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Contemporary Chinese Art News 05/2016 (Page 3)

Manila boutique hotel The Henry an urban oasis

To create the 34-room Henry, owner Hanky Lee, who also runs a sister property in Cebu, converted five 1950 two-storey buildings in a verdant residential compound that was once home to a wealthy Chinese family. Does it feel old? Let's say "classic". And ... (May 14, 2016, South China Morning Post)

Inaugural Ridgefield Independent Film Festival kicks off Friday, May 20, runs through Sunday

A young woman discovers her boyfriend doesn't really have her best interests at heart in “ICU,” a film from China that will be screened as part of the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, Friday, May 20, through Sunday, May 22. less. A young woman ... (May 14, 2016, CT Post)

Liverpool Biennial

The programme for Liverpool Biennial 2016, the largest contemporary art festival in the UK running from July 9 to October 16, has been announced by Sally Tallant, Director of Liverpool Biennial. For the ninth edition of the Biennial, 42 international ... (May 14, 2016, E-Flux)

Cutting-edge treats on the menu at the [Live] Art Club

Live art performances include everything from Odd Comic's Seen but not Heard, a theatrical experiment with a live link-up with a Norfolk residential home, to Made in China's one-woman show Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me, which looks at how ... (May 14, 2016, Norfolk Eastern Daily Press)

Nationally and Internationally Known Artists in Four Local Galleries

After visiting each gallery your perception will be heightened; you will have a clear understanding about a predilection in late modern and contemporary art — artists are responding to their personal experiences in culture. Ellington-White ... (May 14, 2016, Up & Coming Weekly)

Contemporary African Art A Bargain Compared With Other Art Hot Spots

That's a fraction of the millions paid lately for artists who found fame after him like China's Zeng Fanzhi or Brazil's Beatriz Milhazes. Africa's economy is still roiling from volatile oil prices, but prices ... Only a handful of African state museums ... (May 15, 2016, AFKInsider)

Where to go when: Summer 2016

Switzerland: Zurich will play home to Manifesta, the European biennial of contemporary art. The 11th edition, on from June 11 to September 18, will present artists and curators from almost 40 different countries (m11.manifesta.org). Basel will hold its ... (May 15, 2016, The National)

Herzog and De Meuron: Tate Modern's architects on their radical new extension

From contemporary art they learned that concept is more important than style – unlike other architects, Herzog and De Meuron avoid a signature look and instead seek almost obsessively to find a different set of materials, details and forms for almost ... (May 15, 2016, The Guardian)

From Beijing via Hong Kong to London, it's the year of Robert Rauschenberg

From June 12, the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing will have a Rauschenberg exhibition centred on The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece (1981-98), a 305-metre work made up of 190 parts that Rauschenberg worked on for nearly two decades and which ... (May 15, 2016, South China Morning Post)

Dariush M. Doust

Dariush M. Doust is visiting professor of Contemporary and Continental Philosophy at Beijing Normal University, China. He has taught art theory at the ... He has published on politics, contemporary art, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is a member of ... (May 15, 2016, lareviewofbooks)

Alfie Allen of 'Game of Thrones' plays sailor for a day

Allen, who was smartly dressed in a John Varvatos collarless jacket, immaculate white Nike Air Force 1 low-tops and a T-shirt from artist Mike Kelley's posthumous exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, merely cupped his tea, a ... (May 15, 2016, Spartanburg Herald Journal)

Sneak Peek: 33 Auction Spring Sale 2016

33 Auction's spring sale of Singaporean Art and Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, to be held May 21 at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, will feature a total of 125 lots by Singaporean, Chinese, and Southeast Asian artists with an estimated value of S$2—2.8 ... (May 16, 2016, Blouinartinfo UK)

Art World? More Like SeaWorld: The Use of Live Animals as Objects of Art

Unlike two or three dimensional representations of animals, or even dead animals (the stuffed goat central to Robert Rauschenberg's “Monogram,” or Joseph Beuys' dead hare, for instance), the use of living animals in contemporary art is becoming more ... (May 16, 2016, CounterPunch)

Taking ballet to the streets of Soweto via Cuba

... boosting ballet's profile in a country in which it could so easily be dismissed as white and elitist, including working to bring more dancers of colour to the stage and creating cultural ties with dance companies across the world, especially Cuban ... (May 16, 2016, BDlive)

Robert Rauschenberg's art to make Beijing comeback after 31 years

Thirty-one years after his groundbreaking exhibition in Beijing, Robert Rauschenberg's work is returning to the Chinese capital. Opening in June at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Rauschenberg in China will include his 305-meter, 191 ... (May 16, 2016, Art Newspaper)

Bernie Sanders fuels up en route to The Chronicle

And also at Becky's Chinese Restaurant in Oakland. Preparing to speak with the proprietor of that ... “People are much more interested in emergent, contemporary art” than they used to be, she said. “People like to buy the art of their time, and even ... (May 16, 2016, San Francisco Chronicle)

