Art show aims to foster peace - China.org.cn
The world may currently be in a constant state of flux and developing at a rapid pace, but it means nothing without peace. That is the message that ...
(May 21, 2018, China.org.cn)
Auction Preview: 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design ...
Auction Preview: 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design ...
(May 21, 2018, Blouin Artinfo)
Auction Preview: Modern & Contemporary Art I at Artcurial, Paris, June 4
Signed in Chinese and Pinyin and dated lower right "Chu Teh-Chun, 06-07", countersigned, dated and titled on the reverse "Dynamic Ardente, Chu Teh-Chun, 2006-07". Measured at h: 130 w: 195 cm. Estimated Price: 500,000 - 700,000 € (US$ 589,500 ...
(May 21, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Art Industry News: Ai Weiwei Will Redesign a Beverly Hills Gallery + More Must-Read Stories
Richard Partington writes that the market is fueled by rising inequality in advanced economies and scarcity of work (due to the death of the artist or rare appearances on the market)—but also to hedge-fund billionaires, newly wealthy Chinese buyers ...
(May 21, 2018, artnet News)
International Experts Discussed "Urban Transformation Through Art" at SIAC in Shanghai
Hang Jian, China Academy of Art, spoke about 100,000 ambitious heritage conservation plans currently under way by Chinese government, which includes regenerating the industrial heritage as well as conservation plans for traditional Chinese rural areas ...
(May 21, 2018, PR Newswire (press release))
This Chinese Roast Is An Ingenious Twist On The English Classic
For anyone who went berserk over Jamie Oliver's Empire roast chicken, you may well want to hot-foot it to Wood Green, where another take on the classic English roast is shaking up the Sunday scene. Mei Mei's Street Cart has taken up a long-term ...
(May 21, 2018, Londonist)
Things To Do In Dallas This Week: May 21 – 24
Have you laid eyes on Zaha Hadid's incredible Meixi Lake Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Changsha, Hunan Province, China? It's unlike anything else, a swirl of tear-shaped rooms and galleries over water. Thomas Krens, Director Emeritus of ...
(May 21, 2018, D Magazine)
How to run the most prestigious international auction firms in China: Q&A with Caroline Cai
Cai: The past five years are the most interesting period for Chinese art collectors, who are gradually growing out of their comfort zone, starting to collect Chinese contemporary art, and embracing global art. I think it's a huge trend and it happens ...
(May 21, 2018, SupChina)
Marcel Duchamp Prize nominees promote Sino-French cultural ties
"The exhibition presents the trends of contemporary art, bringing a unique artistic view of the world," Yang explains. "I hope that this exhibition could bring new thoughts and experiences to the contemporary-art community of China, as well as help ...
(May 22, 2018, China.org.cn)
Jingart adds new dimensions
It didn't quite feel like a typical contemporary art fair where booths extend as far as the eye can see, occupying a big space. It was more like a salon, and it reminded some visitors of a similar feeling to the first edition of the annual Shanghai ...
(May 22, 2018, China.org.cn)
Beijing's New Art Fair Attracts International Mega-Galleries
About one mile south of Mao Zedong's portrait overlooking Tiananmen Square sits Beijing Fun, an upscale creative zone launched in January 2017 as a “new cultural landmark of Beijing” following a recent “full-scale refurbishment” of the narrow alleyways ...
(May 22, 2018, Artsy)
'The model in China is constantly evolving': Ullens Center director on his plans to turn it into a foundation
Philip Tinari, the director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), is moving ahead with plans to transform the Beijing institution into a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable foundation. This Western-style model, which involves establishing a ...
(May 22, 2018, Art Newspaper)
'The model in China is constantly evolving': Ullens Center director on his plans to turn it into a foundation
Philip Tinari, the director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), is moving ahead with plans to transform the Beijing institution into a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable foundation. This Western-style model, which involves establishing a ...
(May 22, 2018, Art Newspaper)
An English and Art History Major Writes a Book of Poetry
At Bowdoin, she said she she's focused on studying contemporary Chinese art. A Chinese-American who grew up in New York City with artistic parents, Lei aspires to work after graduation in the arts in New York City. “The way I've learned to think about ...
(May 22, 2018, Bowdoin (press release) (blog))
Marcel Duchamp Prize Nominees Promote Sino-French Cultural Ties
"The exhibition presents the trends of contemporary art, bringing a unique artistic view of the world," Yang explains. "I hope that this exhibition could bring new thoughts and experiences to the contemporary-art community of China, as well as help ...
(May 22, 2018, Women of China)
Ai Weiwei Will Be All Over LA This Fall With Simultaneous Exhibits
Chinese artist, activist, and sometime-architect Ai Weiwei will be an unavoidable presence in Los Angeles this fall with three simultaneous exhibit openings. It's a big moment for the artist, who has heretofore not really had a major show in the city ...
