How Mumbai became a contemporary art mecca
Its permanent collection consists of European paintings, Chinese and Japanese antiques, and local textiles. But despite CSMVS's prestige, it is the newer galleries that earned Mumbai its reputation as an iconic destination for contemporary art ...
(Feb 1, 2017, The Upcoming)
The man who sold his back to an art dealer
There are swooping swallows, red and blue roses, and at the base of Steiner's back two Chinese-style koi fish, ridden by children, can be seen swimming past lotus flowers. The artist has ... 2008: Art Farm, Beijing; SH Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai ...
(Feb 1, 2017, BBC News)
Art events (for the week of 02.02.17)
Welcome Gallery: “Not Made in China,” works by Steve Taylor, opens Friday and remains on display through Feb. 27. (434) 882-2660. ... “Masters of Contemporary Art,” an exhibit of works by Ellsworth Kelly, Salvador Dali, Georges Braque, Damien Hirst ...
(Feb 1, 2017, The Daily Progress)
Women, Children, and Immigrants: Major Voices in Contemporary Art
Featuring the work of Hung Liu, who came to the U.S. legally from China in 1984 with twenty dollars and two suitcases. Runs through 3/30. In honor of the enormous contribution Women, Children, and Immigrants have made to contemporary art in the United ...
(Feb 1, 2017, Weekly Alibi)
David Schrader Appointed Head of Sotheby's Private Sales for Contemporary Art, New York
Sotheby's announced today that collector David Schrader, a managing director at J.P. Morgan, has joined the auction house as the new head of private sales for contemporary art. Schrader, who has more than twenty years of experience working on Wall ...
(Feb 1, 2017, Artforum)
First Friday's art walk unveils new exhibits
Gallerie Karon celebrates the Chinese zodiac's Year of the Rooster with an exotic bazaar of goods from the eastern world. Look for art, antiques, furniture and jewelry from Japan, China, Afghanistan, Tibet and Nepal. Receptions for the .... Paintings ...
(Feb 2, 2017, Ashland Daily Tidings)
10 things to do in Boston this Super Bowl weekend
On the first Friday of every month, the Institute of Contemporary Art opens its doors for a nighttime experience. This month, the ICA's event is called ... Admission to the museum will be free for this event, which will feature activities ...
(Feb 2, 2017, Boston.com)
JDCA fest: Celluloid celebration of art and artists
However, the most compelling film of the festival was the Chinese entry Ai Wei Wei – Never Sorry that revolved round the life and mission of a globally noticed veteran artist and socio-political activist whose works and actions blur the boundary ...
(Feb 2, 2017, The Hindu)
New Contemporary Art Space Opens in the UK
Humber Street Gallery, a new contemporary art space, will open in Hull on February 3. Located in the Fruit Market cultural quarter, its opening is part of the Hull City of Culture 2017 program featuring a year of art events. The three-story gallery, a ...
(Feb 2, 2017, Artforum)
Women, Children, and Immigrants: Major Voices in Contemporary Art
Featuring the work of Hung Liu, who came to the U.S. legally from China in 1984 with twenty dollars and two suitcases. Runs through 3/30. In honor of the enormous contribution Women, Children, and Immigrants have made to contemporary art in the United ...
(Feb 2, 2017, Weekly Alibi (blog))
Women, Children, and Immigrants: Major Voices in Contemporary Art
Featuring the work of Hung Liu, who came to the U.S. legally from China in 1984 with twenty dollars and two suitcases. Runs through 3/30. In honor of the enormous contribution Women, Children, and Immigrants have made to contemporary art in the United ...
(Feb 2, 2017, Weekly Alibi (blog))
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Biennale On Wheels, and more
Performed in Cantonese, with English and Chinese surtitles, it has a star-studded cast that includes Golden Horse Award winner Anthony Wong, veteran actress Candice Yu (both above) and singer Alex Lam, son of Cantopop veteran George Lam. The show is ...
(Feb 2, 2017, The Straits Times)
Performa Adds Two Board Members, Names Richard Chang Board President
These appointments signal Performa's intentions to expand globally. Chang is the founder of the Domus Collection in Beijing, which works with various international institutions to bring contemporary art to China. He serves on the boards of MoMA PS1 and ...
(Feb 2, 2017, ARTnews)
Hong Kong's M+ Museum examines Asia's shifting design objectives
Ask any working architect or contemporary art curator, and it's likely they went to the capital of Punjab and Haryana before they visited the Taj Mahal. READ: Discovering India's ancient stepwells. Chandigarh was ordered to be built from scratch by ...
(Feb 3, 2017, CNN)
Achievements, Feb. 3
Doll was invited to the conference because of her experience in curating and preserving modern and contemporary art, and also because of a visit that 28 delegates from the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries paid to UNCG ...
(Feb 3, 2017, Greensboro News & Record)
Peninsula takes off with Chinese private jet tours
The 10-day “Culture & Heritage of China” tour encompasses some of China's top historic attractions, such as the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Great Wall of China, with insights into subjects such as calligraphy, contemporary art and architecture and a ...
