Loom service: the Italian textile factory spinning remarkable yarns in its own good time
First, the walls of the company's unassuming offices, its roaring machine-filled factory and its grubby, stock-filled warehouse are all plastered with more than 17,000 works of contemporary art, producing a tangible sense of creative pride in everyone ...
(Aug 24, 2016, wallpaper.com)
Qatar's oil boom created the world's most extravagant art scene—and also led to its demise
Christie's auction house lost several high-profile employees to QM, including their chairperson, managing director, and contemporary art specialist. The president of the Rhode Island ... Qatar dragged renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei out ...
(Aug 24, 2016, Quartz)
How to stay rich in Europe: inherit money for 700 years
More than a third of Italy's richest people inherited their fortunes, compared with just 29 per cent in the US and 2 per cent in China, according to a 2014 study of the world's billionaires by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Germany ...
(Aug 24, 2016, Irish Times)
The Economic Side-Effects of Our Obsession With Innovation in American Art
A decade after an asking price of $12 million was set for a 2-ton stuffed shark dubbed art, baffling us all, the contemporary art boom continues. What we're seeing today is a bubble borne of our endless chase for innovation, according to economist ...
(Aug 24, 2016, The Epoch Times)
Feature: Brussels exhibition showcases best in Chinese contemporary photography
Organized by the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & TV and the China Cultural Center, the exhibition is curated by the Shanghai Center of Photography, founded by Pulitzer prize-winning Liu Heung Shing and his partner Karen ...
(Aug 24, 2016, Xinhua)
Here's what's happening in the arts this fall in Columbia
1-Friday, Oct. 16, 701 Center for Contemporary Art. www.701cca.org. “Critical Materiality: Three S.C. Women ... Shanghai Acrobats of the People's Republic of China – The acrobats will debut their new show, “Shanghai Nights.” Wednesday, Oct. 19 ...
(Aug 24, 2016, The State)
Endless arts and entertainment
4 at 1:30 p.m. brings an afternoon of Taiwan Campus Folk Songs, performed in Chinese with English and Chinese subtitles ($35; $25). On Sept. 16 at 7 p.m., the Colombian Drum Circle will celebrate the Harvest Moon ... MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Ave., Long ...
(Aug 25, 2016, Queens Chronicle)
Works by post-Mao female artists at the Broad
After the United States, China has the second largest art market in the world. A new exhibit at MSU's Broad Art Museum explores how Chinese women have navigated the contemporary art explosion in their homeland. We speak with Dr. Wang Chunchen, ...
(Aug 25, 2016, WKAR)
Top Galleries of 2016: Bank
We have shown and sold some very name-brand Western artists but found that the sophisticated Chinese collector wants more than just to buy something meaningful and worthwhile. They are seduced by the lifestyle of contemporary art; they use art as a way ...
(Aug 25, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Can Art Respond Authentically to the Refugee Crisis? A Critical Overview from Greece
Produced by the renowned Chinese visual artist Ai Weiwei, this may well have been the most pertinent artistic intervention addressing the refugee crisis. Locating his work in the heart of Europe, timing it to the highly publicized 66th Berlinale ...
(Aug 25, 2016, ArtSlant)
Chefs Gallery to launch in China
... The City, in the historically rich city of Xi'an. Chefs Gallery is recognised for using a combination of flavours from modern Chinese cuisine and profiling contemporary Chinese art at its venues. Chefs make the noodles by hand, behind a glass ...
(Aug 26, 2016, Australian Hospitality Magazine)
How Louis Vuitton CEO Michael Burke manages creative talent and mega-brands
Cue the bossa nova beat. And last night, the samba. So on this Sunday morning, Burke's not the only one wearing shades. Yesterday we travelled to Niterói on the city limits, to the Contemporary Art Museum, which looks like a spaceship that's put ...
