Gwangju Biennale to push 'Imagined Borders'
This year's biennale has introduced two new features - site-specific commissioned works to express the longing for democracy by Gwangju citizens, which culminated in the massive anti-government protest in 1980, and the Pavilion Project in which three ...
(Mar 21, 2018, Korea JoongAng Daily)
Why Picasso and Condo Make for the Ultimate "Face-Off" at Sotheby's
“A lot of contemporary art these days is very concept driven. It's very much about the process, it's abstract, you don't really know what's going on.” So what is the story behind the face-off between Picasso and Condo? Aside from the visual crossovers ...
(Mar 21, 2018, HYPEBEAST)
Exhibits: Week of March 22 to 28, 2018
CYNTHIA-REEVES, 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams. Chinese Shan-Shui Tattoo: Huang Yan uses his own body as the surface for classical landscape paintings, which are basis for his photographs. Through April 15. Smith College Museum of Art, 20 Elm St ...
(Mar 21, 2018, The Recorder)
“Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold”
A re-envisioning of the 12 animals of the ancient Chinese zodiac, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads dates back to a dark episode with respect to China's relationship with the West. During the Second Opium War in 1860, the Yuanming Yuan (or Garden of ...
(Mar 21, 2018, Freepress Online)
Ken Lum Loves His Job
In 2002, he co-founded and became founding editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, which was the first English-language journal to focus on Chinese contemporary art and culture. Some art-world administrators have tried to pigeonhole Lum's ...
(Mar 21, 2018, SF Weekly)
From Gerhard Richter to Dürer: Christie's to showcase German art and collecting during Berlin Gallery Weekend
Christie's plans to invite collectors of Old Masters and sculpture who do not usually attend Berlin's annual Gallery Weekend, which primarily focuses on contemporary art. “We don't want to compete with the contemporary art galleries,” Boll says. The ...
(Mar 22, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Why is Picasso so popular in Asia?
Collectors there, led by the ultra-rich Chinese and others from Hong Kong and Taiwan, have been showing a large appetite for Picasso's artworks, particularly those assessed to have the highest value in recent years. Femme assise, robe bleue (Seated ...
(Mar 22, 2018, BBC News)
Chinese artist Xiao Yu surprises with new interpretation of ancient Chinese symbology
... born in 1965 in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, graduated from the Mural Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989 and currently lives in Beijing. Working on contemporary art since the 1990s, Xiao has earned ...
(Mar 22, 2018, Global Times)
The best of Art Basel Hong Kong: works and artists to look out for at ...
The best of Art Basel Hong Kong: works and artists to look out for at ...
(Mar 22, 2018, South China Morning Post)
The Cincinnati Art Museum Hosts China's Formidable Terracotta Army
The show was conceived and curated by the team of Dr. Hou-mei Sung, Curator of Asian Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and Li Jian, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of East Asian Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Just minutes away ...
(Mar 22, 2018, Forbes)
Spring art exhibitions that transport to Laguna, Teotihuacan, Iran and beyond
Smaller installations and permanent-collection re-hangs are in the offing, but at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Huntington, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art and San Diego's Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, few ...
(Mar 22, 2018, Los Angeles Times)
An Insider's Guide To The Best Of Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Basel in Hong Kong celebrates its sixth edition opening March 29th with over 248 major galleries offering up the very best contemporary art from 32 countries and all set in one of my favorite cities in the world. Hong Kong is the youngest member of ...
(Mar 22, 2018, Forbes)
Adrian Cheng Is Building a New Culture for Chinese Millennials—One Art Mall at a Time
Since its founding in 2010, the foundation has opened exhibition spaces in Hong Kong and Shanghai, established a residency program in Wuhan, and mounted more than 60 exhibitions that have helped define the vanguard in Chinese contemporary art. The next ...
(Mar 22, 2018, Artsy)
5 of the world's best art hotels
Airbnb eyes growth in China as it launches luxury services. Built in the grain elevator portion of the historic grain silo complex, the hotel also shares the same building as one of the world's best art collections, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art ...
(Mar 23, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Pleasure principle: Meet the Chinese artist breaking taboos for fun, not politics
She's nonetheless aware that she may be considered, a "Chinese artist," something Yang sees as both a blessing and a curse. "Everyone's eyes are still on China, meaning a lot of artists my age can actually do this full-time, unlike other countries ...
(Mar 23, 2018, CNN)
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen)
Through the perspective of urban village, it explores and reflects on the urban development mode of China within a globalized context, and calls for a diversified, inclusive, and vibrant urban eco-system. With three exhibition sections integrating ...
(Mar 23, 2018, E-Flux)
Christie's invites galleries to exhibit during auction season
Just over a year ago, auction high-flyer Brett Gorvy surprised the art market by leaving Christie's after 23 years to join forces with Modern and contemporary art dealer Dominique Lévy to create the heavyweight Lévy Gorvy gallery. Now the pair has ...
(Mar 23, 2018, Financial Times)
H Queen's: the gallery space Hong Kong was waiting for
Hauser & Wirth resisted opening a branch in Hong Kong until conditions were perfect, “and with H Queen's, the stars aligned,” says its president, Iwan Wirth. The gallery opens its first space in Asia with 10,000 sq feet on the 15th and 16th floors of ...