How Los Angeles Artisans Connect to Their Mexican Roots

Matt Stromberg is a freelance visual arts writer based in Los Angeles. In addition to Artbound, he is a contributor to Hyperallergic, Daily Serving, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and Artsy. Born and raised in New York City, he lived in San ... (May 16, 2016, KCET)

2016 China "Huaguoshan Cup" Design Competition Opens for entries

Also welcome are designs related to Huaguoshan and other contents in the novel as well as the city itself. The entries can be creative crafts or designs which reveal traditional Chinese culture or contemporary art with emphasis on Chinese elements from ... (May 16, 2016, Marketwired (press release))

Experts Weigh In on the Complexities of New York Auction Week

For example, Sotheby's sale of postwar and contemporary art, which dealers and collectors called very strong, only squeaked by its low hammer estimate of $201 million to total $206.9 million without the house's fees. The hammer total for Christie's ... (May 16, 2016, artnet News)

Chinese artist takes center stage at Grand Palais

A Chinese artist has taken over the exhibition hall of the Grand Palais in Paris with a vast artwork featuring shipping containers, a giant snake skeleton, and a Napoleonic hat. Every year, a ... in China in 1954. He is a leading light of contemporary ... (May 17, 2016, China.org.cn)

The Auctioneer: Bonhams' Giles Peppiatt on African Art

Having first set up the annual 'The South African Sale' in London in 2007, Bonhams pioneered the first auction dedicated to Modern and Contemporary African Art in London in April 2009, and last year, the auction house felt confident enough about the ... (May 17, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Animation and spatial relations

Entering the exhibition hall of MoCA Shanghai, visitors will see a poetic space created by South Korean artist Park Jung-hyun. Hundreds of bright yellow strings are angled across the walls at varying heights, splitting the space into several parts. In ... (May 17, 2016, Global Times)

Cross-Cultural Dialogue Takes Center Stage at Exhibition by Celebrated Chinese Artist Qin Feng

Installed in three locations including the former Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, now home to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (the first contemporary Chinese art installation), The Armenian Catholic Monastery on San Lazzaro Island and Venice ... (May 17, 2016, ArtfixDaily)

Robert Rauschenberg's Most Ambitious Artwork Arrives in Beijing

"We are thrilled to revisit Rauschenberg's unique position in China's contemporary art history through a substantive presentation of a major work which was created at exactly the moment of this encounter," said Philip Tinari, director of UCCA, in a ... (May 17, 2016, artnet News)

Faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships

English is an art historian focused on modern and contemporary art. He is the author of How to See a Work of Art ... Jordan has been a visiting professor at the University of Rennes in France and at Zhejiang University in China. He chaired the ... (May 17, 2016, UChicago News)

Platform-L Opens With Yang Fudong and Bae Young-whan

Platform-L Contemporary Art Center in Seoul opened its doors to the public for the first time on May 12 with solo exhibitions for China's Yang Fudong and Korea's Bae Young-whan, both of which run until August 7. The space, in a striking seven-storey ... (May 17, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Contemporary Aesthetics Meet Chinese Tradition at Intersections

“Autographic Matters” features work from Singaporean artists June Lee Yu Juan and Calvin Pang and French artists Hélène Le Chatelier and Syv Bruzeau, who collectively explore the “three perfections” of traditional Chinese art: painting, calligraphy ... (May 18, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Farewell Spring Masters, Welcome TEFAF New York

The show featured 59 domestic and international dealers with art and objects spanning postwar and contemporary art, Roman and Chinese antiquities, fine jewelry, Impressionist paintings, graffiti art, English and American antique furniture, Twentieth ... (May 18, 2016, Antiques and the Arts Online)

'I Dream of Being Obscure': Tracey Emin On Her New Show At Lehmann Maupin

Tracey Emin has had what you might call an on-again, off-again relationship with painting. After having an abortion in 1990, she stopped painting entirely and destroyed all of the art she had created in graduate school. Of her painting cessation, the ... (May 18, 2016, ARTnews)

Museums and galleries: May 19-25

Asia Society Texas Center: "We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art," group show, through July 3; and "Yuriko Yamaguchi," through Aug. 21; $5; 1370 Southmore; 713-496-9901, ... 713-284-8250, camh.org. Contemporary Art Gallery: 2016 Master of ... (May 18, 2016, Chron.com)

Jan Lauwers Silent Stories

The invitation extended by Qiu Zhijie and Ming Contemporary Art Museum, which has a special interest in performance art, is particularly appropriate to Jan Lauwers' multidisciplinary world. The exhibition Silent Stories was conceived specially for McaM ... (May 18, 2016, E-Flux)

China-Qatar Relations: Media, Culture, Education, and People

One important highlight of the event is the exhibition What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China, which includes works by 15 contemporary Chinese artists and is curated by the famous Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Following his solo exhibition ... (May 18, 2016, Huffington Post)

Chinese Ink Artist Presents Solo Exhibition in Venice, Today

He has exhibited in major galleries and museums like the Goedhuis Contemporary in New York, The Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art in China, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Yale University Museum, The Ford Foundation, The ... (May 19, 2016, Broadway World)

