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Tauba Auerbach show at MOCA Cleveland melds art, physics (photos)
CLEVELAND, Ohio - When Leonardo da Vinci sketched water falling into a pool or flowing past an obstacle, he bridged science and art to reveal the beauty and wonder of physical forces that govern the universe. Tauba Auerbach, the 36-year-old New York ...

At Karpidas Collection, an ambitious art exhibition with a Jungian twist
With private art spaces cropping up throughout the world from China and Russia to Europe and the Americas, we in Dallas can be happy that our city is taking a leadership role in this type of institution. Being private offers complete freedom for ...

World Art Dubai 2018: One of the best artists to look out for this week
With lasting exploration and creation on Digital Pictorial Photography, Museu Europeu; Art Modern hosted Wenjun's first personal art exhibition in Spain in May 2017, after his solo show at National Art Museum of China (Beijing) in March 2017 ...

Rare solo exhibition for an artist who shunned the limelight
The Shanghai native was tutored by Wu Dayu (1903-88) and Lin Fengmian (1900-91) at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, in the 1940s. The academy, known for teaching Western art concepts, nurtured Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010 ...

First look: Hong Kong Spring season highlights
This magnificent imperial doucai vase is a striking example of Qing porcelain. It is known as the tianqiuping 天球瓶 or 'celestial sphere vase' due to its elegant form and impressive size. 'The shape and size of the doucai tianqiuping make it one of ...

Art Busan welcomes the world's galleries
For some galleries, this event will be the first time that they will knock on the doors of the Korean market, such as China's Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Thailand's Tang Contemporary Art and The Drawing Room from the Philippines. Six ...

Helen Allen Will Lead the Nation's Most Venerable Antiques Show in a New Direction
... Chinese export porcelain, and flags dating from the Revolutionary War. Staged at the turreted Park Avenue Armory and coinciding with Christie's, Sotheby's, and Doyle New York's Americana auctions, the show—which has come to act as the de facto ...

Conquering high-priced Shanghai, from dumplings to modern art
... worthwhile art destination — in the southeast corner of the city centre and marginally harder to get to — is the state-run Power Station of Art, formerly the Nanshi Power Plant. Admission is free, but I paid an additional 50 yuan to see the ...

Invisible man Liu Bolin on changing art forms and collaborating with Ruinart
The often elusive Liu Bolin – known as “The Invisible Man” because he hides in his performance artworks by camouflaging himself in the background – was easy to spot for once when I arrived at the VIP lounge of the Art Basel Hong Kong's VIP lounge ...

Auction Houses for Comics and Coins, Too
The founder, Leslie Hindman, has been on an expansion kick from her Chicago base and now runs eight offices across the country. And she knows her audience. “I understand the middle market,” Ms. Hindman said, noting that plenty of items sell at her ...

Thematic Show Gives Artists A Comprehensive Platform
The curator explains that contemporary art is not difficult to understand. Just like literature, history and music, artworks send messages to viewers to explore basic emotions and values. And they also reflect how artists see the world, adds Hegyi. In ...

The Art-Lover's Guide to Traveling the World
Cape Town has always been ahead of the game when it comes to art and culture, but it's been catapulted onto the world stage thanks to the recent opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), the largest collection of contemporary ...

Can a University Art Museum Break Out of the Ivory Tower? A New Institute of Contemporary Art Proposes an ...
Can a University Art Museum Break Out of the Ivory Tower? A New Institute of Contemporary Art Proposes an ...

Art Industry News: Larry Gagosian Recalls His Raucous Days as a Party Animal + More Must-Read Stories
Opening parties routinely went on past 4 a.m. “You could say I was not a considerate neighbor,” Gagosian admits. (NYT). Guggenheim Ducks Criticism at Forum on Discontent – Critic Rahel Aima was disappointed by the Guggenheim's recent forum, “Culture ...

Arts & Culture Exhibits for Week of April 19, 2018
“Color in Containment”: The University Museum of Contemporary Art's 11th annual curatorial fellowship exhibition. Ends April 29. University Museum of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass Amherst. 413-545-3672. bhwolfson@acad ...

48 hours in Sydney
Wander around the repurposed industrial streets of Chippendale and you'll come accross one of the world's largest private collections of contemporary Chinese art at White Rabbit Gallery. With rotating exhibitions, the four-floor gallery has a surprise ...

Chinese antiquities stolen in raid on Bath museum
Police have issued an appeal for witnesses after four masked men broke into a museum in south-west England and stole precious jade and gold artefacts as well as many other items. The raid on the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath took place at around 1 ...

