Auction Preview: Chinese Contemporary Design at Piasa, Paris
The auction presents three generations of Chinese contemporary designs which blur the boundaries between art, design and architecture. Featuring works from pioneering visionaries such as Shao Fan, Shi Jianmin, and Chen Renyi, the sale brings ...
(Oct 16, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
M+ to M minus: white knight arts museum now a white elephant ...
M+ to M minus: white knight arts museum now a white elephant ...
(Oct 16, 2016, Asia Times)
Zeng Fanzhi and the rise of China's contemporary artists
Zeng Fanzhi is considered by many to be China's greatest living artist. He has fused Oriental and Western styles and one of his works, a communist parody on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, recently broke records for Chinese contemporary art, selling ...
(Oct 17, 2016, ABC Online)
CGCC Hosts Annual Veterans Expo for Local Vets
... Jones, an internationally-known architect and builder of more than 300 luxury homes (primarily in Arizona), as well as martial arts expert, co-founder of the town of Carefree and holder of the world's largest private collection of contemporary ...
(Oct 17, 2016, SanTanValley.com)
Returning to Mother Nature - in three basic shapes
The title of his latest show here comes from Chinese art critic and historian Pan Yaochang who, in his 2004 book on contemporary Chinese art, described Lee as an important overseas Chinese abstract art painter whose works he called "beyond Babel", ...
(Oct 17, 2016, The Straits Times)
MMCA, Korean Air present China's contemporary, experimental art in new show
What seems like an ordinary social gathering is actually part of a performance by China's Yangjiang Group to blur the lines between art and life. The Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea, joins hands with ...
(Oct 18, 2016, Yonhap News)
MMCA, Korean Air present China's contemporary, experimental art in new show
What seems like an ordinary social gathering is actually part of a performance by China's Yangjiang Group to blur the lines between art and life. The Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea, joins hands with ...
(Oct 18, 2016, Yonhap News)
MMCA, Korean Air present China's contemporary, experimental art ...
MMCA, Korean Air present China's contemporary, experimental art ...
(Oct 18, 2016, Yonhap News)
'Northern Land, Southern Seas' at Tang Contemporary Art
An exhibition, titled 'Northern Land, Southern Seas', bringing together works of various top Chinese and Southeast Asian artists is on view at Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, and will run through October 30, 2016. The exhibition marks the inauguration ...
(Oct 18, 2016, Blouin Artinfo (registration))
'Northern Land, Southern Seas' at Tang Contemporary Art
An exhibition, titled 'Northern Land, Southern Seas', bringing together works of various top Chinese and Southeast Asian artists is on view at Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, and will run through October 30, 2016. The exhibition marks the inauguration ...
(Oct 19, 2016, Blouin Artinfo (registration))
The top 10 most powerful figures in contemporary art in 2016
The Chinese artist and activist ranked second in 2015: That year, his country's authorities gave him back his passport. Ai has since been living in exile in Berlin. He made headlines in 2016 when Lego refused to provide bricks for one of his projects ...
(Oct 20, 2016, Deutsche Welle)
The man behind China's million-dollar masks cares about art, not auctions
"Together the show is a portrait of him [Zeng Fanzhi] as an artist," explains Tinari, one that has "continuously reinvented himself, throughout his career." Zeng Fanzhi: Parcours is currently on show at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in ...
(Oct 21, 2016, CNN)
Silk Road themed shows highlight the 11th China Arts Festival
Artists at the on-going 11th China Arts Festival in China's northwest Shaanxi Province are presenting some of the country's best artistic creations and performances in venues across the province. Silk Road themed shows are the highlight of this year's ...
(Oct 21, 2016, CCTV)
This Artist Literally Lights His Art on Fire, and the Result Is Pure Magic
The first is Cai's 2014 solo show, called “The Ninth Wave,” at Shanghai's contemporary art museum, the Power Station of Art. The show, with clear environmental messages inspired by China's ominous and deadly pollution, featured a dilapidated tugboat ...
(Oct 21, 2016, Huffington Post)
Paris satellite fairs shine in the city of light
These include Tectonic Model (2016), priced at €3,500, which was bought by Michael Xufu Huang, the co-founder of M Woods, a private contemporary art museum in Beijing. “The younger generation in China are collecting a lot of Western art,” Huang says, ...
(Oct 21, 2016, Art Newspaper)
Ai Weiwei vs Florence
If you are planning to travel to Florence, you should not forget to visit the Chinese artist solo show at Palazzo Strozzi: “Ai Weiwei Libero”. Whether you like his art or not, it is worth a visit for several reasons: first, it is the very beginning of ...
(Oct 23, 2016, Arte Fuse)
Focus on contemporary art at Qatar's only Korean dermatology clinic
While it has a dozen branches in Seoul and China, none of the Leaders Skin Group & Clinic outlets boast of the art collection and display – put together by Asan Gallery – that Doha's new branch does. The Korean artists whose works are on show are Lee ...
(Oct 24, 2016, Gulf Times)
Art Basel Hong Kong announces exhibitor list for 2017 edition
Ooi says Asian demand for contemporary art continues to grow quickly, with strong Chinese purchases reported from the recent Frieze fair in London. She expects next year's attendance to be even higher than in 2016, when a record 70,000 people visited, ...