(Aug 26, 2016, The Australian Financial Review)
Australian National University in Canberra receives $800000 painting by Chinese artist Zhang Peili
In the late 80s, there was this emergence of interest and activity in contemporary art in China, which was breaking with all of the past traditions. He is a very significant artist, and if you had to name the top 10 most influential artists in China of ...
(Aug 26, 2016, The Canberra Times)
Ai Weiwei Planned to Sculpt a 'Redline.' Chinese Censors Say He ...
Ai Weiwei Planned to Sculpt a 'Redline.' Chinese Censors Say He ...
(Aug 26, 2016, New York Times)
3 places to go to get back your creative edge
Wuzhen is a Chinese Venice, with cobblestone streets, canals for highways, and nary a streetlamp in sight. The exhibition demonstrates the rise of China's contemporary art scene. Famed artists donate pieces such as John Kormeling's “Anyway,” Antti ...
(Aug 26, 2016, Milwaukee Business Journal)
Interview: on the road with the US artist Sterling Ruby
Ruby was only three years out of art school when he caught the international art world's attention with a densely hung exhibition called SUPERMAX 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Over the past decade there has ... His future home ...
(Aug 26, 2016, Financial Times)
Art review: Jompet Kuswidananto and Katthy Cavaliere
Jompet Kuswidananto's installation, After Voices, at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, is an attempt to explore the contradictory nature of the crowd – a phenomenon that fills participants with a feeling of power, of exhilaration, while papering ...
(Aug 26, 2016, The Sydney Morning Herald)
New attributions for Brian Sewell's Old Master drawings
The news came shortly after Chinese life insurance company Taikang became the company's largest shareholder, buying a 13.5 per cent stake. Taikang CEO and chairman is Chen Dongsheng, grandson-in-law of Mao ... Sales at Seattle Art Fair | August is dead ...
(Aug 26, 2016, Apollo Magazine)
the artist who took on China and Mao
Denied an official venue, they would choose to exhibit in the open air, hanging their works from the railings outside the National Art Museum of China on September 27, 1979. It was China's first-ever exhibition of contemporary art, and when the ...
(Aug 26, 2016, The Australian Financial Review)
Works by post-Mao female artists at the Broad Museum
After the United States, China has the second largest art market in the world. A new exhibit at MSU's Broad Art Museum explores how Chinese women have navigated the contemporary art explosion in their homeland. We speak with Dr. Wang Chunchen, ...
(Aug 26, 2016, WKAR)
ART SEEN: Richmond Art Gallery director leaves to return to US
I hope her successor at the RAG continues the tradition of mounting challenging historical and contemporary art exhibitions. ... His works are being shown with three artists – a watercolourist, ceramicist and calligrapher – born in China who live in ...
(Aug 26, 2016, Vancouver Sun)
Datebook: Tracing Hotel Architecture at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art
“Accommodating Reform: International Hotels and Architecture in China, 1978-1990” is on view at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, through October 23. The exhibition traces the emergence and development of the international hotel as an ...
(Aug 26, 2016, Blouinartinfo UK)
Tebbutt shows 'Breathing Light' mandalas
An abstract painter, Tebbutt works in Chinese ink, minerals, oil, encaustic and rice paper on canvas. According to his artist statement, “Combinations of ... “The circle finds its way into contemporary art quite often. However, it is rare that the ...
(Aug 27, 2016, taosnews)
How hotels shaped the new China
Roskam's interest in China's foreign-based hotels from that era isn't only academic. He's now co-hosting the exhibition "Accommodating Reform: International Hotels and Architecture in China, 1978-1990" at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in ...
(Aug 28, 2016, The Nation)
Ai Weiwei work pulled from biennale in China
But last week, the artistic director of the Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Ms Suchen Hsieh, sent Ai a cryptic message: "Bose (Krishnamachari, Indian artist and curator of the biennale) and I invited you to participate in this year's Yinchuan ...
(Aug 28, 2016, The Straits Times)
Artist, author and art historian, Dinanath Pathi passes away
Born in Digapahandi village of Ganjam district in Southern Odisha, Dr Pathy was one of the pioneers of the Contemporary Art Movement in Odisha. After pursuing a degree in art from Khallikote College, he had done his PhD in Art History ... A recipient ...
