This is Sydney's Hottest Neighborhood Right Now
The art crowd has been flocking to the neighborhood, too. At White Rabbit gallery, owner Judith Neilson shows contemporary Chinese art by leading figures like Ai Weiwei. The Ambush art gallery, in the gleaming Central Park building, highlights work ...
(Feb 9, 2016, Travel+Leisure)
Steel Monkeys and Ballet Slippers: A Chinese Art Show That Goes Beyond Fireworks
The exhibit takes a sweeping look at Chinese contemporary art, much of it from students at the prestigious China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The five-day show celebrating the Year of the Monkey organized by the academy with the US-China ...
(Feb 9, 2016, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Thomas Berghuis on the New Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara
I have built on my experiences, first as a scholar and a curator of Chinese contemporary art, and later moving my work towards a broader Asian and international context. Building a museum is a matter of building a series of programs and opportunities ...
(Feb 10, 2016, Blouin Artinfo (registration))
The Lowdown on Hurun's Exhibition of Chinese Art in London
“Circle Lines” at London's China Exchange is the Hurun Art Foundation's first exhibition in Europe. Coinciding with Chinese New Year, the celebration of Chinese contemporary art features the work of fifteen artists including Wang Tiande, Qiu Jie, Mao ...
(Feb 10, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Artists in Dhaka Feel the Cold Embrace of Chinese Censorship
More than 300 artists participated in the festival, putting Bangladesh on the global map for contemporary art. But the spirit changed last Saturday, when a visit from the Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, Ma Mingqiang, pushed the event organisers to ...
(Feb 10, 2016, The Wire)
5 things to do under $5 Feb. 11-17: Chinese New Year party, USF public art tour
The tour is free and starts at the USF Contemporary Art Museum, 3821 Holly Drive, Tampa. (813) 974-2849. 3 Play Ball Day: At this free event at Tropicana Field promoting youth baseball and softball, the first 1,000 kids will receive a Rays Superhero ...
(Feb 10, 2016, Tampabay.com)
Contemporary African Art Fair 1:54 Reveals Exhibitor List
Chinese performance artist Ou Zhihang has carried out a piece for which he did nude push-ups in front of Charlie Hebdo's former headquarters, where eleven people were killed by the Kouachi brothers in January 2015, and across from the Bataclan concert ...
(Feb 10, 2016, Artforum)
On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City
There's a gallery scene with painters, sculptors and cartoonists whose works have made contemporary art from Indonesia the sensation of events like the last Art Basel in Hong Kong. The good news: There's always something happening on the cutting edge ...
(Feb 11, 2016, New York Times)
Time Machines: The Evolution Of Art Through Machinery
In 2015, he was consultant for the launch of the new Australian pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2015 and curated a public art project for the Paris Metro to showcase Chinese contemporary art. He was previously gallery manager of contemporary Chinese ...
(Feb 11, 2016, Billionaire.com)
Feature: From Chinatown to Midtown: Chinese New Year fanfare gets rolling in "Big Apple"
"I started to take notice of Chinese contemporary art about two years ago after visiting several universities in Beijing," Ellen Fisher, dean of New York School of Interior Design, told Xinhua. Noting a shift in today's China art, she said: "I think ...
(Feb 11, 2016, Xinhua)
London Art Auctions Show Market in a Correction
The day before, Sotheby's sold 78% of the 55 lots in its contemporary art evening sale, for a total of $100.4 million. (That is within the house's presale estimate ... “Everyone is jittery about oil prices, ISIS and China,” she added. “Collectors still ...
(Feb 11, 2016, Wall Street Journal)
Celebrating Presidents' Day Weekend
The Chinese New Year officially began this year on February 8, welcoming the year of the red monkey, and in keeping with tradition, Boston's Chinatown (home to the nation's third largest Chinese community) is marking the occasion with its annual New ...
