'More minimal, more conceptual and absolutely globalised'
Jérôme Sans: 'The artists that you mention here are absolutely from two different generations. Since the 1980s, the scene has changed a great deal, and is now into its ''third generation''. The birth of what we call ''contemporary Chinese art'' emerged ...
(Nov 21, 2017, Christie's)
'More minimal, more conceptual and absolutely globalised'
Jérôme Sans: 'The artists you mention are absolutely from two different generations. Since the 1980s, the scene has changed a great deal and is now into its third generation. The birth of what we call ''contemporary Chinese art'' emerged from an ...
(Nov 21, 2017, Christie's)
Hong Kong art: where to go to find the home-grown art scene
At its centre will be the M+ museum of visual culture. Finally, Hong Kong will have a flagship able to show off a landmark collection of Chinese contemporary art from the 1970s to today, much of it donated by Swiss businessman Uli Sigg and other ...
(Nov 22, 2017, The Australian Financial Review)
Auction Preview: Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale) at Christie's, Hong Kong, Nov 26
Signed in Chinese, signed and dated '2005 Zeng Fanzhi' (lower right of the left panel); & signed in Chinese, signed and dated '2005 Zeng Fanzhi' (lower right of the right panel), oil on canvas, diptych, each: 50 x 150 cm. (19 5/8 x 59 in.), overall: 50 ...
(Nov 22, 2017, Blouinartinfo UK)
The “Art-lennials are Coming”
In October 2016, Sotheby's joined forces with K-Pop star T.O.P to curate a special sale of contemporary art in Hong Kong. T.O.P has over 8 million followers on instagram, many of them are art-lennials. ... With the rising power of Chinese art and ...
(Nov 22, 2017, Jing Daily)
Auction Preview: Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale) at Christie's ...
Auction Preview: Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale) at Christie's ...
(Nov 22, 2017, Blouinartinfo UK)
Auction Preview: The Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art (Evening Sale) at Christie's, Hong Kong, November 25
This sale of Christie's is to celebrate its 30th anniversary in Asia; a perfect abode to unveil the masterpieces of Asia's 20th Century and Contemporary Art by leading Asian artists will happen here! Every collector is sure to get a glimpse of the ...
(Nov 22, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Art listings
“In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art—Allison Smith and Christina Zetterlund.” Through July 3. “Kutiman: Offgrid Offline.” Through July 3. ..... China Brotsky Gallery “Trees of the Presidio.” Nancy I. Foster, paintings. Through Jan. 18. 1014 ...
(Nov 22, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle)
Authorities prepare to increase security in Wynwood during Art Basel
The crowd will include wealthy contemporary art collectors that range from American celebrities and athletes to prominent Russian and Chinese investors. "While we have no cause for concern specific to Art Basel, we always encourage our citizens to ...
(Nov 23, 2017, WPLG Local 10)
Largest survey of Qatari contemporary art to open in Berlin despite ongoing blockade
For its final event in the year-long programme, Berlin's Kraftwerk, a 7,500 sq. m former power plant, will host the largest international survey of contemporary art from Qatar. “It is an important time for our country. And a wonderful moment to be able ...
(Nov 23, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Qatar Museums to Stage Vast Show in Berlin Ignoring Blockade (and the Techno Club Next Door)
Qatar might be blockaded by its Gulf neighbors but the kingdom's contemporary art and artists are welcome in the German capital. Qatar Museums is bringing the Qatar-Germany Year of Culture to a close with a grand finale next month, staging a huge, ...
(Nov 24, 2017, artnet News)
New Strokes on the Canvas
Tinari: UCCA is a place where a large public comes to encounter contemporary art, and through contemporary art, to make sense of China's place in the world. We aim to present serious yet accessible exhibitions of acknowledged masters and rising talents ...
(Nov 24, 2017, Caixin Global)
The New York Times Agrees With Artprice's Anticipation of the Complete Redefinition of the Art Market's Price Scale ...
The New York Times Agrees With Artprice's Anticipation of the Complete Redefinition of the Art Market's Price Scale ...
(Nov 26, 2017, PR Newswire (press release))
Wu Guanzhong's works go under the hammer in December(1/4)
It is one of the five oil and ink paintings of Wu which will be sold by Poly International Auction at a sale of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Another oil work of Wu to be auctioned is Magpie. Wu was inspired by the composition of Song Dynasty ...
(Nov 27, 2017, ecns)
Chinese artist calls for animal protection(1/7)
24, 2017, as part of "Sino Flux: A celebration of the contemporary art, design, sounds and states of China" at the Raphael Room of V&A. The performance explored the proud and gentle antelope family, whose wild habitat is fast disappearing through ...
(Nov 27, 2017, ecns)
Vatican City and China to Exchange Artworks to Strengthen Diplomatic Ties
Vatican City and China will be exchanging paintings and sculptures to strength their ties through a close project dubbed “the diplomacy of art.” Vatican City and China have had strained diplomatic relations for decades now. To strengthen their ties and ...
(Nov 27, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Art Industry News: Why the Salvator Mundi Sale Ensures a New Era of Stunt Auctions + More Must-Read Stories
Zao Wou-ki Painting Sets a Record – At Christie's Asian auction in Hong Kong on Saturday, a beige abstract painting titled 29.01.64 by the late Chinese-born, France-based artist Zao Wou-ki sold for HK$202 million (more than $25 million). The sale set a ...
(Nov 27, 2017, artnet News)
Get Ready For High-end Hot Pot With Dungeness Crab and Wagyu Beef
The space was designed by the same firm that built out Hao Noodle and Tea, and it's dimly lit with white brick walls, marble tables, and contemporary Chinese art, including one painting depicting a group of women enjoying a hot-pot meal. Hot pot is as ...
