Travel: Big City China
While the overall focus of the area is on contemporary art, there is also a handful of coffee, clothing and book shops, which on the morning we visited had drawn as many if not more visitors than the galleries. The wares at Insight Bookshop included ...
(Apr 22, 2016, OCRegister)
The Meandering Comics and Narrative Paintings of an Independent Chinese Cartoonist
... stranger than many in China's indie comics scene, and his paintings are more story-driven and playful than a great deal of his contemporaries. His show, What to Do When You're Feeling Dispirited, on view at Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA ...
(Apr 23, 2016, Hyperallergic)
Investing in art can elevate your spirit, net worth
Some categories posted higher returns, such as postwar and contemporary art at 10.5 percent and Chinese art at 14.9 percent. The surge in sales and prices has been enough to turn art collectors into investors and investors into art collectors — as a ...
(Apr 23, 2016, The Tennessean)
Conversation With: Enrique Liberman
Most art funds by number and size of assets under management came out of China, in large part because the Chinese culture lends itself to personal property and luxury investment over stocks and bonds. Over the last four years, Chinese banking ...
(Apr 23, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
In Megacities, creativity flourishes on a vast scale
More prosperous cities in China and South Korea offer a somewhat different set of experiences to residents. An artwork by Choi Jeong Hwa, for instance, takes inspiration from Seoul's glitzy mall culture and involves a garish chandelier ... Weinstein ...
(Apr 24, 2016, The Boston Globe)
That HK 70s Art Show at Ping Pong
“There is a nice visual flow in the juxtaposition and the choices of works–the general themes are landscape, abstractions and depictions of figures ranging in styles from Western and Chinese, or combinations of both,” she says. “Hanging Out” lovingly ...
(Apr 24, 2016, Forbes)
Philip Tinari's Beijing
... introducing the American art world to a bold, emerging generation of younger Chinese artists pushing boundaries today. And just this March, Tinari served as a member of the arts council for the inaugural Wuzhen International Contemporary Art ...
(Apr 25, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
This supermarket in China is selling empty packages to customers
This is the brainchild of Shanghai-based artist Xu Zhen and his contemporary art creation team, MadeIn Company , who set up this supermarket to oppose the notions of globalization and consumption. Xu Zhen reconstructs a convenience store with perfectly ...
(Apr 25, 2016, India Today)
Met curator Andrew Bolton, quiet defender of fashion as art
"The First Monday in May," directed by Andrew Rossi, chronicles the yearlong preparations for the show, "China: Through the Looking Glass," and the gala that accompanied it — an annual evening for the Met's Costume Institute that has become, under the ...
(Apr 25, 2016, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Art puzzles for viewers to decipher
Zhao is a relative late-bloomer in the world of contemporary Chinese art. Born in 1970 in Siping, northeast China's Jilin Province, Zhao graduated from the China Art Academy in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1995. His paintings are reminiscent of ...
(Apr 25, 2016, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
VIDEO: Amanda Heng at Singapore Tyler Print Institute
“As a comparison, just look at Hong Kong: it has the Cantonese dialect, one of the most original dialects of China. This is a very strong cultural root. And Hong Kong has always been a very important base of talent: historically, in times of difficulty ...
(Apr 26, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to Celebrate Free Opening Day on May 14
The newly expanded SFMOMA will offer nearly triple the gallery space, with inaugural exhibitions showcasing 260 works from the distinguished Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of postwar and contemporary art, more than 600 artworks promised to the ...
(Apr 26, 2016, NY Arts Magazine)
Film captures Met curator as he defends fashion as art
"The First Monday in May," directed by Andrew Rossi, chronicles the yearlong preparations for the show, "China: Through the Looking Glass," and the gala that accompanied it — an evening for the Met's Costume Institute that has become, under the ...
(Apr 26, 2016, Detroit Free Press)
Curating Chinese Art: Abstract Value
Though the Long Museum West Bund was the largest private museum in China when it opened in 2014 and remains a gem of Chinese contemporary art, it's not the reason Liu has been making international headlines. Western newspapers began covering ...
(Apr 26, 2016, CKGSB Knowledge)
Chinese Artist Fu Wenjun Featured at Biennale Riviera del Brenta and Awarded International Prize Canaletto
He was awarded 1st prize of digital art from 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina, Tour Eiffel La Grande Exposition Universelle "The Best Artist in the World," International Award "Lorenzo il Magnifico" of X Florence Biennale and ...
(Apr 26, 2016, PR Newswire (press release))
Adriana Varejão's Cultural Anthropology
Kindred Spirits is a series of 29 identical portraits of the artist, which she commissioned to be made in China after sending her picture and wrestling with the ideas of production, authorship and how many people are required to make a work of art. She ...
(Apr 26, 2016, Huffington Post)
Egyptian NGO turns rice waste into paper
Launched in 2005, El Nafeza for Contemporary Art and Development is an officially registered NGO which hires deaf-mute workers to help improve the lives of disabled people in the country. Enas Khamees is the NGO's manager and she stresses that one of ...
