Hirshhorn Acquires Full Series of Ragnar Kjartansson's Acclaimed “Me and My Mother”
Kjartansson's videos join a range of new acquisitions that represent some of the most significant developments in international contemporary art, including selections by Hurvin Anderson, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, General Idea, Zhang Huan, Annette Lemieux ...
(Sep 11, 2017, WebWire (press release))
The gay Chinese farmer and his cutting edge art
Now, more than 50 works by gay artists from across Asia have gone on display at Taipei's Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca), in what has been billed as the first public exhibition of its kind in Asia. Xiyadie's work is easily masked as traditional ...
(Sep 12, 2017, BBC News)
The gay Chinese farmer and his cutting edge art - BBC News
A gay Chinese farmer who found emotional release by depicting his suppressed erotic fantasies in traditional Chinese paper cuttings is part of an exhibition of ...
(Sep 12, 2017, BBC News)
The 2017 Edition of START Art Fair Comes to London With a Focus on Asian Art
The fair offers a platform for galleries coming from countries that are under-represented in the art market, with exhibitors selected by a curatorial committee comprising the fair's co-founders Serenella Ciclitira (Parallel Contemporary Art) and Nigel ...
(Sep 12, 2017, artnet News)
Contemporary, controversial and coming soon: Cape Town's vast new art museum
“Before the first world war the most exciting artists were French; in the 1990s they were Chinese. Now the hot new place for contemporary art is Africa,” gushed the Economist in May. South Africa, where many of the continent's most important ...
(Sep 12, 2017, The Guardian)
Ai Weiwei's porcelain offers a feast for Istanbul art lovers
Ai Weiwei, who was born in Beijing as a son of dissident poet Ai Qing, has supported contemporary art in China. Growing up in "a retraining camp" to which he had been sent with his family in 1959 because of the Chinese Communist Party's accusation ...
(Sep 12, 2017, Daily Sabah)
British sculptor Antony Gormley showing at Shanghai's Long Museum, but admits it should be Chinese artists getting ...
British sculptor Antony Gormley showing at Shanghai's Long Museum, but admits it should be Chinese artists getting ...
(Sep 13, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Necktie On Pony's Tail | Hill Post
In a posh restaurant in Xi'an, I was guided to the ladies lavatory. On exit, a necktie perched on the tail of an artistic iconic horse, amotif of Chinese mythology, ...
(Sep 13, 2017, Hill Post)
Fall into Art
At the turn of the twentieth century, during a period when Japan was at war with China and Russia, the very old technology of ukiyo-e, or woodblock printing, encountered the much newer technologies of long-range ammo, torpedoes, and searchlights ...
(Sep 13, 2017, The Independent Weekly)
Your Last Chance
The piece as a whole is evocative of China's complex past of cultural exchange, war, looting and commerce, according to Speed Art Museum Curator of Contemporary Art Miranda Lash. “It marries so many different cultural influences,” Lash says. “The ...
(Sep 13, 2017, Voice Tribune)
Watchmakers Join Forces With Contemporary Artists To Create Unique Timepieces And Alliances, Part 2
Introduced in 2015 as the centerpiece of the brand's growing engagement with contemporary art, the Audemars Piguet Art Commission annually identifies and commissions an emerging or established artist to create one major large-scale artwork that ...
(Sep 13, 2017, Forbes)
Art history teacher has a special love for Chinese creative niche
Salisbury >> Verena Drake, an art history teacher at The Hotchkiss School in Salisbury for 15 years, says she enjoys giving lectures on the history of Chinese art for a very selfish reason. She explains, “I love the adult audience at Noble Horizons ...
(Sep 13, 2017, Litchfield County Times)
Art Canton's Chief Curator on What to Expect at This Year's Exhibition
Now welcoming its 8th edition, this year's fair will be the first to feature an additional four-day contemporary art show, developed by a team of acclaimed Chinese art professors. To give you a better sense of what the fair is all about, we chatted ...
(Sep 14, 2017, That's Online)
Art Canton's Chief Curator on What to Expect at This Year's ...
Art Canton's Chief Curator on What to Expect at This Year's ...
(Sep 14, 2017, That's Online)
Art Canton's Chief Curator on What to Expect at This Year's ...
Art Canton's Chief Curator on What to Expect at This Year's ...
(Sep 14, 2017, That's Online)
Art Canton's Chief Curator on What to Expect at This Year's Exhibition
Now welcoming its 8th edition, this year's fair will be the first to feature an additional four-day contemporary art show, developed by a team of acclaimed Chinese art professors. To give you a better sense of what the fair is all about, we chatted ...
(Sep 14, 2017, That's Online)
A Design Film Festival 2017 to feature documentary on the cassette
Other films lined up for the festival include Blurred Lines (an investigative look into the contemporary art world), Hanzi (exploring Chinese typography) and more. You can get your tickets for S$15 per showing here. For more information on screening ...