Chinese antiquities stolen in raid on Bath museum | The Art ...
Chinese antiquities stolen in raid on Bath museum | The Art ...

Four Masked Burglars Steal Jade and Gold Artifacts From Museum ...
Four Masked Burglars Steal Jade and Gold Artifacts From Museum ...

Chinese Artifacts Stolen from England Museum of East Asian Art
Four masked thieves raided the Museum of East Asian Art (MEAA) in Bath, in southwest England, around 1:20 AM on Tuesday, April 17 and stole several Chinese artifacts. Witnesses saw the suspects break in by smashing a window on the first floor of the ...

Evgeny Gusyatinskiy to Curate Garage Museum's Upcoming Outdoor Film Program
... Sources and Influences, which examines influential works like Jacques Tati's Playtime, 1967; and Experiments, which is dedicated to avant-garde woeks that straddle the fields of film and contemporary art. Sponsored by Farfetch, an online fashion ...

“When Elegance Meets Art”: Van Cleef & Arpels Patrimonial Exhibition
As the first not-for-profit, non-governmental art museum in China, the TAM acts as an international platform for the exhibition of contemporary art, educational seminars, and related arts programs and events. It has not only been committed to ...

The Lowdown: shows to see during Gallery Weekend Berlin
He later studied art and animation in Beijing, where he currently lives and works, regularly showing with the Beijing gallery Magician Space; established in 2008 with an eye to the 'blind spots' (i.e. the new, left-field, or commercially resistant ...

Great museums seem to matter for the locations on the shortlist for Amazon's HQ2
Is it just by chance that almost all of the 20 cities and counties on the shortlist for Amazon's second headquarters can boast access to great art museums? ¶ You can't help noticing the correlation. Of the 238 cities and counties that applied for ...

Auction Preview: Modern and Contemporary Art at Freeman's, Philadelphia, May 8
What: Modern and Contemporary Art. Where: Freeman's, 1808 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103. When: May 8, 2:00 PM. Top Lots of the Sale: - "15.04.80 - Triptyque" - Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese / French, 1920-2013); signed and signed in Chinese ...

Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalists show their contemporary works in Hong Kong exhibitions followed by charity auction
An upcoming exhibition of this year's Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalists, unbridled by any thematic concern and with impressive geographical reach, provides an insightful survey of contemporary art coming out of this diverse region. Of the 30 emerging ...

Auction Preview: Modern and Contemporary Art at Freeman's, Philadelphia, May 8
What: Modern and Contemporary Art. Where: Freeman's, 1808 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103. When: May 8, 2:00 PM. Top Lots of the Sale: - "15.04.80 - Triptyque" - Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese / French, 1920-2013); signed and signed in Chinese ...

Auction Preview: Modern and Contemporary Art at Freeman's, Philadelphia, May 8
What: Modern and Contemporary Art. Where: Freeman's, 1808 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103. When: May 8, 2:00 PM. Top Lots of the Sale: - "15.04.80 - Triptyque" - Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese / French, 1920-2013); signed and signed in Chinese ...

Auction Preview: Modern and Contemporary Prints at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, Stansted Mountfitchet, May 9
Zhang Xiaogang (Chinese, b.1958): Identity Portraits. The portfolio of six offset lithographs printed in colors, 2003, each signed in Chinese, and numbered from the edition of 99 in pencil, printed by Bramsen Stoop Termine, Paris, published by Kwai Po ...

New Norton to be 'a whole new ballgame' for exhibiting art, leaders say
“It's a whole new ballgame,” said Cheryl Bruvan, director of curatorial affairs and curator of contemporary art. With the additional space, the Norton no longer will have to take down works from its collection to make way for special exhibitions ...

Transcending Geo-culture
For our intents and purposes here, we can divide Chinese contemporary art into two phases, modern and post-modern. The modern phase of Chinese contemporary art refers to when inside and outside perspectives of Chinese culture were distinct and kept ...

'Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World' at the Guggenheim, Bilbao
“Centered on the conceptualist practices of two generations of artists, this exhibition examines how Chinese artists have been both critical observers and agents of China's emergence as a global presence and places their experiments in a global art ...

Polixeni Papapetrou (1960–2018)
Olympia had her own thoughts about the image, saying that it was among her favorites. An exhibition of the artist's work opened at the Michael Reid Contemporary Art Gallery in Sydney on April 4, and runs until April 28. Of the show, the director of ...

