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Contemporary Chinese Art News 08/2017 (Page 2)

Media baron Sir Keith Murdoch saved some of the world's greatest 20th century art from the Nazis

His aim to educate and inspire Australians led to a number of new exhibitions but it reached its climax with the Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, which toured the major cities of Australia in the latter half of 1939. Lauded as the ... (Aug 11, 2017, dailytelegraph.com.au)

Reluctantly leaving a haven of art, culture and light

“After we met with Shanghai art gallery, Art + and discovered all of their work to support Chinese artists we became more familiar with Chinese contemporary art and for the first time bought two very colorful artworks from Ye, a mandala welcoming our ... (Aug 12, 2017, Shanghai Daily (subscription))

Biennale of Sydney: artist Jun Yang navigates by the stars

On the eastern apron of Cockatoo Island where rusting shipyard cranes mark a century of industry, artist Jun Yang is scoping out an ambitious art project to construct something akin to a modern observatory. One of 37 artists so far selected for the ... (Aug 13, 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Beijing museum dazzles the audience with immersive experience

Beijing Today Art Museum was founded in 2002, being China's first non-for-profit, non-governmental art institution. It is committed to promoting Chinese contemporary art and boasts an international vision and a contemporary ideology. Also it explores a ... (Aug 14, 2017, Markets Insider)

Focus On: Dubai's Only Central Asian Art Gallery

If we talk of contemporary art making, we can see a wide variety of trends and movements, from traditional realism to cutting edge and even futuristic. But this art has a hoary past. It is commonly acknowledged that in recent centuries the region has ... (Aug 14, 2017, HarpersBazaarArabia)

Beijing museum dazzles the audience with immersive experience

Sales Report: Lackluster Results in Hong Kong

In the first week of april, the spring sales at Sotheby's Hong Kong got underway, with 24 auctions offering well over 1,800 lots, including fine Chinese paintings, jewelry, modern and contemporary art, wine, and more. In all, the sales achieved a total ... (Aug 14, 2017, Blouinartinfo UK)

Come and see contemporary Chinese art for the first time in the UK

Sino-European Arts，London and Hong Kong-based art consultancy and exhibition service, specialising in contemporary Chinese art and photography，are hosting the exhibition.Ms. Suzanna Mu, managing director of Sino European Art & Executive ... (Aug 15, 2017, Sino)

Come and see contemporary Chinese art for the first time in the UK

Art Review: Art and Peace @ Mall Galleries – The National Student

The opening of Art and Peace: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art at Mall Galleries was attended by several big names in the art world, the deputy ... (Aug 15, 2017, The National Student)

Art And Artists From Around The World Await Visitors This Fall At The 11th Edition Of The Asia Contemporary Art Show

HONG KONG, CHINA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/16/17 -- Returning this fall with its 11th edition, the Asia Contemporary Art Show at the Conrad Hong Kong opens on September 21st and continues until the 24th. Recognized as the longest-running and most ... (Aug 16, 2017, SYS-CON Media (press release))

Mister Jiu's

His vision: apply San Francisco's ingredient-obsessed, hyper-seasonal, cure-it-yourself ethos—which he'd thoroughly absorbed as a cook at Zuni Café and Quince and the chef of Bar Agricole—to the canon of Chinese food that he grew up with and later ... (Aug 16, 2017, Bon Appetit)

Come On Inside, The Culture's Fine In The Palm Beaches

The Norton Museum is world famous for its distinguished permanent collection featuring American Art, Chinese Art, Contemporary Art, European Art, and Photography. Two exhibitions are set to open on September 5: Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene ... (Aug 16, 2017, PR Newswire (press release))

HYPERactive, Various Artists, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Gorman Arts Centre

Cathy Laudenbach's six digital prints look at the weird phenomenon of a Chinese housing development based on an Austrian alpine site – Hallstatt. It is like The Sound of Music meets China town (the latter of a rural-ish variety). Laudenbach elides the ... (Aug 17, 2017, The Canberra Times)

Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW)

Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) curatorial & educational platform (October 5–26, 2017) is pleased to open registration for the 5th iteration of its annual signature forum FIELD MEETING in New York on Saturday, October 14 and Sunday, October 15 ... (Aug 17, 2017, E-Flux)

Get ready to party at the newly remodeled Utah Museum of Fine Arts — but careful with the art

Changes to the museum include a new vapor barrier, the addition of Polynesian, African and Chinese art galleries, three “conversation areas” where people can recharge while they learn about art, and rewritten display labels — including several in the ... (Aug 17, 2017, Deseret News)