(Apr 26, 2016, AfricaNews)
Emojis, Comics, and the Novel of the Future
... shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York a couple of years ago and referred to there as “one of the most iconic works of contemporary Chinese art,” came out of Xu's training as a printmaker and his bookish upbringing as the child of ...
(Apr 26, 2016, lareviewofbooks)
Sneak Peek: Art Fair Tokyo 2016
... prominent purchases made by Chinese collectors — who are quite unique in the sense that they buy what they like, without being too concerned about artistic genres, or the opinion of others,” Kitajima points out. “For the contemporary art market in ...
(Apr 27, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
A Collector's Guide: Simple and Sober Korean Ceramics
Although “blue and white” is something of a catchall term used to refer to the highest quality and best known varieties of Chinese porcelain, produced at the Imperial kilns of Jingdezhen in China's Jiangxi province, a smaller and more niche market does ...
(Apr 27, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
At the San Diego Museum of Art, 600 Years of Ink Painting
“Brush and Ink: Chinese Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art” spans the history of ink painting, beginning with the artists of the Ming-era Wu School—who created the art form by combining painting, calligraphy, and poetry—and running up to the ...
(Apr 27, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Michael Chow shines as artist and as son at The Warhol
When he was 12, Michael was sent to London to study, and while there China's Cultural Revolution closed off his access to home. He never saw his father again. ... In the galleries are black and white photographs from the first half of the 20th century ...
(Apr 27, 2016, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Michael Chow aka Zhou Yinghua: Voice for My Father is a perfect fit for the Warhol
First shown at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and then the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, the exhibition is Chow's first solo show in the U.S. since he began painting again after a 50-year hiatus as a successful celebrity ...
(Apr 27, 2016, PGH City Paper)
Met Gala documentary spotlights Andrew Bolton, quiet defender of fashion as art
"The First Monday in May," directed by Andrew Rossi, chronicles the yearlong preparations for the show, "China: Through the Looking Glass," and the gala that accompanied it -- an annual evening for the Met's Costume Institute that has become, under the ...
(Apr 27, 2016, Chicago Daily Herald)
Goodbye from the lucky Panda sculpture: Ovation of the Seas heading back to China
It is part of a £3million-plus, 11,000-piece, art collection onboard the ship inspired by the Confucius words "Wherever you go, go with all your heart", and curated by London-based contemporary art gallery Peter Millard & Partners. "Joe conceived the ...
(Apr 27, 2016, Express.co.uk)
Chinese Billionaire Collector Liu Yiqian Launches Another Museum
The new Chongqing location will be dedicated to traditional Chinese art, revolutionary painting, and contemporary art, as well as art from the Sichuan region. The first exhibition planned for the space is "100 Years of Art History: 1911–2011," which ...
(Apr 27, 2016, artnet News)
How contemporary Chinese art mirrors change
It is therefore particularly appropriate as a metaphor for discussing contemporary Chinese art – art that is alien to us because of the cultural, historical and political differences, but also increasingly familiar, because the art market is so global ...
(Apr 27, 2016, swissinfo.ch)
How contemporary Chinese art mirrors change
It is therefore particularly appropriate as a metaphor for discussing contemporary Chinese art – art that is alien to us because of the cultural, historical and political differences, but also increasingly familiar, because the art market is so global ...
(Apr 27, 2016, swissinfo.ch)
Meet Met curator Andrew Bolton, quiet defender of fashion as art
"The First Monday in May," directed by Andrew Rossi, chronicles the yearlong preparations for the show, "China: Through the Looking Glass," and the gala that accompanied it — an annual evening for the Met's Costume Institute that has become, under the ...
(Apr 27, 2016, Salt Lake Tribune)
Chinese Collectors Wang Wei and Liu Yiqian to Open Their Third Museum in Chongqing
Located on its first three floors, the 10,000-square-meter space will feature galleries of traditional Chinese art, revolutionary painting, and contemporary art. The first exhibition will be “100 Years of Art History: 1911–2011”—an examination of ...
(Apr 27, 2016, Artforum)
Ai Weiwei to make a film on Europe's refugee crisis
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has described the European refugee situation as a “test for humanity”. Speaking in the Swiss capital Bern to promote a collection of contemporary Chinese art, he said his next big project would be a film on the migration issue ...
(Apr 27, 2016, swissinfo.ch)
Culture scene: arts events, April 28-May 4
Contemporary Art Gallery: 2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, through June 1; Houston Baptist University, 7502 Fondren; hbu.edu. Galveston Arts Center: Margaret Smithers-Crump's site-specific installation "Vital Signs" and Mari Omori's ...
(Apr 27, 2016, Chron.com)
Romania's Culture Minister Resigns After Dispute at the Opera
Located on its first three floors, the 10,000-square-meter space will feature galleries of traditional Chinese art, revolutionary painting, and contemporary art. The first exhibition will be “100 Years of Art History: 1911–2011”—an examination of ...
(Apr 27, 2016, Artforum)
Jamaican Artist Stuns Beijing Art Enthusiasts
Jamaican artist extraordinaire, Peter Wayne Lewis, was on hand at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) to give Caribbean dignitaries an exclusive tour of his latest works on display in the heart of Beijing's art district. H.E. Chandradath ...
