Ancient art of mosaic brings multicolored beauty to Somerville Museum
Edlund said a growing numbers of artists have begun making mosaics in recent years because it uses skills and techniques from other art forms, such as quilting and jewelry-making, to offer challenges and rewards in an ancient practice transformed “into ...
(Feb 18, 2018, Milford Daily News)
What time is London's Chinese New Year 2018 parade and how is it celebrated in the rest of the UK?
How is Chinese New Year being celebrated in Liverpool? Liverpool will spend three days celebrating the Year of the Dog, from Friday, February 16 to Sunday, February 18. Chinatown, Berry Street, William Brown Street and Bold Street will be central to ...
(Feb 18, 2018, The Irish Sun)
On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
Professor Paul Gladston, one of the world's leading experts on Chinese contemporary art and culture, has been appointed the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art at UNSW Sydney. The Chair was established in February 2017 with a $6 million ...
(Feb 18, 2018, ArtsHub)
Red Gate Gallery: Celebrating 27 years in 2018
Founded in 1991 by Brian Wallace who first arrived in China in 1984, Red Gate Gallery is the first private contemporary art gallery to be established in China. Prior to opening its doors at the 600-year old Ming dynasty watchtower in Dongbianmen, Brian ...
(Feb 19, 2018, Artfacts.Net)
Red Gate Gallery: Celebrating 27 years in 2018
Today, Red Gate is recognized both as a tour de force and trail blazer in the history and development of the contemporary Chinese art scene. Over the last 27 years, the gallery has been engaging and promoting Chinese artists by exhibiting the best of ...
(Feb 19, 2018, Artfacts.Net)
Obama portrait artist has Wisconsin connections, including a work at MAM
Wiley – who, along with Michelle Obama portraitist Amy Sherald, is the first black artist to receive a presidential commission from the National Portrait Gallery – has also been popping up frequently this past week in Milwaukee social media feeds ...
(Feb 19, 2018, OnMilwaukee.com)
What's Behind the Art Market's Turnaround
Mr. Cerutti, who previously worked as managing director of Paris's Pompidou Center museum, laid off 12% of Christie's workforce, or 270 people, and closed two of its older salesrooms, in Amsterdam and London's South Kensington neighborhood. Now, he ...
(Feb 20, 2018, Wall Street Journal)
Mr Chow Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Ricky Martin, Heidi Klum, Al Pacino and More
Passionately promoting the greatness of China, Chow orchestrated art, architecture, design and cuisine into a participatory theater in each of his eight restaurants. In 2011, he returned to one of his first loves, painting, and in 2015, his solo show ...
(Feb 20, 2018, WWD)
Shanghai's East Bund on the rise as museums building boom continues
The museum will show a mixture of traditional and contemporary art, mostly Chinese. The gargantuan 105,000 sq. m Shanghai Museum East (getting on for twice the size of the Louvre in Paris), designed by Li Li and the Tongji Architectural Design Group ...
(Feb 20, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Art Industry News: China Has No Mercy for the American Who Stole a Warrior's Thumb + More Must-Read Stories
Art Fair in the Swiss Alps Announced – The inaugural Sommet Winter Salon of Contemporary Art is due to take place in February 2019 in the historic Maloja Palace hotel in the Engadin Valley near St. Moritz, Switzerland. The event's organizers promise an ...
(Feb 20, 2018, artnet News)
Inside designer Jiang Qiong Er's French-style villa in Shanghai
Signature Shang Xia pieces include a paper-thin Ming dynasty-inspired chair, Da Tian Di, in hi-tech carbon fibre, a result of Jiang's artistic collaboration with Chinese artisans. A hand-woven copper-wire vase sculpture by Korean artist Cheong Kwang Ho ...
(Feb 21, 2018, Telegraph.co.uk)
Opening this week: PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco
PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco, the cutting-edge contemporary art fair dedicated to photography and moving image, opens this week for its second edition. The Fair runs Thursday, February 22 – Sunday, February 25 at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center ...
(Feb 21, 2018, FAD magazine)
Edward Lucie-Smith Bids A Final Farewell To The Avant-Garde
In fact, feminism features a great deal more strongly in Iranian contemporary art than it does in contemporary Chinese art. In Chinese art, leading female artists are few and far between. Most of those who exist tend to be based outside of Mainland ...
