AGNSW director Michael Brand's Sydney Modern ambitions
The best and busiest is in Melbourne, where the National Gallery of Victoria is quietly moving ahead with plans for a third site for contemporary art. Queensland Art Gallery's .... It is also courting cashed-up Chinese residents. Flamboyant estate ...
(Jul 15, 2016, The Australian)
Montreal's C2 business conference is a circus of commerce and creativity
It's somewhere a contemporary art exhibit or alternative rock show would feel right. ... One woman, a 26-year-old commodities trader from China, just saw the event as a vacation (there's a beer garden and many gourmet food trucks). The CEO of Montreal ...
(Jul 15, 2016, Toronto Star)
What We Learned From the Knoedler Trial and Scandal: A Post-Mortem
The forger, in China, is not expected to return. On Tuesday night a panel convened by the ... Prices are soaring for works of contemporary art, where authenticity and attribution tend not to be issues. Works by Pollock and Rothko are also as coveted as ...
(Jul 15, 2016, Observer)
USC Pacific Asia Museum gears up for big changes
“We were the first to show modern contemporary art from the Philippines … from aboriginals,” Yu said. One of only three museums in the country dedicated to Asian art and heritage, Yu wants to continue that ... Making the museum appealing to everyone ...
(Jul 15, 2016, USC News)
USC Pacific Asia Museum gears up for big changes
“We were the first to show modern contemporary art from the Philippines … from aboriginals,” Yu said. One of only three museums in the country dedicated to Asian art and heritage, Yu wants to continue that ... Making the museum appealing to everyone ...
(Jul 15, 2016, USC News)
Eastern Promises: Jennifer Wen Ma Reinvigorates Kunqu Opera
She was organizing a public program at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art around her massive installation—a 60-foot long, six-ton hanging garden of live plants painted with Mo, or Chinese ink. Alongside the work, Ma wanted to direct an ...
(Jul 15, 2016, Observer)
British gallery owner Mark Peaker makes an art out of Hong Kong's idling engine law enforcement
As an avid letter writer to the South China Morning Post, “Mark Peaker from The Peak” is noted for his regular commentary and complaints on discourteous road etiquette, which remains unchanged despite a bill being introduced in 2011 penalising those ...
(Jul 16, 2016, South China Morning Post)
A shore thing
He has exhibited temporary and permanent installations at international galleries, festivals and biennales, including the Biennial of Graphic Art and Museum of Modern Art in Slovenia, World Expo 2010 in China and the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art ...
(Jul 16, 2016, The Mercury)
A Bridge Road Revival
House of Voltaire Comes to Melbourne, Direct from London. Limited-edition prints, contemporary art and fashion at a new pop-up store and dining room on Collins Street curated by QIC Global Real Estate. ... Chen Qiulin to Perform a Live Tofu Carving ...
(Jul 18, 2016, Broadsheet)
Thomas Hirschhorn & Santiago Sierra
ASAKUSA is delighted to announce the exhibition Radical Democracy with artists Thomas Hirschhorn and Santiago Sierra, whose art practices engage with selected social groups, often facing ethical questions. The exhibited works articulate divisive ...
(Jul 18, 2016, E-Flux)
Refugee artists show the rewards of humanity
In 2008, one of his works was acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Titled China China — Bust 81, it's a white porcelain bust overlaid with a traditional Chinese landscape painting. It will be shown among 76 works by 22 artists in a ...
(Jul 18, 2016, dailytelegraph.com.au)
These Four Technologies May Finally Put an End to Art Forgery
Digital art is increasingly gaining traction in the contemporary art world. Phillips's last two “Paddles ON!” auctions, which .... He says that he's “in line” to use this new anti-forgery tech, which allows artists to tag their works with tiny bits of ...
(Jul 18, 2016, Artsy)
Kochi Biennale to Yinchuan with Bose
Bose's wings now spread to an ambitious new biennial featuring works by international icons Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor in northwest China later this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (Moca Yinchuan). The inaugural edition, entitled For an ...
