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Contemporary Chinese Art News 08/2016 (Page 2)

National Day Special 2016: Home not always where the art is

This year, the Singapore Biennale, which kicks off on October 28, will retain the same collaborative framework with associate curators from India, Malaysia, China and Singapore. Even smaller ... Mr Seng, who recently launched Histories, Practices ... (Aug 8, 2016, TODAYonline)

I'm addicted to buttered croissants, coffee — and Donald Trump

There is a wonderful exhibition of Picasso sculptures at the Picasso Museum and one of contemporary Chinese art at the Louis Vuitton Foundation and, right downstairs, a beckoning breakfast of succulent croissants and butter and coffee made just as I ... (Aug 8, 2016, Washington Post)

Free Theatre to extend lease for The Gym in the Arts Centre

This includes ongoing plans for its regular Ubu Nights; a China-New Zealand cultural exchange with The Mauricio Kagel Project, which features collaborators Chinese composer Gao Ping and New Zealand conductor Hamish McKeich; a multi-site production of A ... (Aug 9, 2016, Scoop.co.nz (press release))

Peninsula and Remote Lands team to explore contemporary art capitals

Taking place March 1-15 2017, the trip will offer 16 travelers an opportunity to explore the contemporary art capitals of Asia, staying in Peninsula hotels and accessing exclusive experiences along the way. Heavily curated, luxurious trips boost the ... (Aug 9, 2016, Luxury Daily)

Contemporary artists to perform at Hanoi show

These works were presented during his performances in Europe, America, Australia and China in collaboration with many classical and contemporary music artists. He has been lecturing on composition and musicology at the Viet Nam National Academy of ... (Aug 9, 2016, VietNamNet Bridge)

Olyvia Kwok: meet the art world's It girl

In 2005 she opened an eponymous gallery in St James's that capitalised on the explosion in Chinese Contemporary art and the emerging art markets of Russia, India and the Middle East; Kwok now refreshingly admits that she was clueless at the time, not ... (Aug 9, 2016, Spear's WMS)

Berlin Art Scene - Contemporary Art Is Flourishing Everywhere in Berlin

Meanwhile, the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, recently transplanted from Beijing, still works underground, but now in a catacomb-like subterranean brewery-turned-residence-and-studio in the Mitte district. The dealer Johann König, 35, runs his ... (Aug 9, 2016, W Magazine)

Jacques Herzog: I understand why China is banning "weird ...

Jacques Herzog: I understand why China is banning "weird ... (Aug 9, 2016, Dezeen)

Vilebrequin CEO Roland Herlory Shares His Desktop Essentials

During his 20-year tenure at Hermès, Herlory created some of the most successful, and oftentimes whimsical, retail collaborations for the house. He is an avid collector of contemporary art, and divides his time between Paris, New York, St. Barth and ... (Aug 9, 2016, Haute Living)

Opinion: Confessing to an addiction to Trump

Parisian Panache

Walls and moldings previously in Provencal peach and sunflower yellow wear a crisp gallery-white, a perfect foil for the couple's contemporary art collection. Jayne, a former trustee for the Orange County Museum of Art, says living with art enhances ... (Aug 10, 2016, Orange Coast Magazine (blog))

Home is where the art is for Hong Kong contemporary music composer Daniel Lo

Inspired by a poem by Li Bai, a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, the work for solo flute embodies an emotion familiar to every student who has studied abroad – homesickness. “I am trying to portray the nostalgic feeling but I also want to take it one step ... (Aug 10, 2016, South China Morning Post)

ASIA NOW Art Fair Doubles in Size for Second Edition in Paris

The fair program will include a group exhibition curated by Hervé Mikaeloff with Matthias Arndt, focusing on East Asian art from countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia, and artists such as Eko Nugroho; as well as a collaboration between ... (Aug 10, 2016, artnet News)

Seventeen Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

Due to China's political unrest in the 1920s-30s, the Freer Gallery's associate curator of archaeology, Carl Whiting Bishop, had to stop his excavations on archaeological sites in the Shanxi Province. Instead, he kept busy ... When Joseph Hirshhorn ... (Aug 10, 2016, Smithsonian Insider (blog))

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

With a little imagination and what we can only imagine is shaved ice, Coolpad smartphones will launch its Chinese-based brand stateside with a very special Coolpad Snow Day in Miami. This Saturday, Bayside Marketplace ... To celebrate Prince's musical ... (Aug 10, 2016, Miami New Times)

