Swiss artist Urs Fischer: is he serious?
The 18th-century palace is owned by French businessman François Pinault, whose company is the major shareholder of Christie's auction house and who has one of the world's largest collections of contemporary art. The Fischer exhibition, titled “Madame ...
(Apr 23, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Art Bahrain Across Borders 2017: Ukrainian Perspective
From March 23-26 the International Exhibition & Convention Center in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain, hosted the second contemporary art fair Art Bahrain Across Borders 2017 (ArtBAB 2017), curated by the team of British experts led by Alistair Hicks ...
(Apr 23, 2017, NY Arts Magazine)
Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei at Doha's Museum of Islamic Art: 'Today we have more fences than ever'
His work will appear at the 21st Biennale of Sydney next year, a festival of contemporary art. This autumn, he'll present Good Fences Make Good Neighbours, for which he will be installing fences across New York City. "Today we have more fences than ...
(Apr 24, 2017, The National)
A proposed statue with a Chinese face sparks resistance and debate in Monterey Park
Art professors and curators from the L.A. County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art wrote letters supporting the project and saying they would use it to teach, and local critics promised to write about the piece. It would offer the city a ...
(Apr 24, 2017, Los Angeles Times)
Frank Cohen's contemporary collection gets set for sale Down Under
This week, a sampling of 80 works from his contemporary art collection goes on view at a 30,000 square foot film studio in Fulham, west London, prior to going to auction in September - not with Sotheby's or Christie's in London or New York, but 10,550 ...
(Apr 24, 2017, Telegraph.co.uk)
After pushback from Monterey Park council, artists behind statue of ...
After pushback from Monterey Park council, artists behind statue of ...
(Apr 25, 2017, The Pasadena Star-News)
Q&A With Alexandra Fain, Founder Of Asia Now, Paris' First Asian ...
Q&A With Alexandra Fain, Founder Of Asia Now, Paris' First Asian ...
(Apr 25, 2017, Forbes)
Q&A With Alexandra Fain, Founder Of Asia Now, Paris' First Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Part 2
They are either looking for classics like Korean minimalist artists, the Chinese contemporary art scene or the Philippine scene. They think they might have missed the first and second generation of Asian masters and want to be guided in a selection of ...
(Apr 25, 2017, Forbes)
Pop singers, award-winning filmmakers contribute to opening of the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
Filmmaker Royston Tan's (below,right) Voyage (above) is set to be a multimedia showcase with 3D mapping and holographic images. Other performances during the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre's opening ceremonies will include workshops and opera ...
(Apr 25, 2017, TODAYonline)
Penn State scholar examines Chinese quilts
Chinese quilts have meant many things over the centuries: from a means of livelihood, a method for education and a silent code for women's expression, to a contemporary art practice, a carrier of traditional culture and an alternative lifestyle ...
(Apr 25, 2017, Herald-Mail Media)
Swiss collector who helped create buzz in Chinese art world
Contemporary art from China burst onto the world scene in the 1990s and the craze does not seem to have dimmed. Recently, a piece by Zeng Fanzhi, The Last Supper, set a record for Asian art when it sold for US$23 million (S$32 million). Zeng is one of ...
(Apr 25, 2017, The Straits Times)
China Embraces Art for the People, by the People
Social practice art has a socialist legacy,” said Zheng Bo, an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong whose online gallery, A Wall, documents social practice art in the greater China region. “But beginning in the 1990s, Chinese ...
(Apr 26, 2017, New York Times)
Chinese developer Wanda to launch $1 billion Sydney project
Chinese developer Wanda will launch its flagship $1 billion Sydney project today amid expectations its luxury penthouses could sell for more than $60 million, ...
(Apr 26, 2017, The Australian)
Here's How ASU Art Museum Is Bringing More Contemporary Craft to Arizona
“It's unusual for contemporary art museums to focus on collecting and researching contemporary craft,” Lineberry says. Contemporary craft has long been a focus ... tour of ceramic studios in metro Phoenix. Headed by ceramics curator Garth Johnson, the ...
(Apr 26, 2017, Phoenix New Times)
Sotheby's to Hold Its First-Ever Contemporary African Art Sale
For the first time, the auction house will group internationally recognized art stars such as El Anatsui, William Kentridge, and Irma Stern by geographic region as opposed to offering them in broader sales such as Impressionist or contemporary art ...
(Apr 26, 2017, artnet News)
Superhero Contemporary Art on Display in McAllen
A Chinese warrior version of Batman in ceramic, a neon Robin the Boy Wonder, and a window washing Spiderman and more are on display. My Hero! Contemporary Art & Superhero Action exhibit will run through July 23, 2017 at the IMAS in McAllen located ...
(Apr 27, 2017, RGVProud)
Ulrike Ottinger China. The Arts – The People
The Arts – The People, Photographs and Films from the 1980s and 1990s is curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, and Khim Ong, Deputy Director, Exhibitions, Residencies and Public Programmes. The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore ...
(Apr 27, 2017, E-Flux)
Art Beijing brings Asian art to the National Agriculture Exhibition Center
Art Beijing, one of China's major art expos, is set to kick off this weekend at Beijing's National Agriculture Exhibition Center, event organizers announced in a press release on Wednesday. This year's Art Beijing, the 12th in its history, will ...
(Apr 27, 2017, Global Times)
10 Galleries to Visit Now in Chelsea
TYLER ROLLINS FINE ART Up on the 10th floor, quietly doing its thing for a decade, this gallery specializes in contemporary art from Southeast Asia and is one of the most reliably interesting spaces in Chelsea. “Mats and Pillows and ... T he last of ...
(Apr 27, 2017, New York Times)
A Sneak Peek at Art Beijing 2017
China is a country that embraced 5,000 years of culture deposit. Western art forms ... After years of exploration, Art Beijing gradually formed into four sections (contemporary art, classic art, design art and public art) according to the changes of ...
(Apr 28, 2017, That's Online (registration))
A Sneak Peek at Art Beijing 2017
China is a country that embraced 5,000 years of culture deposit. Western art forms ... After years of exploration, Art Beijing gradually formed into four sections (contemporary art, classic art, design art and public art) according to the changes of ...
(Apr 28, 2017, That's Online (registration))
Arts Futures Group Presents: Smart Art with Orlando Ho
Ho gave these views during the launch of an exhibition that showcases two of the brightest stars of Chinese contemporary art. It features both the bold, uninhibited, fluid lines of Ann Niu along with the playful, conceptually complex compositions of ...
(Apr 28, 2017, Prestige Online)
The Dark Matters: White Rabbit Gallery's most beautiful show
They are staples of a Chinese contemporary art scene that draws its inspiration from a society that is reinventing itself more efficiently than anywhere else in the world, in furious cycles of destruction and creation. The "darkness" in the title of ...
(Apr 28, 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Brussels Leads The European Contemporary Art Scene In 2017
Politics, mussels and chocolate are all obvious associations with Brussels. Contemporary art perhaps isn't the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the Belgium capital and the administrative centre of the EU. In fact, Brussels hosts Art ...
(Apr 28, 2017, Forbes)
Brussels Leads The European Contemporary Art Scene In 2017
Politics, mussels and chocolate are all obvious associations with Brussels while contemporary art isn't the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the Belgian capital and the administrative centre of the EU. In fact, the city hosts Art ...
(Apr 28, 2017, Forbes)
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