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Contemporary Chinese Art News 03/2018 (Page 2)

Ruinart collaborates with Chinese artist for Art Basel Hong Kong

“Art is in the house's very nature. We are continuing our commitment to art by supporting major contemporary art fairs, and giving carte blanche to an artist each year,” explained Frédéric Dufour, president of Ruinart. “I was impressed by the team's ... (Mar 13, 2018, The Drinks Business)

British Collector David Roberts Puts a Planned Move to the Countryside on Hold

Last year she organized Art Nights in collaboration with London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, which featured site-specific commissions and performances across East London by 11 artists, including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Do Ho Suh and Carsten Nicolai. In ... (Mar 13, 2018, artnet News)

DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) has appointed independent curator Fatos Üstek to lead its programme of ...

DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) has appointed independent curator Fatos Üstek to lead its programme of ... (Mar 13, 2018, FAD magazine)

'Shading willows and blooming flowers' creates the extraordinary out of the ordinary

But settling in Yangzhou far away from all the clamor and glamor of the contemporary Chinese art world, Han manages to focus on his own and to retain a sensibility to life. He applies extremely light and similar colors in hue to make his subjects ... (Mar 14, 2018, Shine News (press release))

Odile Decq

French architect and urban planner Odile Decq has spoken to CLAD about the role of women in architecture and her concerns about the “narrow” way architecture is being taught. In 2016, Decq won the Jane Drew Prize – part of the Women in Architecture ... (Mar 14, 2018, CLAD Global)

Exhibit offering insight into museum's innovators

The museum of the China Academy of Art has opened its doors to the school's largest collection of faculty and alumni works. The exhibition gives a glimpse into how the modern art of China has developed over the years under the influence of forerunners ... (Mar 14, 2018, Shine News (press release))

Annual Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report Released

The second edition of the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report has been released. Written by the cultural economist Dr Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics, The Art Market 2018 presents the results of a comprehensive and macro-level analysis ... (Mar 14, 2018, ArtLyst)

Works from talented high schoolers fit right in at Dallas Museum of Art

Many of the works could be shown in North Texas contemporary art galleries without anyone suspecting that the artists are 16 to 18 years old. We should not be surprised that certain themes are of interest to these talented teenagers — those involving ... (Mar 14, 2018, Dallas News (blog))

Art events and exhibits starting March 15

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 ... (Mar 14, 2018, The Daily Progress)

Corrections: March 15, 2018

An entry on Page 42 in a listing of art exhibitions around the country this spring gives an incorrect location for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). It is North Adams, Mass., not West Adams. •. An article on Page 43 about new ... (Mar 15, 2018, New York Times)

Feature: "Wisdom in the hands" bridges Chinese and Western cultures

Instead, we should embrace different cultures and try to create new artistic languages through interactions and exchanges," he said. However, Wu has also been a long-time critic of cultural appeasement in some of China's contemporary art scenes. There ... (Mar 15, 2018, Xinhua)

USC PAM Director Christina Yu Yu accepts post at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Christina Yu Yu, director of the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, is stepping down to serve as the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of Art of Asia at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “Christina did a marvelous job of elevating a local Pasadena gallery into ... (Mar 15, 2018, Pasadena Weekly)

Ai Weiwei was a coup, but the Biennale of Sydney struggles to shine

The Biennale of Sydney will this weekend throw opens its doors and lower the gangplank for its 21st birthday but instead of what should amount to a consolidatory, coming-of-age moment, the event has the pallor of a festival struggling for relevance ... (Mar 15, 2018, ABC Online)

Even plastic art decays, but museum curators are on the case

Now, chemists and curators are in near-constant collaboration, working to preserve the world's modern and contemporary art collections with methods derived from the field of heritage science. The thing is, no one's actually certain what the best course ... (Mar 15, 2018, Popular Science)

Philadelphia Museum of Art to Renovate and Update Chinese Galleries

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will soon begin the first comprehensive renovation and reinstallation of its galleries of Chinese art in many decades. This initiative will enable its staff to reimagine the presentation of this important part of the ... (Mar 15, 2018, ArtfixDaily)

Former UIUC professor Xu Gang accused of decades-long sexual misconduct

Xu Gang 徐钢, a former tenured associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) and a prominent curator behind contemporary art exhibitions in China, lost his post as the curator of the upcoming 2018 Shenzhen Biennale on ... (Mar 15, 2018, SupChina)

Review: 21st Biennale of Sydney

Geng Xu The Poetry of Michelangelo (2015), video still; 19 mins, courtesy the artist and White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection Sydney; photo Artshub. What Kataoka has managed to do beautifully is string these ideas across works and across ... (Mar 16, 2018, ArtsHub)

Review: 21st Biennale of Sydney

Q&A With Morgan Morris, Head of Collectibles, Design Shanghai ...

