Auction Preview: Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale) at Christie's ...
Auction Preview: Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale) at Christie's ...
(May 10, 2018, Blouinartinfo UK)
Auction Preview: Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale) at Christie's, Hong Kong, May 27
"Untitled" - Liu Ye (China, B. 1964); dated '94'; signed in Chinese; signed 'YE' (lower right) oil and acrylic on canvas. Measured at 199 x 171 cm. (78 1/2 x 67 1/4 in.) Painted in 1994. Estimated Price: USD 384,034 - USD 640,056. - "Midnight Pumpkin ...
(May 10, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
As Government Pushes Neighboring Businesses Out, One Beijing Art Space Perseveres
Through their personal networks and Arrow Factory's long list of exhibitors, Ho and Wang have strong connections to lesser-known contemporary art hubs across China, such as Dongguan on the southern coast near Hong Kong, where artist Li Jinghu has ...
(May 10, 2018, Artsy)
Auction Preview: Contemporary Art Asia: Hong Kong Edition at Christie's, Hong Kong, May 22 - 29
What: Contemporary Art Asia: Hong Kong Edition. Where: Christie's, Convention Hall, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, No. 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong. When: May 22 - 29. Top lots of the sale: - Oscar Oiwa (Brazil/Japan, B. 1965): ...
(May 11, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Auction Preview: Contemporary Art Asia: New York Edition at Christie's, New York, May 22 - 30
What: Contemporary Art Asia: New York Edition. Where: Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020, USA. When: May 22 - 30. Top lots of the sale: - Feng Zhengjie (China, B. 1968): Chinese Portrait Series. Signed in Chinese, signed and dated ...
(May 11, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Wendi Deng-backed Artsy wants to change the way people buy art
There has been growing interest in China from a younger generation in contemporary art, which creates a “sweet spot” for Artsy, says Cwilich. China became the world's second-biggest art market in 2017 amid a doubling in the number of Chinese ...
(May 11, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Auction Preview: Contemporary Art Asia: New York Edition at Christie's, New York, May 22 - 30
What: Contemporary Art Asia: New York Edition. Where: Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020, USA. When: May 22 - 30. Top lots of the sale: - Feng Zhengjie (China, B. 1968): Chinese Portrait Series. Signed in Chinese, signed and dated ...
(May 11, 2018, Blouinartinfo)
Chinese art exhibition at Greek museum conveys message of peace
The exhibition, hosted following Greece's participation as an honorable country at the 7th Beijing Contemporary Art Biennale in 2017, aims to use the language of Chinese contemporary art to talk about peace, to tell stories about harmony, and to ...
(May 11, 2018, Xinhua)
What Blockchain Means for Contemporary Art
Additionally, the book's speculation on cloud-based challenges to sovereign, Westphalian borders is particularly important for the current moment (especially considering recent Korean and Chinese legal restrictions on Bitcoin). The framing of this ...
(May 11, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Ancient city of Mardin gets big dose of contemporary art
On May 3, the Dilek Sabanci Art Gallery opened its exhibition of works by Ai Weiwei, showcasing some of the pieces by the Chinese artist recently on display at Istanbul's Sakip Sabanci Museum. Several other art events popped up in the city, including a ...
(May 11, 2018, Al-Monitor)
Evan Hughes on his adventures in art with father Ray Hughes
I was brought back from London where I had settled and was happily working with James Mayor (another monumental figure whose heydays of the 1970s and 1980s sounded far more interesting than the polite, cartel-driven contemporary art world). My father ...
(May 12, 2018, The Australian Financial Review)
Would Karl Marx recognise China's new communism?
People look at Marxism-themed contemporary art pieces displayed at 'The Power of Truth', an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, at the National Museum of China in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua. Ironically, China's Communist Party ...
(May 12, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Auction Preview: Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art / Contemporaries: Voices from East and West (Evening Sale ...
Auction Preview: Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art / Contemporaries: Voices from East and West (Evening Sale ...
(May 12, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Auction Preview: Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art ...
Auction Preview: Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art ...
(May 12, 2018, Blouinartinfo UK)
Nature meets art on Belgian coast
The 6th edition of the Triennale of contemporary art Beaufort 2018, revolving around a thematic of monuments and ecology, will take place until 30 September 2018. More than an artistic project, Beaufort has become a tradition aiming to support and ...
(May 13, 2018, Delano.lu)
Hong Kong Homes: A Contemporary Art-Filled Apartment In Mid-Levels
Jonathan, head of 20th century and contemporary art at the auction house Phillips, exudes charm and confidence, as does Patricia, the Hong Kong representative of Berlin-based art gallery Sprüth Magers. ... The couple's own sleeping quarters offer a ...
(May 14, 2018, Hong Kong Tatler)
Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, May 14-20
This exhibition compiles the works of 10 artists from the Marcel Duchamp Prize and together are a "representative cross-section of the current dynamism of multifaceted French creativity, which steadfastly transcends the categorizations of the ...
