Kiran Nadar Museum of Art: Developing interest among the ...
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art: Developing interest among the ...
(Oct 14, 2017, Economic Times)
“I want people to be emotionally involved”
The online activism landed him in hot water with the Chinese government, which in 2011 accused him of vague economic crimes, confiscated his passport and jailed him. They called his Internet activities subversion of state power and he was held for 81 ...
(Oct 14, 2017, Gulf Times)
SHERMAN | Animals as Metaphors and a 'Cruelty-Free' Guggenheim
The 70 artist, 140 work-strong exhibition, which was supposed to be a milestone for U.S. reception and awareness of contemporary art from Chinese artists (Holland Cotter, in his review for the New York Times, calls it a show capable of reminding us ...
(Oct 16, 2017, Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun)
Asia, Web Connections Expanding Traditional Auction Business, Christie's CEO Says
The new English- and Chinese-language courses will particularly help the company reach out to art fans and collectors in China, a country where the government restricts the activities of foreign auction houses and educators. The new content will raise ...
(Oct 16, 2017, Forbes)
This Artist Gathered 2000 Words for Women—and Now, She Wants You to Walk All Over Them
The Chinese artist has created a gallery-filling installation made entirely of antique carpets. Stitched together, they are embroidered with dozens of words about women in Chinese, English, French, and other tongues—a selection of some 2,000 phrases ...
(Oct 16, 2017, artnet News)
Contemporary Ceramics Art Exhibition at Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
The expression tendency of Korean ceramics can be roughly divided into indigenous people, international warming of contemporary art, related to human existence, craft works full of design and so on. Kimi-san, who teaches students at the Ewha Women's ...
(Oct 17, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO (blog))
Gift of Tseng Kwong Chi artwork to Block Museum honors past provost
In addition to being influential within the New York scene of the 1980s, Tseng's work has played an important role in the development of contemporary Chinese art. In the 1980s, artists such as Ai Weiwei, Zhang Huan and Song Dong learned about Tseng's ...
(Oct 17, 2017, Northwestern University NewsCenter)
Knives, spirit, and ink: Three artists of Taiwan
However, whereas rapid modern change has seen many old artistic techniques swept to the side in Hong Kong and China, a league of artists in Taiwan are breathing new life into tradition as a means of keeping ties to the island nation's artistic identity ...
(Oct 18, 2017, Ocula Magazine (blog))
Hong Kong's autumn art auctions boosted by diversity of lots
In the modern and contemporary art category, China Guardian sold Zhang Daqian's scroll Vajrasattva (1950) for HK$34.9 million, four times more than the highest pre-sale estimate of HK$8 million. It also sold the Schoeni Family Collection of ...
(Oct 18, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Denver officially unveils massive Circle of Animals sculpture ...
Denver officially unveils massive Circle of Animals sculpture ...
(Oct 18, 2017, The Denver Post)
Denver officially unveils massive Circle of Animals sculpture installation at Civic Center
“There's no excuse for anyone in Denver not seeing this amazing exhibit.” Taliesin Thomas, director of AW Asia in New York, which promotes contemporary Chinese art, said that a full year on display is unusual. Typically, the sculptures are displayed ...
(Oct 18, 2017, The Know)
From subways to galleries: Street art is going places
However, its founder Thierry Ehrmann told AFP that "contemporary art is the most exciting sector of the market because of its immense financial potential." And Chinese artists were becoming more and more important. While the British artist Peter Doig ...
(Oct 18, 2017, Khaleej Times)
Berlin's Thriving Contemporary Art Scene is a Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
Burning the US Constitution - a work by Dread Scott included in the exhibition - references Ai Wei Wei's 1995 Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn. Similar to the work by the Chinese artist slash activist, Scott's work is centered around a series of photographs ...
(Oct 18, 2017, Forbes)
'Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World' Opens at the Guggenheim
The exhibition highlights how Chinese artists were both observers and participants in a critical period of Chinese history. The exhibition includes contemporary art from 1989-2008, a period of rapid transformation in China, as well as the world. (The ...
(Oct 18, 2017, City Guide NY)
'Albatross' film explores impact of plastic waste on bird population
On the other side of the globe, researchers concluded that China contributes 28 percent of the world's resin and 68 percent of its polyester polyamide and acrylic fibers. ... Jordan's photography series “Midway” is on display alongside Aurora Robson's ...
(Oct 18, 2017, Charleston Post Courier)
Group Exhibition at Aura Gallery, Taipei
The gallery is also considered a pioneer in promoting Chinese contemporary art and has successfully placed works in a variety of private and public collections. It relocated in Beijing in 2009 and in 2014 took up a second location in Taipei, and is ...
(Oct 19, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Renowned Chinese artist recreates Van Gogh self-portraits to stunning effect
Philip Tinari is the director of the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art in Beijing. He is also the co-curator of "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World," now on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Zeng Fanzhi is perhaps one of ...
(Oct 19, 2017, CNN)
The artworks that caused a scandal
A crude, 40ft (12m) tall Lego-like structure that appears to depict a man having sex with a four-legged creature, Domestikator was due to feature in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, alongside the Louvre, as part of the annual International ...
