The Sleeper Awakens at White Rabbit Gallery
Chippendale's White Rabbit Gallery has one of the world's most celebrated collections of Chinese contemporary art, with more than 2500 works by more than 500 artists hosted in a former 1940s Rolls-Royce service depot turned exhibition space. Its ...
(Jul 16, 2018, Broadsheet)
Review: Sun Xun at MCA
We are witness to the pure pleasure and obsession of an artist's response to the world around them, and there is something deeply authentic in these works that overrides any preconceptions surrounding the hype of contemporary Chinese art or aesthetic ...
(Jul 16, 2018, ArtsHub)
Review: Sun Xun at MCA
We are witness to the pure pleasure and obsession of an artist's response to the world around them, and there is something deeply authentic in these works that overrides any preconceptions surrounding the hype of contemporary Chinese art or aesthetic ...
(Jul 16, 2018, ArtsHub)
Art Embraces Video Games in 'I Was Raised On The Internet' Exhibition
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago's new exhibition, “I Was Raised on the Internet” isn't a video game art show, and yet the concept and impact of games are all over the place. “In broad terms, this exhibition is about how the internet has changed ...
(Jul 16, 2018, Variety)
Theme of 2019 Venice Biennale Revealed
The title of the exhibition refers to a speech that British MP Austen Chamberlain gave in the 1930s in which he wrongly referred to an ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times,” Chamberlain said. ... With more than twenty-five years in ...
(Jul 16, 2018, Artforum)
Why Macao is in pole position as 2018's holiday hot spot
Centuries-old European-style buildings, like the ruins of St. Paul's, once the largest church in Asia, stand alongside still-used Chinese temples, such as the A-Ma Temple, which dates from the 16th century. The UNESCO World Heritage listed Historic ...
(Jul 17, 2018, Macquarie Sports Radio)
Chinese artist fears ink painting tradition is being tarnished by need to stay relevant
But can an art form that risks being seen as reactionary, and requires much specialist knowledge to appreciate, really travel in an era when relevance and accessibility matter in contemporary art? And is it, as Luo hopes, a national treasure that can ...
(Jul 17, 2018, South China Morning Post)
You could be one of 2018 Liverpool residents getting a letter delivered to your door by a 1930s postman
All work has been curated by Jiang Jiehong - one of the leading figures in the UK for contemporary Chinese art. He said: “I first left my hometown of Shanghai for Britain 20 years ago and it had changed dramatically since I left – numerous skyscrapers ...
(Jul 17, 2018, Liverpool Echo)
Ralph Rugoff's Curatorial Vision for 2019 Venice Biennale Revealed
The title of the exhibition refers to a speech that British MP Austen Chamberlain gave in the 1930s in which he wrongly referred to an ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times,” Chamberlain said. “There is no doubt the curse has fallen ...
(Jul 17, 2018, Artforum)
Hot in Cleveland: Front International Triennial Kicks Off in Ohio with ...
Hot in Cleveland: Front International Triennial Kicks Off in Ohio with ...
(Jul 17, 2018, ARTnews)
Culture Clash: Nature and Civilization Face Off in the Art of Michael Wang
The rooftop garden of the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art gallery in New York looks much like you'd expect of a newly renovated former bank building in lower Manhattan. Rows of simple aluminum planters line the small rectangular space, ... Ginkgo ...
(Jul 17, 2018, Natural Resources Defense Council)
Art Industry News: Angry Trump Supporters Want the Secret Service ...
Art Industry News: Angry Trump Supporters Want the Secret Service ...
(Jul 18, 2018, artnet News)
Ai Weiwei on art, activism and visiting Anderson Ranch
When his passport was returned after years of arrests, detentions, harassment and surveillance in China, the first places Ai Weiwei went were at the chaotic crossroads of the global refugee crisis. The artist and activist has spent the last several ...
(Jul 18, 2018, Aspen Times)
Exhibitors Announced for Seventh Edition of Salon Art + Design
Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design –Netherlands. Contemporary International Art and Design. R & Company – U.S.. Contemporary Design. Sarah Myerscough Gallery – U.K.. Contemporary British Design. * Southern Guild – South Africa. Contemporary ...
(Jul 19, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
ICAE2018: Yerevan a 1st time host of int'l contemporary art exhibition
PanARMENIAN.Net - To mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the First Armenian Republic, Yerevan will host the “International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Armenia 2018. Soundlines of Contemporary Art”, which from September 25 to October 25 ...