(Aug 29, 2016, The New Indian Express)
Win tickets to the 9th Asia Contemporary Art Show, 15-18 September
Asia Contemporary Art Show will return for its 9th edition on 15 to 18 September 2016 at the Conrad Hong Kong. The show features a diverse line up of more than 80 exhibitors from 15 countries in Asia and around the world, bringing to Hong Kong an ...
(Aug 29, 2016, Butterboom)
Designer Anna Spiro on getting the Halcyon House look and avoiding the contemporary
“I suppose it's traditional with a twist. I use lots of antique furniture in the rooms I create and incorporate beautiful patterned fabrics to upholster bespoke custom made sofas, armchairs, cushions etc. I don't like anything that is mass-produced. I ...
(Aug 29, 2016, Vogue Australia)
Interview: Alexander Montague-Sparey on PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai
When a fair in mainland China is well produced and attracts major galleries alongside cutting-edge ones, it not only garners the attention of Asian collectors but also international buyers. The fairs offers two opportunities: for Asian buyers to ...
(Aug 29, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
This L.A. Museum Is Keeping The Dying Art Of Neon Alive
Even if someone is willing to donate a sign MONA, the high cost of restoration (sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars, as was the case for the sign from Grauman's Chinese Theater) and spatial constraints of storage means that many are passed ...
(Aug 29, 2016, Co.Design (blog))
New Funk Center Exhibition Explores Artistry of 'Stuff' from Four Artists
Noland, a studio artist since 1980, has had recent exhibits presented at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri, and the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Formerly based in the Midwest, Noland recently moved to ...
(Aug 29, 2016, Florida Tech Now)
Ai Weiwei Hits Back After Being Dropped From Art Show in China's ...
Ai Weiwei Hits Back After Being Dropped From Art Show in China's ...
(Aug 29, 2016, Radio Free Asia)
Cruising Out Of Florida This Winter? Don't Miss A World Of Culture In The Palm Beaches
Performances at Old School Square outdoor pavilion in the artsy seaside village of Delray Beach will include China's Shanghai Acrobats and the State Ballet Theatre of Russia. The venue also hosts the Palm Beach Poetry Festival during January. The Palm ...
(Aug 29, 2016, PR Newswire (press release))
Kanye West Finally Got His Own Art Exhibit: Last Week In Art
+ Ai Weiwei has been dropped from the Yinchuan Biennale in China, two weeks before opening, because of his “political status,” according to a tweet the artist posted on Wednesday. [Ai Weiwei]. + Infamous appropriation artist, Richard Prince, is being ...
(Aug 29, 2016, The Creators Project (blog))
The market is hot for contemporary Chinese ink painting
He has exhibited contemporary Chinese art from the 1990s. 'Until 2000 ink painting was a slow burn,' he says. 'By 2005 the market was very hot.' For many years the main market for contemporary, more avant-garde ink painting, was Western: 'expatriates ...
(Aug 30, 2016, Apollo Magazine)
The market is hot for contemporary Chinese ink painting
He has exhibited contemporary Chinese art from the 1990s. 'Until 2000 ink painting was a slow burn,' he says. 'By 2005 the market was very hot.' For many years the main market for contemporary, more avant-garde ink painting, was Western: 'expatriates ...
(Aug 30, 2016, Apollo Magazine)
Region's changing culture and economy get international exposure
Ted Ukrop sips a cup of coffee in the vaulted lobby of his design-driven Quirk Hotel on West Broad Street in Richmond where the ceiling towers 20 feet above his head. “I always felt that Richmond needed a cool hotel. I always knew somebody was going to ...
(Aug 30, 2016, Virginia Business Magazine)
Subtle messages lie hidden in a corporate collection
Tokyo Station Gallery is showing a pick 'n' mix exhibition, “12 Rooms 12 Artists,” comprising a variety of modern and contemporary art acquisitions from the UBS art collection. ... and a dramatic restaging of a scene from the 1930s Chinese film “The ...
