Interview: US Broad Museum to share contemporary art with the world
"We want to share our contemporary art collection with the widest possible audience," Mr. Broad told Xinhua Tuesday, who has donated 2,000 works of art of their private collection to the museum together with his wife, including the famous Infinity ...
(Jul 14, 2017, Xinhua)
Contemporary Iranian Art Auction in Monaco
Recently, it has led the market with expanded initiatives in growth markets such as Russia, China, India and the UAE, with successful sales and exhibitions in Beijing, Mumbai and Dubai. ... MOP's programs include Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP), a ...
(Jul 15, 2017, Financial Tribune)
Grayson Perry and Ai Weiwei explore a new century of war and terror
The largest contemporary art exhibition in its history will feature works by Ai Weiwei, Grayson Perry and others in a landmark exploration of art in the “age of terror”. Torture, drone warfare, changes in security laws, political protest and the ...
(Jul 15, 2017, The Guardian)
Power Station of Art's Emerging Curators Project 2017 winners announced
As an exhibition and academic trademark of PSA, the Emerging Curators Project is devoted to exploring the potential of young Chinese curators, provides them with an ideal platform for practice, comprehensive and in-depth guidance, a way to enter the ...
(Jul 16, 2017, Global Times)
Pompidou Center's expertise coming here
“This cultural cooperation will also resonate at the Pompidou Center to organize a number of projects displaying Chinese art in Paris,” said the French cultural center, which has one of the world's largest modern and contemporary art collections ...
(Jul 16, 2017, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
(Yonhap Interview) North Korean art Chosunhwa goes beyond ...
(Yonhap Interview) North Korean art Chosunhwa goes beyond ...
(Jul 17, 2017, Yonhap News)
'Fond Illusions' at Galerie Perrotin, New York
1977, Saint Albans, NY, lives and works in New York, NY) has held recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2014), the Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, IA (2012); and The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2013). ... in Delhi ...
(Jul 17, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
This weekend: Woodstock documentary, medicinal beer demonstration
Architecture and Design Lecture: Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara presents its inaugural Architecture & Design Council Lecture featuring award-winning designer Philippe Malouin, whose work is included in the museum's current exhibition “Free ...
(Jul 17, 2017, Ventura County Star)
Dallas Chinese Community Center presents 'East Meets West' exhibit
Lucille Patterson is 99 years old. She attributes her longevity to Chinese brush painting. Patterson is one of several members of The Association of Oriental Arts of North Texas who has paintings on display in the "East Meets West" exhibition at the ...
(Jul 17, 2017, Dallas News (blog))
Can a Shenzhen art project about the Cultural Revolution soothe Hong Kong's political blues?
... Shenzhen (the museum will pay for postage). The whole thing was conceived by Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO), a Chinese artist group founded by five artists who grew up during the Cultural Revolution. ... memory of growing up in China the 1960s. It ...
(Jul 18, 2017, South China Morning Post)
The British art market gears up for Brexit; sex sells at Victorian art auctions
The extent of these benefits relates to Britain's status as one of the three leading global market hubs, along with the US and China. To maintain that position it needs to attract the best quality works for sale from ... would stimulate consignments ...
(Jul 18, 2017, Telegraph.co.uk)
Second Nature: Horology Meets Contemporary Art in Audemars Piguet's Latest Presentation at Art Basel
In 2016 the second annual Audemars Piguet Art Commission – a work by Chinese multimedia artist Sun Xun – was presented during Art Basel Miami Beach. One of the most exciting artists to emerge from China, in Reconstruction of the Universe, a piece fully ...
(Jul 18, 2017, HarpersBazaarArabia)
Brands Need to Quit Fishing With 'Shark Week'
Diners in China see shark fin soup as a status symbol, and are willing to pay up to $450 per pound of fin. The pectoral fin of a basking shark, the second-largest fish in the ocean, can run ... Creative industries contribute to the decline of shark ...
(Jul 18, 2017, AdAge.com)
Paris's Pompidou Centre to open gallery in Shanghai
The Pompidou hailed the deal as “the most important long-term cultural exchange project” between France and China and said it would give “an important place to contemporary Chinese art” in the new gallery. It said its new franchise would be called the ...
(Jul 19, 2017, The Guardian)
Madera puts comfort first in its design
"The second reason is our hardware: the stylish design and the contemporary art and decor in all our Madera properties." Lai cites the Hotel Madera Hong Kong in Jordan as an example, where Madera managing director David Fong ... consistently recognised ...
(Jul 19, 2017, South China Morning Post)
What Does The Future Of Art Look Like For India?
“It's only growing just like any other international one such as China.” “The market ... Even galleries that mainly focus on contemporary art have been selling modern masterpieces to financially sustain themselves, believes collector Vishal Vora. “I am ...
(Jul 19, 2017, VERVE)
Centre Pompidou will pop up in Shanghai's West Bund cultural ...
