LA Art Show 2016: A sneak peek inside, plus an outsider's take on the LA scene
This year, galleries will be displaying works by artists from 20 countries, including China, Australia, Turkey, Kenya and Japan. ... Kim Kardashian stands front and center in lingerie and a fur coat; Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael ...
(Jan 28, 2016, Los Angeles Times)
A Widespread Chill in Art Sales
Falling oil prices, volatile stock swings and China's deepening economic woes are all taking their toll on the art market and spooking the world's wealthy, who are counted upon to splurge for masterpieces and brand-new artworks. Christie's sold $7.4 ...
(Jan 28, 2016, Wall Street Journal)
Fondation Louis Vuitton examines economy, society in Chinese art exhibition
LVMH's Fondation Louis Vuitton is celebrating the contemporary art scene of China in its latest exhibition. Opened as of Jan. 27, the “Bentu, Chinese artists at a time of turbulence and transformation” exhibition is the first showing entirely devoted ...
(Jan 28, 2016, Luxury Daily)
Wynwood's Rubell Family Collection opens door to women's rooms
No Man's Land, this season's exhibit at the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) in Wynwood, is a complex show, and that's an understatement. It asks a lot of its art audience: to examine the place of women in art, and to do so in a non-linear form that can ...
(Jan 29, 2016, Miami Herald)
Winter Arts Preview: Art
MEGACITIES ASIA Sculptures, installations, and other ambitious works made by contemporary artists, including China's Ai Weiwei, responding to the energy and stresses of some of the world's biggest cities, including Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, and ...
(Jan 29, 2016, The Boston Globe)
We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art Opens in Zilkha
We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art opened on Tuesday, Jan. 26 in Zilkha, and I highly recommend that everyone go see it before it closes on Feb. 28. The exhibition brings together ten contemporary Chinese artists, whose work is extremely ...
(Jan 29, 2016, The Wesleyan Argus)
China's new silk road; ports, railway and art exhibitions
This marks a maturing of China's contemporary art scene." The Communist Party favours big-name strategies, which tend to focus government activity and funding to projects endorsed by the leadership. Before "one belt, one road", or OBOR, the country ...
(Jan 29, 2016, The Australian Financial Review)
For China exhibit, glass artist follows the threads
I usually buy them at the second-hand stores or some antique shops. What would you tell a young Chinese glass artist to encourage his work? Work very hard. Learn everything you can about what has already been done in the field and in contemporary art ...
(Jan 29, 2016, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened Before
It was somewhat ironic, given that just a few years earlier, Stanford had called Chinese-Americans “a degraded and distinct people” in his inaugural speech as California governor and urged limits on immigration from the continent. .... The urban elite ...
(Jan 29, 2016, TechCrunch)
Art World Prepares for a Challenging Year
“There aren't so many Russians and Brazilians involved now, and the Chinese slowdown has had a knock-on effect on the raw materials and equity markets,” he said. “The potential ... Bolstered by huge one-off prices in New York for trophy works by ...
(Jan 29, 2016, International New York Times)
Exhibit of works by activist artists is subversive, thoughtful, hilarious
Station Museum of Contemporary Art curators Alan Schnitger, Alex Tu and Josh Poole organized this survey of recent works by 13 internationally known activist artists who trade in satire, interventions, viral strategies and culture jamming (altering ...
(Jan 29, 2016, Houston Chronicle)
Indian Art Fair Opens with Hopes of Expanded Market
The show features a vibrant display of contemporary art works by well-known and emerging artists. India has seen ... China and India used to be equal at some point of time and now China has overtaken about 13 to 15 percent of the world market. India is ...
(Jan 30, 2016, CRIENGLISH.com)
Contemporary Chinese Artists Go Wild at Louis Vuitton Foundation
Repression in China has apparently inspired great courage in the creative class — look no further than Ai Weiwei, today's pan-cultural poster boy for the triumph of the artistic spirit. But the country has more to offer the landscape of contemporary ...