(May 22, 2018, LA Magazine)
LACMA's Islamic Art Curator on How Her Ambitious New Exhibition Reveals Another Side of Iran
In the past there was also relatively little interest in modern or contemporary art from China, for a lot of the same reasons. It's in part Western bias, the idea that the interesting artistic movements of the time happened in the West. One hopes we ...
(May 23, 2018, artnet News)
NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize announced
Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan, China, announced the inaugural NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize. This prize aims to identify a visionary artist who incorporates new media and interactive ...
(May 23, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Uli Sigg, one of the first generation of Western collectors
Uli Sigg, one of the leading owners of the world's largest and most important collection of Chinese contemporary art, was among the first generation of Western collectors. He came to China in 1979 as a representative of Schindler Co, one of the first ...
(May 23, 2018, Shine News (press release))
Lorenz Helbling: ShanghART's strength is to find good talents
Q: When you opened ShanghART at the then Portman Hotel in 1996, were you confident about the future of Chinese contemporary art? A: Shanghai was a cultural hub with international influences for a big part of its history. When I got here in the mid ...
(May 23, 2018, Shine News (press release))
"Barbecue collage" artist Xue Song dares to try
Q: Use three adjectives to describe the contemporary art scene in China from 1995 to 2000. A: Happy, pure and difficult. Q: Do you agree that contemporary art at that time attracted more attention from the West than the East? A: Yes, at that time ...
(May 23, 2018, Shine News (press release))
Art tales from the underground (1995 to 2000)
This column will examine the contemporary art scene in Shanghai over the past three decades, giving an insight into its development via interviews with the country's top artists, curators and collectors. Chinese contemporary art started much later than ...
(May 23, 2018, Shine News (press release))
10 Hottest Lots At Phillips' 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale
The countdown is on for Phillips' 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale, which is taking place at Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong on May 27. Works by leading Chinese artists Zhang Xiaogang, Fang Lijun and Yue Mingjun are on the block, ...
(May 24, 2018, Hong Kong Tatler)
Designing Buildings That Speak to the World
For the Schaulager, a contemporary art warehouse that opened on the outskirts of Basel in 2003, Herzog & de Meuron faced the challenge of designing a building that both exhibits and stores artwork for research purposes. Through Aug. 26, the site is ...
(May 24, 2018, New York Times)
'Time Lapse' by Chen Yujun, Pannaphan Yodmanee at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing Space
Tang Contemporary Art is hosting “Time Lapse,” showcasing artworks created by Chen Yujun and Pannaphan Yodmanee in Beijing. The dual solo show showcasing the ensemble of works of the two Chinese and Thai artists was inaugurated on May 12 and ...
(May 24, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Massive arts district to launch in 2019 in valley near Beijing
Valley XL is a special partner of China's pavilion on rural development, Building a Future Countryside, and is hosting a symposium in Venice from 24 to 26 May. The project is billed as an “eco-city” that will include a Modern and contemporary art ...
(May 24, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Massive arts district to launch in 2019 in valley near Beijing
Valley XL is a special partner of China's pavilion on rural development, Building a Future Countryside, and is hosting a symposium in Venice from 24 to 26 May. The project is billed as an “eco-city” that will include a Modern and contemporary art ...
(May 24, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Art Industry News: Robert Indiana's Famous 'LOVE' Sculpture Started Out as a Much Filthier Word + More Must-Read ...
Art Industry News: Robert Indiana's Famous 'LOVE' Sculpture Started Out as a Much Filthier Word + More Must-Read ...
(May 24, 2018, artnet News)
Know Your Artist — By the Numbers: Zao Wou-Ki
Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) was a Chinese-French painter, a pioneer of Post-war art and a highest-selling Chinese artist of his generation. In his early years he was influenced by modernism and the work of Impressionists and Expressionists, but it was after ...
(May 25, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
A Century of Arab Art, Compressed Into a Book
This is the eighth entry in MoMA's Primary Documents series, which has focused on Swedish modernist design, contemporary Chinese art, and modern art in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Japan and Eastern Europe. Putting together this volume “felt like a ...
(May 25, 2018, Al-Fanar Media)
Leading Austrian Museum Director Resigns; Cites 'Resurgence of Nationalist Politics'
In awards and appointments news: Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen is the recipient of the Artist of the Year prize at the 11th Award of Art China; Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the nonprofit that celebrates African-American artists from the US South, has ...
(May 25, 2018, frieze.com)
Anthropologist explores China's changing art scene in 'Experimental Beijing'
Those first exhibits produced a pretty masculinist assertion of what it meant to be “avant-garde” and really influenced how Chinese contemporary art got taken up by the world. The network behind how those exhibits traveled was largely male. In terms of ...
(May 25, 2018, UW Today)
China to build $2.8bn arts district near Beijing
Valley XL, which was unveiled by Guangdong Yuegang Investment Development, has been termed an 'eco-city' and is set to include a modern and contemporary art museum, space for artists' studios, an art education district and commercial and residential ...
