Art In The Wild: The Contemporary Expands Its Outdoor Collection
The Contemporary Austin has been making headlines lately – first with the installation of two sculptures by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, then with news that it will transfer its indoor art collection to the Blanton Museum. It turns out, this is all part ...
(Jun 14, 2017, KUT)
ECA, China Sign Arts Pact | New Haven Independent
Newly successful middle and well-to-do classes in China admire America's immersion in contemporary art and arts education, and want that for their own ...
(Jun 14, 2017, New Haven Independent)
Richard Streitmatter-Tran wants to bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary Vietnamese art
There are numerous theories out there. For older Vietnamese paintings, provenance could be a challenge, partly because museums commissioned copies of important works as a safeguard during the Vietnam war. The local contemporary art ecosystem and ...
(Jun 15, 2017, South China Morning Post)
The Thai art scene's Renaissance moment
Museums preserve important things, they show them to people, and they generate knowledge about them," said David Teh, an expert in Thai contemporary art at the National University of Singapore. Private museums may not be for everyone but they're an ...
(Jun 16, 2017, China Post)
The Thai art scene's Renaissance moment
Museums preserve important things, they show them to people, and they generate knowledge about them," said David Teh, an expert in Thai contemporary art at the National University of Singapore. Private museums may not be for everyone but they're an ...
(Jun 16, 2017, China Post)
Art Pilgrims
It occupies a special place in the art world, bridging competing goals defined by artists themselves, art collectors and the art market, and the attraction of other established if more recent contemporary art fairs and surveys such as the Whitney ...
(Jun 16, 2017, ithaca.com)
Great Art Isn't Always What It Seems: 5 Works at Art Basel That Deserve a Closer Look
Hao's portrait, also titled The Source, is priced under $100,000, and observers of the Chinese contemporary art scene say his career is just beginning to take off. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired his work, and a 12-foot ...
(Jun 16, 2017, artnet News)
Art Basel's best booth: Galleria Continua
Galleria Continua was founded in 1990 by Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Maurizio Rigillo with the intention, evident in the name, to give continuity to contemporary art in a landscape rich with the signs of ancient art. The gallery seeks to act a ...
(Jun 16, 2017, Times of India (blog))
Review: Goldberg's Eurovisions shows everyone benefits from art philanthropy
Eurovisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection is the most valuable show ever to be held at the National Art School Gallery. It features work by more than 30 leading artists based in Europe. The selection has been made by NAS Curator ...
(Jun 16, 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Artist invites visitors to feel value of his art
The time when Peng left for the US coincided with the 85 New Wave Art Movement in China, which is also known as the birth of Chinese contemporary art. Peng witnessed the art scene in his home country starting to boom. However, he never regretted ...
(Jun 16, 2017, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
Paddle8 Holds First Fine Ceramics Auction
These works are far from the untouchables found in your grandmother's china cabinet; contemporary ceramics are meant to exist mainly as art, not functional objects. Megan Mulrooney, Paddle8's Senior Specialist for Contemporary Art, gushes about the ...
(Jun 16, 2017, Architectural Digest)
East Lansing, Grand Rapids art exhibits exquisite taste
From self-portraits in Legos by a Chinese dissident to an elephant in the room, new art exhibits in East Lansing and Grand Rapids offer thought-provoking outings for all ages. The subjects are so engaging children won't even ... Dangling by its trunk ...
(Jun 17, 2017, The Detroit News)
CONSTELLATION - (8/05- 11/09) Chinese Contemporary Art in Tbilisi
The FINANCIAL -- Georgian National Museum D. Shevardnadze National Gallery displays artworks by Chinese contemporary artists. The Exhibition named “Constellation” was opened on June 8th. This exhibition is a major symbolic event representative of ...
(Jun 17, 2017, The FINANCIAL)
CONSTELLATION - (8/06- 11/09) Chinese Contemporary Art in Tbilisi
This exhibition is a major symbolic event representative of the emergent Chinese avant-garde artists who influence the art scene in China today. This generation of artists no longer relies on the political history background and they have become the ...
(Jun 17, 2017, The FINANCIAL)
Macau artist James Wong Cheng-pou turns to classics for imagination
and mixed-media works, is now being exhibited at the Macau-China Pavilion in the international contemporary visual art exhibition, International Art Exhibition – La Biennale Di Venezia, one of the most prominent contemporary art events in the world and ...
(Jun 19, 2017, South China Morning Post)
A Taipei showcase for LGBTQ-themed Asian art that's timely after Taiwan court's historic approval of same-sex marriage
Taipei's Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) is pressing ahead with the first major survey of LGBTQ-themed art in Asia this September, a timely acknowledgment of the diversity of Chinese-speaking artists following a Taiwanese court's historic ruling ...
(Jun 19, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Moca Taipei announces major LGBTQ show as Taiwan set to legalise gay marriage
Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBTQ issues and Art Now (9 September-5 November) will include around 50 works by 22 artists including Ho Chun Ming of Taiwan; the Chinese artist Yan Xing; and Samson Young, who is representing Hong Kong at this year's ...