(Jul 18, 2016, Times of India (blog))
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair: tradition from a different angle
The fair's founding director was contemporary art curator Michael Snelling, who oversaw an ambitious program of presentations from the new, state-funded art studios set up across north Queensland, alongside a “jigsaw” exhibition of works by artists ...
(Jul 18, 2016, The Australian)
50 great days out in the UK
Highlights include a Japanese bullet train, a Chinese locomotive, Queen Victoria's railway carriage and Mallard, once the fastest steam train in the world. There is also a model railway, outdoor play area and train-ride simulator. The Shildon site has ...
(Jul 18, 2016, Telegraph.co.uk)
Ai Weiwei Claims the Chinese Authorities Made Him Famous
To mark the start of Ai Weiwei's exhibition at the Austrian 21er Haus—the contemporary art branch of Vienna's Belvedere Museum—the Chinese artist and activist gave an interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung in which he declared that ...
(Jul 18, 2016, artnet News)
Glamour, film and celebs to descend on La Jolla for International Fashion Film Festival
The LJIFFF is a global event and artists and filmmakers from Russia, China, South America, Sweden, New York and Hollywood will be among the several representing their work and vying to leave with an IFFA. Two screenings will be held at the Museum of ...
(Jul 18, 2016, San Diego Community News)
Arts | Kay Zhang's exhibition depicts views on sex
Zhang commenced her study at the School of Experimental Art at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2014. She has focused on the field of research and creation of contemporary art. According to a press release issued by AFA, she has learned how to ...
(Jul 18, 2016, Macau Daily Times)
Medal-winning makeover: Add a splash of Rio to your home
Brazil's complex cultural tapestry — woven with threads from indigenous Indian tribes, Portuguese conquerors and a wide array of settlers hailing from the likes of Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and China — might have blended uncomfortably into a ...
(Jul 19, 2016, The Daily Gazette)
Our definitive guide to ordering beer around the country.
House of Voltaire Comes to Melbourne, Direct from London. Limited-edition prints, contemporary art and fashion at a new pop-up store and dining room on Collins Street curated by QIC Global Real Estate. ... Chen Qiulin to Perform a Live Tofu Carving ...
(Jul 19, 2016, Broadsheet)
Summer holidays in Huddersfield: 20 FREE things to do with the kids
This gallery houses contemporary art and a collection by the famous Barbara Hepworth. The gallery has a family trail, play park, and, during the summer months, runs free family workshops. Situated one miles ... Manor Heath Park, Halifax This park's ...
(Jul 19, 2016, Huddersfield Examiner)
Rare Kangxi brushwater takes top spot at Rosebery's auction
A Chinese porcelain famille noir brushwater, in underglaze blue and bearing a Kangxi six character mark, was the highlight of day 2 at Roseberys June sale. Part of the Sir Anthony Hastings George collection, it sold for £28,000 (plus premium), soaring ...
(Jul 20, 2016, antiquestradegazette.com)
Censorship and ravages of time weigh on Guangzhou art group's playful retrospective
The current crisis at the Ullens Centre of Contemporary Art in Beijing has highlighted the precarious nature of China's many private art museums. So far, Shum has been a magnanimous owner who gives free rein to Times Museum to do everything from ...
(Jul 20, 2016, South China Morning Post)
Discordant Harmony
For the exhibition Discordant Harmony, which opens on July 22 at the Taipei National University of the Arts Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, curators Sungjung Kim of Korea, Chien-Hung Huang of Taiwan, Carol Yinghua Lu of China, and Yukie Kamiya of ...
(Jul 20, 2016, E-Flux)
High-drama private art storage facility by Tzannes
The storage warehouse in an unnamed location in Sydney's inner city will have 10,000 square metres of space for Neilson's collection of contemporary Chinese art. The building's design will reference the surrounding warehouse typology. “The brief was ...
