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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...



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