The Art World NOW – Deconstructing The Avant-Garde By Edward ...
The Art World NOW – Deconstructing The Avant-Garde By Edward ...
(Jan 2, 2017, ArtLyst)
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 ...
(Jan 2, 2017, ArtLyst)
Secretive deal on Hong Kong Palace Museum will further erode trust in authorities
The issue is divisive. Those who support the project accuse detractors of failing to understand the cultural and historical significance of the Palace Museum. To their mind, exhibiting some of the world's most precious Chinese works of art in Hong Kong ...
(Jan 4, 2017, South China Morning Post)
BMW Art Car By Los Angeles Minimalist John Baldessari To Race 24 Hours In Daytona
Later this year the Chinese digital artist, 38-year-old Cao Fei, will explore virtual and augmented reality in her art car, project #18 (18 being her and the Chinese lucky number, hence the reveres order). “Cao Fei is so intelligent,” confesses Girst ...
(Jan 4, 2017, Forbes)
Floating Ink: Contemporary Chinese Art (Dec. 15-Feb. 11)
Our Chinese artists in Floating Ink, have been reinventing traditional forms to represent ideas and observations about their contemporary world. Having deep knowledge of and respect for traditional forms, these artists revere their cultural heritage ...
(Jan 4, 2017, Sioux City Journal)
Group to accept input on arts in community | ThisWeek Community ...
Group to accept input on arts in community | ThisWeek Community ...
(Jan 4, 2017, ThisWeekNews)
Get a Life: Vivienne Westwood wows China
“Get a Life,” the global debut of Westwood in dialogue with Chinese contemporary art, is currently underway at K11 in downtown Shanghai, aiming to offer her local fans an opportunity to explore Westwood's ideas about fashion, social issues, people and ...
(Jan 5, 2017, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
See Shanghai from a sidecar
Behind the bright lights and flashy skyscrapers of new Shanghai, MARK ANDREWS discovers the quirky charm of the old city on a sidecar tour. Andaz Hotel is in the Xintiandi area of Shanghai, now a fashionable art and entertainment precinct behind the ...
(Jan 6, 2017, Brisbane Times)
The Real Estate Developers Behind China's Museum Boom | Sixth ...
The Real Estate Developers Behind China's Museum Boom | Sixth ...
(Jan 6, 2017, Sixth Tone)
Three generations of Chinese artists who've made Paris home, and how they changed French art
A significant section of the exhibition was dedicated to Chinese contemporary art and one of its most unexpected and long-lasting consequences was the defection of a number of the Chinese artists who had flown to Paris for the launch. Taking place ...
(Jan 6, 2017, South China Morning Post)
China's private museums: art or vanity projects? - Ecns.cn
From the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and the M WOODS Museum in Beijing's 798 art district, to the Red Brick Art Museum, the Today Art Museum or the ...
(Jan 6, 2017, ecns)
China's art collectors revealed
But now, the passion is spreading among China's rapidly growing affluent middle class. Hordes of art aficionados go shopping at the multiple industry fairs in China, such as the ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Art Beijing, the China ...
(Jan 6, 2017, ecns)
Vivienne Westwood and K11 Collaborate to Raise Awareness About Climate Change
Launched on Dec 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, ...
(Jan 6, 2017, artnet News)
Pinoy artists impress in Singapore Biennale
Check out Filipino Artists and their fellow Asian contemporaries as they illuminate the world at the chic art festival in Singapore that's happening till February 2017. I had some time to chat with some of the festival people to find out how the launch ...
(Jan 7, 2017, ABS-CBN News)
'Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese Painting' at the Met
The Met Fifth Avenue is hosting an exhibition of Chinese paintings that are not mere works of art but also tell stories. Titled “Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese Painting,” the exhibition is on view at the Met Fifth Avenue through August 6, 2017 ...
(Jan 7, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Salon, Salon: Fine Art Practices from 1972 to 1982 in Profile—A Beijing Perspective
Salon, Salon: Fine Art Practices from 1972 to 1982 in Profile—A Beijing Perspective is the third exhibition of From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Legacy of Socialist Realism in Chinese Contemporary Art, a research initiated by artist ...
(Jan 8, 2017, E-Flux)
The art market in 2017: perplexing times for pundits worldwide
Brett Gorvy, Christie's rainmaker for post-war and contemporary art, left to found a new advisory and dealing venture with Dominique Lévy. ... China Guardian is in fierce competition with Poly Auction, the country's number-one auction firm. Acquiring ...
(Jan 9, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Seven of the world's most exciting buildings opening in 2017: from a mystical mountain village in the sky to a ...
Seven of the world's most exciting buildings opening in 2017: from a mystical mountain village in the sky to a ...