(Oct 19, 2017, BBC News)
Chen Jialing: Patriotic paintings
Chinese painting, as a genre of art, has evolved into a phase that looks at ways to develop and create contemporary art forms in the context of globalization. Chen Jialing's recent exhibition at the China National Museum (CNM) sheds light on this ...
(Oct 19, 2017, Global Times)
AN ASSIMILATION OF CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ART
During the first decade of the 19th century—inspired by Rabindranath Tagore—a group of artists from Bengal, including the prominent Shilpacharya Abanindranath Tagore incorporated all oriental trends—including Ajanta, Elora, Mughal, Persian, Chinese ...
(Oct 19, 2017, The Daily Star (satire))
Paris has designs on buyers
Architectural and design motifs run through the contemporary art on show at Fiac, including Pae White's modular glass bricks, “Unclude” (2017), at Neugerriemschneider, Christian Hidaka's Renaissance-inspired oils at Michel Rein (2017, up to €29,000 ...
(Oct 20, 2017, Financial Times)
Ai Weiwei takes us inside the lives of refugees in his documentary 'Human Flow'
He's a wanderer, too, not to mention a relentless documenter — of the Chinese communist government, of international human rights violations, of the 40-some cats that roam his Beijing art studio and of the longtime team members who populate his Berlin ...
(Oct 20, 2017, The Mercury News)
Meet the theatre owner bringing art to China's masses, whether they like it not
Over the past year, Wang Xiang, who founded Penghao Theatre in a Beijing alleyway in 2008, has spent far more time trying to raise money to save this unique feature of China's contemporary art scene than he has planning programmes. The unwanted ...
(Oct 22, 2017, South China Morning Post)
'Poetry and Myths of Javlon Umarbekov' exhibition to take place on December 6
Umarbekov, born in 1946 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is one of the key figures of contemporary art in the country. He is the People's Artist of Uzbekistan, an active member of the Academy of Arts of the Republic, ... His personal exhibitions have been held ...
(Oct 22, 2017, Khaleej Times)
Contemporary artists seek ways to strike a balance between traditional and modern
EVERY contemporary Chinese artist comes face-to-face with the dilemma of having to balance between tradition and modernity. Tradition represents the past, but sometimes it is also an identity intrinsic to the artist. However, most of the contemporary ...
(Oct 22, 2017, Shanghai Daily)
Fashion meets art at Kym Ellery's boutique Sydney gallery
For its debut series, the Ellery Gallery has partnered with Surry Hills contemporary art gallery China Heights to present fortnightly exhibitions of the work of three of its artists, with champagne opening nights to mark each. The first, by ...
(Oct 22, 2017, The Australian Financial Review)
Hugo Boss Asia Art finalists to go on show in Shanghai
Established in 2013, the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award is a biannual contemporary art prize that recognizes emerging talents in Greater China and Southeast Asia. The winner of the 2017 award will be announced in November. In the meantime, the Rockbund Art ...
(Oct 23, 2017, Malay Mail Online)
Hong Kong's Evolving Art Scene
The exhibit, which runs through November, chronicles Mr. Kwok's work from his earlier Chinese ink paintings, to his time in New York, to later experiments in performance and conceptual art. Ms. de Tilly is one of a handful of gallerists promoting local ...
(Oct 23, 2017, New York Times)
African art most valuable collection at North Dakota Museum of Art
For instance, she said the museum paid $6,000 for some pieces by Chinese calligraphy and language artist Xu Bing, and they now are valued at $250,000. Even so, Reuter said if she had to give an answer, she would say the most valuable "collection of art ...
(Oct 23, 2017, Grand Forks Herald)
Why Judy Chicago, 78-Year-Old Feminist Godmother of Vagina Art, Is Having a Revival
Soon, the misconception of her as a one-hit wonder artist will be corrected, thanks to upcoming shows like the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami's exhibition of three decades of her work, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts's showing of her ...
(Oct 23, 2017, W Magazine)
Creative Time's Nato Thompson Named Artistic Director of Philadelphia Contemporary
Philadelphia Contemporary, was founded last year by Harry Philbrick, a former director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The nonprofit aims to build a non-collecting, multi-disciplinary, and sustainable art venue dedicated to contemporary art ...
(Oct 23, 2017, Artforum)
Five contemporary Asian ink artists to invest in
In May this year, Chinese artist Qin Feng's West Wind and East Water sold for HK$1.98 million – the highest price among artworks that went under the hammer for nearly HK$17.7 million – during the Chinese Contemporary Ink auction held by Christie's Hong ...
(Oct 24, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Festival fosters youth cultural exchanges — food meets art
Song's exhibition was just one part of the festival hosted by The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and supported by the Chinese Ministry of Culture as part of the China-US Social and People-to-People Dialogue framework. The festival featured movies, ...
(Oct 24, 2017, Chinadaily USA)
Art Talk: Chinese Artist Zhu Tian On Being Her Own Guinea Pig
“If I don't go to hell, who will?” laughs Zhu Tian, the Hangzhou-born, London-based artist as she speaks about Money, her daring ongoing performance piece in which she lays bare her bank balance report every month for the rest of her life. To say the ...