(Jul 19, 2018, PanARMENIAN.Net)
The Middle House, Shanghai - hotel review
The theme in The Middle House is 'I dream of China' and over 670 pieces represent this: from the extraordinary Chinese robe which hangs in the lobby (inspired by the Wei Jin Nan Bei dynasty, covered in 12,000 ceramic butterflies created by Caroline ...
(Jul 19, 2018, Evening Standard)
Discover The Spiritual, Mind-Opening And Controversial Work Of Celebrated Chinese Artist Zhang Huan
... Chinese artist Zhang Huan made himself an international contemporary art success. He says, “I enjoy the directness of performance, which makes me feel so down to earth. The body is the direct carrier of our links to society. The feeling of the body ...
(Jul 19, 2018, Forbes)
Saatchi Gallery Director Nigel Hurst Named Head of Contemporary Arts at the Box, Plymouth
Other shows Hurst organized include “Champagne Life,” an all-female exhibition about art-world misogyny, and surveys of contemporary art in Korea, China, and the Middle East. In a statement, Hurst said of his new appointment, “This role presents a ...
(Jul 19, 2018, ARTnews)
Al Qassemi Settles Lawsuit with Sotheby's and Waterhouse's “The Siren” Sells for Nearly $5 million
The auction of popular contemporary art was advertised as offering “affordable artworks for easy collecting,” including work by David Hockney and Ugo Rondinone. A retrospective on Sir Quentin Blake, renowned children's book artist, brought in £538,125 ...
(Jul 19, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Rare Louis Poulsen Piano lamp to shine at 12th edition of PAD London (and five other highlights)
Portuondo (UK/Spain) 20th Century and Contemporary Art & Design. Maison Rapin (France/Hong-Kong) 20th Century Design. Matthieu ... Goedhuis (UK/USA) Asian Art. Sculpture. RETURNING. Dumonteil (France/USA/China) 20th Century Decorative Arts ...
(Jul 20, 2018, antiquestradegazette.com)
Condemned: Beijing art galleries given two weeks to relocate as suburban art village faces demolition
Nessa Cui, manager of de Sarthe Gallery Beijing, said rumours of redevelopment had been circling for over a year but it was still a shock when she showed up at work on Wednesday and found a big, red circle with the Chinese character cai (demolish) ...
(Jul 20, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Yinchuan Biennale: 'Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge'
MOCA Yinchuan is the first contemporary art museum in northwest China, and is intended to move hand in hand with Yinchuan's infrastructure, implemented as a means of drawing in populations from rural areas. As such, the Yinchuan Biennale is a stretch ...
(Jul 20, 2018, Ocula Magazine)
US dealers move against Trump's proposed 10% tariff on Chinese art and antiques
Lally says, however, that as proposed the 10% tariff "would apply to all Chinese art, regardless of age or port of export" and that it could be applied "equally to Modern and contemporary Chinese art as well as Ming and Qing imperial porcelains or Tang ...
(Jul 20, 2018, Art Newspaper)
A new exhibition explores the history and legacy of the anti-Chinese race riots at Lambing Flats
On the frosty morning of Sunday June 30, 1861, a crowd of between 1,000 and 3,000 men marched through the Burrangong goldfields (now the New South Wales town of Young) with a brass band in tow. To the tune of "Rule, Britannia!" they brandished flags ...
(Jul 20, 2018, ABC News)
The Tasteful Intersection of Art and Cannabis
Unfortunately, bad imitations and Chinese-mass-manufactured bulbous glass pipes are sold in every gas station today, and it can be a challenge to get an affordable glass pipe as unique as a Snodgrass or any of his apprentices. But the innovation and ...
(Jul 21, 2018, Leafly)
UAE, China issue joint statement on 10-point, comprehensive strategic partnership
The two countries in a joint statement issued today on the occasion of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the UAE stressed their keenness to deepen cooperation within the "Belt and Road Initiative" to establish sustainable trade and ...
(Jul 21, 2018, Khaleej Times)
The 'Silver Sirens' - Australia's 20 richest women and they're all cashed up and single
Two years later she opened White Rabbit Gallery in Chippendale. She and Kerr divorced in 2015. A second gallery and performance space, Phoenix, will open next year. ENJOYS: Contemporary Chinese art, architecture, drawing, wine, travel to Asia, bells, ...
(Jul 21, 2018, Daily Telegraph)
The Art of a Fired Cartoonist
In the 1980s, when I started writing criticism, many of the most influential critics argued that the best contemporary art critiqued our political institutions, including the commercial gallery system in which it was displayed. ... Look, considering ...
