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Contemporary Chinese Art News 11/2017 (Page 2)

Stanford's innovative program advancing the arts of the American West returns

Lane Center Director Bruce E. Cain outlined this year's series: “We are planning three novel programs that touch on a diverse set of topics that demonstrate excellence in artistic expression in the face of adversity: a Chinese-owned photography studio ... (Nov 8, 2017, Stanford University News)

MGM China Posts 2017 Third Quarter Financial Data

It is also home to a unique art collection of more than 300 pieces of contemporary art with themes of bridging the East and West, tradition and technology. The resort will become Macau's most creative culinary destination with first-to-Macau dining ... (Nov 8, 2017, Markets Insider)

Chanel showcased in China's next fashion and tech capital—and no, it's not Shanghai

The city's Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in 2011, is located in Tianfu Software Park so that it can court neighbors Huawei and Tencent (parent company of WeChat). And in 2011, UNESCO finally designated Chengdu as a “City of Gastronomy,” ... (Nov 8, 2017, Quartz)

Gaming | MGM China announces 5pct revenue growth | MACAU ...

Gaming | MGM China announces 5pct revenue growth | MACAU ... (Nov 8, 2017, Macau Daily Times)

US' Hirshhorn Museum honors Chinese artist Ai Jing

At the event, 32 female artists were recognized as "Three Generations of Trailblazing Women" for pioneering new forms of contemporary art. Chinese folk singer-songwriter and now contemporary artist Ai Jing was honored along with other female artists, ... (Nov 9, 2017, China.org.cn)

Inside NYC's most explosive public-art controversies

Ai Weiwei is one of the most famous, respected artists in the world. But when the Chinese dissident unveiled “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” his current 300-piece citywide public installation, some New Yorkers were unimpressed. ... whose latest ... (Nov 9, 2017, New York Post)

'Decoherence' at ShanghART M50, Shanghai

Founded in 1996, ShanghART Gallery is one of the first contemporary art galleries established in China. With spaces in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, ShanghART has been a driving force of the development of Chinese contemporary art for the past ... (Nov 9, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

'The Beach, A Fantasy' by Liu Yujia at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing

Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing presents “The Beach, A Fantasy,” a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Liu Yujia. This exhibition is curated by Lu Mingjun, which showcases the artist's recent works consisting of video, animation, and installations ... (Nov 9, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)

International players vie for a slice of Shanghai

As international art businesses increasingly focus attention on the city, Shanghai's two most important contemporary art fairs, Art021 (9-12 November) and West Bund Art and Design (10-12 November), open this week amid a flurry of satellite events ... (Nov 9, 2017, Art Newspaper)

MSU's Broad Art Museum opened 5 years ago to high hopes. It's met only some of them.

The Broad was an ambitious project from the beginning: a museum paid for by one of the world's foremost collectors of contemporary art, designed by a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, aiming for relevance well beyond Michigan. If it sometimes fell ... (Nov 9, 2017, Lansing State Journal)

Leo Xu, David Zwirner's New Hong Kong Ace, on the Heady ...

Leo Xu, David Zwirner's New Hong Kong Ace, on the Heady ... (Nov 9, 2017, artnet News)

The best of Asian Art in London

Commenting on London's continuing strength, Asaph Hyman, international head of Chinese art at Bonhams, says, 'You have to remember, London has been a centre of the Asian art trade since the 17th century.' He continues: 'The mainland Chinese in ... (Nov 9, 2017, Apollo Magazine)

Wu Hung honored for helping create field of contemporary Chinese art history

In his decades of study, Wu has witnessed firsthand that opening up of contemporary art in China, moving from underground and experimental works in the 1980s and 1990s to the establishment of major museums spaces today, but he still sees plenty of ... (Nov 9, 2017, UChicago News)

Wu Hung honored for helping create field of contemporary Chinese art history

In recognition of a career spent helping to create the field of contemporary Chinese art history in higher education, Prof. Wu Hung will receive one of the highest academic honors from the world's largest professional society for art historians and ... (Nov 9, 2017, UChicago News)

Wu Hung honored for helping create field of contemporary Chinese art history

While he began his career working on early Chinese architecture, he also in many ways became the father of modern and contemporary Chinese art history. His work began with a series of exhibitions staged at Harvard University in the mid-1980s, before ... (Nov 9, 2017, UChicago News)

29.01.64: Zao Wou-Ki at the crossroads

... symbols evocative of the earliest known Chinese writings on ancient bronze vessels. The calligraphy series he executed in 1964 brings the artist 'beyond landscape painting,' says Eric Chang, Head of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art at ... (Nov 10, 2017, Christie's)

Asian film fest takes up the sword — and the teacup: Projections column

13 at Lightbox), a look at the artists and collectors who've fuelled the boom for contemporary Chinese art. The lineup of comedies range from Jesus Is Dead (Nov. 11 at Lightbox), a bawdy road movie that essentially transplants Little Miss Sunshine to ... (Nov 10, 2017, Toronto Star)