(Oct 25, 2017, Hong Kong Tatler (press release))
New Yorkers Welcome TEFAF's Second Fall Fine Art Show
As one of the world's most rigorously vetted fairs, it ensures buyers that any object being offered for sale, whether works from the old masters or contemporary art, has passed through the hands and under the eyes of leading international experts. In ...
(Oct 25, 2017, The Epoch Times)
A New Report on Global Billionaires Confirms the Growing Art-Buying Power of Asia's New Mega-Rich
The growing buying power of Asian and Chinese billionaires in particular is reflected by the number of Western galleries opening outposts or offices in China, the latest being Lévy Gorvy, which announced last month it would open an office and private ...
(Oct 26, 2017, artnet News)
How China's artists made sense of their country
The relative freedom of the late 1970s and early 1980s had brought Chinese artists into contact with Japanese contemporary art, and also Western artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Gilbert & George, who exhibited in Beijing. Chinese artists began ...
(Oct 26, 2017, The Economist)
The 9 most exclusive private members' clubs in Europe, ranked by price
Precious Chinese antiquities, contemporary Chinese art, and exquisite Chinese cuisine form the basis of the "elegant but unpretentious, relaxed atmosphere" for the high society of culture, politics, media, and the economy. Members must be proposed by ...
(Oct 27, 2017, Business Insider)
A Dutch Treasure Trove Returns to New Amsterdam
The autumn fair, whose second edition opens this weekend at the Park Avenue Armory, stretches from the dawn of time to around World War I. Even if you're not in the market for Flemish tapestries, Chinese porcelain or a mourning angel by Antonio Canova ...
(Oct 27, 2017, New York Times)
Norton Museum of Art Releases Images of Foster + Partners–Designed Landscape
The institution in West Palm Beach, Fla., which houses American, Chinese, European, and contemporary art as well as photography, will reopen in February 2019. "In our masterplan, it was important for us to define the Norton's sense of place—in this ...
(Oct 27, 2017, ARCHITECT Magazine (blog))
The art of percussion of an era of disorder in China
This is the delicate exercise pursued by the whole of the exhibition staged by the curator Alexandra Munroe with the u.s. specialist of chinese contemporary art, Philip Tinari, and the critic and curator of chinese currently the director at the MAXXI ...
(Oct 28, 2017, The Sherbrooke Times)
New exhibitors from India and Middle East at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2018 will add to diversity of international art fair
The contingent of nine galleries from India in particular will boost the annual contemporary art fair's reputation as the most international platform for contemporary art in the region, according to Adeline Ooi, Art Basel's Asia director. ... Some of ...
(Oct 29, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Welcome to My Place . . . Sydney
The Museum of Contemporary Art at the Rocks has both Australian and international art, with spectacular rooftop views overlooking the opera house. For something a bit different head to Chippendale, to the White Rabbit Gallery, for a collection of ...
(Oct 29, 2017, Irish Times)
NYC exhibit addresses Trump, immigrant experience
Displacement is a recurring theme in the work of Ai Weiwei, an avid proponent of human rights. The Chinese artist and activist recently translated the immigrant experience in America on a grand scale, through a citywide solo exhibition in the arts ...
(Oct 30, 2017, Asbury Park Press)
Pipilotti Rist blurs line between life and art one pixel at a time
For the Swiss-born artist, a painstakingly carried out installation is crucial to the success of her survey exhibition Sip My Ocean, which covers the entire third floor of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art from tomorrow. “Like any exhibition there ...
(Oct 30, 2017, The Australian)
High wire act: how a one-woman cultural exchange is connecting Europe and China
With its eclectic programme of opera, art, architecture and design, the London-based KT Wong Foundation has been bridging the creative landscapes of Britain and China since 2007, and established itself as a cultural force. ... Beijing Music Festival ...
(Oct 30, 2017, wallpaper.com)
Cross the time, witness “today's yesterday”
On October 28th, which guided by Chinese Culture Promotion Association, He Xiangning Art Gallery, Overseas Chinese Town Contemporary Art Center (OCAT) Museum group, held by Western Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Investment Co., Ltd., undertook ...
(Oct 31, 2017, Digital Journal)
“Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
“Art and China after 1989” focuses on and highlights the conceptual and artistic achievements of 71 artists and collectives, of whom nearly 150 significant works – on loan from private and public collections across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and ...
(Oct 31, 2017, Inexhibit)
K11 Art Foundation Adds Four to Staff
Xue, the former CEO of Beijing's Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, has been appointed director of education and institutional relations. Lau will join the foundation as artistic director, a role she previously held at Beijing's OCT Contemporary Art ...
(Oct 31, 2017, ARTnews)
Phillips Recruits Ken Yeh, a Well-Connected Veteran of Asia's Art Market, to Help Lead Push Into the Region
In that regard, Yeh, who was born and raised in China, joins the business with a useful portfolio. “I helped Christie's to build up great client groups in Asia,” he said—adding, with pride, “they still call me for my advice.” While those clients were ...
(Oct 31, 2017, artnet News)
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