(Sep 14, 2017, Bandwagon)
Back to the Past
Since the Broad Museum superseded the Kresge and switched gears to contemporary art in 2012, the collection has languished mostly in storage, exhibited sparingly or used to “contextualize” contemporary exhibits at the Broad. ... Besides the more well ...
(Sep 14, 2017, City Pulse)
Beijing tech conference looks to spark something 'Neu'
More than just celebrate China's burgeoning tech scene, it aimed to deliver an upgrade. Inside the 798 Art District's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the conference assembled leaders and personalities from a Chinese congee of industries to preach ...
(Sep 14, 2017, SupChina)
China Revealed: How New Documentaries Explore a Side of the Country Never Seen Before
Two Chinese independent films—Wang Bing's Golden Leopard-winning “Mrs. Fang” and Xu Bing's “Dragonfly Eyes”— competed for the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival (both played TIFF a few weeks later). Wang and Xu are ...
(Sep 14, 2017, IndieWire)
EchelonSeaport: Superlative condo living in Boston's new epicenter
For culture, EchelonSeaport is close to the award-winning Institute of Contemporary Art and Boston Children's Museum. It's also just two blocks away from the newly opened shops and restaurants of One Seaport Square, a $600 million mixed-use ...
(Sep 15, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA - the arts festival without borders
Anna Maria Maiolino, Glu Glu Glu..., 1967, at MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) Credit: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. .... in Mexico: Pinxit Mexici, 1700-1790, at LACMA from 19 November ...
(Sep 15, 2017, Telegraph.co.uk)
Contemporary art and Hong Kong
When people hear that I have lived between Hong Kong and the UK for six years, their first reaction is often intrigue: they are interested to learn about Hong Kong identity, how it relates to mainland China, the island's colonial past following the ...
(Sep 15, 2017, Varsity Online)
Lufthansa promotes German-Chinese cultural exchange
“Deutschland 8” sees itself as a response to “CHINA8”, the large exhibition of Chinese contemporary art which was on display in 2015 in the Ruhr area. Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel commended the project as an outstanding sign of understanding and ...
(Sep 15, 2017, WebWire (press release))
Last chance to see the protest and politics embedded in Speed's 'Circle of Animals Zodiac Heads' exhibit
17. He'll share his research on the art and architectural scene in China, in which Weiwei is deeply immersed. Louisvillians should see the statues while they can. As Miranda Lash, curator of contemporary art at the Speed, said in a recent interview ...
(Sep 15, 2017, Insider Louisville)
Tour unearths Sydney, Australia's semi-hidden gems
Mestre says Culture Scouts aim to go “where your best friend would take you.” That sounds great, except my best friend likes wrestling and chicken wings. At the White Rabbit Gallery, a former Rolls-Royce factory turned into a contemporary Chinese art ...
(Sep 15, 2017, Toronto Star)
Art Industry News: Solange Challenges Art Museums Over Racial Bias + More Must-Read Stories
Solange Challenges Museums' Racial Bias – Over the past few years, Beyoncé's sister has been breaking into the art world as a performance artist, but in a recent talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago she criticized (without naming names) a ...
(Sep 15, 2017, artnet News)
Hong Kong musicians to reflect on colonialism with showcase at Iceland festival
Some of Hong Kong's top classical music artists are entering the world of contemporary art to reflect on colonialism at a festival in Iceland ahead of the centenary of the end of rule by Denmark. Ten artists and associates of the Hong Kong New Music ...
(Sep 16, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Fabien Fryns Fine Art at Asia Now, Paris
The mission of the gallery is to contribute to the cross-cultural exchange between China and the West, and to raise the awareness of Chinese contemporary art in the international market. Active since 1986, Fabien collected and placed works by Miquel ...
(Sep 16, 2017, Blouinartinfo UK)
German art exhibition opens in Beijing
A forum will be held for Chinese and German scholars and artists to discuss contemporary art development. The Germany art show is in response to the successful exhibition, "China 8 -- Contemporary Art from China," which was held in eight German cities ...
(Sep 17, 2017, Xinhua)
German art exhibition opens in Beijing - China.org.cn
Art lovers in Beijing are able to take a close look at the diverse works of 55 contemporary German artists as a large exhibition opened at the Imperial Ancestral ...
(Sep 18, 2017, China.org.cn)
Edward Dolman on Why a Changing Art Market Could Give Phillips the Edge in the Auction Wars
The QMA's purchase of Cézanne's The Card Players for more than $250 million was reported in 2011, and then the Art Newspaper stunned readers with a report saying that Qatar had actually been the world's biggest buyer of Modern and contemporary art over ...
(Sep 18, 2017, artnet News)
Indonesia's Maryanto makes impact at Adelaide's OzAsia Festival
Pandora's Box will dominate a varied collection, drawn from Singapore Art Museum's permanent collection of Southeast Asian art for the After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art exhibition. Filipino artist Kawayan de Guia's work Bomba ...