(May 14, 2018, The Beijinger (blog))
Cui Jie Is Now Represented by Metro Pictures, Pilar Corrias, and Antenna Space
The Shanghai-based artist Cui Jie is now represented by the galleries Metro Pictures (of New York), Pilar Corrias (London), and Antenna Space (Shanghai). Cui, who was born in 1983, was previously represented by Shanghai's Leo Xu Projects, which closed ...
(May 14, 2018, ARTnews)
Nahmads confirm Picasso's $115m flower girl will go to Paris
The powerful art-dealing Nahmad family has confirmed that Fillette à la corbeille fleurie (Young Girl with a Flower Basket, 1905), the Picasso painting which sold at Christie's New York last week as part of the Rockefeller estate sale, will go on show ...
(May 15, 2018, Art Newspaper)
'Voyage Along Nippon — A Selling Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art' at Tiancheng International, Hong Kong
Tiancheng International will host “Voyage Along Nippon — A Selling Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art,” from May 30 through June 2, 2018 concurrently with the Preview of the Jewelry and Jadeite Spring Auction. The exhibition will feature around ...
(May 15, 2018, Blouinartinfo UK)
Women beaten at Beijing's 798 Art District for wearing rainbow badges
“Even if 798 is known for its deeply rooted relationship with Chinese contemporary art, it has a reputation for being conservative on almost every public topic,” says Raf Hu, the managing director of MMS2 Berlin and MMS3 Chengdu. “I don't really think ...
(May 15, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Women beaten at Beijing's 798 Art District for wearing rainbow badges
Security guards at Beijing's 798 Art District on Sunday afternoon beat two young women for wearing rainbow pins in support of LGBTQ rights. A video of the ...
(May 15, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Shanghai International Art City (SIAC) Forum explores city's culture
The forum was hosted by TICCIH (The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage), LIHC (League on Industrial Heritage in China), Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (SAFA), China Baowu Steel Group Corp and organized by SIAC ...
(May 15, 2018, Global Times)
Art Industry News: A Second Steve Wynn Picasso Is Suddenly Yanked From Christie's + More Must-Read Stories
Gouzer, the co-chairman of contemporary art at Christie's, compares artists' reputations to a tornado—and it's his job to predict where they are heading. “Right now, you could say the tornado is going into Guston and Hockney,” he says. ... The painter ...
(May 15, 2018, artnet News)
Old Hong Kong police station a historic work of art
The long-awaited opening of a new arts and heritage centre at the former Central Police Station complex later this month will be a landmark for cultural development and conservation in Hong Kong. The challenging project is the city's most extensive and ...
(May 15, 2018, South China Morning Post)
'Petrina Hicks: Still Life Studio' at Michael Reid, Sydney
With the new body of work, the artist seems to play with color, texture, and composition and highlights Petrina's exploration of the female identity, mixing both traditional and contemporary art forms, as well as her interest in the symbiotic ...
(May 15, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
It's About Time! Building a New Discipline: Time-Based Media Art Conservation
The symposium will host more than 150 speakers, panelists, and participants from the United States, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, the UK, Australia, and China, who will present on topics such as: TBM ...
(May 15, 2018, NYU News (press release))
Helsinki's Newest Hotel Proves Finland Has the Design Chops to Rival Its Ultra-Stylish Neighbors
Fresh off of a yearlong celebration of the country's 100th anniversary of independence—which saw huge contemporary art exhibits and the construction of dreamy temporary ice castles—the city is drawing in more well-heeled visitors than ever before ...
(May 15, 2018, Robb Report)
Contemporary art biennial returns to Mardin in Turkey after three-year hiatus
In a sign of the city's arts revival, porcelain works by Ai Weiwei are on view in a separate but concurrent show at a Mardin museum whose owners hosted the Chinese superstar in Istanbul earlier this year. Otyam postponed the 2014 biennial for six ...
(May 16, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Inaugural Art Festival showcases importance of black and Latino/Hispanic contributions
... professor of ceramics, whose work is represented at the Luise Ross Gallery, New York City, and is in private and public collections including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, FuLed International Ceramic Art Museum, Beijing ...
(May 16, 2018, The Herald-Times)
The Dak'art Biennial Sounds a “Call for Action” to Support the African Art Scene
Guy Woueté's Democratic Classroom (2016) confronts colonialism in its latest forms: It's an installation representing a generic classroom, with a chalkboard reading “Fragile but Not Made in China,” and empty chairs waiting for various personalities ...
(May 16, 2018, Artsy)
Gianguan Auctions Founder MY Kwong Lum Awarded 2018 Ellis Island Medal of Honor
In responding to the honor, Mr. Lum said, “I am grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded in China, Canada and the U.S. to support the arts and share my knowledge of Chinese heritage as it was and as it is in contemporary art.” He credited ...
(May 16, 2018, ArtfixDaily)
Zhao Gang Paints the Increasingly Distant Memories of His Home Country
Their 1979 group exhibition, and the protests that followed, are often cast as contemporary Chinese art's radical break with state-sanctioned ideological and aesthetic strictures by Western commentators hungering for any signs of Democracy™ and ...
(May 17, 2018, frieze.com)
Supreme Invades the Auction House
Largely French, but with a scattering of Chinese and Americans, few in the registered crowd were likely to have been to a traditional auction before. ... Titled after the Wu-Tang Clan's 1993 single, and coming at a time when the three decade-long ...