(Jul 20, 2016, Architecture AU)
Academic approach already takes a toll ahead of FAC/CC merger
Once the ink dries on the deal, expect Tigers in the gallery — and hopefully not a bull in a china shop. One bit of personnel-related news ahead of the seemingly imminent merger has some members and stakeholders concerned about a heavy-handed ...
(Jul 20, 2016, Colorado Springs Independent)
Contemporary Chinese art exhibition showcases China's rich art scene
A painting exhibition that consists of the finest arts of contemporary China has attracted dozens of Chinese and Western artists, art connoisseurs, collectors and art lovers this week in Beijing. The exhibition, which was organized by the Zhongmao CVC ...
(Jul 20, 2016, ecns)
Londoner's Diary: New spoofs keep up fight with Ladybird
The Ladybird may be a mighty beast but artist Miriam Elia won't be cowed. The satirist behind spoof Ladybird book We Go to the Gallery is taking on the bestseller lists, after publisher Penguin finding her work so impressive that it turned to imitation ...
(Jul 20, 2016, Evening Standard)
Ai Weiwei creates lotus-like installation from refugee life jackets
Other installations include a Ming Dynasty temple made from 1,300 wooden pieces installed in the exhibition hall of contemporary art museum 21er Haus, and three mythological characters – created using traditional Chinese kite-making techniques ...
(Jul 20, 2016, Dezeen)
Christie's Sees Sales Volume Dip From Last Year
Christie's Global President Jussi Pylkkanen takes bids on Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Untitled" (1982) at the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction in NYC, fetching a record $57,285,000. ... Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 mural-size painting “Untitled ...
(Jul 20, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Why You Should Start Collecting African Art
Each year its Focus section is on a specific theme — last year it was Chinese contemporary art, this year it was Africa. “Africa is often neglected culturally. And I find this very sad as it is a fascinating, diverse continent,” says Yvette Mutumba ...
(Jul 20, 2016, Billionaire.com)
Deputy Director of Australian Museum Tapped to Lead M+ in Hong Kong
Highlights will include the M+ Sigg collection, which comprises more than 1,500 works donated or sold to the museum by Uli Sigg, one of the most important collectors of contemporary Chinese art. Duncan Pescod, chief executive of the authority that ...
(Jul 20, 2016, New York Times)
Sotheby's (BID) Announces Asia 2016 Half Year Sales of $461.5M
'We are further encouraged by the growing presence of Asian collectors in our worldwide salerooms, where they are pushing the market forward – evidenced by their active participation in recent major sales of Contemporary Art in New York and London, ...
(Jul 20, 2016, StreetInsider.com)
New M+ Director Says “Bring It On” to Museum's Ongoing Controversies
She has led the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art since 2002 and took the helm of building the Asia Pacific collection and the China Project at the Queensland institution. But whether Raffel's sound experience will be sufficient to wage the ...
(Jul 20, 2016, Artsy)
Find your weekend fun in our events calendar
“Fun House: Art of the Surreal, Fantastic, and Bizarre,” a national contemporary art exhibition juried by Eve Biddle, artist and founding co-executive director of the Wassaic Project. Also, “Flooded,” a solo show by Westchester photographer Susan ...
(Jul 20, 2016, Poughkeepsie Journal)
Dalian Wanda's New '7-Star' Hotel Shows Bling is Alive in the China Market
Laurence Xu, who was the first Chinese designer to join Paris Haute Couture Week in July 2013, designed the uniforms for the staff. Chinese contemporary art is also abundant around the hotel, featuring the work of painter Shi Qi, sculptor Huang Laiduo ...
(Jul 21, 2016, Jing Daily)
Art or amusement park? Tremendous public installations that will boggle your mind
The public nature of all of these installations enables the beauty of contemporary art to be appreciated by those who wouldn't normally set foot into an art museum or gallery -- and the placement of some of them allows for a social and political ...