(Apr 27, 2016, South Florida Caribbean News)
Liverpool Biennial to show 42 artists' work in 'episodes'
Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and sculptor Betty Woodman will be among those involved. The event, which opens in July, is the largest contemporary art festival in the UK and runs every two years. Artists from countries including China, Iran ...
(Apr 28, 2016, BBC News)
Ai Weiwei in Bern
The exhibition features works from Swiss collector Uli Sigg. The former Swiss ambassador to China has the world's biggest collection of contemporary Chinese art. Ai Weiwei and Jacques Herzog of the Swiss star architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron were ...
(Apr 28, 2016, swissinfo.ch)
Five thoughts on democracy from Ai Weiwei
In Bern to promote an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, artist Ai Weiwei shared his thoughts on democracy in his homeland, censorship and freedom of thought. Here are five quotes. Ai Weiwei in Bern. Ai Weiwei and Jacques Herzog of the Swiss star ...
(Apr 28, 2016, swissinfo.ch)
Berlin's wartime bunkers are becoming unlikely havens for art
... Boros collection of contemporary art. Now the city has gained a second bunker-based museum, with the conversion of BASA-Bunker, a Second World War telecommunications base in Kreuzberg, into the home of the Feuerle Collection of ancient Chinese ...
(Apr 28, 2016, Apollo Magazine (blog))
Koki Tanaka To Recreate 1985 Demonstration for Liverpool Biennial
Japanese artist Koki Tanaka is heading to the 2016 Liverpool Biennial with a participatory performance piece that recreates a 10,000-person strike that took place in the city over 30 years ago. This June, Tanaka hopes to coalesce as many of the ...
(Apr 28, 2016, artnet News)
Artist Wim Delvoye Plans to Open Museum in Historic City in Iran
The project has been facilitated by curators of his current solo show at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art for which he is working with traditional Isfahan metalworkers to create new sculptures. The three largest mansions he is working on are named ...
(Apr 28, 2016, Artforum)
Art Basel Names a Record 88 Projects for 2016 Unlimited Sector
... video projections, installations, wall paintings, photographic series, and performance art, Unlimited showcases new work by living artists alongside Modern works of historical significance, establishing an overview of both Modern and contemporary ...
(Apr 28, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Liverpool Biennial will put Ancient Greece into contemporary art show
These six components include Ancient Greece; Chinatown, which draws on Liverpool's Chinese community; Flashback, which features contemporary interpretations of historical events by artists such as Mark Leckey; Software, which explores “parallel ...
(Apr 28, 2016, Art Newspaper)
Wim Delvoye Wants to Move His Entire Production to Iran
“I was thinking when I was a child if a genie came out of a bottle and offered a crystal ball into my future and said, you are going to have shows in China, and you will sell to people in Yemen or India… ... Delvoye, who currently has his first solo ...
(Apr 28, 2016, artnet News)
Will China censor its new star museum over Ai Weiwei?
Bern was a reunion of sorts for Sigg and Ai, who were joined by another long-time collaborator Jacques Herzog, of star Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, for a panel discussion on the future of architecture in China. Ai had helped with the ...
(Apr 28, 2016, swissinfo.ch)
Çanakkale Biennial's Fifth Edition Reveals Theme of “Homeland”
The project has been facilitated by curators of his current solo show at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art for which he is working with traditional Isfahan metalworkers to create new sculptures. The three largest mansions he is working on are named ...
(Apr 28, 2016, Artforum)
Things to Do in Connecticut, April 30 Through May 8
MIDDLETOWN Chinese Music Ensemble, traditional and contemporary. May 1 at 7 p.m. Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble, new works for live electronics. May 6 at 8 p.m. Free. Center for ..... Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays ...
(Apr 28, 2016, New York Times)
Largest contemporary art festival in the UK to open this July.
Throughout the Biennial, echoes of China and Liverpool's ever present Chinatown will resound in spaces across the city, to be encountered in everyday settings such as the supermarket, and in large spaces such as Cains Brewery. Work by 15 artists from ...
(Apr 28, 2016, FAD (press release) (blog))
Beijing Bucket List: Get a Glimpse of Emperor Life at the Prince Gong Mansion
Last Friday was a perfect spring day in Beijing, so I couldn't help but shirk work for a few hours to cross another item off my bucket list: Prince Gong Mansion, an imperial residence constructed by the most famous corrupt official in Chinese history ...
(Apr 29, 2016, The Beijinger (blog))
Britain's largest contemporary art festival to have heavy Chinese presence
The largest contemporary arts festival in Britain is to have heavy Chinese presence, it was revealed on Thursday. This year the Liverpool Biennial, the largest contemporary art festival in Britain, is taking inspiration from its own city, and a central ...
(Apr 29, 2016, ecns)
Armory Show's Contemporary and Modern Sections to Merge
The project has been facilitated by curators of his current solo show at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art for which he is working with traditional Isfahan metalworkers to create new sculptures. The three largest mansions he is working on are named ...
(Apr 29, 2016, Artforum)
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