Alphawood Exhibitions Announces Ai Weiwei's Trace Midwest Premier, Speaking Date
In 1978, the younger Ai studied at the Beijing Film Academy before moving to the United States in 1981. He returned to China in 1993 and helped establish the Beijing East Village contemporary art scene, named for the New York neighborhood in which he ...

Blue palace: Blenheim to celebrate colour visionary Yves Klein
Frahm is the director of the Blenheim Art Foundation, founded in 2014 by Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill to bring annual exhibitions of contemporary art into the bewilderingly grand formal rooms of his family home. The series has formerly featured living ...

McLaren 570GT Cabbeen Collection Shows Off Its Chinese Dragons
From ancient scrolls to contemporary art, the dragon is an integral part of Chinese culture. The symbolism of the dragon also happens to be different from how the mythological creature is perceived in the west, though some people take the symbolic ...

Dutch Days Beijing 2018: Lecture at Art Beijing
The works of Henk Visch (1950) and Robbin Heyker (1976) are inextricably linked with China. Visch's works can be seen at the Olympic Park and Tsinghua University, while Heyker has lived in both the Netherlands and Beijing for a long time. Every Dutch ...

Art Industry News: Ai Weiwei Shrugs Off Criticism Over Selfie With Far-Right Politician + More Must-Read Stories
He is currently secretary general of the Turin Museums Foundation and the Italian Association of Contemporary Art Museums. He has previously taught at the University of Bergamo, directed Artissima, and headed the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana ...

Arts & Culture Exhibits for April 26 to May 2, 2018
Ends April 30. Westhampton Library, 1 North Road, Westhampton. [email protected]. “Chinese Abstraction”: Diverse media by four contemporary Chinese artists: Shen Chen, Paul Ching-Bor, Lianghong Feng and Cui Fei. Ends May 5. CYNTHIA-REEVES, 1315 Mass ...

Chinese artist lectures on China's fine arts development at Istanbul ...
Chinese artist lectures on China's fine arts development at Istanbul ...

New York museum unveils groundbreaking show on traditional Chinese medicine
NEW YORK, April 25 (Xinhua) -- New York City's Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Wednesday unveiled two groundbreaking exhibitions on Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and practices in America through historical medical artifacts and contemporary ...

Fondation Cartier Unveils 'A Beautiful Elsewhere' in Shanghai
SHANGHAI — Fondation Cartier has unveiled the exhibition "A Beautiful Elsewhere" here, the first time it has exhibited its collection in mainland China.The exhibition runs until June 29 at the Power Station of Art, the first state-run museum dedicated ...

Best Museums in Chicago: Art, History & Other Museums Worth ...
Best Museums in Chicago: Art, History & Other Museums Worth ...

A Comeback for Chinese Contemporary Art?
By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Apr. 26, 2018 | 1:02. Lisa Dennison, Sotheby's Americas Chairman, talks about the taste for Western art in Asian markets and the possible comeback of Chinese contemporary art at The New York Times Art Leaders Network conference ...

Artist brings wonders of Far East to east coast
Acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Yanzi shows off her latest creation after it was put on display in Surgeons' Halls Museums, Edinburgh. The work, called Capsule Packets, is going on show as part of the artist's first exhibition in the UK. It also marks a ...

Private collectors can't save Australian art on their own
The back stories of these private collectors often combine a shared love of contemporary art, a wish to provide ongoing support to practising artists and a desire to share their collections with a wider audience. The how and the why diverge — the ...

Art exhibition marks 30 years of China-Uruguay ties
"In this exhibition, you can see three different things, the Baroque art from the 16th and 17th centuries, the folk art of the indigenous people, and the contemporary art. So it's an exhibition with three different parts, but represent the history of ...

Two new art fairs hope to tap into mainland China market
Two new art fairs launching this spring in mainland China are adding to a growing roster. Every second-tier Chinese city now wants its own fair, biennale and museum, and they are often indifferent to whether they are also second-tier in calibre. But a ...

Two new art fairs hope to tap into mainland China market
Two new art fairs launching this spring in mainland China are adding to a growing roster. Every second-tier Chinese city now wants its own fair, biennale and museum, and they are often indifferent to whether they are also second-tier in calibre. But a ...

How Marcel Duchamp Impacted Contemporary Chinese Art
Its creation marked an important chapter in the development of Chinese contemporary art, highlighting the great wave of creativity and intellectual engagement, plus a range of philosophies and practices, that arose as the country opened up. Huang ...



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