(Jul 21, 2016, CNN)
Louis Vuitton could replace creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere, sources say
The sources said Arnault and his daughter Delphine, No.2 at Louis Vuitton, were big fans of 32-year-old Anderson, known for his playful designs and contemporary art inspiration. They said executives at LVMH believed Louis Vuitton would give him a ...
(Jul 21, 2016, South China Morning Post)
Q&A with Zhang Yanzi, Contemporary Chinese Artist
For Contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Yanzi, art is in the details. She paints with a self-consciously feminine aesthetic, while microscopic worlds in ink and colour are all at once poetic and whimsical. Yanzi's work is collected by the National Art ...
(Jul 21, 2016, Butterboom)
Out of town events
7); “Splashes of Color: Chinese Woodblock Prints from the You Wei Du Zhai Collection” (June 25-Oct. 9); Portland Art Museum, Portland; www.portlandartmuseum.org or 503-226-2811. Through Sept. 18 — Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art: ...
(Jul 21, 2016, Bend Bulletin)
Moscow's Garage wants your clothes for a new installation
Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is inviting the public to participate in the creation of a new installation by Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen. Until 14 August you can donate any clothes you feel are out of fashion or no longer for you — they're ...
(Jul 21, 2016, The Calvert Journal)
Up for Auction: A Charming Drawing by Saul Steinberg
As Kit Widing, Christie's Junior Specialist in Post-War and Contemporary Art and the head of the online sale observes, the proposal "illustrates an interior scene of the 'Town' or 'City' life, with upscale china, a lamp and a picture frame arranged on ...
(Jul 21, 2016, TownandCountrymag.com (blog))
Sotheby's Reports Half-Year Asia Sales Are Up 22 Percent Robust growth extends beyond traditional art.
Cheung Chiu-kwan, Sotheby's head of Chinese paintings department, gives details of a Chinese painting by Zhang Daqian entitled Morning mist in Spring during a press preview in Hong Kong on September 1, 2011. Courtesy of LAURENT FIEVET/AFP/Getty ...
(Jul 21, 2016, artnet News)
Reception for printmaker Sat.
She uses motifs from her personal history, recalling childhood recollections of her parent's Chinese restaurant with pop-culture palettes. Liu recently presented new work in a solo exhibition in Portland and has exhibited in the Schneider Museum of Art ...
(Jul 21, 2016, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts exhibit showcases contemporary needlecraft
"Unbroken" by Linda Anderson won the grand prize award at the 34th annual New Legacies Contemporary Art Quilts. (Courtesy photo) ... She uses her personal photos, such as the ones from a trip to China with her husband. As she starts to finish one quilt ...
(Jul 22, 2016, Loveland Reporter-Herald)
New AI creates original music by looking at pictures
Could computers be capable of creating art? This new AI from Chinese search-engine giant Baidu seems to be able to do just that. In a new exhibit at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Baidu's new AI is analysing photos and paintings and ...
(Jul 22, 2016, CNET)
It's summertime – get out and play in Cleveland: Talk of the Towns
Speaking of restoration, right across the street from the coffee house is Transformer Station, an art gallery that offers a venue for significant new contemporary art projects. The Transformer Station, built in 1924, is one of sixteen ... The Opening ...
(Jul 22, 2016, cleveland.com)
Nanjing International Art Festival 2016 to Address Global Economy ...
Nanjing International Art Festival 2016 to Address Global Economy ...
(Jul 22, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Rauschenberg in China
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents "Rauschenberg in China" from 12 June to 21 August 2016. The exhibition's center feature is "The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece" that stretches 305 meters long. Check out theBeijinger's blog post on ...
(Jul 22, 2016, The Beijinger)
Zaha Hadid Broke Barriers To Create Dramatic, Daring Architecture
The next several years saw the realization of The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany; Rome's MAXXI, a contemporary art museum; the Evelyn Grace Academy in London; and China's Guangzhou Opera House, for which Hadid reworked her thwarted ...
(Jul 22, 2016, Investor's Business Daily)
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