$24 Million Richter and $15 Million Bacon Embroiled in Nonpayment Dispute

Estimated to sell for upwards of $25 million at a Phillips auction last November, Gerhard Richter's Düsenjäger (1963) was the top lot at Phillips's 20th-century and contemporary art evening sale last November—without attracting a single bid in the ... (Aug 17, 2017, Artsy)

'Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here' at Peeler Art Center, Aug. 25 - Oct. 29

Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and calligraphic brushstrokes, throughout the exhibition she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as “foreign” such as blue willow china patterns ... (Aug 18, 2017, DePauw University)

Remembering Ren Hang's High-Contrast Charisma

The late photographer's bold and sensual work has left an indelible mark on contemporary Chinese art. Liang Chenyu. Aug 18, 2017. SHANGHAI — The first mainland solo exhibition of Ren Hang's work since the young artist's suicide in February features 19 ... (Aug 18, 2017, Sixth Tone)

Zhao Bandi's party crashed by censorship at the Ullens Center in Beijing

The whimsical Beijing-based artist Zhao Bandi's solo show China Party (until October 22) opened earlier this month at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in the Chinese capital with works spanning his three decade career. However, amidst Zhao's ... (Aug 18, 2017, Art Newspaper)

Art Movements

Chinese police forcefully evicted artists from the Iowa co-op in the Caochangdi art district in northeastern Beijing. According to ArtAsiaPacific, artists laid out a mock carpet for officials shortly before contractors began demolition ... Sarah ... (Aug 18, 2017, Hyperallergic)

Robert Loder, art collector 1934-2017

By his late 40s, and now chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Art and married to Josette Bromovsky, Loder's artistic interests began to overtake his business dealings. He invested in a management buyout of Curtis ... In an art world that was ... (Aug 18, 2017, Financial Times)

A Chinese Artist Created a Film Using Surveillance Footage

A renowned Chinese artist, Xu Bing and his staff downloaded surveillance footage from the websites of internet security firms in China, worked through about 7,000 hours of video images and edited them down to about 80 minutes to make a story. Mr. Xu ... (Aug 19, 2017, The Liberty Web English)

Utah Museum of Fine Arts reboots, connecting art to people

“It's not a chronological hang,” said Tassie, UMFA's curator of modern and contemporary art. “It's meant to reach across media, across cultures, across generations. We've got young artists next to older artists, unknown artists next to really well ... (Aug 19, 2017, Salt Lake Tribune)

Five museums you wouldn't expect to find in Shanghai

Rated first among 261 museums in Shanghai on TripAdvisor, this ding-shaped building – the 1990s design was influenced by the ancient bronze cooking vessel – is home to millennia of Chinese craftsmanship and, like its international counterparts, can be ... (Aug 20, 2017, South China Morning Post)

A potted history of studio ceramics

In 1910, the Burlington Fine Arts Club put on an exhibition of early Chinese pottery and porcelain, introducing many people to what one early advocate described as 'the chaste richness of Tang and Sung and Ming'. As Stair has argued, this was a trigger ... (Aug 21, 2017, Apollo Magazine)

Remembering Chinese Photographer Ren Hang

The late photographer's bold and sensual work has left an indelible mark on contemporary Chinese art. Listen. powerd by Cyberon. Loader. The first China solo exhibition of Ren Hang's (任航) work since the young artist's suicide in February features 19 ... (Aug 21, 2017, The News Lens International (press release))

Guggenheim Museum Schedule of Exhibitions Through 2019

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, the largest exhibition of its kind ever in North America, looks at a bold contemporary art movement that anticipated, chronicled, and agitated for the sweeping social transformation that has brought China ... (Aug 21, 2017, WebWire (press release))

Big names flock to first contemporary art space in Cuba

Fiaschi says he had the idea of installing an art space in Cuba during a visit in 2014, when he stumbled upon the ruined shell of a 1950s cinema in the old Chinese quarter of Havana. Working with the Cuban authorities, he transformed the space and ... (Aug 21, 2017, The Daily Star)

S'pore Art Museum appoints new curatorial director | TODAYonline

SINGAPORE – The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Dr June Yap as its new Director of Curatorial, Programmes and Publications. Yap, who will ... (Aug 22, 2017, TODAYonline)

Ai Weiwei Is Building Fences All Over NYC In A Powerful Public Art Project

Ai Weiwei, the prolific Chinese artist and activist famously profiled in the documentary “Never Sorry,” is behind the ambitious “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” project set to take over NYC this October. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the five ... (Aug 22, 2017, HuffPost)

Big names flock to first contemporary art space in Cuba

Ai Weiwei public artworks are coming to New York CIty, here's where to find them

Thanks to the Public Art Fund (PAF), New Yorkers will be able to find art from Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in all five boroughs, commencing October 12. Titled Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Ai's work falls on PAF's 40th anniversary and features 18 ... (Aug 22, 2017, The Architect's Newspaper)

