Hong Kong visual arts hacker space Spring Workshop set to close despite Wong Chuk Hang's rebirth
Recent projects that attest to Spring Workshop's eclectic nature – and won it the 2016 Prudential Eye Award for best Asian contemporary art organisation – include “Des hôtes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor”, a three-month series of ...
(Feb 28, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Guggenheim's show of Middle Eastern and North African art goes to China
Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum will this April host the final leg of the Solomon L. Guggenheim Museum's group show of contemporary art from the Middle East, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (until June 11). It marks the largest exhibition of ...
(Feb 28, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Guggenheim's show of Middle Eastern and North African art goes to China
Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum will this April host the final leg of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's group show of contemporary art from the Middle East, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (until June 11). It marks the largest exhibition of ...
(Feb 28, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Global Art Sales Fall 22% As Market Reacts To Trump And Brexit
The country's biggest sale in 2016 was a scroll painting of “Five Drunken Kings Return on Horses” by early 14th-century Chinese artist Ren Renfa that went for $45.89 million. Contemporary art sales, too, are becoming frequent in Hong Kong which “has ...
(Feb 28, 2017, ArtLyst)
Head of Hong Kong's future M+ museum unfazed at handling 'hot potato' West Kowloon project
Seven weeks after she started at M+ in November, the government stunned a city deeply divided over its relationship with mainland China with the news that it would build a branch of Beijing's Palace Museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District. ... In ...
(Feb 28, 2017, South China Morning Post)
China regains top spot for art sales
Works by China's Zhang Daqian fetched the highest amounts, followed by 20th century master Pablo Picasso, then Chinese watercolorist Qi Baishi and “father” of Chinese contemporary art Wu Guanzhong, and, finally, the German contemporary artist Gerhard ...
(Mar 1, 2017, EastDay.com)
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