Le Méridien and X+Q Art create artwork
The creative inspiration is gained from Le Méridien hotel destinations all over China. X+Q Art is a designing studio co-founded by Xiang Jing and Qu Guangci, two famous Chinese contemporary sculptors, who are well known for original creative artwork ...
(Dec 20, 2016, Global Times)
The Sanya Edition, Sanya, China
Whether the Chinese island of Hainan really does deserves its moniker of 'Hawaii of the East' is still up for debate, but judging by the blue-chip hotel and resort brands that are shooting up along North Haitang Road in the island's southern city of ...
(Dec 20, 2016, wallpaper.com)
The 10 major art trends of 2016 - Macclesfield - Wilmslow
Emerging Art Markets: China, Africa, Latin America. Interest in Chinese Contemporary art continues to grow but the real excitement for new 'investors' rather than collectors is in Contemporary African Art, Latin American art, Indian Contemporary art ...
(Dec 20, 2016, Local News Cheshire Today)
Chinese Collectors Are Flocking to Contemporary Ink Art
“These works are profoundly related to contemporary art and buyers from Asia and beyond are refreshed to see artworks that are truly unique to Asia.” Take, for example, Taiwanese artist Tseng Ting-Yu's work Dear (2016), which was on view with Taichung ...
(Dec 21, 2016, Artsy)
Artists paint 'gongbi' art in modern color
The 10th National Exhibition of Chinese Hue Art to be opened on Dec 22 in Beijing will gather works of some 44 artists who are active in the realm of contemporary art. Their works, created since 2013, incorporate the style of gongbi tradition but ...
(Dec 21, 2016, China.org.cn)
Beijing exhibition to show new exploration in 'gongbi' art[1 ...
Beijing exhibition to show new exploration in 'gongbi' art[1 ...
(Dec 21, 2016, Chinadaily USA)
The Art Market in 2016
China became a powerhouse in the art market: Taikang Life Insurance, a Chinese insurance company, acquired a 13.5% stake in Sotheby's auction house, making the company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chen Dongsheng one of the largest ...
(Dec 21, 2016, Huffington Post)
Photography Friday: Interview, Steven Harris, Director of M97 Gallery
There is an enormous amount of working photographers and artists using photography in China, but to be fair, only the best of the best can really ever enter the public canon of photographic history or even the contemporary art market. So my job is to ...
(Dec 22, 2016, Shanghaiist)
New museum to come up in China
The recently completed Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) in Shenzhen, in Guangdong Province, southern China, is an outstanding example of breathtaking building design in a city undergoing its fair share of significant ...
(Dec 22, 2016, Deccan Herald)
The Art World NOW Deconstructing The Avant-Garde By Edward Lucie-Smith
Ai is undoubtedly an important force in contemporary art. He has more continuing influence in China than some western specialists in Chinese culture are willing to admit. Living in Germany, as he does now, he reaches an audience back in China through a ...
(Dec 23, 2016, ArtLyst)
From New York to Uluru: The best of AFR Magazine in 2016
After a decade obsessed with contemporary Chinese art, the White Rabbit Gallery founder was about to embark on her second love. "She asked me what I was doing and if I was busy," recalls Smart over coffee at his eponymous Surry Hills architectural ...
(Dec 24, 2016, The Australian Financial Review)
Vivienne Westwood's show GET A LIFE!
A Vivienne Westwood show entitled GET A LIFE! was recently unveiled at Shanghai K11 Art Mall featuring the global debut of famed British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood in dialogue with Chinese contemporary art. The exhibition will present ...
(Dec 25, 2016, Global Times)
Chinese artist depicts life as a collection of receipts
Liu, who arrived in Beijing in 2005 from nearby Shanxi province, feels he shares much in common with pre-modern Chinese artists who were inspired by their surroundings and lifestyle, and criticized the booming contemporary art scene in China as "out of ...
(Dec 25, 2016, AOL Money UK)
Julian Opie To Hold First Major Chinese Solo Exhibition In Shanghai
Solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MoCAK), Poland (2014); National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2011); IVAM, Valencia, Spain (2010); MAK, Vienna, Austria (2008); CAC Malaga, Spain ...