Centre Pompidou will pop up in Shanghai's West Bund cultural ...
(Jul 19, 2017, Art Newspaper)
“Sculptor Dimensions” at the Taoxichuan Art Museum of China, Central Academy of Fine Art
Even if the work is not consciously classical, something of its restraint has entered into the life of the figures, giving them a dignity we don't often see in contemporary art. The extraordinary wooden carvings by Xiao Li also intimate the past, both ...
(Jul 19, 2017, Arte Fuse)
Science The Sh*t Out Of It: The 2018 Biennale of Sydney To Explore Quantum Mechanics
The Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Mami Kataoka, has revealed the theme for next year's bonanza of contemporary art, and it promises to be one of the most cerebral in the celebrated festival's illustrious history. Under the title ...
(Jul 19, 2017, theMusic)
Centre Pompidou to Partner With Museum in Shanghai - Artwire ...
Centre Pompidou to Partner With Museum in Shanghai - Artwire ...
(Jul 20, 2017, ArtfixDaily)
New kid on the block
The artworks were first exhibited in 2005 at the Institute of Technology Bandung, and later at SH Contemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, China. In 2009, Pause/Replay was part of Suwage's retrospective exhibition Still Crazy After All These Years at Jogja ...
(Jul 20, 2017, The Edge Markets MY)
Biennale of Sydney
... by conflicting ideas across all levels of humanity: different cultures; readings of nature and the universe; political ideologies and systems of government; interpretations of human history, including the history of art and definitions of ...
(Jul 20, 2017, E-Flux)
STANDARD international triennial of contemporary art kicks off in Armenia
President of the Armenian Arts Council (AAC) Vardan Karapetyan announced the launch of STANDARD 2017, the first edition of a triennial international exhibition of contemporary art based in Armenia at a news conference on Thursday. ... of the works of ...
(Jul 20, 2017, Panorama.am)
'Chinese Summer' at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Contemporary Chinese art often referred to as Chinese avant-garde art, continued to develop since the 1980s as an outgrowth of modern art developments post the cultural revolution. It involves different mediums such as painting, film, video ...
(Jul 20, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Rising Up Down Under: Sydney Neighborhood Stakes Claim as Australia's Answer to Chelsea
The White Rabbit Gallery, opened and operated by the Zimbabwe-born billionaire Judith Neilson, devotes four floors to what is claims to be the largest collection of Chinese contemporary art outside China. It might be tempting to associate the name with ...
(Jul 20, 2017, ARTnews)
Centre Pompidou to partner with Shanghai's West Bund Art Museum
They will also show works of Chinese contemporary art. The initiative will be a two-way process. “This cultural partnership will also allow the Centre Pompidou to present Chinese contemporary art in Paris,” says a gallery statement. The five-year ...
(Jul 20, 2017, Blooloop)
In the spirit of Jules Verne: Nantes reinvents itself through art
Sheds in which workers once built liners, battleships and submarines are now a theme park where spectators gaze at mechanical creatures made to look deliberately low-tech in the manner of Jules Verne and film them on their Chinese-made iPhones ...
(Jul 21, 2017, Financial Times)
Eclectic island6 exhibit weaves eccentric aesthetic
Island6, run by the Liu Dao Art Collective, is an eclectic art group that highlights the convergence of art and technology, drawing contemporary art lovers since 2006. Their works focus on interactive art installations rather than traditional ...
(Jul 21, 2017, Shanghai Daily (subscription))
Spreading the word on Indonesian art
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Indonesia will celebrate its launch with an inaugural exhibition that includes a collection of contemporary works by iconic artists Raden Saleh, S. Sudjojono, FX Harsono, Arahmaiani, Robert ...
(Jul 23, 2017, The Nation)
Kenny Schachter on Learning to Love the LA Art Scene (Except Those Wacky Private Museums)
Though they obviously add to the overall fabric of the city, perhaps these foundations make more sense in China, where there's just one contemporary art museum (at present). The curatorial voice of these upstarts reads more like a vibe, dictated by the ...
(Jul 24, 2017, artnet News)
World traveller passing on her experience
In China, she focused on photography. Taking advantage of the well lit, “hectic” city, she worked on long exposures. The contemporary art school in Lancaster drew her away from her traditional figurative work, which she found restrictive. “They change ...
(Jul 24, 2017, Royal Gazette)
Today in Data: Cashless Week in China
With Cashless Week in China approaching, our own Karen Webster sat down with Alipay President Souheil Badran to learn more about how the company is moving the needle on cashless payments and how China is leading the way. .... supported the round ...
(Jul 24, 2017, PYMNTS.com)
Collector Michael Xufu Huang on Why Art Is Relevant for 'Alibaba People'
And he hopes it will help educate and acclimate young Chinese audiences to contemporary art and the art-going experience, which is still very new in China. We had a chance to catch up with Huang over the phone a little after the show opened. He was in ...