West Bund's Boutique Format Delivers Multi-Million-Dollar Sales from Chinese Mega-Collectors

Increasingly, those billionaires and their millionaire friends are buying modern and contemporary art with gusto, pushing up China's share of the $56.6 billion global art market from 8% to 20% over the last 10 years, according to Art Basel and UBS's ... (Nov 10, 2017, Artsy)

Essential Art & Culture: The LA Phil at 100, Plácido's LA decades, getting funny with Shakespeare

L.A. is awash in art and music and opera this week — featuring Chinese dissidents, roving aliens and feral little girls. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with the week's essential culture stories: The Los Angeles ... (Nov 11, 2017, Los Angeles Times)

Court Blocks Berkshire Museum's Sale of Rockwell Works and Other Art

Last summer, the financially strapped museum announced the planned sale of 40 works, including Impressionist and modern art, contemporary art, 19th-century European paintings, American art and Chinese art. The museum said the proceeds were needed ... (Nov 11, 2017, New York Times)

Yokohama Triennale: Contemporary art in our floating world

The façade and the columns of the museum had been festooned by the indefatigable Chinese artist Ai Weiwei with an installation of recovered lifejackets and lifeboats as a commentary on the ongoing refugee crisis (which the artist characterizes as “the ... (Nov 12, 2017, Philippine Star)

What Sold at Art021

But some dealers say this shorthand ignores a more expansive definition of “Chinese collector,” the burgeoning and massive class of newly wealthy individuals coming into their peak years as consumers, who already conceive of contemporary art as an ... (Nov 13, 2017, Artsy)

Here's the Artist List for the 2018 New Museum Triennial

The New Museum has revealed the list for its 2018 New Museum Triennial, which opens on February 13 and runs through May 27. Curated by New Museum curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami deputy director and chief ... (Nov 13, 2017, ARTnews)

How Auction Houses Woo Billionaires

The auction house seated them in two skyboxes in Christie's main auction sale room at the two-day sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art. The skyboxes both signalled respect on the part of the auction house and prevented other auction ... (Nov 13, 2017, Artsy)

These secret 'hoods of Sydney are Down Under the radar

First, bop around some area galleries. Chippendale is home to the White Rabbit, a 2009-opened space that specializes in contemporary Chinese art. It houses a vast exhibition area, where “Ritual Spirit” — an exploration into rising spiritualism in ... (Nov 14, 2017, New York Post)

These secret 'hoods of Sydney are Down Under the radar

This New International Modern Art Museum Is A First For Indonesia

This trend is most prevalent in China, where Budi Tek has unveiled the sprawling Yuz Museum, nightclub entrepreneur Qiao Zhibing is currently building the 60,000-square-meter arts space Tank Shanghai and Liu Yiquan and his wife Wang Wei operate both ... (Nov 14, 2017, Forbes)

Chanel Showcased in Chengdu -- China's Next Fashion and Tech Capital

Farnsworth Art Museum Presents Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold

After living in New York's East Village for a decade, he returned to China in 1993 and helped establish the Beijing East Village contemporary art scene. In 2011, after a period of escalating conflict with Chinese authorities, Ai was arrested for ... (Nov 14, 2017, ArtfixDaily)

From Karlie Kloss To Cotton Citizen To Beyoncé's Photographer: 30 Under 30 In Art & Style

Michael Xufu Huang, 23, on the list last year, is a Chinese-born art collector who cofounded a Beijing modern and contemporary art museum, M Woods, in 2014 when he was a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. Since graduating in May, he's been ... (Nov 14, 2017, Forbes)

Chagall's Romantic Love Story Leads Sotheby's Impressionist Sale

Credit Sotheby's. To be sure, Impressionist and modern art remains a shrinking, less sexy category, compared to the enduring craze for contemporary art. But as the Sotheby's sale attests, there is still a market for older art, however diminished the ... (Nov 15, 2017, New York Times)

Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece goes on sale – as contemporary art

He is a deity in art history. So it's not a great feat of the imagination to suppose that a Chinese plutocrat, having bought a Basquiat for $110m, would do the same with a Leonardo.” There is contention surrounding the condition of the painting, where ... (Nov 15, 2017, The Guardian)

Art-world grandees assemble in Jakarta for opening of Indonesia's ambitious new museum of modern and ...

