Opening of Hayward Gallery's Lee Bul Exhibition Delayed after Artwork Catches Fire
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)
New channel launched for Chinese-Australian Medibank customers
Medibank has launched a WeChat channel to better connect with the growing Australian-Chinese population. WeChat is a multi-functional Chinese messaging app with over 1 billion global monthly active users. Customers can use WeChat to find their closest ...
(May 31, 2018, CMO)
The Audacious Architectural Models of Bodys Isek Kingelez
Chinese pagodas? Romanesque vaulted ceilings? Las Vegas casino signs? Eastern-bloc architecture? Empire mantle clocks? American megachurches? Jetsonian design? That's only the beginning, yet every suggestion is fastidiously integrated, nothing so crude ...
(May 31, 2018, New York Times)
Hong Kong museums scene finally on the rise, as Central Police Station opens
... Dismantling the Scaffold, an international group show organised by the curator Christina Li on behalf of the local non-profit Spring Workshop, and a project by the young Hong Kong artist Wing Po So, presented by the MFA programme of the Chinese ...
(May 31, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Spring auctions in Hong Kong total HK$3.11 billion
On 26 May the Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale and a further evening sale, Contemporaries: Voices from East and West, achieved a record-breaking combined total of HK$1,040,390,000 / $133,229,798. ... A further series of auctions of ...
(May 31, 2018, Christie's)
Bridging the generation gap in avant-garde Chinese art
This juxtaposition of two performance artists – one established, the other up-and-coming – within the same setting is a thoughtful attempt to deconstruct the generational framework usually applied in contemporary Chinese art history. The absence of an ...
(May 31, 2018, Apollo Magazine)
Germany's Kunsthalle Mannheim Unveils $75 Million Expansion
The Kunsthalle Mannheim, the modern and contemporary art museum located in Mannheim, Germany, has completed a $75 million expansion project. Designed by the Hamburg-based architecture firm Gerkan, Marg and Partners, .... The Beijing Contemporary Art ...
(May 31, 2018, Artforum)
“Lin Shan: Living Room” at ShanghArt, Singapore
Lin Shan participated in exhibitions titled “Geometrie Del Potere” in Galleria A+A in Venice, “Simulacrum Living,” 2017, at the Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition in Shenzhen Art Museum, and at the 2nd Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art. Through ...
(May 31, 2018, Blouin Artinfo)
Arts & Entertainment
Featuring traditional and contemporary Chinese art work. Free. Main Street Farmers Market. June 2, 9 & 16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Main Street Pavilion. Weekly market offering fresh produce, plants, baked treats and more. Craft vendors selling jewelry, health ...
(May 31, 2018, Towncourier)
Asia Society Museum Exhibition Celebrates Calligraphic Ink Tradition and New Contemporary Acquisitions
Further exploring the calligraphic tradition and its influences beyond East Asia are two Qur'ans that show how Islam and its sacred classical text were transmitted from the Iranian world across Central Asia to China, and the impact that Chinese culture ...
(May 31, 2018, Asia Society (press release) (blog))
Orange County Museum of Art Reveals Design of New Building
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 31, 2018, Artforum)
On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
'He has been involved in fostering the Australia-China relationship for over 30 years and as a keen art collector, has been involved in shaping contemporary Chinese art. His in-depth understanding of contemporary Chinese art and relationships with a ...
(Jun 1, 2018, ArtsHub)
From China to the Middle East, museums are being built as a branding exercise
The contemporary art crowd are a pretty cosmopolitan lot. But few traverse quite as diverse a cultural landscape as globe-trotting museum adviser Alexandre Colliex. The Collector caught up with Centre Pompidou's former head of international development ...
(Jun 1, 2018, South China Morning Post)
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