(Feb 3, 2017, Travel Daily Media (press release) (registration) (blog))
Photography Friday: French CNAP engagement with China
Another announcement was particularly exciting: two significant loans consented to the Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) in Shenzhen and the Chongqing University Museum. Partnerships between the CNAP and international ...
(Feb 3, 2017, Shanghaiist)
Why Indigenous art is such big business internationally
Indigenous artwork is known in Australia for it's rich symbolism, cultural history and meaning - but internationally, it's a booming industry - worth millions. Art director and collector Simon Chan, explains to SBS Cantonese how collectors can ensure ...
(Feb 3, 2017, SBS)
UWSP to host China video art exhibit
... the director of the Space Station Gallery in Beijing, where she met many of the featured artists. Currently earning a doctoral degree in contemporary Chinese art at the University of Pittsburgh, Larson will return to UW-Stevens Point to help ...
(Feb 3, 2017, Stevens Point Journal)
NYC's Winter Museum Must-Sees
Housed in an iconic Frank Lloyd Wright spiraling building, The Guggenheim Museum contains one of the world's finest collections of modern and contemporary art, including works by Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani. Currently on view is Tales of Our Time ...
(Feb 3, 2017, City Guide Magazine)
Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art Receives $400000 Mellon Foundation Grant
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver has received a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of “Animating Museums,” a multiyear program for arts professionals, Alex Greenberger of Artnews reports. Launching this summer ...
(Feb 3, 2017, Artforum)
Hong Kong's M+ Museum examines Asia's shifting design objectives ...
Hong Kong's M+ Museum examines Asia's shifting design objectives ...
(Feb 4, 2017, CNN International)
Where Art Thou: Anti-Fascism
Lunar Gala's culture show celebrates and honors the uniqueness and multifaceted nature of Chinese culture. Through a vibrant showcase of various traditional and contemporary art forms, ranging from burgeoning music cadences to historically elegant ...
(Feb 4, 2017, Bwog)
INTERVIEW: The Resurgence of Ink Art with Hong Kong's Wilson Shieh
It was until the last two decades with the rapid economic growth in China, Chinese contemporary art became 'visible' and important to the global art professionals. Ink art, of course, a unique genre of Chinese culture took the chance to get to an ...
(Feb 5, 2017, The News Lens International (press release))
Joining the Dots
Boys Time set them on a journey towards collecting more than 150 video works, including those by British filmmaker Steve McQueen, one of China's most revered cinematographer and photographer Yang Fudong and former Turner prize-nominee and visual artist ...
(Feb 5, 2017, The Indian Express)
How hiking inspired this artist's photography work
He will also be part of an exhibition, Native Revisions, at Lasalle's Institute of Contemporary Art in Singapore, which will run from Feb 11 to April 9. Chua does not want his work to be mistaken for nature photography. “A photographer would try to ...
(Feb 5, 2017, Star2.com)
'Zheng Wei: Playing Guitar' at Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
The artist has exhibited at various galleries throughout his career and is renowned for his contributions to the Chinese contemporary art. This exhibition provides the visitor an opportunity to glance through the various works of the artist and explore ...
(Feb 6, 2017, Blouin Artinfo (registration))
Yale Art Gallery Director to Step Down
Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale Art Gallery at Yale University, will step down next year when his current term ends on June 30, 2018. Yale's president Peter Salovey said, “The two decades of Jock's tenure in the directorship have been a ...
(Feb 6, 2017, Artforum)
Made in India: the new Indian contemporary-art scene | AMA | Art ...
Made in India: the new Indian contemporary-art scene | AMA | Art ...
(Feb 6, 2017, AMA)
Women, Children, and Immigrants: Major Voices in Contemporary Art
Featuring the work of Hung Liu, who came to the U.S. legally from China in 1984 with twenty dollars and two suitcases. Runs through 3/30. In honor of the enormous contribution Women, Children, and Immigrants have made to contemporary art in the United ...
(Feb 7, 2017, Weekly Alibi (blog))
He gives calligraphy space to fly freely
Wei, who moved to Beijing in 1995 to become a professional artist, has since sought to engage in contemporary art to renew Chinese calligraphy. His works explored Fu's ideas in a modern context. "Fu personifies the characters of calligraphy. He is ...
(Feb 7, 2017, China.org.cn)
He gives calligraphy space to fly freely - China.org.cn
The centerpiece of experimental calligrapher Wei Ligang's ongoing Beijing exhibition is a 45-meter-long scroll titled Phoenixes and Dragons that the ...
(Feb 7, 2017, China.org.cn)
Asian Curatorial Forum - from February 9-11
... Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art (South Korea); Tayeba Begum Lipi, Founder, Britto Arts Trust (Bangladesh); Feng Feng, Course Director, Guanzhou Academy of Fine Arts (China); Vidya Shivadas, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (India), ...
