'#AiWeiwei' Exhibition Explores Art, Activism and Selfies
Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is best known for his multimedia contemporary art, and for his resistance to the Chinese government. He's also a prolific photographer dating back to his time as a 20-something in New York. An exhibit at Columbia College's ...
(May 23, 2017, Chicago Tonight | WTTW)
Rand Castile, Who Opened Doors for Asian Art, Dies at 78
He created independent departments of Southeast Asian and Korean art — the first of their kind at an American museum — and organized important shows of Indonesian sculpture, the art of India and Cambodia, and tomb art from Xian, China. “Wisdom and ...
(May 23, 2017, New York Times)
"Art and Peace: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition" opens in Rome
A woman appreciates the works at the Chinese contemporary art exhibition in Rome, Italy, on May 23, 2017. The 2017 "Art and Peace: Chinese Contemporary ...
(May 24, 2017, Xinhua)
Hong Kong's ambitious museum plan takes shape
Officials expect the $640 million, government-funded museum to stand peer to peer with contemporary art icons such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Tate Modern in London. With the opening of M+ in late ...
(May 24, 2017, gulfnews.com)
Senior Artist of the People's Republic of China to exhibit in London
Virginia Sykes-Wright, Executive Director of Asian Art in London said: “We have seen a tangible growth in both interest and sales of contemporary Chinese art in London over the past few years, and it is encouraging that the Chinese Government is ...
(May 24, 2017, The London Economic)
Britain's Salford aims to be new base for Chinese contemporary art
Taylor told Xinhua: "Our interest in Chinese Contemporary Art stems from our relationship with the Center for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester (CFCCA). We are developing a collection that, amongst other things will provide a legacy of CCCAM's ...
(May 25, 2017, ecns)
Postcards from China's past
They include an eight-hour documentary on Mongolia and its nomadic tribes, as well as gorgeous snapshots of everyday life in Beijing, Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province, now on display in a new exhibition at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art ...
(May 25, 2017, THE BUSINESS TIMES)
Mute Museums: Why China's Institutions Fail to Connect With Visitors
Recently, I visited a certain museum in Shanghai with Dr. Gabriele Neher, an art expert at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. Together, at Nottingham's campus in Ningbo, in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, we run a professional ...
(May 26, 2017, Sixth Tone)
Awards of Art China announced in Beijing
Hangzhou-based artist Geng Jianyi, 55, has been one of the leading figures of Chinese contemporary art since mid-1980s. His solo exhibition Stubborn Image, held at OCT Shanghai in 2016, showed a continuous effort of Geng to make his works less artistic ...
(May 26, 2017, China.org.cn)
Porsche China's young artists program encourages aspiring talent
German premium carmaker Porsche kicked off its new program with the ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair on May 25 in Shanghai, as part of efforts to encourage young, innovative artists in its largest market. The program, called Young Chinese Artist ...
(May 26, 2017, China Daily)
Ding Yi: Chinese art, but not as you know it
What was featured was political pop art – and that became representative of what contemporary Chinese art was all about. Back in the 1980s, there was no real abstract art in China. What they called abstract art was really more poetic; not real ...
(May 26, 2017, The Week UK)
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner failed to disclose an art collection that experts say is worth millions
Ivanka Trump, second from right, is seated with her husband, Jared Kushner, right, during a dinner with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, at Mar-a-Lago, Thursday, April 6, 2017. AP. Since their wedding in 2009, Jared Kushner and ...
(May 26, 2017, Business Insider)
Building a narrative
Starting July 28, for three months, Power Station of Art (PSA) in Shanghai — the first state-run museum dedicated to contemporary art in mainland China — will host a retrospective exhibition of noted architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi. Spanning 60 ...
(May 28, 2017, The Indian Express)
Meet the Asian jewelers shaping modern jewelry design
The design takes its cue from neoplasticism, an artistic approach championed by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian that favors simple colors and abstract form. This speaks to Cheng's other passion: contemporary art. A key player in Asia's art scene, Cheng ...