(Mar 23, 2018, Financial Times)
Have a Nice Day review – elegantly animated gangster lowlife
The dialogue itself is coolly and cleverly allusive, bringing in references to Trump, Brexit and the bull market in contemporary Chinese art. Xiao Zhang (Changlong Zhu) is a construction site worker who does some courier work for a local mobster, Uncle ...
(Mar 23, 2018, The Guardian)
Celebration: 20 years of collecting visual art at CMAG in Civic
He says the 2014 exhibition Elioth Gruner: the texture of light, curated by Clark, was the most popular show the gallery has had, and 2015's INK REMIX: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong curated by Sophie McIntyre enjoyed a ...
(Mar 23, 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Art Industry News: British Artists Treat Jeff Bezos as a 'Cult Leader' in a New Show + More Must-Read Stories
Philadelphia ICA Becomes First W.A.G.E.-Certified Museum – The New York advocacy group that promotes fair pay for artists, W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy), has certified Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art. The ICA is the ...
(Mar 23, 2018, artnet News)
Vermont Visual Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art: “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in the Wall,” through April 9, new works created by local and international artists who have been inspired by Cohen's life, work and legacy, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Place des Arts, 185 ...
(Mar 24, 2018, Rutland Herald)
Sydney harbours a treasury of art
Standout pieces include Marjolijn Dijkman's “Navigating Polarities”, a seductively gorgeous film about the earth's magnetism, in which old maps and jellyfish swirl around in a hemispherical dish at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). The ...
(Mar 24, 2018, Financial Times)
French street artist's Shanghai show 'speaks to the adult in the child'
The work of Julien Malland, who paints under the name Seth, can be seen in the old alleyways of Shanghai, in – as the artist puts it – “Beijing, the mountains of Sichuan near Tibet, in Xinjiang, Fengjing, at three schools in Taiwan”, and in Tahiti ...
(Mar 24, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Hong Kong-bound Jeff Koons talks 'plastic art', selfies and Art Basel
Balloon Dog by Koons at The Broad Contemporary Art Museum Los Angeles, USA, in 2016. The silence is really something. In one room, about half-a-dozen people are working on computers; quick peeks indicate they are digitally twiddling with baroque and ...
(Mar 24, 2018, South China Morning Post)
The Art World's New Pre-Hong Kong Destination
This year, a new director, Amber Wang, has taken the helm; she previously worked at Singapore's multifaceted Linda Gallery, which also runs a contemporary art museum and an auction house. Wang said that she first heard about Gallery Weekend Beijing ...
(Mar 24, 2018, Artsy)
Private Art for Public Consumption - Barron's
African-American multi-media artist Lona Simpson previewed Hypothetical?—an audio installation and meditation on race relations—at the 1993 Whitney Biennial. For the next decade or so, the wind-instrument-fronted work—a response to the Los Angeles ...
(Mar 25, 2018, Barron's)
BMW to present Art Car #18 by Cao Fei at Art Basel Hong Kong ...
BMW to present Art Car #18 by Cao Fei at Art Basel Hong Kong ...
(Mar 25, 2018, South China Morning Post)
As one billionaire takes a break, others are focused on the art of a deal
Collectors from Korea and China have purchased at least 10 major de Kooning paintings in the past decade, according to Brett Gorvy, a co-founder of the gallery and former chairman of Christie's postwar and contemporary art. Billionaire collectors like ...
(Mar 25, 2018, The National)
Artbank: The affordable way to live with contemporary Australian art
Kylie Kwong was flipping Chinese pancakes one morning at her market stall at Carriageworks when the Sydney cultural venue's director stopped by for a snack and a chat. "I told Lisa Havilah I'd love to freshen up my restaurant Billy Kwong with some art ...
(Mar 25, 2018, The Australian Financial Review)
An art collector's guide to Hong Kong Art Week
This week the art world's attention turns to Hong Kong as the city kicks off its annual Art Basel. In addition to the headline-grabbing fair, the coming days will offer a miscellany of exhibitions, openings, events and parties. And of the countless ...
(Mar 26, 2018, CNN)
An art collector's guide to Hong Kong Art Week - CNN Style - CNN.com
This week the art world's attention turns to Hong Kong as the city prepares to host Asia's edition of Art Basel. In addition to the headline-grabbing fair, the coming days will offer a miscellany of exhibitions, openings, events and parties. And of the ...
(Mar 26, 2018, CNN)
Second edition of Gallery Weekend Beijing on for longer
Chinese artist Hu Qingyan's work, titled Go in One Ear and Out The Other No.5, at this year's Gallery Weekend. [Photo provided to China Daily]. The changes in the ongoing second edition of Gallery Weekend Beijing reflect its organizers' support of the ...
(Mar 26, 2018, China.org.cn)
New exhibition of late artist Xu Beihong kicks off CAFA's centennial anniversary
... China. Based on Xu's accomplishments in painting and education and as a collector, the exhibition is divided into six sections: oil painting, Chinese painting, sketch painting, calligraphy, education and Xu's personal collection of art. The ...