(Feb 7, 2017, The Daily Star)
A Documentary About China's Coal Mining Industry Fuels Western Biases
The Chinese contemporary filmmaker Zhao Liang's latest movie Behemoth looks at the iron and coal mining industry in Inner Mongolia, a sweeping northern region of China with a population of primarily Mongols (an official ethnic minority in the country ...
(Feb 7, 2017, Hyperallergic)
An epic Magritte is set to be the highlight of Christie's 'Art of the ...
An epic Magritte is set to be the highlight of Christie's 'Art of the ...
(Feb 8, 2017, Apollo Magazine)
Art events (week of 02.09.17)
Bluebird Project, a creation of the Foster Care Adoption Awareness Coalition, seeks artists' entries through March 20 in its Bluebird-Art-on-a-Stick collection to raise awareness for local children in foster care. Entries can take any form as long as ...
(Feb 8, 2017, The Daily Progress)
His Art Is on the Oxxo Shelves. Keep Your Receipt.
In 2007, the Chinese multimedia artist Xu Zhen filled an exhibition called “ShanghART Supermarket” with empty products in a critique of globalization, inviting visitors to buy them or question their true value. Mr. Orozco said he had the idea for his ...
(Feb 8, 2017, New York Times)
Oprah Said to Snag $150 Million Selling Klimt to Chinese Buyer
“Klimt is on the list of some people,” said Grace Rong Li, who advises Asian collectors on Western modern and contemporary art. The appeal of the artist, known for his golden-hued “The Kiss,” is both aesthetic and financial, she added. “Portrait of ...
(Feb 8, 2017, Bloomberg)
Fabulous fiber: Contemporary Art from China on display
Lisa Powell A preview was held this week at the Dayton Art Institute for two upcoming special exhibitions, "Changing Landscapes,Contemporary Chinese Landscapes: Contemporary Chinese Fiber Art" and "Maya Lin: Flow. " The exhibitions will open ...
(Feb 8, 2017, MyDaytonDailyNews)
Director passes on the project
So when the opportunity came up to run Dunedin's Blue Oyster Art Project Space - established in 1999 to encourage and promote innovative contemporary art projects in Dunedin - she jumped at it. ''It's an opportunity to direct one of the leading artist ...
(Feb 8, 2017, Otago Daily Times)
Oprah Winfrey makes $81 million selling Gustav Klimt painting to Chinese buyer
Oprah Winfrey in October last year. She bought Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II for $US87.9 million in 2006. Since then, its value has risen about 71 per cent, making her $US62.1 million ($81.3 million) on the sale. John Salangsang. by Katya Kazakina ...
(Feb 9, 2017, The Australian Financial Review)
Interview: Australia's Art Super-Patron, Judith Neilson
Neilson started to make trips to China to meet artists and collect their works. In 2009, Neilson opened Australia's first private museum dedicated to Chinese contemporary art, the White Rabbit gallery in Chippendale, Sydney, near Central Park. Today ...
(Feb 9, 2017, Billionaire.com)
'Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast' at ...
'Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast' at ...
(Feb 9, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Major JiaAili Solo Show at CAC Malaga – SAT Press Releases
Lewes, DE — — 02/09/2017 — Fernando Frances, the director of CAC Malaga was introduced by leading art collector & advisor Fabien Fryns to JiaAili while on ...
(Feb 9, 2017, Satellite PR News (press release))
Major JiaAili Solo Show at CAC Malaga – MilTech
Lewes, DE — (SBWIRE) — 02/09/2017 — Fernando Frances, the director of CAC Malaga was introduced by leading art collector & advisor Fabien Fryns to ...
(Feb 9, 2017, Military Technologies)
A&E 41 Events in February - Channel3000.com
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presents its biennial exhibition “Young at Art”, a highlight of art created by students of the Madison Metro School District in grades kindergarten through 12th. Inclusive of various art forms such as sculpture, media ...
(Feb 9, 2017, WISC-TV3)
The Resident: Kelly Ying's Guide to Shanghai
But it's her role as the co-founder of the ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair that is the best indicator of her current focus and preoccupation. Ms. Ying co-founded ART021 with Bao Yifeng in 2013, establishing what has rapidly become one of the most ...
(Feb 10, 2017, Blouin Artinfo (registration))
I am wary of world conquering art histories: Boon Hui Tan
His legacy, really, is the Singapore Art Museum, which under his watch moved from the typical mission of museums to be repositories of a past heritage, to build a formidable collection of South-East Asian and Asian contemporary art. In this role, as ...
(Feb 10, 2017, Livemint)
Canada Allocates $5.1 Million to Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
CAFAM enlisted the help of Bell Art—an organization based in Hamburg that encourages cultural exchange between Europe and China—when it put the show together. Eighty of the eight-seven works in the exhibition belong to Chinese collector Maria Chen ...
(Feb 10, 2017, Artforum)
Creative patchwork
As they exit stage right, we can move into one of the most colorful and well-executed fiber arts shows I've seen since my visit to the international fiber arts biennial in Shenzhen, China, in September. The fiber arts have grown up during the past 50 ...
(Feb 12, 2017, Albuquerque Journal)
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