(Sep 18, 2017, The Australian)
Beijing hosts 'Deutschland 8,' largest showcase of contemporary German art ever shown in China
It has also greatly influenced contemporary Chinese art and the artists who create it. According to Fan Di'an, president of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts and one of the two head curators for Deutschland 8, German art developed rapidly after ...
(Sep 19, 2017, Global Times)
Phillips CEO Edward Dolman on His Formula for Outfoxing Christie's and Sotheby's (Hint: It Involves Guarantees)
Coming into the fall auction season, Phillips is again seeking to punch a hole in the prows of its arch-competitors Christie's and Sotheby's by assembling top-quality, irresistible sales of contemporary art—which would mean luring both buyers and ...
(Sep 19, 2017, artnet News)
Volkswagen supports the largest-ever exhibition of contemporary ...
Volkswagen supports the largest-ever exhibition of contemporary ...
(Sep 19, 2017, WebWire (press release))
Volkswagen supports the largest-ever exhibition of contemporary German art in China
The largest collection of contemporary German art ever assembled was opened in the presence of Luo Shugang, Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China, and Sigmar Gabriel, German Minister for Foreign Affairs today. One of the eight venues ...
(Sep 19, 2017, WebWire (press release))
Germany opens massive art show in China | Arts | DW | 19.09.2017
A colossal show of contemporary German art is on show at eight different venues in Beijing, featuring big names like Richter and Baselitz. The exhibition is a ...
(Sep 19, 2017, Deutsche Welle)
Art Industry News: Jay-Z and Beyoncé Swing By a Tiny Hamptons Art Fair + More Must-Read Stories
(South China Morning Post). Amateur Archaeologists Stumble on Roman Masterpiece – A group of amateur archaeologists were working on an excavation project in southern England last month when they uncovered a Roman mosaic believed to date from 380 A.D ...
(Sep 19, 2017, artnet News)
Competition: Shenzhen Planning Museum
The museum will be located inside Coop Himmelb(l)au's iconic Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) which completed in the Futian business district last year. Planned to open in August 2018, the new museum will chart ... The ...
(Sep 19, 2017, Architects' Journal)
Where the Wild Things Are: China's Art Dreamers at the Guggenheim
... the Roman alphabet and invented Chinese characters. The Guggenheim drew the line on live pigs in the museum, and settled for a video of the Beijing performance, said Philip Tinari, a guest curator, from the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in ...
(Sep 20, 2017, New York Times)
When Science Technology Encounters Art and Climate: The 2nd Shenzhen (International) Science Film Week Opens
Such a visual feast of culture and art with technology, film and humanity, has been presented at the 2nd Shenzhen (International) Science Film Week, which, with the theme "The Eyes of the Future", kicked off at the Museum of Contemporary Art and ...
(Sep 20, 2017, Markets Insider)
When Science Technology Encounters Art and Climate: The 2nd ...
When Science Technology Encounters Art and Climate: The 2nd ...
(Sep 20, 2017, Canada NewsWire (press release))
Hito Steyerl and Other Artists Protest Arms Manufacturer's Sponsorship of Landmark German Art Show in China
The exhibition, which commemorates 45 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and China, presents 320 works of German art from the 1950s to the present at eight different locations across Beijing. It marks the first time international ...
(Sep 20, 2017, artnet News)
Current: Contemporary Art from Scotland
... University of Dundee in the UK and organized in partnership with the British Council, Current: Contemporary Art from Scotland is a four-phase contemporary art exhibition program showcasing - for the first time in China - the distinctiveness of ...
(Sep 20, 2017, Global Times)
The 'Winner Takes All' Art Market: 25 Artists Account for Nearly 50% of All Contemporary Auction Sales
Just 25 artists are responsible for almost half of all postwar and contemporary art auction sales, according to joint analysis by artnet Analytics and artnet News. In the first six months of 2017, work by this small group of elite artists sold for a ...
(Sep 20, 2017, artnet News)
Zeitz Mocaa: a shining beacon for African art
The sheer scale of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is a statement. With undulating walls like a mountain fortress, the hulking 1920s grain silo on Cape Town's Waterfront — once the tallest building south of the Sahara — reopens this week ...
(Sep 20, 2017, Financial Times)
Ai Weiwei: Art is a way of 'questioning power'
Art is innocent, says contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, but it is also a means of questioning the establishment. The Chinese native was in Lausanne on Wednesday to talk about his life in exile and a new exhibition which has taken over the city's Palais de ...
(Sep 20, 2017, swissinfo.ch)
Artprice: Xue - a Rising Star on the Chinese Contemporary Art scene - has Created a Collective Monumental ...
Artprice: Xue - a Rising Star on the Chinese Contemporary Art scene - has Created a Collective Monumental ...
(Sep 20, 2017, PR Newswire UK (press release))
CORRECTION - Artprice.com: Artprice: Xue - a Rising Star on the ...
CORRECTION - Artprice.com: Artprice: Xue - a Rising Star on the ...
(Sep 20, 2017, PR Newswire (press release))
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