(Mar 26, 2018, Global Times)
Art Industry News: Jeff Koons May Downsize His Studio Again + More Must-Read Stories
The “Brown” series is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. (New York Times). UK Labour Party Leader Responds to Antisemitic Mural Row – As the Labour Party faces pressure to do more to condemn antisemitism in it ranks, its ...
(Mar 26, 2018, artnet News)
Secret garden: an experiential artistic journey
The Cassels Block of the vA! was converted from Victoria Barracks, bearing witness to the tumultuous history of Hong Kong and the development of contemporary art over the past century. Built around 1900 as the married quarters for British officers ...
(Mar 26, 2018, South China Morning Post)
'Refutation' by Ai Weiwei at Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
Tang Contemporary Art is hosting “Refutation,” second solo exhibition of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the gallery's new space in H Queen's, curetted by Cui Cancan. This exhibition showcases the artist's reflection of personal experience as a refugee and ...
(Mar 26, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
J. Tomilson Hill on the Attraction of Contemporary Art
What's the attraction of Chinese art now? We collect about 15 of them. Let's go back to the different collections that we have, which is Renaissance bronzes, old master paintings, a dozen post-World War II artists, and now emerging artists. They all ...
(Mar 26, 2018, New York Times)
How to understand and enjoy contemporary art: three art educators share their tips
The real reason a journalist's eye-roll captivated China. 24 Mar 2018. What am I looking at and what does it mean? Contemporary art – and there is plenty on show this week as art exhibitions and fairs such as Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central open ...
(Mar 27, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Ai Weiwei: ' I'm like a high-end refugee'
Since his exile from China began in 2015, Ai Weiwei has focused his attention almost exclusively on the refugee crisis, with scores of international shows and his critically acclaimed documentary on the subject, Human Flow (2017). A selection of his ...
(Mar 27, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Ai Weiwei: ' I'm like a high-end refugee' | The Art Newspaper
Since his exile from China began in 2015, Ai Weiwei has focused his attention almost exclusively on the refugee crisis, with scores of international shows and his critically acclaimed documentary on the subject, Human Flow (2017). A selection of his ...
(Mar 27, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Art space pays tribute to iconic American artist
Woodman has also been inspired by China's Tang Dynasty tri-color glazed ceramics and kimonos of Japan that fuse the planarity of the second dimension with the tangibility of the third to create the technical clay of contemporary art. At the exhibition ...
(Mar 27, 2018, Shine News (press release))
Western artists look to the East in the hopes of cashing in on the booming Asian market
“Ten years ago there was very little Asian interest in buying Western art,” says Patti Wong, chairman of Sotheby's Asia. “Asian collectors were much more focused on the art of their own cultures.” Since then, though, following the swift increase in ...
(Mar 27, 2018, Telegraph.co.uk)
Auction Preview: Modern and Contemporary Art at Poly International Auction, Hong Kong, Mar 29
"7.8.65" - ZaoWou-Ki (Chinese-French, Zhao Wuji, 1920-2013); painted in 1965; oil on canvas. Measured at 89 x 116 cm. (35 x 45 3/4 in.). Estimated Price: USD 3,569,328 - 4,589,136. - "Infinity Stars" - Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, B. 1929); painted in 1995 ...
(Mar 27, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Simplifying art for the sake of politics
Contemporary art has become a site where artists respond to the political issues of moment -- Chinese art-celebrity Ai Weiwei made a documentary about the European migrant crisis, while Turner prize-winner Lubaina Himid's sculptures and paintings ...
(Mar 27, 2018, CNN)
New York museum to unveil groundbreaking show on traditional ...
New York museum to unveil groundbreaking show on traditional ...
(Mar 27, 2018, Xinhua)
'Brush and Beyond' at Boers-Li Gallery, New York
Curated by the scholar Gao Minglu, this exhibition presents a study of the evolution of mainland Chinese abstract painting, and embodies a dialogue between the tradition of Chinese ink and that of Western oil painting. Internationally-acclaimed ...
(Mar 27, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Censoring of Chinese Art at Home and Abroad
For a country as large and politically complex as China, Ai Weiwei is surprisingly one of the few contemporary Chinese artists currently receiving mainstream attention in the U.S. The Guggenheim Museum took notice of this phenomenon and ambitiously ...
(Mar 28, 2018, Brown Political Review)
Spotlight on... H Queen's
... Galerie Ora-Ora, Tang Contemporary Art and Whitestone Gallery. All will be competing for the attention of the ABHK crowd for simultaneous exhibitions—if the galleries have secured permits in time for the roof crane to install large works. When ...
(Mar 28, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Auction Preview- Analytical Insights — Sotheby's Hong Kong: Contemporary Art Evening Sale — March 31, 2018
The Sotheby's Hong Kong Contemporary Art Evening Sale is scheduled on March 31, 2018.The Contemporary Art Evening Sale presents a spectacular selection of post-war and contemporary works by important Western masters, Gutai pioneers and blue-chip ...
(Mar 28, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
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