(Dec 26, 2016, ArtLyst)
10 China Luxury Hotel Openings That Wowed Travelers in 2016
China luxury hotel openings this year have revealed themes in hospitality, marketing, and branding that are helping an increasingly competitive scene to thrive and appeal to millennial luxury seekers. From contemporary art and fashion hubs to health ...
(Dec 27, 2016, Jing Daily)
Art Taipei: Harvest season for the Asian art scene
Offering a contribution to the world of Chinese landscape painting that is unparalleled in its vibrancy, he is considered as one of the most important figures in Chinese contemporary-art history. In addition, with the support of Soka Art Center and the ...
(Dec 27, 2016, AMA)
Uli Sigg: a little more freedom… | AMA | Art Media Agency
The recent attribution of the Chinese Contemporary Art Award offers us a pretext to meet Uli Sigg. He tells us about his experience as a collector, his diplomatic ...
(Dec 27, 2016, AMA)
French art experts blast Seoul over 'fake' painting
Before her death last year at the age of 91, Chun had repeatedly insisted that the 1971 portrait owned by the country's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) was not one of hers. “Parents can recognise their children. That is not my ...
(Dec 27, 2016, South China Morning Post)
Notable art as activism in 2016 Pittsburgh
The highest profile artist-activist to show this year was Ai Weiwei in Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, at The Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Despite scrutiny and persecution by the Chinese government, Ai expertly uses his art as well as ...
(Dec 28, 2016, PGH City Paper)
Berlin Calls Off Exhibition of Tehran MoCA's Collection
After Iranian officials failed to secure export permits for pieces from the vast collection of modern and contemporary art amassed by Farah Pahlavi, the widow of the last shah of Iran, Berlin has canceled its Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art ...
(Dec 28, 2016, Artforum)
Where to Travel in 2017: From Cuba to Greenland, Get to Know the New M
Known primarily as a historic jewel, Jerusalem has more to offer with its bustling contemporary art scene and, surprisingly, a burgeoning Latin-fusion food and cocktail scene. As for accommodations, the newly redesigned, Royal Rabin Suite at David's ...
(Dec 28, 2016, W Magazine)
Hallam Chow donates works to M+ to encourage other Hong Kong connoisseurs
He threatens to do unspeakable things if “another Chinese academic quotes [American art critic] Clement Greenberg”. “We shove Asian contemporary art into Western notions such as pop, abstract expressionism and so on, but Asian art developed along a ...
(Dec 28, 2016, South China Morning Post)
Vivienne Westwood, K11 Team Up With Chinese Contemporary Artists to Get Consumers Thinking About Climate ...
Vivienne Westwood, K11 Team Up With Chinese Contemporary Artists to Get Consumers Thinking About Climate ...
(Dec 29, 2016, Jing Daily)
Vivienne Westwood, K11 team up with Chinese contemporary artists to get consumers thinking about climate change
20, just months after showcasing a history of handbags alongside Chinese contemporary art with the Bagism exhibition, K11's Get A Life! explores the British designer's various forays into the green movement throughout her career, including activism and ...
(Dec 30, 2016, Luxury Daily)
Back to New York Love
... York Love. By Hezi Jiang in New York | China Daily USA | Updated: 2016-12-30 11:04 ... Her exhibition LOVE runs from Nov 16 to Dec 30 at the Marlborough Gallery, an international modern and contemporary art dealer in Midtown Manhattan. It features ...
(Dec 30, 2016, Chinadaily USA)
China Installs Rooster Statue that Resembles Donald Trump
A public statue of a giant rooster that bears a striking resemblance to President-Elect Donald J. Trump, from his signature hairdo to his hand gestures, has been erected outside a shopping mall in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan, Mike Ives of the ...
(Dec 30, 2016, Artforum)
Gucci Leads as Top Handbag Brand for Chinese Women
As part of Gucci's creative turnaround, it sponsored an exhibition at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai in 2015, where it displayed Gucci products alongside Chinese contemporary art. Luxury brand-sponsored art exhibitions and collaborations with ...
(Dec 31, 2016, Jing Daily)
15 Artists, Shows, and Works Censored in 2016
In a work scheduled to open this past September, the Chinese artist proposed literally scribbling a red line onto the facade of the Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art. The playful work was intended to reflect on the idea of censorship, which is ...
(Dec 31, 2016, Hyperallergic)
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