The Best Fine Art Books of 2015
The Broad (designed by the renowned architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfrohas ) has 120,000 square feet of space on two floors which exhibits the Broad's postwar and contemporary art (valued by Forbes at 7.4 billion dollars)collection. Naturally, there ...
(Dec 28, 2015, Daily Beast)
As China Hungers for Coal, 'Behemoth' Studies the Ravages at the Source
“It's not extreme like contemporary art. I have no desire to make a video of someone sleeping for nine hours,” Mr. Zhao said. “But instead of crying, I want people to be moved inside. Tears are cheap emotions. The reason I like contemporary art is ...
(Dec 28, 2015, New York Times)
MINDANDAO 2015: Arts and culture: From Mindanao to the world
The nine-day festival, with shows throughout the SOCCSKSARGEN region, brought to the country performers and groups from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Turkey, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, Chinese Taipei, and Poland (as well as performers from other cities ...
(Dec 28, 2015, Minda News)
Sneak Peek: Prudential Eye Awards 2016
The shortlist for the Best Exhibition of Asian Contemporary Art is; 'Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s – Japan, South Korea and Taiwan' (Para-site, Hong Kong); 'Twin Tracks: Yang Fudong (Yuz Museum, China); 'Chen Zhen: Without going to New ...
(Dec 28, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Associated Press rounds up the best events and places driving travel in the ...
Associated Press rounds up the best events and places driving travel in the ...
(Dec 28, 2015, Vail Daily News)
Travel 2016: Rio, Indy 500, German beer, Christo in Italy
The Met Breuer, a contemporary art space for the Metropolitan Museum, opens March 18 in New York City. The landmark ... Theme parks: Shanghai Disney Resort opens in China in spring 2016 with the tallest, grandest castle of any Disney park. In other ...
(Dec 28, 2015, The Register-Guard)
From antiquity to creativity
This can be clearly seen through the floor of the Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art's coffee shop. Look down, and you'll see the outline of Byzantine burial grounds through the glass floor. Look up and you'll see over 2,000 modern international ...
(Dec 29, 2015, Jakarta Post)
Ai Weiwei Visits Lesbos Refugee Camp to Document the Migrant Crisis
The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has been a vocal supporter of refugees since the beginning of the European migrant crisis. Now, making full use of his recently-returned passport, Ai has traveled to the Greek island of Lesbos to volunteer at the ...
(Dec 29, 2015, artnet News)
DREAMscapes juror at WAC Jan. 6
DREAMscapes exhibiting artist Duvian Montoya with juror Alexandra Munroe, in front of Montoya's Created Pages, oil on board. (Contributed photo). Don't miss a special behind-the-scenes event with the juror of the current DREAMscapes member artist ...
(Dec 29, 2015, Minuteman News Center)
DREAMscapes juror at WAC Jan. 6
DREAMscapes exhibiting artist Duvian Montoya with juror Alexandra Munroe, in front of Montoya's Created Pages, oil on board. (Contributed photo). Don't miss a special behind-the-scenes event with the juror of the current DREAMscapes member artist ...
(Dec 29, 2015, Minuteman News Center)
Vogue's Hamish Bowles Recounts 2015's Best Exhibitions and Other Visual ...
Vogue's Hamish Bowles Recounts 2015's Best Exhibitions and Other Visual ...
(Dec 29, 2015, Vogue.com)
Egypt Raids 2 Major Independent Cultural Institutions In 2 Days
They targeted the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Merit Publishing House, both in downtown Cairo. NPR's Leila ... The Committee to Protect Journalists says that "Egypt is second only to China as the world's worst jailer of journalists in ...
(Dec 29, 2015, NPR)
Two expos to mark Qatar China 2016 Year of Culture
DOHA: Two major exhibitions in Doha are among the highlights of the programme for Qatar China 2016 Year of Culture, Qatar Museums (QM) announced yesterday. 'What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China', an exhibition by 15 contemporary ...
(Dec 29, 2015, Peninsula On-line)
“On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones” at Daimler Contemporary Berlin
The second part in a series of three exhibitions highlighting new acquisitions from the Daimler Art Collection of Chinese and international art, running from May 2015 through the summer of 2017, “On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones” is an eloquent ...
(Dec 30, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
“On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones” at Daimler Contemporary Berlin
The second part in a series of three exhibitions highlighting new acquisitions from the Daimler Art Collection of Chinese and international art, running from May 2015 through the summer of 2017, “On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones” is an eloquent ...
(Dec 30, 2015, Blouinartinfo UK)
“On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones” at Daimler Contemporary Berlin
The second part in a series of three exhibitions highlighting new acquisitions from the Daimler Art Collection of Chinese and international art, running from May 2015 through the summer of 2017, “On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones” is an eloquent ...
(Dec 30, 2015, Blouinartinfo UK)
Qatar-China Year of Culture to kick off with exhibits, festival in 2016
One of the highlights of the year's events will be the exhibition What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China, which will include works by 15 contemporary Chinese artists and will be curated by internationally acclaimed New York-based Chinese ...