Art-world grandees assemble in Jakarta for opening of Indonesia's ambitious new museum of modern and ... (Nov 15, 2017, South China Morning Post)

Kenny Schachter Finds the Future at a Shanghai Art Fair (Even If His Kids Got Censored)

Last week there were two simultaneous international art fairs in Shanghai, one being Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair—the five-year-old event launched by (very) young public-relations entrepreneurs Kelly Ying and Bao Yifeng and the transportation ... (Nov 15, 2017, artnet News)

Art listings

28. “Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational.” Through Feb. 25. “In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art—Allison Smith and Christina Zetterlund. .... Chinese Culture Center Gallery “Requiem.” Group exhibition. Through Dec. 23. 750 Kearny St ... (Nov 15, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle)

After Utopia: Revisiting the Asian Ideal in Contemporary Art

After Utopia: Revisiting the Asian Ideal in Contemporary Art paints a picture of Asian society as disoriented, conflicted and restless. Curated by Siuli Tan and Louis Ho from the Singapore Art Museum, it is really a very hypnotic travelling show that ... (Nov 16, 2017, ArtsHub)

Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs

Toward the end, Alex Rotter, Christie's co-chairman of postwar and contemporary art, who represented a buyer on the phone, made two big jumps to shake off one last rival bid from Francis de Poortere, Christie's head of old master paintings. [ Read our ... (Nov 16, 2017, New York Times)

With Big Gift and Tighter Oversight, the Met Gains Solid Ground ...

With Big Gift and Tighter Oversight, the Met Gains Solid Ground ... (Nov 16, 2017, New York Times)

Absent Ahok, anti-Chinese sentiment on artists' minds at Indonesia shows that test the bounds of tolerance

At the 14th Biennale Jogja, a contemporary art exhibition held in the artist-filled city of Yogyakarta, a long smear of reddish brown paint on the floor leads visitors from the entrance of the Jogja National Museum to Timoteus Anggawan Kusno's The ... (Nov 17, 2017, South China Morning Post)

Get Ready for the Bauhaus Centenary, Fêted With Exhibitions Around the World

Chapter two, “Designing Life” will travel to the newly opened China Design Museum in Hangzhou, and then to the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. With an accompanying event in Lagos, Nigeria, the second exhibition aims to explore the ... (Nov 17, 2017, artnet News)

Mass effect

Statistically, however, it's the big, free contemporary art jamborees that draw the biggest crowds. It's the same story worldwide, and there are now hundreds of these events held on every continent. During 2018, two art biennials and two triennials ... (Nov 17, 2017, The Australian)

$38.6 Million Bacon Leads $310 Million Sotheby's Sale of Post-war and Contemporary Art

It was a buzzkill, but an effective one. Thursday night marked Sotheby's fourth consecutive New York contemporary evening sale with a sell-through rate of 90% or more by lot, Grégoire Billault, senior vice president and head of Contemporary Art, New ... (Nov 17, 2017, Artsy)

Creator of Brazil's Outdoor Museum Inhotim Sentenced to Prison

RIO DE JANEIRO — Bernardo Paz, the founder of Inhotim Institute, a renowned outdoor contemporary art museum in central Brazil, was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to nine years in prison, prosecutors disclosed this week. Mr. Paz, an ... (Nov 17, 2017, New York Times)

The Feuerle Collection

... the theme of Chinese incense culture, and the only place in the world where the traditional incense ceremony is reinterpreted as a contemporary artistic practice as part of a curatorial work in dialogue with, and surrounded by, ancient and ... (Nov 19, 2017, E-Flux)

Mass effect

Within days of Adelaide's reveal, the 21st Biennale of Sydney will return to Sydney Opera House, where it began in 1973, and will also unfurl at seven other venues, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of NSW and the Hyde Park ... (Nov 19, 2017, The Australian)

The Role of Contemporary Art Museums in Indonesian Society

With the recent opening of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Jakarta, its Director Aaron Seeto reflects on the expanded role of major art institutions in society and addresses the importance for Indonesian museums to have a strong and ... (Nov 20, 2017, Indonesia Expat)

China's terracotta armies to be displayed at Te Papa next year

Te Papa would also host an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, and wanted to create Chinese cultural events linked to the exhibition and the Chinese new year celebrations in 2019, Ramsteijn said. Te Papa's exhibition looks set to open in December ... (Nov 20, 2017, Stuff.co.nz)

Brazilian collector Bernardo Paz, founder of Inhotim art park, receives prison sentence

At the time, Paz owned a conglomerate of 29 mining and steel companies called Itaminas, which was bought by a Chinese company in 2010. The pair intend to appeal the convictions. In a statement, Inhotim says: “We would ... the Brazilian ministry of ... (Nov 20, 2017, Art Newspaper)

Gavin Delahunty resigns from Dallas Museum of Art

Gavin Delahunty resigns from Dallas Museum of Art | Gavin Delahunty, senior curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of Art, has announced his immediate resignation from the institution, owing to allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour ... (Nov 20, 2017, Apollo Magazine)

Documenting the Many Contradictions of Contemporary China

As part of its vast survey of contemporary Chinese art, the Guggenheim Museum invited Ai Weiwei and Wang Fen to curate a program of recent documentaries by artists and filmmakers. The resulting program of 20 films, Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017, ... (Nov 21, 2017, Hyperallergic)

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