(Aug 30, 2016, The Japan Times)
Bolton pub Ye Olde Man and Scythe's ghost 'stolen' by Chinese artist Lu Pingyuan
is now housed, however – because it appears you can house a spirit – in a sealed metal cannister at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art. It transpired that Lu Pingyuan travelled from Shanghai to Bolton after he learned of the pub phantom and 'stole ...
(Aug 30, 2016, Metro)
Artists Are Heading to Antarctica to Make an Exhibit for No One, Which Is Actually a Fine Idea
Focus on this: Antarctica, which as recently as the moon landing was virtually off-limits to people like you and me, will soon host its own contemporary art exhibition. The current plan is for the artists to construct installations in Antarctica that ...
(Aug 30, 2016, Slate Magazine)
Singapore is Spending Millions to Become a Capital of Creativity
We ended our tour in a room devoted to contemporary art. Here, after the National Gallery opened, the curators saw behavior they had never witnessed before. Black tape on the floor demarcates no-go zones, but some novice museumgoers didn't understand ...
(Aug 30, 2016, Travel+Leisure)
Pub owner's desperate plea after his ghost was stolen by artist
He claims he caught it in the toilets and trapped it in a metal canister, which is now on display at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester. “He's been happy in my pub for hundreds of years”. Pub owner Richard Greenwood. But Richard ...
(Aug 30, 2016, Daily Star)
When Art Is Your Business, Treat Your Business Like Art
In 2012, three Stanford alumni set out to bring a high-minded, counterintuitive business model to the anything-goes frontier of Chinese art, where business ethics are sometimes murky and counterfeiters often go to extraordinary lengths to fool private ...
(Aug 31, 2016, Stanford Report)
Fort Smith-based Mural Movement Comes to Fayetteville
Charlotte Dutoit, curator of The Unexpected and head of JUSTKIDS, said she thinks the Fayetteville spot is an amazing location with a lot of traffic and visibility potential. “He (Diaz) uses China Ink and very small brushes – it's a huge and very ...
(Aug 31, 2016, The Arkanas Traveller)
First BMW Art Car designed by Chinese artist to debut in 2017 ...
First BMW Art Car designed by Chinese artist to debut in 2017 ...
(Aug 31, 2016, Automotive World (press release))
DE BLASIO tries to contain conflicts -- TRUMP's media graylist -- CUOMO vs EPA on upstate water crisis
The records indicate de Blasio agreed to meet three weeks later with Capalino and his client, Wang Jianlin, who is the “richest man” in China and head of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda, to talk about the mogul's potential plans for real estate ...
(Aug 31, 2016, Politico)
Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Sept. 1-7, 2016
Ciné-Concert: “Broken Blossoms” The screening of the 1919 silent melodrama starring Lillian Gish will attempt to re-create director D.W. Griffith's original presentation with special lighting, a shadow play for the musical prelude and a performance of ...
(Aug 31, 2016, Washington Post)
Pub demands its ghost back after Chinese artist 'steals phantom from toilet'
Lu Pingyuan says he's captured the ghost of James Stanley, who's famous for supposedly haunting Ye Olde Man and Scythe in Bolton. The artist claims to have bottled up the spectre – which is now on display at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in ...
(Aug 31, 2016, Mirror.co.uk)
Ningxia museum drops Ai Weiwei from exhibition
An invitation to controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to participate in an exhibition in Yinchuan, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, was rescinded recently by the organizer, who explained that the newly established museum had to ...
(Aug 31, 2016, Global Times)
Out & About
Shotgun Players' production of Christopher Chen's drama about a real-life Chinese dissident who was jailed over a work of art, and the conflicting accusations of fictionalized accounts. $25-$35. Previews thru Sept. 6. Opens Sept 7. Thru Oct. 2. 1901 ...
(Sep 1, 2016, Bay Area Reporter)
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