(Dec 30, 2015, Doha News)
Warsaw to host International Art Fair
Warsaw will host the IAF, an international contemporary art fair, which gathers artists, fashion and industrial designers, and other parties interested in art, fashion and design. “The event will provide an opportunity to gain knowledge of the ...
(Dec 30, 2015, thenews.pl)
2015 art exhibitions from Qianlong Emperor to The Greats
Looking further back across 50 columns since January, the diversity of the exhibitions that have been covered is extraordinary: from tribal art to old masters, from painting to film, and from cartoons to contemporary art in all media. ... A Golden Age ...
(Dec 30, 2015, The Australian)
The Art World Winners and Losers of 2015
The Chinese billionaire is best known for collecting high-end Asian antiques, but he made a major bid for art world notoriety this year when he purchased Amedeo Modigliani's Nu couché for a record-breaking $170.4 million at Christie's in November ...
(Dec 30, 2015, artnet News)
A splashy spectacle on Wall Street
The intersection of theme and location is striking, but it is just one of a series of serendipities that convinced Birch that the project was fated to happen: A Chinese urban planner he approached to design a poppy-dappled interior landscape learned ...
(Dec 30, 2015, Albany Times Union)
A Chinese Performance Artist Who Balances Politics and Poetics
Curated by Lan Qingwei, acting director of the Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Mind in a Box consists of 12 works completed over the course of 2015. All of the works were made in collaboration with artisans or audience members. In “Diaries ...
(Dec 30, 2015, Hyperallergic)
Time IS running out to see famous art exhibit in Jackson
“Circle of Animals” is a representation of the 12 animals that make up the Chinese Zodiac. The 10-foot tall, 800-pound metal heads have been set up outside of the National Wildlife Art Museum north of Jackson, across from the National Elk Refuge for ...
(Dec 30, 2015, Teton Valley News)
Is the world's art market cooling down?
Many Chinese buyers, such as Liu Yiquin - who bought Modigliani's Nu Couche - are now buying Western art at auctions in London and New York rather than contemporary art in Hong Kong. Art Basel Miami is an event held in December where people in past ...
(Dec 30, 2015, BBC News)
Chinese Contemporary Artists Worth Watching
When I asked two experts of China's contemporary art scene for their short list of artists to watch in 2016, I got two different - and rather long - lists. True, the same outcome is likely if you ask two experts anything. Yet the response illustrates ...
(Dec 31, 2015, Barron's)
Our top art events this week: archives of influential Middle East magazine now ...
Our top art events this week: archives of influential Middle East magazine now ...
(Dec 31, 2015, The National)
2015: A year of building Waunakee businesses
The Tribune touched base with Lois Ireland, the acclaimed painter from Waunakee, as an exhibit of her work was on display at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art on State Street. The Waunakee EMS began looking to hire three full-time EMTs, ...
(Dec 31, 2015, HNGnews.com)
Police Uncover Rome Airport Art-Theft Scam
Herden has formerly worked as curatorial assistant of American and Western American art at the Phoenix Art Museum and the curatorial assistant of contemporary art at Arizona State University Art Museum. She started working as the Boise Art ... The ...
(Dec 31, 2015, Artforum)
Missoula Art Museum holds exhibit of auction items
The Missoula Art Museum opens its doors Friday, Jan. 8, to give the public a preview of the art that will be up for sale at the museum's 44th Annual Benefit Art Auction. “We have a lot of different funding sources,” said MAM senior curator Brandon ...
(Dec 31, 2015, Great Falls Tribune)
DREAMscapes juror at WAC Jan. 6
DREAMscapes exhibiting artist Duvian Montoya with juror Alexandra Munroe, in front of Montoya's Created Pages, oil on board. (Contributed photo). Don't miss a special behind-the-scenes event with the juror of the current DREAMscapes member artist ...
(Dec 31, 2015, Minuteman News Center)
DREAMscapes juror at WAC Jan. 6
DREAMscapes exhibiting artist Duvian Montoya with juror Alexandra Munroe, in front of Montoya's Created Pages, oil on board. (Contributed photo). Don't miss a special behind-the-scenes event with the juror of the current DREAMscapes member artist ...
(Dec 31, 2015, Minuteman News Center)
Don't miss these 2016 art shows in the Bay Area
(Also, sad to say, museums chasing audiences — even those with a broad mission — seem to think contemporary art is the way to go.) The Cantor repeatedly bucks that trend with strong exhibitions based in solid ... More than 600,000 works of imperial ...
(Dec 31, 2015, San Francisco Chronicle)
The Year Ahead: museums opening in 2016
The long-awaited extension of Tate Modern is scheduled to open on 17 June. It will expand the institution's display space by 60% (the Tate's large-scale installations have more than doubled in number since 2000). The cost is now estimated at £260m ...
(Dec 31, 2015, Art Newspaper)
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