(Jan 10, 2017, Homes and Property)
Songzhuang museum celebrates Chinese contemporary art
Songzhuang Contemporary Art Document Museum was inaugurated on Dec 24 in Beijing with an opening exhibition that continues through Jan 24. The exhibition displays dozens of artworks by artists who once lived or now live and work in Songzhuang, ...
(Jan 10, 2017, China.org.cn)
Songzhuang museum celebrates Chinese contemporary art
Songzhuang Contemporary Art Document Museum was inaugurated on Dec 24 in Beijing with an opening exhibition that continues through Jan 24. The exhibition displays dozens of artworks by artists who once lived or now live and work in Songzhuang, ...
(Jan 10, 2017, China.org.cn)
Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in ...
Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in ...
(Jan 10, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Condo At One Of NYC's Most Exclusive Office Properties Offered For Sale
If Guttman had managed to sell for close to that price, it would have set the record for priciest office sale in NYC history. The owner-occupant putting the space on the market is AW Asia, a private gallery and event space focused on Chinese ...
(Jan 10, 2017, Bisnow)
Condo At One Of NYC's Most Exclusive Office Properties Offered For ...
Condo At One Of NYC's Most Exclusive Office Properties Offered For ...
(Jan 10, 2017, Forbes)
Vivienne Westwood Joins Tastemaker Adrian Cheng to Spotlight Green Issues in China With Breakthrough Exhibition
New World Development's Shanghai K11 Art Mall and K11 Art Foundation have just opened a ground-breaking Vivienne Westwood show titled “GET A LIFE”: a fusion of fashion and art, through the lens of activism. The exhibition, co-curated by K11 and ...
(Jan 10, 2017, ArtfixDaily)
Los Angeles will be home to George Lucas' $1-billion museum
The newest proposals, both featuring designs by Chinese architect Ma Yansong, were aesthetically similar but seemingly opposite in other respects. One was ... The Broad museum opened in late 2015 in downtown L.A., across the street from the Museum of ...
(Jan 11, 2017, Los Angeles Times)
The day Trump's commerce pick Wilbur Ross volunteered to be part of a famed Chinese artist's work
US president-elect Donald Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, private equity billionaire Wilbur Ross, may have backed calls to get tough on Chinese trade practices, but he's also an avid collector of contemporary Chinese art, and even participated ...
(Jan 11, 2017, South China Morning Post)
London Art Fair prepares to open in Islington's Business Design Centre
129 Galleries are involved this year, presenting museum quality modern British art alongside international modern and contemporary art, with galleries from 18 different countries, including China, France, Germany, South Korea and the USA. As well as ...
(Jan 11, 2017, Islington Gazette)
New Art from China Renders Local Histories Fantastic, Futuristic, and Bloody
The nine works are commissions, generated after a series of studio visits with emerging and mid-career Chinese artists by curators Xiaoyu Weng and Hou Hanru. The commissions were paid for by a major grant from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, ...
(Jan 12, 2017, Hyperallergic)
Cathay Pacific depicts members' journeys in bespoke artwork
Cathay Pacific has created a special birthday gift titled the “artmap project”, for over one million members of the Marco Polo Club, the airline's loyalty programme. Marco Polo Club members will receive a bespoke work of contemporary Chinese art via ...
(Jan 12, 2017, Marketing Interactive)
Who Are the Most Popular Living Chinese Artists?
At the heart of the surging interest in Chinese contemporary art is, of course, the artists themselves. The country's artistic styles are as rich and varied as the Chinese culture from which they emerge; ranging from contemporary painting by the likes ...
(Jan 12, 2017, artnet News)
Huntington Museum of Art opening two new exhibits Saturday, Jan. 14
The largest of the works, "Lotus Memories," which is based on reflective time spent viewing lotus ponds in China, spans a distance of more than 50 feet in length. Reed will return to the museum in 2018 for a second part of the project, when he will ...
(Jan 12, 2017, Huntington Herald Dispatch)
What Of Contemporary Art
Ms Soro said contemporary art was a new art form in Fiji, so some may find it strange and were not prepared to engage with an art that they find “weird or confronting.” However, VOU has gained popularity over the years and they have become a household ...
(Jan 12, 2017, Fiji Sun Online)
Robert Rauchenberg A Window to China
In addition, the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum loaned the photograph collection "Studies for Chinese Summerhall." The exhibition is supported by the S.C. Van Fund and the Politiken Fund. Gl. Holtegaard's two-year exhibition ...
(Jan 13, 2017, E-Flux)
Cathay Pacific Fliers Get Customized Artwork Based on Their Travel Data
Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific is sending its 1 million loyalty program members a personalized birthday gift that's part data, part Chinese contemporary art. The airline worked with McCann Worldgroup to send members flight maps based on their ...
(Jan 13, 2017, Creativity)
Carleton College hosts exhibit of restored Chinese paintings from 16th to 19th centuries
Paula De Cristofaro, Paintings Conservator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will give a lecture on the challenges conservators of contemporary art face Feb. 8 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in room 104 of Boliou Hall. The title of the lecture, “What ...