(Feb 21, 2018, ArtLyst)
Liverpool marks Chinese New Year with its biggest celebrations yet
Many of the ethnically Chinese population have integrated into the wider population. However, there's a new reality too, and that is a reinvigorated interest and pride in all things Chinese. Chinese New Year has always been big in Liverpool's Chinatown ...
(Feb 22, 2018, CGTN America (blog))
Regulating Russian ivory trade is a mammoth task
The Russian region of Yakutia, nearly half of which lies in the Arctic, has declared war on the illegal trade in mammoth tusks. Melting of the Arctic ice cap has revealed vast stores of tusks from the extinct species that had been buried in the tundra ...
(Feb 22, 2018, Art Newspaper)
$50 Million for the Hammer Museum, and Fresh Energy for Arts Giving in LA
Los Angeles has long produced celebrated visual artists — Mark Bradford, John Baldessari and Barbara Kruger, to name a few — and it has recently increased the number of places to see art, adding the Broad Museum; the Institute of Contemporary Art ...
(Feb 22, 2018, New York Times)
New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe
On the second floor, work by two young Americans — vivacious paintings incorporating religious and racial stereotypes by the Los Angeles artist Janiva Ellis, and 3-D printed African sculptures looking as sleek as car parts by Matthew Angelo Harrison ...
(Feb 22, 2018, New York Times)
Review: Chinese New Year lunar lanterns at Circular Quay selfie magnets
What could be more appropriate for Sydney than a party that lasts for a week? This year's spectacle consists of a bright red Harbour Bridge, and a series of giant-size lunar lanterns representing the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac. By night, the ...
(Feb 23, 2018, Brisbane Times)
Review: Chinese New Year lunar lanterns at Circular Quay selfie ...
Review: Chinese New Year lunar lanterns at Circular Quay selfie ...
(Feb 23, 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Review: Chinese New Year lunar lanterns at Circular Quay selfie magnets
What could be more appropriate for Sydney than a party that lasts for a week? This year's spectacle consists of a bright red Harbour Bridge, and a series of giant-size lunar lanterns representing the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac. By night, the ...
(Feb 23, 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald)
NOW – A Dialogue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists
Capturing a particular moment in creative culture, NOW: A Dialogue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists, sees British institutes converge with Chinese female voices — coming together right here in the small gallery walls of the Centre for Chinese ...
(Feb 23, 2018, The Mancunion)
Top 10 Cities to Visit If You Absolutely Love Art
Love art and traveling? Why not combine your two passions by visiting some of the best art destinations the world has to offer. From street art capitals such as Berlin and New York to the world-renowned galleries of Paris and Florence, great art can be ...
(Feb 23, 2018, My Modern Met)
USC Pacific Asia Museum Presents The Big Picture: Chinese and Mexican Artists Examine Contemporary Muralism
Los Angeles is home to iconic murals from contemporary artists the world over. The Big Picture intends to explore how murals fit in the landscape of contemporary art, particularly in Asian and Latino art practices. USC PAM commissioned a large mural ...
(Feb 23, 2018, Pasadena Now)
Bonhams promotes head of Chinese ceramics and makes new appointment to main board
“I am delighted that my involvement with Robert Brooks and Bonhams has come full circle,” said Kelly. “I first worked with Robert nearly 30 years ago and so I've seen Bonhams evolve into one of the world's largest international auction houses. “Given ...
(Feb 24, 2018, antiquestradegazette.com)
Hixson-Lied visiting artist series features sculptor Amery
Amery represented the U.S. at the 2012 Kathmandu International Art Festival and has exhibited at such venues as Kiasma, the Skanzen Museum, MAMU Galerie, Moore College and Gallery Protocol. He is currently exhibiting at the Utah Museum of Contemporary ...
(Feb 24, 2018, Lincoln Journal Star)
The Nature of Things: Zhang Enli on His Turn Toward Beguiling Abstraction
Capturing banal moments in urban settings, the Shanghai-based painter Zhang Enli has made moody compositions of such mundane objects as an empty cardboard box, a row of paint cans on his studio floor, and a loopy water hose hanging in space. Zhang has ...
(Feb 24, 2018, ARTnews)
Margate: Turner Contemporary new exhibition, NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists
The work of contemporary female Chinese artists goes on show at Turner Contemporary this week. NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists features the work of Yin Xiuzhen and Duan Jianyu and is part of a UK-wide collaboration. Beijing-born ...