(Jul 24, 2017, Jing Daily)
Meet The Curator Who's Celebrating Asian Design
We've acquired everything from contemporary Chinese art and post-World War II Japanese design to Hong Kong neon signs, post-Independence Indian architecture, Korean Dansaekhwa art, and Southeast Asian moving image--often in dialogue with each ...
(Jul 25, 2017, Hong Kong Tatler (press release))
Pompidou to open gallery in Shanghai after decade-long cooperation attempts
The gallery will host more than 20 exhibitions and events in the five years, presenting various cultural programs from Pompidou's collections and from representative works of Chinese contemporary art. This cooperation will also resonate at the Pompidou ...
(Jul 25, 2017, ecns)
Straddling East and West in art
Hybridity and eclecticism may be key concepts in much contemporary art, yet they are not new phenomena. In the Taisho Era (1912-1926), Tetsugoro Yorozu virtually personified the idea of hybrid art: As Japan rushed toward ... Deriving from China, this ...
(Jul 25, 2017, The Japan Times)
Hot Summer Auction Presents Strong Lineup Of Regional Art
Bettine Field Carroll, vice president of business development and Asian specialist at Neal's, emphasized that the formula never varies: “We're always looking for the best property for each auction, especially for estates property, such as the Chinese ...
(Jul 25, 2017, Antiques and the Arts Online)
In living colour
... the museum is now considered an important centre for ceramics in North America with an impressive 4,000 objects in its permanent collection, including Chinese and Japanese porcelain, ceramics from the Ancient Americas and works from contemporary ...
(Jul 25, 2017, The Globe and Mail)
Ai Weiwei highlights survival in Jerusalem exhibition
As an adult, he has become well-known for shaping Chinese contemporary art of the past several decades with his outspoken critiques of the Chinese government's human rights abuses and stifling of free speech. When Ai traveled to the Middle East last ...
(Jul 25, 2017, Al-Monitor)
Berkshire Museum's Planned Sale of Art Draws Opposition
Those works include Impressionist and modern art, contemporary art, 19th-century European paintings, old master paintings, American art and Chinese art. Two of the more prominent works are by Rockwell: a 1940 oil-on-canvas painting titled “Blacksmith's ...
(Jul 26, 2017, New York Times)
OzAsia's 2017 Program Peeks into the Future
For artistic director Joseph Mitchell, this year's OzAsia is about surveying the innovative side of Asia's contemporary art scene. His third ... There is always something from the Indonesian community, the Malay community and the Chinese community. I ...
(Jul 26, 2017, The Adelaide Review)
The process of a biennale needs to be democratic
When we were art students, there wasn't much exposure to contemporary art. I was curating a lot of ... I was in Tokyo doing a presentation about KMB and after the event, a Chinese lady came up to me and asked if I would like to curate a similar show in ...
(Jul 26, 2017, Times of India)
Interview with Leo Kuelbs from Light Year
There's “Digital Fairy Tales: Chinese Stories” happening next year, and a show called “Avalanche!” in the pipeline, as well. And those are just the ones I'm working on personally. John Ensor Parker is bringing great curators on board too. There's a ...
(Jul 26, 2017, Arte Fuse)
The Belgian Port Town That Inspired James Ensor's Provocative Art
Chinese porcelain, guns, a mess of strange objects that were always being knocked over by several cats, parrots with deafening voices and a monkey. I spent many long hours in the ... Zee, the town's contemporary art museum. It was empty on a weekday, ...
(Jul 27, 2017, New York Times)
New art fair for China: Art Chengdu to launch next year in thriving ...
New art fair for China: Art Chengdu to launch next year in thriving ...
(Jul 27, 2017, Art Newspaper)
New art fair for China: Art Chengdu to launch next year in thriving ...
New art fair for China: Art Chengdu to launch next year in thriving ...
(Jul 27, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Sound of Hong Kong now heard in Manchester
... fresh from representing Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale, was inspired by mythic tales of 17th century Chinese travellers making their way to Europe on foot. The multi-layered piece was broadcast through a daily five-part radio series, performed by ...
(Jul 27, 2017, Sino)
Pompidou Centre To Open Satellite Gallery In Shanghai
The Pompidou hailed the deal as “the most important long-term cultural exchange project” between France and China and said it would give “an important place to contemporary Chinese art” in the new gallery. The new franchise would be called the Centre ...
(Jul 27, 2017, ArtLyst)
New Chinese narratives | News | Mountain View Online | - MV Voice
Liu Jianhua's "Untitled," Wang Guangle's "140716" and Hong Hao's "Everchanging Appearance No. 6" are among the works including in "Forms Through ...
(Jul 27, 2017, Mountain View Voice)
New Chinese narratives
As a leading female figure in Chinese contemporary art, Xiuzhen's watercolor-esque, shimmering metallic paintings articulate her focus on preserving memory, despite China's rapidly changing culture. Xiuzhen's previous installations incorporated ...
(Jul 27, 2017, Mountain View Voice)
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