Q&A With Morgan Morris, Head of Collectibles, Design Shanghai ... (Mar 16, 2018, Billionaire.com)

Art Movements

Russia passed a new law ensuring that contemporary art (specifically art created within the last 50 years) will no longer be subject to the 30% import dues imposed on “luxury goods.” The changes will benefit collectors seeking to establish private ... (Mar 16, 2018, Hyperallergic)

Philadelphia Museum of Art shutting down Chinese galleries for refurbishment

Hiromi Kinoshita, associate curator of Chinese art, has designed an interpretive plan for the galleries that will arrange art and objects around key themes, and display art in all media, including paintings, sculpture, porcelains, ceramics, carvings ... (Mar 16, 2018, Philly.com)

Art Industry News: KAWS Declares the Death of H&M's Street Cred After Graffiti Lawsuit + More Must-Read Stories

Sotheby's Appoints New Asia Chairman – Nicolas Chow has been promoted by the auction house to be the chairman of Sotheby's Asia. He has been at Sotheby's since 1999, latterly as head of its Chinese art department. (Art Forum). Collectors Snap Up Works ... (Mar 16, 2018, artnet News)

Farnsworth Art Museum Presents First Ai Weiwei Exhibition in Maine ...

Farnsworth Art Museum Presents First Ai Weiwei Exhibition in Maine ... (Mar 16, 2018, ArtfixDaily)

What to see at the first FRONT International Cleveland Triennial

On July 14 the inaugural FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art opens in Cleveland, Ohio, marking the latest in a string of art, design, and architecture events across the Midwest. Although it is primarily arts focused—unlike the ... (Mar 16, 2018, The Architect's Newspaper)

After Social Media Outcry, French Museum Removes Video of Burning Chickens

The installation, “Spring,” was part of an exhibition by the artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, which opened on March 8 and runs through July 8. After a flood of criticism from animal rights activists, the museum announced on Wednesday ... (Mar 16, 2018, New York Times)

In pics: public viewing of Christie's Asian Art Week in New York

A visitor (R) takes photos of Bodhisattva by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian during the public viewing of Christie's Asian Art Week in New York, the United States, on March 16, 2018. Christie's on Friday kicked off its Asian Art Week, a series of auctions ... (Mar 17, 2018, Xinhua)

Public viewing of Christie's Asian Art Week in New York

Tallinn Music Week announces documentaries program

The vast human flow of our times is mapped in Human Flow, directed by Ai Weiwei, one of China's most vocal dissidents and a superstar of contemporary art. The program also features two documentaries on larger-than-life culture hackers: The Goodiepal ... (Mar 17, 2018, ERR News)

Home is where the art is for former Fountain Street artists

Bica and Weader, an artisan who formerly chaired the Fountain Street Studios Artists organization, now manage 12 studios totaling 4,500 square feet and a gallery called Mill Contemporary Art Studios (MCAS) at 2 Central St. in Saxonville, a village of ... (Mar 18, 2018, Milford Daily News)

Sydney Biennale seeks to explain humanitarian crises facing the world

It is Australia's oldest and most well-known contemporary art event, recognized for commissioning and showcasing innovative and thought-provoking Australian and international art. One of the recurring themes in this year's Biennale is migration, which ... (Mar 18, 2018, Daily Sabah)

Billionaire Plans to Part With $35 Million Painting at Hong Kong's Art Basel

Priced at $35 million, the canvas will be offered by Levy Gorvy Gallery. Asian billionaires have been snapping up Western masterpieces at an accelerating pace. China is the second largest marketplace for art after the U.S., according to an annual art ... (Mar 19, 2018, Bloomberg)

Paul Allen Woos Asian Billionaires With $35 Million de Kooning

Stock benchmarks nudged lower in Japan and Korea, and rose in Australia, while futures signaled gains in Hong Kong. Investors are assessing the implications of a new head at China's central bank, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Yi Gang was ... (Mar 19, 2018, BloombergQuint)

Has Art Basel Become the Facebook of the Art World? An Interview With Marc Spiegler

Recently, Spiegler gave into his journalistic roots and hired a team of editors to create a new digital content layer for the fair, bringing on Jeni Fulton—the former editor-in-chief of Sleek magazine, whose official bio cites a PhD “on the subject of ... (Mar 19, 2018, artnet News)

Will new global galleries stifle competition in Hong Kong?

As the mainland opened up and its contemporary art developed from the 1980s, Chinese art (of varying quality) joined the offerings along Hollywood Road, still mostly selling to Westerners. Now, while those markets remain, the dominant script has ... (Mar 19, 2018, Art Newspaper)

Will new global galleries stifle competition in Hong Kong?