(Jun 19, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Award honors promising artists
He remains so admired that a contemporary-art award bearing his name was announced last year. The Wang Shikuo Award aspires to become a Chinese answer to such prominent international honors for up-and-coming artists as the Hugo Boss Prize and ...
(Jun 20, 2017, China.org.cn)
Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan
A glance at the history of Chinese art shows us that it was normal for historical changes to cause artists to move around from place to place. As the conditions of their survival and their material environments change, artists naturally respond to the ...
(Jun 20, 2017, E-Flux)
Architectural luxury is in the 'gimmick', says renowned architect
Contemporary art on show includes the Central boutique's installation of mirrored glass balloons by Belgian artist Michel Francois, while in Canton Road, Berlin-based Matthias Bitzer's intriguing “Ghostland” is a paper-and-epoxy-on-board artwork. “For ...
(Jun 20, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Chinese art world goes fur crazy for cats on WeChat
The internet is made of cats—and so is the social media of the Chinese art world. On the popular platform WeChat, postings are full of the cats of artists, curators and art administrators—and group chat Cat Poop Club Member 1 compiles and distils the ...
(Jun 20, 2017, Art Newspaper)
The end of SWAG? Why investors are changing the way they spend
Per a 2016 report by Larry's List, a Hong Kong-based art market research firm, there were 317 privately founded contemporary art museums in the world. South Korea had the highest number, at 45, behind the US with 43. (China weighed in at 26, but I can ...
(Jun 20, 2017, CNN)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres at David Zwirner (Video)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling, a survey of the artist's work, was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1994 ...
(Jun 20, 2017, Arte Fuse)
Asian LGBTI art exhibition at a government gallery will make history
LGBTI themed art exhibitions have been held around the world but have been absent from the Chinese art scene. Held at MOCA Taipei, Spectrosynthesis comes only weeks after Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage. 'Contemporary art should be more than ...
(Jun 21, 2017, Gay Star News)
How Street Art Took Over Houston
He would save up money and travel to places like Spain, Italy, Peru, Morocco, China, Turkey—dodging law enforcement and crashing on couches, sometimes smuggling his own spray cans, just for the opportunity to paint. Now 38, Anguilu is one of the most ...
(Jun 21, 2017, Houstonia Magazine)
Queer Asian cinema king takes Shanghai art scene by storm
ShanghArt, established in 1996 and one of the first contemporary art galleries in China, primarily exhibits established mainland artists whom it has worked with since its early days, such as Ding Yi, Geng Jianyi and Zhang Enli. In March it reopened its ...
(Jun 21, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Queer Asian cinema king takes Shanghai art scene by storm
ShanghArt, established in 1996 and one of the first contemporary art galleries in China, primarily exhibits established mainland artists whom it has worked with since its early days, such as Ding Yi, Geng Jianyi and Zhang Enli. In March it reopened its ...
(Jun 21, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Here's Why We Need More Imagination, Not More Technology Or Money
Q: This time last year, you created a stir in China with your Smog Free Tower – a kind of outdoor vacuum cleaner that sucks up pollution. What's new with that? A: We've proved it works. That's really important. A team at the ... From the one we held at ...
(Jun 22, 2017, Forbes)
Contemporary Lifestyle In A Historic City: Bulgari Hotel Beijing Joins A Short List Of World-Renowned Properties In ...
Contemporary Lifestyle In A Historic City: Bulgari Hotel Beijing Joins A Short List Of World-Renowned Properties In ...
(Jun 22, 2017, PR Newswire (press release))
The Crowd: Art of Dining celebrates fine art in Orange County
With many changes, not only in the world of contemporary art but also in the leadership of the Orange County Museum of Art, the tone of Art of Dining in recent seasons has become much less formal and more modern. Over the last several years, organizers ...
(Jun 22, 2017, Los Angeles Times)
The World's Art Factory Is in Jeopardy
A so-called Chinese “urban village,” Dafen once produced an estimated 60 percent of all the world's oil paintings. During its heyday—when the village's reputation as an art factory rang truer than today—it almost exclusively cranked out copies of ...
(Jun 22, 2017, Artsy)
Wang Enlai at Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
Wang Enlai's solo exhibition features the newest installation works of the artist. Most of Wang Enlai's creation materials are ready-made things. Ready-made things inherently bear symbolic meaning. Nevertheless, works of the artist weakened the ...
(Jun 23, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Jallim Eudovic: The Caribbean's Leading Contemporary Sculptor
Jallim will create and erect a 12-foot bronze sculpture entitled “Mother River and Child” at the China Public Sculpture Park this year. ... “African contemporary, African traditional art, also western contemporary art, those are my biggest influences ...
(Jun 24, 2017, The Star Newspaper)
Chinese crosstalk artists perform in Japan to mark anniversary of ...
Chinese crosstalk artists perform in Japan to mark anniversary of ...