(Feb 12, 2016, BU Today)
London art auctions point to market in a correction
The day before, Sotheby's sold 78 per cent of the 55 lots in its contemporary art evening sale, for a total of $US100.4m, within the house's estimate of $US87m to $US124.5m). “It's a correction we've all been waiting for,” says Nazy Vassegh, chief ...
(Feb 12, 2016, The Australian (subscription))
Things to Do in Connecticut, Feb. 13 Through 21
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street. 203-438-4519; aldrichart.org. STAMFORD “A Billion Bricks 3: ..... MIDDLETOWN “We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art.” Through Feb. 28. Tuesdays through Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Ezra and ...
(Feb 12, 2016, New York Times)
Plastic Bongs, Chinese Mini-Zines, and Endless Labors of Love at the LA Art Book Fair
LOS ANGELES — Artist books and zines are the vinyl records of the book publishing world. They retain the romance of the physical book, often pushing the boundaries of narrative and form, but given the economics of contemporary art production, the vast ...
(Feb 12, 2016, Hyperallergic)
The Beijing Hour
China's Foreign Minister has expressed the country's opposition to the deployment of a US missile shield in South Korea, saying the deployment of the weapons would be harmful to regional stability... More victims of last Saturday's earthquake have been ...
(Feb 13, 2016, CRIENGLISH.com)
William Kentridge's China-centric art show opens in Johannesburg
It therefore came as no surprise when the catalogues for his Beijing exhibition, at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, had to be published in Hong Kong after printers in China declined the job. The exhibition provides a commentary on the ...
(Feb 13, 2016, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Feature: Chinese characters become protagonist at Milan Triennale's exhibition
MILAN, Italy, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- For the first time in Italy, the strength of characters in the works of a leading Chinese artist was central at an exhibition that kicked off here on Saturday at the Palazzo dell'Arte (Palace of Art), the headquarters ...
(Feb 13, 2016, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
Video: Chen Qiulin's “One Hundred Names” at 4A Sydney
“One Hundred Names” at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney is Chinese artist Chen Qiulin's first Australian solo exhibition. Belonging to a generation of artists whose work articulates what 4a describe as the social repercussions of ...
(Feb 14, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
SINAMERICA I: ACCULTURATION, INCULTURATION, TRANSCULTURATION：”Chinese Art in US Across Generations”
ost vibrant and quickly evolving contemporary art world. Born between 1982 and 1985, the six artists this Art Night presented defied stereotypical image of Chinese art by offering highly individual responses to art historical traditions as well as ...
(Feb 15, 2016, NY Arts Magazine)
Secret Getaways Of The Art World's Super Rich
The mining magnate has poured billions—including profits from selling iron ore to China—to transform this remote plot into a playground for art lovers. His permanent collection comprises of some 500 works many ... Works like a giant polka-dotted ...
(Feb 15, 2016, Forbes)
Ground breaking Paris gallery closes as visitor numbers plummet
It rocked the Paris art world with a string of blockbuster shows on Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Man Ray and the Chinese terracotta warriors of Xian since it opened its doors in 2007. The catastrophic drop in visitors after the ... Restellini, who ...
(Feb 15, 2016, RFI)
Four Secret Fashion Jobs Influence Everything You Wear
While everyone knows the big-name designers who show at New York Fashion Week and the top models who canoodle and collect millions of Instagram followers, few outside of the true fashion set are aware of what's happening behind the scenes. These ...
(Feb 15, 2016, Observer)
Hedge Fund Managers Spot an Opportunity Amid Market Volatility
But Adam Sender, a well-known collector of contemporary art who shuttered his hedge fund two years ago, just got back into the game. He is bucking the trend at a time when the establishment of new hedge funds is sharply lower than a year ago, according ...
(Feb 15, 2016, New York Times)
The Art of Bringing Together Contemporary and Period Pieces
"Expect to see how an 18th century portrait would look above an Art Deco sideboard, or an Art Nouveau lamp lights up a Chinese porcelain vase," said Mark Wilkinson, Bonhams director of decorative arts. "This is completely new for us. We have had ...