(Feb 25, 2018, Kent Online)
Celebrating the life and work of Geng Jianyi
Karen Smith, a British art critic who has been writing about Chinese contemporary art since 1979, commented at the opening: “He always takes himself as one of you (young people) and does not think he is any different from young people. He is just ...
(Feb 26, 2018, Shine News (press release))
Strong Sales Flourish at the First Marrakech Edition of 1-54 Art Fair, But Don't Talk About 'African' Art
Among local collectors at the fair were Othman Lazraq, the president of Marrakech's newly opened Museum of African Contemporary Art (MACAAL), which houses the Lazraq family's collection of contemporary African art. Lazraq used the buzz around 1-54 to ...
(Feb 26, 2018, artnet News)
How Modern Art Serves the Rich
As Adam describes, two significant changes at the end of the 20th century set the stage for today's inflated contemporary art market. The first was the expansion of the base of potential buyers: The fall of communism in Eastern Europe and economic ...
(Feb 26, 2018, New Republic)
Art collector Nicolai Frahm marries glamorous brunette Mariana Hererra in an incredibly lavish Mexican ceremony ...
Art collector Nicolai Frahm marries glamorous brunette Mariana Hererra in an incredibly lavish Mexican ceremony ...
(Feb 26, 2018, Daily Mail)
Dazzling way to celebrate Chinese New Year [PHOTO]
The Chinese Lunar New year is a festive time for Chinese all over the world. One of the world's most colorful events is here and is triggering celebrations across the globe. YARAT Contemporary Art Space and the Confucius Institute have prepared a rich ...
(Feb 27, 2018, AzerNews)
Simon Mraz: the Austrian attaché bringing contemporary art to Russia's regions
Other artists involved in the Birobidzhan project were Moscow-based Haim Sokol, who did a series of video performances, including reading the lyrics of the Internationale in Yiddish and planting small Hebrew letters made of metal in the ground, to New ...
(Feb 27, 2018, The Calvert Journal)
Likely the last chance to see founder lead the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
In the '70s, Cloud Gate was the only professional dance company in Taiwan — the first contemporary dance company in any Chinese-speaking country. With a prolific career including more than 90 works, Lin developed his own choreographic style blending ...
(Feb 27, 2018, Chicago Tribune)
Delaware man's thumb prank fractures US-China relations
Museums are generally mum about these types of security breaches to discourage copycat crimes. But accidental art damage and premeditated acts of vandalism do happen in Delaware and across the globe. When it comes to abstract contemporary art, entire ...
(Feb 27, 2018, The News Journal)
A Late Picasso 'Musketeer' Leads a Healthy $206 Million Impressionist & Modern Sale at Christie's London
On a chilly, snow-spattered evening, Christie's kicked off a fortnight of auctions in London that are expected to collectively generate as much as £782 million ($1.1 billion). If achieved, it will be a record for a series of Impressionist and Modern ...
(Feb 28, 2018, artnet News)
Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art
... layering of Chinese calligraphy and traditional darkroom techniques by Sun Yanchu. Another worthwhile art destination — in the southeast corner of the city center and marginally harder to get to — is the state-run Power Station of Art, formerly ...
(Feb 28, 2018, New York Times)
Art Industry News: Facebook Censors the Prehistoric Venus of Willendorf as X-Rated + More Must-Read Stories
Before Acevedo-Yates joined MSU in 2016, she was an independent curator and critic; Bridges, who came aboard in 2015, previously served as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (Artforum). New Deutsche Bank Art Center Gets ...
(Feb 28, 2018, artnet News)
Art events, First Fridays and exhibits starting March 1
Crozet. (434) 823-1486. Graves International Art: “Roy Lichtenstein & Company: Post-War and Contemporary Art” on display through October. “Masters of Contemporary Art,” an exhibit of works by Ellsworth Kelly, Salvador Dali, Georges Braque, Damien Hirst ...
(Feb 28, 2018, The Daily Progress)
Art | All-female biennale wants to fight gender gap
However, the pieces in the coming exhibition will not reflect those changing attitudes, said Saraiva, as the movement only gained traction in China several decades later. “It is interesting that [Macau artists] were not at first interested in identity ...
(Feb 28, 2018, Macau Daily Times)
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