(Jan 30, 2016, artnet News)
Contemporary Chinese Artists Go Wild at Louis Vuitton Foundation
Repression in China has apparently inspired great courage in the creative class — look no further than Ai Weiwei, today's pan-cultural poster boy for the triumph of the artistic spirit. But the country has more to offer the landscape of contemporary ...
(Jan 30, 2016, artnet News)
Going out guide: Sydney's best attractions for the week from January 31
Drop by Chinese New Year on Kensington Street to view the works at Twenty Twenty, an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, grab a bite at the food stalls, craft paper creations at an origami workshop or watch the brightly costumed lion dancers. 3-7pm ...
(Jan 30, 2016, Sydney Morning Herald)
Kansas Focus Gallery celebrating Kansas artists opens at Nerman Museum
A new gallery dedicated to artists with Kansas ties opens this week at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and there's not a sunflower or dilapidated barn in sight. Instead, the inaugural exhibition in the Kansas Focus Gallery — a glass-fronted jewel ...
(Jan 30, 2016, Kansas City Star)
Sri Lankan food a spell-binding mishmash of the island's history
"While the largest auction category is South Asian modern and contemporary art, Indian clients in general are very significant contributors to the international jewellery auctions as well. Over the past five ... In China, there is a strong element of ...
(Jan 31, 2016, Economic Times)
Travel news: Biltmore show, Lunar New Year, Japanese garden
The Javits Center in Manhattan will host a free Fantastic Art China exhibit Feb. 6-10 showcasing Chinese contemporary art, work by students and teachers in both Beijing and New York, a design product hall and a show about urban development and art in ...
(Jan 31, 2016, The Register-Guard)
The New Mu Xin Art Museum Honors Life and Work of an Artist, Writer, and Political Prisoner
The remarkable life of artist and writer Mu Xin has a narrative arc that charts well alongside China's past century—its tumultuous arrival at modernity and recent efforts to reclaim its cultural soul. Born in 1927, Mu Xin was raised in Wuzhen, a ...
(Jan 31, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Daily news summary
... the first time Ai Weiwei's work is being exhibited in the Czech capital. The work has been described as criticism of both European military intervention in China in the 19th century and the contemporary art market. It will remain on view until the ...
(Jan 31, 2016, Radio Prague)
Gallery celebrating Kansas artists opens at contemporary art museum
The viewer is left to imagine what caused the catastrophic damage to the interiors of a library, an art museum, a violin repair shop, and a Chinese takeout restaurant. Though the places are decidedly urban, the destruction and chaos are informed by Nix ...
(Jan 31, 2016, China Post)
The Philosophy of Ai Weiwei (From Andy Warhol and Back Again)
The exhibition, which opened on December 11 and runs until April 24, pairs the work of an iconic American pop artist with that of a contemporary Chinese artist and political activist, and the result is fascinating. One of the most magnetic self ...
(Jan 31, 2016, lareviewofbooks)
A sneak peek at Uli Sigg's China collection
"I have been involved in Chinese contemporary art since I arrived in China 1979 to negotiate what later became the first foreign joint venture, and to learn more about China. However I only started to collect in the 90s, when I realised nobody was ...
(Jan 31, 2016, FinanceAsia)
Art world prepares for challenging year
"There aren't so many Russians and Brazilians involved now, and the Chinese slowdown has had a knock-on effect on the raw materials and equity markets," he said. "The potential buyers in ... Bolstered by huge prices in New York for trophy works by ...
(Feb 1, 2016, The Australian Financial Review)
The Walker keeps things fresh
This museum switches out its main gallery spaces every few months to show different contemporary art movement such as Pop Art and Hippie Modernism. She found the Pop Art from the '50s and '60s to be too simple, and I recall her finding it silly ... The ...
(Feb 1, 2016, UND The Dakota Student)
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