Shanghai Project: City's Newest Art Festival Envisions the Future in 2116

The famous saying “children are the future” will also be in focus through another large-scale installation by Chinese artist Liu Yi, entitled “Seed Planet,” at Shanghai's Century Park. This structure, seemingly floating in mid-air, envisions “the lives ... (Aug 10, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Art exhibition listings

Last month, Lin & Lin Gallery featured Taiwanese Contemporary Art Collection, a joint exhibition consisting of works by Taiwanese artists over the last few decades. This month, it's Chinese Contemporary Art Collection (中國當代藝術典藏展). On display ... (Aug 10, 2016, Taipei Times)

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MoCA Jacksonville Receives Donation of 50 Artworks

The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville has announced that collector Maria Cox has gifted the institution fifty artworks by artists such as Philip Guston, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell, and Frank Stella. A twelve-year trustee, Cox had ... (Aug 10, 2016, Artforum)

Top Auction Houses of 2016: China Guardian | BLOUIN ARTINFO

The following Q&A appeared in Art+Auction's August issue, which profiles the world's top auction houses of 2016. ARTINFO will be publishing the articles from ... (Aug 10, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Ernst Neizvestny, sculptor who confronted Khrushchev, dies at 91

Neizvestny, who was forced to leave the Soviet Union in the 1970s, famously confronted Khrushchev in 1962 at "The New Reality" contemporary art show in central Moscow. Khrushchev came to view the exhibition and, encouraged by his entourage, ... (Aug 11, 2016, China Post)

Inside The Private Art Collections Of Indonesia's Rich

Sunaryo was among the leading artists selected to participate in the 2013 Guggenheim Museum's landmark exhibition No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia. He is known for his vibrant multi-layered paintings including ones composed ... (Aug 11, 2016, Forbes)

The Tel Aviv Art Museum Faces East To Attract Chinese Visitors

In response to the increasing number of Chinese tourists visiting Israel, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art has recently added Chinese language booklets and flyers to its collection of materials available to museum goers. Comparing June 2015 and June 2016 ... (Aug 11, 2016, Yeshiva World News)

Biennale erases mediocrity in art spaces: Bose Krishnamachari

One among them was Xie Suchen, the artistic director of the newly built Museum of Contemporary Art in Yinchuan, north-west China. She asked me to curate a show for the museum. On their invitation, I went there and was surprised to know that they wanted ... (Aug 11, 2016, The Hindu)

The Frye Art Museum Hires Joseph Rosa As Its New Director

Joseph Rosa, the 56-year-old director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, has been hired to run the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. He starts October 1. For the last decade, the Frye has been the most consistently interesting of Seattle's three ... (Aug 11, 2016, TheStranger.com)

Datebook: Art about play, colorful yarn paintings, shows of abstraction and boogeymen

“Me, Myself, I,” at China Art Objects. .... Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. A video installation by the German artist takes the viewer into a dystopia where the movements of workers are harvested to create ... (Aug 11, 2016, Los Angeles Times)

Asian Contemporary Art Collector Budi Tek

With a passion to build public appreciation for contemporary art, the Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur, art collector, advocate and philanthropist established the Yuz Foundation in 2007, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of ... (Aug 11, 2016, Billionaire.com)

Zodiac art show by Donna Dodson September 7- October 9

In her newest body of sculptural work, Dodson has created two parallel series, referencing both the animal characters associated with the Chinese, or Eastern zodiac, as well as the sun signs of the Western zodiac. Dodson's exhibition offers us a ... (Aug 11, 2016, Sampan)

Global Mashup – A round table conversation about aesthetics on October 2

This panel of a Wellesley College scholar of Asian philosophy and religion a Chinese Scholars' Rock art expert and a contemporary art curator will discuss a wide range of topics in contemporary art and aesthetics. They will compare and contrast the ... (Aug 11, 2016, Sampan)

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International Arts|How Sotheby's Found a Path to Higher Profits

Shares were given a boost by an enhanced $325 million stock repurchase program announced in January, and by the news on July 28 that the Taikang Life Insurance Company of China had become Sotheby's largest shareholder by raising its stake to 13.5 ... (Aug 12, 2016, New York Times)

How an Israeli and German Become New York's Artistic Power Couple

But perhaps the most important part of the couple's collection these days is that devoted to contemporary Chinese art – reflecting the new, hot trend in the market. Otto-Bernstein says she was always attracted to China, so it's not surprising that she ... (Aug 12, 2016, Haaretz)

Review: Art Stage Jakarta

Kusuma is an art addict who has amassed a vast collection of Indonesian and contemporary Chinese works. During the art fair he held an extravagant party, displaying the bewildering profusion of his holdings. ... Akili owns massive pieces by artists ... (Aug 12, 2016, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Six proposals for the reform of literature in the age of climate change

A century ago, China was in chaos. The Qing Empire had been overthrown by a loosely coordinated confederation of elites. The regional militias and armies that held sway were each too weak to ensure safety but too evenly matched to forge unity. Foreign ... (Aug 12, 2016, chinadialogue)

Penelope Curtis to Curate Contemporary Art Section of TEFAF ...