(Feb 16, 2016, Blouinartinfo UK)
Art Sales: what goes up must come down?
A nervous week of contemporary art sales in London ended last Friday on a confident note, though for those who only read the statistics, it might appear that the market has taken a bit of a beating. Not only did the sales fail to meet the pre-sale ...
(Feb 16, 2016, Telegraph.co.uk)
Artdaily and Randian Feature Wellin Exhibitions
Randian, owned by China Art Times Limited (Hong Kong), an online outlet created “to foster intellectual exchange between China and the rest of the world,” including “independent commentary on art, artists, exhibitions and galleries, as well as video ...
(Feb 16, 2016, Hamilton College News)
A Fake Art Fair Takes Aim at Contemporary Practices
But open now at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, is a new type of exhibit that draws on structural aspects of the art fair institution, while reevaluating the role of the visitor to the contemporary art market scene. Created by artist ...
(Feb 16, 2016, The Creators Project (blog))
Contemporary Chinese art challenging clichés and exploring new realities with Paris show
UCCA director and pre-eminent Chinese contemporary art expert, Philip Tinari, who co-curated the show with Fondation exhibition curator Laurence Bossé, says he was especially keen to avoid a stereotypical “eroticising” of Chinese art. Instead, the ...
(Feb 16, 2016, South China Morning Post (subscription))
Interview: Renowned artist to showcase contemporary Chinese art in New Zealand
"He (Liu Jianhua) is coming from a huge tradition of porcelain craft art making in China, which is thousands--years old; then he is bringing a really contemporary fine art. So his works speak to the history of old China, and also the huge changes ...
(Feb 18, 2016, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
Contemporary Chinese art makes a noise in Bern
Significant works of art from the collection of Uli Sigg, the former Swiss ambassador to China, will be on display in a joint exhibition by Kunstmuseum Bern and the Paul Klee Centre in Bern from February 19 until June 19. “Chinese Whispers”, which will ...
(Feb 20, 2016, swissinfo.ch)
All eyes on M+, and Hong Kong, as Chinese Contemporary Art exhibition set to open
Rarely has there been so much riding on an art exhibition. With “Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art”, which opens on Tuesday, the custodians of the future M+ will try to convince a sceptical Hong Kong public that the much-delayed opening of the ...
(Feb 20, 2016, South China Morning Post (subscription))
M+ Chinese contemporary art collection raises fears of mainland influence on local arts scene
On Tuesday, Hong Kong gets its first glimpse of the M+ Sigg collection, with an exhibition that has highlighted fears Beijing's influence in the city is infecting the arts. The M+ Sigg show features 80 works by famous Chinese names including Yue Minjun ...
(Feb 23, 2016, Coconuts Hong Kong)
Politically charged Chinese art show opens in Hong Kong
Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art is the first major exhibition at M+, the most important publicly funded institution being built in the Chinese territory. M+, a new visual arts museum which extends to 60,000 sq metres and will not fully open ...
(Feb 23, 2016, The Guardian)
Uli Sigg: How I built the world's biggest collection of Chinese contemporary art
In 1997, art catalogs did not exist and exhibitions were still largely underground events, so in order to get a better overview of the country's art scene, I created the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), the first ever award of its type to be held ...
(Feb 24, 2016, CNN)
Uli Sigg on How He Built a World-Class Chinese Contemporary Art Collection
"Chinese artists had only just begun to free themselves from the forced constraints of socialist realism," Sigg explained. The changes that he eventually saw taking place were more than a decade away. Sigg noted that after the Tiannamen Square protests ...
(Feb 24, 2016, artnet News)
M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art
... to the consciousness of the artists of the Olympic era bifurcated between East and West, traditional and modern and social engagement; these works are a selection of seminal pieces of contemporary Chinese art history, as well as examples from the ...
(Feb 25, 2016, Culturekiosque)
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