(Jun 24, 2017, Global Times)
Shanghai Himalayas Museum
Regarded as one of the most influential critics in the field of Chinese contemporary art, he is a crucial advocate of “avant-garde," “post-avant-garde” and “metavant-garde” within a Chinese context. Breaking boundaries in contemporary art and ...
(Jun 25, 2017, E-Flux)
Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan
The Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, founded in 2015 as the first contemporary art museum in northwest China, is proud to announce Marco Scotini as the curator of the upcoming Second Yinchuan Biennale. “MOCA Yinchuan has been focusing both ...
(Jun 25, 2017, E-Flux)
The New Normal: On Dissidence, Apology, and Transcendence in Contemporary Chinese Art
Sinofuturism is the final piece in the current exhibit, “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017,” at the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. “New Normal” is Xi Jinping's coinage — he used it at the World Economic Forum, to explain China ...
(Jun 25, 2017, lareviewofbooks)
Campus notes
The Annual Tallahassee-Chinese Art Exhibition will be held in the FAMU Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery through July 13, Monday through Thursday, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. This annual art exhibition features traditional and contemporary Chinese art. This year ...
(Jun 25, 2017, Tallahassee.com)
Bulgari Hotel Beijing joins Virtuoso's Preview Program
The hotel will be located beside a contemporary art museum and near the National Art Museum of China and National Center for the Performing Arts. The building, interiors and furniture are designed by Italian architectural firm Antonio Citterio Patricia ...
(Jun 25, 2017, TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific)
Constellation: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibited in Tbilisi
The FINANCIAL -- Georgia's National Museum the D. Shevardnadze National Gallery is displaying artwork by contemporary Chinese artists. Private collector ...
(Jun 26, 2017, The FINANCIAL)
Constellation: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibited in Tbilisi
“We brought this great art to the national gallery of Georgia. We want to give the opportunity, the possibility to Georgian audiences to see what contemporary art looks like in China and worldwide and to create a dialogue with Georgians”, Dodelande ...
(Jun 26, 2017, The FINANCIAL)
PARTY SKILLS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Claims Venue at Manchester International Festival
... Fashion and Dance with industry partnerships with organisations incluging the BBC, ITV, HOME, The Lowry, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Asian Media Awards and The Network - Edinburgh International TV Festival ...
(Jun 27, 2017, Broadway World)
Art Industry News: François Pinault Unveils Plans for His New Paris ...
Art Industry News: François Pinault Unveils Plans for His New Paris ...
(Jun 27, 2017, artnet News)
TEFAF New York Announces Exhibitors List for 2017 Fall Fair
In a statement, Michael Plummer, TEFAF's managing director, said that after a first New York edition last fall and a follow-up focused on modern and contemporary art and design this past spring, the fair will return to its roots by “focusing on ...
(Jun 27, 2017, ARTnews)
Aedes Architecture Forum
This exhibition takes a closer look at the emerging West Kowloon Cultural District looking at its role as both a supporter of traditional culture and a pioneer in contemporary art and innovation; as a local destination that will be a major ...
(Jun 27, 2017, E-Flux)
Ai Weiwei's Lego Portraits of Dissidents Debuts at the Hirshhorn Tomorrow
Those not plugged into the world of contemporary art may be familiar with Ai Weiwei as an outspoken activist in his native China, a filmmaker or a prolific tweeter. But as director of the Hirshhorn Museum Melissa Chiu says, Ai Weiwei is first and ...
(Jun 27, 2017, Washingtonian.com)
Ai Weiwei's Portraits of Dissidents Debut at the Hirshhorn Wednesday
Those not plugged into the world of contemporary art may be familiar with Ai Weiwei as an outspoken activist in his native China, a filmmaker or a prolific tweeter. But as director of the Hirshhorn Museum Melissa Chiu says, Ai Weiwei is first and ...
(Jun 27, 2017, Washingtonian.com)
Bring comfy shoes and your ambition to tackle Art Institute
Otherwise, take a journey a millennium into the past walking through the Chinese and Japanese art sections. They're heavy on ... The contemporary art portion is deceptively long, and the white walls keep winding you past Warhol's work. You'll ask ...
(Jun 27, 2017, Chicago Tribune)
Boosted by Gagosian's Record Bid on Beckmann, Christie's Notches a $190 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale
It was chased by bidders from Spain and China, as well as the Belgian art advisor Alex Brontmann, but eventually sold to an American phone bidder for £24.2 million ($30.9 million). The seller, a European collector who bought the painting in 1995 for £2 ...
(Jun 28, 2017, artnet News)
Warhol, Nico, a naked handstand, a crucifix: The Broad kicks off 'Happenings' with songs and shocks
... museum offices and library carefully smearing white paint onto a black crucifix. She stands in a dark Chinese tunic, preparing for an hour of live songs and transgressive performance art, closing a night dedicated to the legacy of Andy Warhol and ...
(Jun 28, 2017, Los Angeles Times)
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