(May 25, 2018, Apollo Magazine)
Anthropologist explores China's changing art scene in 'Experimental Beijing'
Those first exhibits produced a pretty masculinist assertion of what it meant to be “avant-garde” and really influenced how Chinese contemporary art got taken up by the world. The network behind how those exhibits traveled was largely male. In terms of ...
(May 25, 2018, UW Today)
Ten reasons to visit Shanghai
Hands down the best here for ancient artefacts is the Shanghai Museum, which offers a vast collection of Chinese culture in a modern setting ranging from bronzes to ceramics, calligraphy to jade. Designed by ... To explore the contemporary art world ...
(May 26, 2018, Evening Standard)
Berkshire Museum and La Salle University Art Museum Face Sanctions for Selling Artworks
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles announced today that director Philippe Vergne is stepping down. According to the Los Angeles Times, the institution's board of trustees will not renew his contract, which expires in March 2019. The museum ...
(May 26, 2018, Artforum)
Auction Preview: Abstract and Contemporary Art at Ader, Paris, Jun 6
What: Abstract and Contemporary Art. Where: Ader, Rooms 5 & 6 - Drouot-Richelieu, 9, rue Drouot 75009 Paris. When: Jun 6, 02.00 pm. Top lots of the sale: - Zao Wou-Ki [Chinese] (1920 - 2013): Composition, 1959. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower ...
(May 27, 2018, Blouinartinfo)
Auction Preview: Modern and Contemporary Asian Art at Ravenel, Taipei, June 3
"5.11.62", 1962 - Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese-French, 1920 - 2013); Oil on canvas. Signed lower right Wou-Ki in Chinese and Zao in French. Signed on the reverse Zao Wou-Ki in English and dated. Measured at 80.5 x 116 cm. Estimated Price: TWD 88,000,000 ...
(May 28, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Jitish Kallat: India's Philosopher Artist on World Stage
Conversely, do you think Contemporary art from culturally rich countries like China and India must speak to their unique identities in some way? As artists, the neighborhood, the city, or the country, where one resides becomes the culture medium of one ...
(May 28, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Aboriginal art: is it a white thing?
His natural empathy with outsiders and intellectual passion for art and justice led him to where he is now: the go-to Australian dealer in contemporary art for international curators. ... I could sell rice to China!” Alfonso and her business partner ...
(May 28, 2018, The Conversation AU)
Should museums display artworks that feature live animals?
China has much more interesting and challenging contemporary art to offer and some of it is indeed in the Guggenheim's show. But we shouldn't generalise: not all works including animals are to be demonised. The works of Beatriz da Costa, Mark Dion, ...
(May 29, 2018, Apollo Magazine)
Auction house seeks IPO as art sale boom swells Hong Kong spring ...
Auction house seeks IPO as art sale boom swells Hong Kong spring ...
(May 29, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Jeff Koons's Memorial Sculpture for Paris to be Relocated
The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China, have established a new $16,000 prize that celebrates emerging artists who work in new media. The juried competition announced that it is accepting ...
(May 29, 2018, Artforum)
Parcours Artists for Art Basel 2018 Announced
The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China, have established a new $16,000 prize that celebrates emerging artists who work in new media. The juried competition announced that it is accepting ...
(May 29, 2018, Artforum)
'Alma Matter' at Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore
Placed together, “Alma Matter” alludes to the artists' past training at the academy while simultaneously reflecting on their place in the contemporary art landscape of today.” “Artist Ong Si Hui considers herself 'traditionally trained' in ... Usually ...
(May 29, 2018, Blouin Artinfo)
What to Do with Gay Shame in Contemporary Art
For gay shame, a Chinese finger trap: if you continue to depict it in art, jagged or sleek, you are perpetuating that shame. If you ignore it, discard it, dust it beneath a kitschy rug, then you erase the experience. There's no good answer, and no ...
(May 29, 2018, INTO)
Nova Scotia May Pay Annie Leibovitz $2.3M to Mount Stalled Gallery Show
The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China, have established a new $16,000 prize that celebrates emerging artists who work in new media. The juried competition announced that it is accepting ...
(May 29, 2018, Artforum)
taizhou contemporary art museum by atelier deshaus nears completion in china
shanghai-based firm atelier deshaus has completed the structural renovation of a concrete industrial building in china's zhejiang province. once the interiors are also complete, the 'taizhou contemporary art museum' will open as part of a new cultural ...
(May 30, 2018, Designboom)
Art Industry News: Meet the Purple Magazine Intern Who Scammed New York's Art Scene + More Must-Read Stories
Founded in 2010 by Ando Shokei, a Japanese national born in China, the auction house specializes in Chinese and Japanese antiquities. (South China Morning Post). Jessica Silverman Represents John Houck – The ... Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Gets a New ...
(May 30, 2018, artnet News)
US Officials Drop Fraud Investigation Surrounding Swiss Art Dealer
The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China, have established a new $16,000 award, called the NOVA Prize, that celebrates emerging artists who work in new media. The organizations announced ...
(May 30, 2018, Artforum)
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