Penelope Curtis to Curate Contemporary Art Section of TEFAF ... (Aug 12, 2016, Artforum)

Canine Memorial, OMART and Chinese Brush Painting

Join Noelle Mason, winner of the 2016 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, as she shares insights about her work Saturday 2 to 3:30 at the Orlando Museum of Art. Mason is a Tampa artist who uses embroidery and tapestry weaving to create jarring works ... (Aug 12, 2016, WMFE)

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Notes on the Death of Culture

... that several generations of intellectuals fell into due to their sympathies with Nazi, Soviet or Maoist totalitarianism and their silence and blindness towards horrors such as the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag and the slaughter of the Chinese ... (Aug 12, 2016, Huffington Post)

OCMA tackles American modern art with Duncan Phillips collection

The museum has been edging into new territory, such as works from Asia with last year's show of young Chinese artists, as part of a strategy to expand its scope. The plan is to add art from the early 20th century, contemporary art from the Pacific Rim ... (Aug 13, 2016, OCRegister)

How to add a splash of Rio to your home's summer style

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 ... (Aug 13, 2016, The Killeen Daily Herald)

Proving its MET'tle

A pyramid, a gargantuan limestone sarcophagus, canopic jars used by the Ancient Egyptians to store the internal organs that were removed from the body during mummification… It's like being in Egypt but without the desert and camels! The Metropolitan ... (Aug 13, 2016, Chandigarh Tribune)

Director Shiner's time at the Warhol was 'incredibly productive'

“Eric led the museum with a true passion for the work and legacy of Andy Warhol, and a great enthusiasm for the power and reach of contemporary art,” she says. Shiner's journey to the Warhol took him across the world before bringing him back home ... (Aug 14, 2016, Tribune-Review)

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Liverpool Biennial 2016 review – it's not up everyone's street

The first two connect directly to Liverpool, a city whose great 19th-century architects, John Foster (designer of the aforementioned oratory) and Harvey Lonsdale Elmes (St George's Hall), created for it a wondrous neoclassical cityscape, and whose ... (Aug 14, 2016, The Guardian)

Bagism is back, sort of

... in fashion-and-art crossover shows. "We hope people get inspired to know more and talk more about the concept of art and the history of fashion design and see the relationship between the two, and how it inspires Chinese contemporary artists and ... (Aug 14, 2016, The Nation)

Cai Guo-Qiang Makes a “Homecoming” to Japan

Weaving motifs from Chinese culture, history, and thought, Cai Guo-Qiang began creating gunpowder drawings while living in Japan. ... In summer 2015 Cai—who by then had become one of the world's leading figures in contemporary art—gave a large-scale ... (Aug 15, 2016, Nippon.com)

South Africa's golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition

The objects testify to the sophisticated, settled society which traded gold and ivory with China, India and Egypt many centuries before settlers from Europe arrived. The British Museum is borrowing golden figures of animals of high status, such as a ... (Aug 15, 2016, FAD magazine)

Minneapolis Institute of Art Launches Multi-Year Asian Art Initiative with $6 Million Donation

... local Asian communities aware of the institute's growing 2,400-object Asian art collection, family days to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and special exhibitions such as a presentation of Asian funerary objects curated by the Vietnam-based art ... (Aug 15, 2016, Artforum)

Datebook: Your guide to area meetings and events

Scientific specimens, cultural artifacts and contemporary art will bring to life these tales of brave heroes and heroines, terrifying places, extraordinary objects and magical creatures. .... 10:30 a.m.; ballroom dance, Mondays, noon; sketching and oil ... (Aug 16, 2016, Scranton Times-Tribune)

Exhibition of theater costumes from Russian museum opens in US

Moscow's Bakhrushin Museum is to show theatrical garments from 1990-2015 until the end of September at the University of North Carolina in Asheville, before moving on to China and Poland. ... "Costume at the Turn of the Century: 1990-2015" is supported ... (Aug 16, 2016, Russia Beyond The Headlines)

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