ASSEMBLING ART: Ford Model T plant that opened in 1916 is soon to be rechristened 21c Museum Hotel

Alice Gray Stites, chief curator and museum director for the full-service hotel, is overseeing art installations this week that can best be described as a mix of wonder from Science Museum Oklahoma, contemporary art featured at the Oklahoma City Museum ... (May 19, 2016, NewsOK.com)

Sneak Peek: What to See at the 2016 Art-Athina Art Fair

The Art-Athina international contemporary art fair, Greece's largest contemporary art event, returns to the Faliron Pavilion in Athens for its 21st edition from May 26-29. ... KALFAYAN GALLERIES (Athens-Thessaloniki), Kaplanon Galleries Contemporary ... (May 19, 2016, Blouin Artinfo (registration))

Photo Flash: First Look at Qin Feng Ink Art Display, WAITING FOR QIN FENG

Brooklyn Museum

Hunter O'Hanian, Current Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, to Become Executive Director of CAA: Following four years at the helm of the Lower East Side Museum for Gay and Contemporary Art, during which the institute doubled in size, O'Hanian will ... (May 19, 2016, Blouinartinfo UK)

Best-friend genetics

One of the most common clades spread from Russia or China around 1,000 years ago, but did not arrive in the Americas until within the last 500 years, suggesting it was taken there by European colonialists. Contemporary art shows conquistadors used dogs ... (May 19, 2016, The Economist)

Gene Jenneman: Chinese contemporary art, plus delicious dumplings

One of the great pleasures of the job of executive director of the Dennos Museum Center has been the opportunity to meet artists from other parts of the world. One of those artists is Wan Liya from Qingdao, China who recently returned to Traverse City ... (May 19, 2016, Traverse City Record Eagle)

Gene Jenneman: Chinese contemporary art, plus delicious dumplings

Friday 20 May: BJP joins Photo London to present an afternoon of film screenings

... director James Crump, whose film explores how, in making works that can never be possessed as an object in a gallery, such artists stood in direct contrast to the emerging, hyper-speculative contemporary art world of the day, and, evermore so, the ... (May 19, 2016, British Journal of Photography)

Public Art Fund Appoints Daniel S. Palmer Associate Curator

“Already helping to shape the conversation about contemporary art, I'm excited to see him engage a wide range of artists in thinking about and working with the public realm,” director and chief curator Nicholas Baume said. ... Previously, Mintz has ... (May 19, 2016, Artforum)

Isle Jam, art shows and orchestra Top 10 things to do this weekend

Peninsula Fine Art Center's Biennial exhibit, featuring works from Virginia artists, as well as those of seven other states and China, opens Friday with a reception at 5:30 p.m. It will be on display through June 26 (pfac-va.org). The Virginia ... (May 19, 2016, Daily Press)

Uphoff's bowling venture striking into China

Backed by a new set of Chinese investors, the local businessman and founder of bowling alley chain Uptown Alley announced plans last week to open 15 locations for the brand in China over the next five years, a more aggressive expansion than Uphoff ... (May 20, 2016, RichmondBizSense)

AI Weiwei creates cultural associations at Cycladic

Existing and new art by the world-renowned Chinese artist and political dissident will feature, entering into dialogue with the ancient works held by the museum, through the common factor of Ai's own use of classical materials such as marble and wood ... (May 20, 2016, Times of India (blog))

Best Russian artists and curators of 2015 receive 'Innovation' prize

Leading Russian curators and artists have been recognized for their work at the Innovation award ceremony, held in Moscow on May 18. The prize, established by the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) and the only state award given in the field ... (May 20, 2016, Russia Beyond the Headlines)

South Coast Plaza to Present a Special Exhibition Celebrating Chinese-Related Arts & Culture Following Nixon's ...

South Coast Plaza to Present a Special Exhibition Celebrating Chinese-Related Arts & Culture Following Nixon's ... (May 20, 2016, Business Wire (press release))

Ai Weiwei: Israelis and Palestinians have gotten used to living with a chair tied to their leg

In 1993, after his father fell ill, Ai returned to China to be part of the capital's contemporary art scene. In 1999 he built his own studio in Beijing, his first architectural project. In 2003 he and his wife, the artist Lu Qing, founded an ... (May 21, 2016, Haaretz)

The EU has destroyed some of our most prosperous industries - and will continue to do so

Now I look up the latest figures and see that London is a country mile behind New York and that China has overtaken us, too. Admittedly, that is not all the ... The most valuable part of the art market is post-war and contemporary art. This has ... (May 21, 2016, Telegraph.co.uk)

Renowned 'watchdog' artist Ai Weiwei's works coming to Pittsburgh

Since the 1980s, Chinese contemporary art has made a huge impact on the international scene and continues to be one of the art world's major areas of focus. With countless new museums, galleries and talents coming to the fore, China has a great number ... (May 22, 2016, Tribune-Review)

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