What to Expect at New York's Asian Art Week Sales | Observer

The second week in September will be one-stop shopping for enthusiasts of Asian Art in New York. From September 12-16, Christie's and Sotheby's are ... (Aug 22, 2017, Observer)

Art Stage Jakarta 2017 reveals an art scene that is about to explode

One thinks of China's economic boom which also saw Chinese contemporary art launched onto a world stage. Indonesian art is already widely appreciated internationally. The next major event will be the Europalia Art Festival in Belgium and the ... (Aug 23, 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Art Stage Jakarta 2017 reveals an art scene that is about to explode

'Aura' at Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong | BLOUIN ARTINFO

“Aura,” an exhibition featuring the works of artists Xia Xiaowan and Chen Hui will soon be on view at Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong. The exhibition ... (Aug 23, 2017, Blouinartinfo UK)

'Aura' at Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

Xia Xiaowan (b.1959, Beijing, China) is a Chinese painter. He rose to prominence during the 85 New Wave movement of the 1908s. The artist studied at the Third Studio of Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982. Xiaowan ... (Aug 23, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Anglo Chinese art venture to get Chinese writers world exposure

Dong Zhang, Intron's general manager, was equally enthusiastic about this pioneering new venture: 'We believe the richness of Chinese contemporary art is waiting for the world to discover and enjoy. The Unicorn Chinese Art Series will become the ... (Aug 23, 2017, Sino)

Anglo Chinese art venture to get Chinese writers world exposure

News | March 24,2017. Come and see contemporary Chinese art for the first time in the UK. News | August 16,2017. New book highlights London's Hidden Rivers. News | April 26,2017. Tesco Travel To China For Import & Export Fair. News | May 11,2017 ... (Aug 23, 2017, Sino)

Art market needs to go up to propel artists to top: Ghose

"You are seeing the trend of Chinese contemporary art market going up and up and until that happens to India, whether that happens at all or not, Indian artists are going to find it difficult to be completely at the top. Art can't be divorced from ... (Aug 23, 2017, Business Standard)

Zheng Dongmei: Ceramics for Our Time

In regard to the place of ceramics in contemporary Chinese culture, Sheng says the following: “Modern ceramic art has moved from the edge toward a more central position in contemporary art in China, but it is still not part of the mainstream.” This ... (Aug 23, 2017, Arte Fuse)

Asian Museum works to overcome neglect of Filipino art

The museum's choices of contemporary art tend to the political. “1081,” an etching made in 1975 by Benedicto Reyes Cabrera, is a bracing evocation of the era of martial law ... A cabinet of textiles and costume is dominated by a brilliantly flowered ... (Aug 23, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle)

Hauser & Wirth's Artist Residency Exchange at CalArts and Bath School

International contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth has fostered arts education in local communities by supplementing exhibitions with lectures, seminars, workshops and special events. One of Hauser & Wirth's latest ... As stated on Xie's website ... (Aug 23, 2017, SCVNEWS.com)

'Amphibia' by Tromarama at Centre A, Vancouver

Centre A Gallery presents Tromarama's works "Amphibia," curated by Ying Tan presented in collaboration with Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art. The exhibition showcases glimpses of our imagined future through the visions of the collective minds at ... (Aug 24, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Young S'poreans explore issues of ethnicity through art

SINGAPORE — A group of young Singaporeans with no background in the arts are coming together to put on a contemporary art exhibition that looks at issues of race in the Republic. The exhibition, titled 87% — Multiculturalism in Singapore, aims to ... (Aug 24, 2017, TODAYonline)

How to see Beijing in three days (because you don't need a visa for ...

How to see Beijing in three days (because you don't need a visa for ... (Aug 24, 2017, Washington Post)

Jakarta's Museum Macan launches with exhibition of who's who in Eastern and Western art

Chinese collectors have so quickly become a mainstay of the art market that it is easy to forget that wealthy Southeast Asian connoisseurs started buying contemporary art decades earlier. Take Indonesia, for example. Businessmen such as Oei Hong Djien ... (Aug 24, 2017, South China Morning Post)

The snake–in precious forms and antiquities–beckons in Singapore

For starters, the show in the Lion City is nearly three times larger than the first edition in Rome, and boasts over 150 pieces of antiquities, contemporary art, photography, costumes, and jewelry all inspired by the snake. Serpenti is one of the ... (Aug 24, 2017, Inquirer.net)

A conversation with Ci Kim

The Arario collection, in the meantime, maintained a broad international scope of contemporary art and introduced photography, sculptures, videos and installations by artists from Japan, Korea, and China as well as works by less recognised artists from ... (Aug 25, 2017, Ocula Magazine)

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