(May 29, 2017, CNN)
42 Maple Contemporary Art Center Presents 'A Beginner's Bull' By Byrne Klay
The next ten images are based on a series of pictographs from the Chinese Chan tradition known as the Ten Ox Herding Pictures, and is a highly abstract representation of an individual's study and practice of the Buddhadharma, ending with the substance, ...
(May 29, 2017, Caledonian Record)
The Art of Revolution
Three years later, my Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center was named one of the 10 best museums in China by TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel website. When I saw how my tiny, privately run museum was able to squeeze its way onto the list, where ...
(May 30, 2017, Sixth Tone)
Tsars on horseback square up for the Russian art sales; a new auction record for Zao Wou-Ki
London's auctioneers are squaring up for the £21 million-plus Russian art sales which kick off next Monday. The rivalry is captured by two similarly sized bronze sculptures, one of the enlightened Tsar Alexander II at Christie's (£50,000) and another ...
(May 30, 2017, Telegraph.co.uk)
Sen. Al Franken, What Ancient Greece Tells Us About China, The World Science Festival, Tim And Tyne Daly Star ...
Sen. Al Franken, What Ancient Greece Tells Us About China, The World Science Festival, Tim And Tyne Daly Star ...
(May 30, 2017, WNYC)
What move of Contemporary Austin collection means to Blanton Museum
Along with the sculpture park, the Contemporary will concentrate on its “museum without walls” concept, a strategy that includes teaming with groups such as the Waller Creek Conservancy to present major public art, such as Chinese dissident artist Ai ...
(May 31, 2017, MyStatesman.com)
CKGSB MBA Builds Art Business Empire Across Asia
She's since expanded her business activities internationally – Fang Gallery has been exhibited in the world's major art exhibitions, from Singapore to Switzerland – and launched a new contemporary Chinese art gallery in Beijing. She's also co-founded ...
(May 31, 2017, BusinessBecause)
Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian refugee toddler once again
The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has once again posed as Alan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian refugee toddler who was pictured washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015. The new image, which Ai posted on Instagram on 29 May, shows him ...
(May 31, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Mute Museums: Why China's Institutions Fail to Connect with Visitors
Recently, I visited a certain museum in Shanghai with Dr. Gabriele Neher, an art expert at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. Together, at Nottingham's campus in Ningbo, in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, we run a professional ...
(May 31, 2017, The News Lens International (press release))
BMW Art Car Reloaded: Chinese Multimedia Artist Cao Fei Takes the Series into the 21st Century by Going Digital
... reality as a multimedia installation resonates with the rapid development and huge transformation of China over the past decades, such as globalization, urbanization and digitalization, which drives the flourishing development of contemporary art ...
(May 31, 2017, Udaipur Kiran)
SFMOMA appoints new curator of contemporary art
She most recently served as artistic director of the 5th Anyang (China) Public Art Project, a city-sponsored event for which she commissioned works by 23 local and international artists. In 2009, Joo was commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd ...
(May 31, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle)
SFMOMA Names Eungie Joo Curator of Contemporary Art, a Newly Created Position
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named Eungie Joo, a museum veteran with an international footprint, to the newly created position of Curator of Contemporary Art. She begins June 1. “It's a very exciting time to think about institutional ...
(May 31, 2017, ARTnews)
GIPHY Artist Profile: Diane Zhou on Finding Meaning in Internet Debris
... of Chinese identity (both across diasporic populations as well as mainland China) through playful engagement with cultural artifacts such as bubble tea. I asked her about surfing the Chinese internet, her GIF-making process, and anime in ...
(May 31, 2017, Papermag)
BMW modernizes the Art Car with multimedia M6 GT3
... reality as a multimedia installation resonates with the rapid development and huge transformation of China over the past decades, such as globalization, urbanization and digitalization, which drives the flourishing development of contemporary art ...
(Jun 1, 2017, New Atlas)
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