(Oct 25, 2016, South China Morning Post)
Spotlight on Cai Dongdong's “Off Target”
The last time you've visited the Chu Room you may have noticed a change in the artwork featured in those big glass shelves. Now on view in the room until Nov. 8 is Cai Dongdong's “Off Target,” a contemporary Chinese art exhibit featuring a variety of ...
(Oct 26, 2016, The Connecticut College Voice)
Gerhard Richter to Lead Phillips' First 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale
Phillips recently announced the inauguration of their first auctions of 20th century and Contemporary art, design, and jewelry in Hong Kong as part of their strategic plan to establish their status in Asia. On November 27, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel ...
(Oct 26, 2016, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Chinese calligraphy, brutal honesty and litres of booze. Find out what makes Sydney artist Jason Phu tick
The response there from other artists has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive, I was quite worried that my work was a sort of bastardised and orientalised version of 'Contemporary Chinese art' and would seem silly, but yeah mostly it's just ...
(Oct 27, 2016, Happy (press release) (registration) (blog))
Global China Contemporary Art Exhibition kicks off
The 2016 Global China Contemporary Art Exhibition will be unveiled at Zhengdong Greenland Square's Twin Towers in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province on Saturday, organizers announced in a press release. Dubbed "the largest modern art ...
(Oct 27, 2016, Global Times)
Judith Neilson on art and architecture, love and life
He had worked with the Zimbabwean turned Sydneysider years earlier, designing the $10 million White Rabbit Gallery she opened in Chippendale in 2009 to exhibit her Chinese art collection. Neilson had since bought the old Simona factory a stone's throw ...
(Oct 27, 2016, The Australian Financial Review)
Art & Design|Think You Know China? 'Tales of Our Time' Will Make You Think Again
Featuring eight newly commissioned projects by artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as from China, this exhibition will present fresh approaches to contemporary art from the region, highlighting alternative narratives that depart sharply from ...
(Oct 27, 2016, New York Times)
Why no Hong Kong museum for contemporary art?
In fact, he says the Koreans are buying more than anyone else in the region, even though the country lags far behind Hong Kong and mainland China in terms of auction volumes. Hong Kong lacks non-commercial contemporary art spaces, unlike Shanghai, ...
(Oct 27, 2016, South China Morning Post)
Art in Shenzhen
MoCAPE is just the third public museum with a major emphasis on contemporary art in China, after the Power Station of Art (PSA) in Shanghai and the Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). Its challenge will undoubtedly be finding quality work to ...
(Oct 28, 2016, Ocula Magazine)
Hauser & Wirth Plans Bold Statement at Shanghai Contemporary Art Week The gallery has big plans for Shanghai.
Hauser & Wirth recently appointed Vanessa Guo, who previously specialized in development in China at Christie's, as a director at the gallery with a similar goal; she now heads up projects and partnerships dedicated to introducing their artists to an ...
(Oct 28, 2016, artnet News)
Artist Twins from China Win Special Recognition At 2016 ArtPrize
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese artists and twins Beibei Chen and Leilei Chen have won the Special Recognition Prize At this ...
(Oct 28, 2016, PR Newswire (press release))
AMAM's “Conversations” Explores Asian Artistic Influence
... come from China, go to Korea, go to Japan, and then come to America, and many contemporary artists in America, China, Japan and Korea are using these traditional ceramic types and continuing them but bringing a contemporary art sensibility to them ...
(Oct 28, 2016, The Oberlin Review)
Mainland China meets Taiwan in exhibition
The brushstrokes we are familiar with in Chinese art take a contemporary look in a series of paintings at the China Cultural Centre. The exhibition Art from the Heart, open until Tuesday, bridges traditional and contemporary and also Mainland China ...
(Oct 29, 2016, Times of Malta)
FIAC 2016 a cheerful moment in Paris
I love Paris … and even more during FIAC. This year, in particular, the city of lights became the vibrant hub of the Art World with its incredible Museums and Galleries, its exhibitions and top-notch Art Fairs. Far from the trauma of the past few ...
(Oct 29, 2016, ArtLyst)
Seeking Lower Rent, Chinese Artists Cut Path for Themselves Outside Beijing
“Art is always pushed to the edge,” said He Miao, a curator of contemporary art in Beijing. “In China, contemporary art cannot be made in cities. Where the urban meets the rural, that's where art happens.” Yanjiao initially attracted attention from the ...
(Oct 30, 2016, New York Times)
The Emperor's New Museum
“It's nice to come home to Shanghai,” the Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian told me one day in February, four months after gaining worldwide notoriety by spending a hundred and seventy million dollars on a painting by Amedeo Modigliani. We had just sat ...
(Oct 31, 2016, The New Yorker)
How One Chinese Artist Pushed the Italian Luxury Brand Max Mara Beyond Its Comfort Zone
The Maramotti family, which owns Max Mara, has an impressive modern and contemporary art collection at its headquarters in Reggio Emilia, Italy; Max Mara sponsors an annual prize for women artists and has been a major supporter of the Whitney Museum ...
(Oct 31, 2016, W Magazine)
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