(May 17, 2018, New York Times)
Double Estrangement: Zhao Gang's Memories of China
Visiting last year's 'Art and China After 1989', the Guggenheim Museum's attempt to take in three decades of China's recent past, it was easy to feel overwhelmed. (In spite of the twin absences of Huang Yong Ping's emptied Theater of the World (1993 ...
(May 17, 2018, frieze.com)
Kerry James Marshall Painting Steals the Show at Sotheby's $284.5 Million Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which kicked off at 7 PM Wednesday night, netted $284.5 million, including fees, with only two of the forty-nine works failing to sell. The sale fell short of the $319.2 million the auction house raked in ...
(May 17, 2018, Artforum)
Executive Pursuits: Interest in the Boston arts scene
From treasures of ancient China to paintings by Italian Old Masters to contemporary American artworks, the Harvard Art Museums house an incredibly diverse art collection. The museum, which was renovated in 2014 by prize-winning architect Renzo ... The ...
(May 17, 2018, Boston Business Journal)
These 50 artists are shaping the future of contemporary art
The art world's leading collectors, curators and influencers joined Artsy editors in determining The Artsy Vanguard, the recently announced list of contemporary art's most influential players. Featuring 50 artists—some emerging and others established ...
(May 17, 2018, Editor at Large)
Inaugural NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize Announced
NEW YORK and BEIJING – The inaugural NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize has been announced by the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan, China. The NOVA Prize seeks to identify a visionary ...
(May 17, 2018, ArtfixDaily)
Chinese American scholar awarded 2018 Ellis Island Medal of Honor
"I am grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded in China, Canada and the U.S. to support the arts and share my knowledge of Chinese heritage as it was and as it is in contemporary art," said Lum, who is also an artist, poet and chairman of ...
(May 18, 2018, Xinhua)
How Shenzhen is taking on Silicon Valley at innovation
In fact, Shenzhen is trailing just behind Beijing and Shanghai, two cities which are fast gaining on the established global leaders including Tokyo and Singapore, according to JLL's latest China 12 report, analyzing how Chinese cities gaining influence ...
(May 18, 2018, Real Views (blog))
Business Showcase – Artchain Global
With ArtChain Global all pieces from museums and private family holdings through to the latest contemporary art can be registered. ... Strategically Australia is a fantastic industry test bed and China is 38-40% of the global art auction trade at ...
(May 18, 2018, Irish Tech News)
Mark Coetzee suspended from the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Mark Coetzee, the executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz Mocaa), was suspended on 16 May from his role at the museum. According to the museum's trustees, “an inquiry into Coetzee's professional ...
(May 18, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Hong Kong's Youth Culture, Captured in Disturbing Animations
Now Mr. Wong, who is 34, is the youngest of five Chinese artists, including Cao Fei, Samson Young, Duan Jianyu and Lin Yilin, featured in the Guggenheim's exhibition “One Hand Clapping,” through Oct. 21. “One Hand Clapping” is the last of three shows ...
(May 18, 2018, New York Times)
Chinese artist Xiao Lu returns to Australia to break the ice
It's difficult to watch as Chinese artist Xiao Lu smears the blood pouring out of her wounded hand all over the huge ice block from which she is attempting to hack herself free. But that's the idea. The viewer's discomfort becomes part of the struggle ...
(May 18, 2018, The Australian Financial Review)
Wu Guanzhong — 'An artist of feeling rather than fact'
Born in 1919 in the Jiangsu province of eastern China, Wu Guanzhong went on to become one of the most important Chinese painters of the 20th century. He's renowned for his landscapes, which fused Western and Oriental artistic traditions, and were the ...
(May 18, 2018, Christie's)
Photo of the Day: Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art
Yesterday was World Museum Day, a celebration of knowledge-serving institutions that's been in the calendar since 1977. Museums across China often go big for the day, offering free or discounted entry and holding special events. Our photo theme this ...
(May 18, 2018, Radii (Hong Kong) Limited (blog))
Grandpa brought Chinese antiques abroad. Now Sotheby's new Asia chief wants to bring them home
A Sotheby's sale in contemporary Chinese art, however, went exceedingly well, according to a Reuters report at the time. Appreciating the vagaries of China's voracious buyers is now of paramount importance to Sotheby's, as well as any of the major ...
(May 19, 2018, South China Morning Post)
New York art sales near US$3 billion in 2 weeks, as uber-rich hunt trophies
NEW YORK: Global buyers have dropped nearly US$3 billion on art in New York in two weeks, a record haul rooted in a billionaire thirst for trophies, Chinese purchasing power and growing diversification. Christie's chalked up US$1.79 billion in sales ...
(May 19, 2018, Channel NewsAsia)
New York art sales near $3 bln as uber-rich hunt trophies
Global buyers have dropped nearly $3 billion on art in New York in two weeks, a record haul rooted in a billionaire thirst for trophies, Chinese purchasing power and growing diversification. Christie's chalked up $1.79 billion in sales, including every ...
(May 20, 2018, Hurriyet Daily News)
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