11, 2015, Santa Fe New Mexican)

As China falters, mastiffs go from must-have luxuries to meat factory

Which it is: LVMH, a producer of champagne and handbags, recently closed three shops in China, while Christie's annual auction of Asian 20th century and contemporary art in Hong Kong earned only $HK508 million ($90 million) in November, down from ... (Dec 11, 2015, The Australian Financial Review)

Scandals, sales and starchitects: 25 years of the Art Newspaper

A collection of Chinese contemporary art was unveiled at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in 2007, and published in two glossy catalogues partially funded by the institution and with contributions from leading scholars. The collection was ... (Dec 11, 2015, The Guardian)

Pernod Ricard Announces the First Four Pernod Ricard Fellows

the Chinese artist and writer Bo Zheng; an Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong and a former professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, Bo has written on socially engaged art and been ... (Dec 11, 2015, Business Wire (press release))

Farideh Lashai Rocks the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art With Jackson ...

Farideh Lashai Rocks the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art With Jackson ... (Dec 11, 2015, artnet News)

Self-Publishing Stars of 2015

Bombshell soldier Ace Morningstar, who used her magic to disguise herself as a man so she could become a SEAL, drafts Steve and his cell phone, which contains the ghost of a Chinese factory worker who now communicates through screen animations and ... (Dec 12, 2015, Publishers Weekly)

The beating art of Brisbane

The 8th installation of the Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Triennial (APT8) at Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) is the only major art event focusing on contemporary art from the Asia-Pacific region. It is a vivid snapshot of a broad region, and ... (Dec 12, 2015, New Zealand Herald)

Sculpture club

Next May marks the foundation's first international show, A Beautiful Disorder features the work of 16 Chinese artists, among them Wang Yuyang, who recreates scenes from Chinese offices filled with sculptures of computers, filing cabinets, fax machines ... (Dec 13, 2015, Telegraph.co.uk)

Evolving visions

Following on from its exhibition of 30-year Chinese experimental theater, Ming Contemporary Art Museum recently opened a new exhibition dedicated to European theatrical art, with the help of the Chinese National Centre for the Performing Arts ... (Dec 13, 2015, Global Times)

Chinese, Belgian girls jointly launch ca ...

Chinese, Belgian girls jointly launch ca ... (Dec 13, 2015, The Brussels Times)

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Not a mean bone in her body: Artists mourn Hema Upadhyay's death

Artist Jitish Kallat, a friend since the time she graduated from MS University in her native Baroda almost two decades ago, called her an invaluable part of the contemporary art scene. “Her death is truly devastating … a chilling end to a life spent ... (Dec 14, 2015, Hindustan Times)

We have big plans for India: Christie's

We are getting more involved in education of art by bringing speakers to talk on art conservation and institution building," Deepanjana Klein, Christie's International Head, South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art, told IANS. As the third sale ... (Dec 14, 2015, Business Standard)

Interview: Pearl Lam of Pearl Lam Galleries

With a purple pouf and a penchant for extravagance, gallerist Pearl Lam is practically an icon in China's contemporary art scene. For the past 10 years, she has been a source of fascination for Western media, who have unveiled her jaw-dropping ... (Dec 14, 2015, Jing Daily)

Indian Artist Found Dead, Banksy Addresses Migrant Crisis in New Mural, and More

Without Explanation, North Korean Girl Band Leaves China: North Korea's Moranbong Band, a girl group with members chosen by Kim Jong Un, left China just hours before their first international performance. Photos of the girls departing at ... Sotheby's ... (Dec 14, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei: the American and Chinese centuries meet in Melbourne

Although Ai never actually met Warhol, he was living in New York in the 1980s where Warhol was one of the focal points for the contemporary art scene, and the first book he bought in the English language on his arrival in America was The Philosophy of ... (Dec 14, 2015, The Conversation AU)

State of the art: The year's artistic newsmakers

The Toronto-born artist was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Britain's high-profile contemporary art award. The prize ($80,000) and the often outré art—stuffed sharks and the like—ensure massive media ... The Chinese pharmaceutical billionaire made ... (Dec 14, 2015, Macleans.ca)

Mary's Team Reopens The Unicorn

Rose English, Camden Arts Centre

And on video, you can watch Ornamental Happiness (main picture), a 30-minute version of the larger project, performed at the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2006; to the accompaniment of Stoneham's Lost in Music, two Chinese women balance ... (Dec 15, 2015, The Arts Desk)

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