An art lover's guide to... Tokyo

Mori Art Museum. If you find yourself in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, it's hard to miss the Mori Art Museum. Situated on the 53rd floor of the Roppongi Hills' skyline-defining Mori Tower, this contemporary art museum hosts world-class exhibitions by ... (Mar 19, 2018, Evening Standard)

Art Industry News: Jim Carrey's Portrait of a 'Monstrous' Sarah Huckabee Sanders Goes Viral + More Must-Read Stories

She has served as director of the contemporary art venue Spike Island in Bristol since 2010. (Press release). Shenzhen Biennale Axes Curator After Harassment Allegations – Gary Xu Gang, one of the three curators leading the Shenzhen Biennale, has been ... (Mar 19, 2018, artnet News)

Arts: Billionaire plans to part with US$35m painting at Hong Kong's Art Basel

China is the second-largest marketplace for art after the US, according to an annual art market report. Collectors from Korea and China have purchased at least 10 major De Kooning paintings in the past decade, according to Brett Gorvy, the gallery's co ... (Mar 20, 2018, The Edge Markets MY)

The Art Market 2018: Global Art Market Up 12% to $63.7 billion

Art Basel and UBS last week published the second edition of the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. Written by renowned cultural economist Dr Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics, The Art Market 2018 presents the results of a comprehensive ... (Mar 20, 2018, ArtfixDaily)

Call Of The East: Why Art Aficionados Need To Head To Hong Kong ...

Call Of The East: Why Art Aficionados Need To Head To Hong Kong ... (Mar 20, 2018, VERVE)

Former Art Basel Hong Kong Director To Launch New Fair in Taipei

That fair had its 24th edition last fall and included over 123 galleries. It tends to be focused on modern art, as opposed to contemporary work, though there has reportedly been more art by today's most important artists in recent editions. Taipei ... (Mar 20, 2018, ARTnews)

Artist's exhibition offers new take on Western masterpieces

If visitors at oil painter Xie Nanxing's latest show Spices in Beijing are confused by the event's title, they are in the right place. This is because Xie's solo show at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art through May 27 is, in his words, a ... (Mar 20, 2018, China.org.cn)

New art gallery opening in Toronto's Yorkville on Friday

Opening on Friday, C9 ART, a new contemporary art gallery will open in Yorkville at 7 Sultan St, southwest of Bay and Bloor streets. 9 ART opens to the public with the R E L A T I O N S H I P S exhibition, on display until April 21, featuring a ... (Mar 20, 2018, 680 News)

The art of giving: Remembering David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller caught the collecting bug, quite literally, at the age of seven, when he found a specimen of Parandra brunnea, a long-horned beetle. The fabulous art and antiques he spent a lifetime accumulating — the impressionists, cubists and ... (Mar 20, 2018, Christie's)

Helen Molesworth, who was fired as chief curator of LA MoCA last week. Getty Images

The announcement that Helen Molesworth was fired from her position as chief curator of Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) last Monday was met with outrage and confusion from the art world. Not only is she a well-respected arts professional ... (Mar 20, 2018, Observer)

BYD goes big on small and flexible, in Australia battery market push

China's biggest electric vehicle and battery maker, BYD, is ramping up efforts to seize a 25 per cent share of Australia's battery storage market, after locking in an impressive 8-10 per cent share in its first year selling batteries to Australian ... (Mar 21, 2018, One Step Off The Grid (blog))

5 artists to look out for during Hong Kong Arts Month | Style Magazine

Throughout March, Hong Kong hosts the annual Hong Kong Arts Month, when local and overseas artists come to the city to present a huge variety of events, including exhibitions, creative workshops, gallery tours, as well as dance, music and theatre ... (Mar 21, 2018, South China Morning Post)

Africa's art scene may be booming, but it's still a blip on the global market

2 hours ago Quartz africa. For all the excitement around African contemporary art, the continent still accounts for a fraction of the global art market. Last year, the sales in the global art market reached a total of $63.7 billion—a 12% increase on ... (Mar 21, 2018, Quartz)

Billionaire woos Asian collectors with US$35 million de Kooning at Art Basel Hong Kong

... billionaires have been snapping up Western masterpieces at an accelerating pace. China is the second largest marketplace for art after the United States, according to an annual art market report. Collectors from South Korea and China have bought at ... (Mar 21, 2018, South China Morning Post)

Art Industry News: Banksy's Brand-New Rat in Chelsea Might Already Be Going to Auction + More Must-Read Stories

Iranian Contemporary Art Gallery Opening in London – Tehran's CAMA Gallery is expanding. The gallery's new London space, due to open on April 5, will debut with “Sensation,” a group show of work by 19 contemporary Iranian artists who specialize in ... (Mar 21, 2018, artnet News)

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