(Nov 27, 2017, Grub Street)
China's Art of Containment | by Geremie Barmé | NYR Daily | The ...
China's Art of Containment | by Geremie Barmé | NYR Daily | The ...
(Nov 27, 2017, The New York Review of Books)
China's Art of Containment
Crucially valuable is the effort made to redress an imbalance in the general international understanding of contemporary Chinese art, one which has previously over-emphasized what the art critic Jed Perl has called “radical chic with blood on its hands ...
(Nov 27, 2017, The New York Review of Books)
Thanks to One Man's Collection, Jakarta Now Has a World-Class Museum
4, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, known as Museum Macan, opened its doors to the public, with items from the 800 contemporary and modern works owned by Haryanto Adikoesoemo, the museum's founder, an Indonesian ... years, and ...
(Nov 27, 2017, New York Times)
The Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai - Billionaire
Over the last decade China has enjoyed an explosion of privately owned art museums, which have grown threefold from 2009, to nearly 900 in 2014, according ...
(Nov 28, 2017, Billionaire.com)
How did an 18-metre-long Buddha get from China to Melbourne?
It took three years to construct, then had to be separated into 12 pieces to get it from China to Australia - which took several weeks. It has taken another three for a team of Zhen's staff and studio workers to assemble it at the National Gallery of ...
(Nov 28, 2017, SBS)
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 ...
(Nov 28, 2017, wallpaper.com)
Bass family Van Gogh nearly sets record at auction
“A strong economy leads to a strong art market,” Lee said, especially when you have buyers from China, Russia and the Middle East “that have a lot of money they can spend on art at the moment.” The hot art market in certain categories can make it ...
(Nov 28, 2017, Fort Worth Star Telegram)
Rediscovered Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Auctions For Record $450 Million!
Though no one knows for sure, some speculate it was purchased by Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian, known for his penchant for costly art. As would be expected, Christie's is tremendously pleased with the outcome. Loic Gouzer, co-chairman of post-war and ...
(Nov 28, 2017, DOGOnews)
Chou Yu-Chen at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai
Group exhibitions include Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan; Queens Museum, NY; Taipei Biennial, Taipei; Mücsarnok Museum, Budapest; China National Convention Center, Beiljing; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. Chou held a residency at the Chinese ...
(Nov 29, 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
The Pink Promise leads Autumn sales season in Hong Kong
The Autumn 2017 auction season at at Christie's in Hong Kong — 18 sales, covering Asian 20th century and contemporary art, Chinese works of art and paintings, Impressionist and Modern art, jewellery, watches, wine and handbags — totalled HK$3.43 ...
(Nov 29, 2017, Christie's)
Indonesia's Richest 2017: Heir To Chemicals Fortune Brings Modern Art To Indonesia
Now this heir to a chemicals fortune is taking his treasure trove public; he opened a museum dedicated entirely to modern and contemporary art, Museum MACAN, in early November. Much of the art is on loan from Adikoesoemo's collection, but the museum ...
(Nov 29, 2017, Forbes)
Was a 'double-bind guarantee' behind the $450m Leonardo sale?
The sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi for $450m (including fees) at Christie's New York on 15 November shattered every record for art prices. Since then, speculation about the identity of the buyer has ranged from Chinese billionaires to the ...
(Nov 30, 2017, Art Newspaper)
Man with the most Rembrandts is wooing China to save big cats
As he discovered through Rosenthal, however, old masters were – and still are – affordable compared with Impressionist, modern and contemporary art (although the sale last month of a Leonardo da Vinci painting for US$450.3 million may suggest otherwise ...
(Nov 30, 2017, South China Morning Post)
Beijing's 20 best hotels
Made in China and proud of it, NUO Hotel Beijing is the flagship property of a new Chinese ultra-luxury hospitality company, taking full advantage of being the home team. That means priceless sculptures and paintings by contemporary art superstar Zeng ...
(Nov 30, 2017, CNN)
Twelve sculptures by acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei come to JSMA
The Chinese zodiac does not have a Year of the Duck, but that won't keep its 12 astrological animals from paying a campus visit. The UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is hosting an almost-eight-month exhibit of acclaimed international artist Ai ...
(Nov 30, 2017, AroundtheO)
Free Download: Special Annecy Edition of Animation World Magazine
Annecy's celebration of China centers around a major month-long art exhibition presented at the Château d'Annecy Musée lacs et montagnes, with classic film materials from the famed Shanghai Animation Film Studio on display alongside a number of ...
(Nov 30, 2017, Animation World Network (press release) (blog))
Art and Museums in NYC This Week
'STREAMS AND MOUNTAINS WITHOUT END: LANDSCAPE TRADITIONS OF CHINA' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 6, 2019). If you've seen only ash-aired Beijing, or that architectural Oz Shanghai, you haven't seen China. Most of the country is wide ...
(Nov 30, 2017, New York Times)
Xu Zhen is the Steve Jobs of the art world
In 2009, Chinese conceptual artist Xu Zhen decided he would "set aside his identity as an individual artist" and become a corporate entity. For the next four years, MadeIn Company (as in "Made in China") would produce a dazzling variety of work for ...
(Nov 30, 2017, The Australian Financial Review)
Nine-month festival of Chinese art and culture to be staged in Liverpool
LIVERPOOL, Britain, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The British city of Liverpool is to host a nine-month long festival of the best of Chinese contemporary art and culture in 2018 to mark the city's 10th anniversary as the 2008 European Capital of Culture. A ...
(Nov 30, 2017, Xinhua)
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