(Jan 13, 2017, Southernminn.com)
How is Chinese New Year 2018 celebrated in the UK? From London's parade to events in Bristol and Manchester
How is Chinese New Year being celebrated in Liverpool? Liverpool will spend three days celebrating the Year of the Dog, from Friday, February 16 to Sunday, February 18. Chinatown, Berry Street, William Brown Street and Bold Street will be central to ...
(Jan 14, 2017, The Sun)
Online art gallery The Artling raises $1.78Mn, also acquires Chinese counterpart Artshare.com
It has taken over Artshare.com, an online platform dedicated to the exhibition and sale of Chinese contemporary art. The platform's founder, Alexandre Errera will continue to work with the group as an advisor to Artshare.com. He will continue as an art ...
(Jan 16, 2017, The Tech Portal)
Singapore: The Artling closes S$2.5m Series A from Edipresse Media
Simultaneously, The Artling expands into Hong Kong/Greater China with the acquisition of Artshare.com, an online platform for Chinese contemporary art founded in 2013 by Alexandre Errera. With this acquisition, The Artling is aiming to grow its ...
(Jan 16, 2017, DEALSTREETASIA)
Hilary Geary, Wilbur Ross' Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
In particular, they are both fond of contemporary Chinese art, something that Wilbur Ross became familiar with during business trips to Hong Kong and China. “Contemporary art can really give a room a 'snap, crackle, and pop!' It really ignites ...
(Jan 16, 2017, Heavy.com)
Scenes from New York: How the fashion and art worlds are creatively coping with Trump era
Trump's win has driven these crowds to watering holes such as Dimes, Max Fish and China Chalet — places that, while culturally resonant before the election, have adopted a pseudo-political importance in its aftermath. They have become liberal ...
(Jan 16, 2017, Los Angeles Times)
The Artling Pte Ltd Announces Acquisition of Artshare.com | BLOUIN ...
The Artling Pte Ltd Announces Acquisition of Artshare.com | BLOUIN ...
(Jan 17, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Sculpting a legacy
A sculpture gallery in Beijing's 798 Art Zone seems at first glance to be a contemporary art workshop－the light is soft, and the design is simple yet exquisite. A mysterious atmosphere prevails. A banner hung in the gallery says: "To retreat" in ...
(Jan 17, 2017, Chinadaily USA)
The Artling Pte Ltd Announces Acquisition of Artshare.com
The Artling Pte Ltd, owner of online art platform theArtling.com and luxury marketplace Luxglove.com, has announced its acquisition of Artshare.com – the leading online platform for Chinese contemporary art. The acquisition coincides with an investment ...
(Jan 17, 2017, Blouin Artinfo (registration))
A new generation of artists
According to TFAM Director Lin Ping (林平), the Taipei Arts Awards isn't meant to be a contest but to recognize great works in Taiwan's contemporary art scene. It seeks to encourage the appreciation of local talent and creativity, as well as the ...
(Jan 17, 2017, China Post)
New York to hold China-related cultural events to mark Year of Rooster
26-29), including "Abstract Art in Dialogue," "Image of the Mind: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition," "Cross-Cultural Dialogue: China-America Young Artists Exhibition" and "Cross-Cultural Dialogue: China-America Art Students Exhibition." New York ...
(Jan 17, 2017, Xinhua)
Amazing potential
"Although their work looks similar to Chinese paintings, North Korean artists combine more Western techniques and pursue a 3D effect when it comes to perspective and presentation of light and shadow," Ma Chunguang, curator of Motang Museum, told the ...
(Jan 19, 2017, Global Times)
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center Receives Donation of Over 300 Art Objects from Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
BMAC accepted a donation from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation of 313 historical art objects—Ancient Near Eastern, Chinese, Korean, Byzantine, Islamic, and Pre-Columbian American ceramics, stoneware, earthenware, wood, bronze, gold, and textiles ...
(Jan 19, 2017, vtdigger.org)
10 Places to See Public Art in 2017
The Barnes Foundation will celebrate 40 artists' engagement with different communities in “Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie,” opening Feb. 25. The artists Tania Bruguera and Sanford Biggers will organize performances in the city ...
(Jan 19, 2017, New York Times)
Culture Watch:Art and Matzo Balls
Alongside famed dissident artist Ai Wei Wei, Huang Rui is a founding member of Stars, which led to the creation of China's contemporary art scene. On Thursday, Jan. 26 (opening night) at 7:30 p.m., he presents his performance “Ping Pong,” about how ...
(Jan 19, 2017, Santa Monica Daily Press)
An odyssey with your future self: Singapore Art Biennale 2016 - Art ...
An odyssey with your future self: Singapore Art Biennale 2016 - Art ...
(Jan 20, 2017, Jakarta Post)
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