(Jul 21, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Culture Clash: Nature and Civilization Face Off in the Art of Michael Wang
The rooftop garden of the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art gallery in New York looks much like you'd expect of a newly renovated former bank building in lower Manhattan. Rows of simple aluminum planters line the small rectangular space, ... Ginkgo ...
(Jul 21, 2018, EcoWatch)
Is China's rise driving an Asian art renaissance in Europe?
Founded by collector and art consultant Désiré Feuerle, who specialises in contemporary and Asian art, the institution brings together contemporary art and imperial Chinese furniture as well as Southeast Asian art in a former second world war bunker ...
(Jul 22, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Photo of the Day: Performance Artist Lee Kun-Yong Plants a Tree at Pace Beijing
Our Photo of the Day series this week shares photos of recent openings at 798 and Caochangdi, adjacent creative zones central to Beijing's contemporary art world. We'll start this week's series simply and boldly, with this tree here, roots intact ...
(Jul 23, 2018, RADII)
A 70-year-old gift helped transform a gritty Maine city into an arts destination
The little identifiers are usually located on someone's lapel or maybe on the bottom corner of their shirt, if they're being discreet: admission stickers, of varying colors, to either the Farnsworth Art Museum or the Center for Maine Contemporary Art ...
(Jul 23, 2018, Bangor Daily News)
Beijing's Caochangdi galleries given two weeks' notice to relocate ahead of demolition
The area is home to the photography centre Three Shadows and galleries including ShanghArt Beijing, Ink Studio, Beijing Art Now and Pékin Fine Art. However, de Sarthe and X were particularly vulnerable as they were built on land owned by the China ...
(Jul 23, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Chinese artists help Americans interpret their own past at festival in Cleveland about what it means to live in a city
Take Shanghai artist Cui Jie, one of eight Chinese artists and art groups represented in the inaugural Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, who draws inspiration from bland government buildings in China to make futuristic ...
(Jul 23, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Makeover Of Carnegie Museum's Contemporary Art Galleries Emphasizes The New And Under-Recognized
“Our museum can only show a fraction of its collection at any given moment,” said Eric Crosby, the museum's Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. “It's very exciting to see those under-recognized works in the context of our iconic ...
(Jul 23, 2018, 90.5 WESA)
China Abruptly Evicts Galleries in a Beijing Arts District to Make Way ...
China Abruptly Evicts Galleries in a Beijing Arts District to Make Way ...
(Jul 23, 2018, artnet News)
See Yves Klein's Experimental Art Take Over the Palatial Blenheim Estate
There's an obvious dissonance between Yves Klein's ethereal ultramarine artworks and the baroque setting of England's Blenheim Palace, a sumptuous 18th-century country house built for military commander John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, ...
(Jul 23, 2018, Smithsonian)
What the US–China Trade War Means for the Art Market
Putting tariffs on a few hundred million dollars worth of art will not significantly reduce the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, he pointed, which is over $152.2 billion so far in 2018. He also didn't think it would have a major impact on the Chinese ...
(Jul 23, 2018, Artsy)
Cleveland Museum of Art to Establish Conservation Center for Chinese Paintings with $1.5 Million Gift
ART 2030, the New York–based nonprofit, announced today that it is launching a new annual contemporary art initiative that will strive to help the United Nations achieve its seventeen global goals, which include ending poverty and hunger, fighting ...
(Jul 23, 2018, Artforum)
Christie's reports record half year sales of £2.97bn
London's March post-war and contemporary art evening sale fetched the highest ever total in Europe (£137.5m). Compare this with the June contemporary ... In Asia, there was a 24% increase in new buyers from Mainland China. The question now is whether ...
(Jul 24, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Art Industry News: Central Park Plans to Unveil Its First-Ever Statue of an Actual Woman + Other Stories
Dealers Oppose Chinese Art Tariff – The trade war with China shows no signs of abating, but American dealers are stepping in to oppose the most recent policy that includes a 10 percent tariff on art and antiques imported from the Asian country into the ...
(Jul 24, 2018, artnet News)
High Museum of Art Appoints Claudia Einecke Curator of European ...
High Museum of Art Appoints Claudia Einecke Curator of European ...
(Jul 24, 2018, Artforum)
Masterful Xu Bing Retrospective Inaugurates UCCA's Newly Expanded Great Hall
“He is the reason I became obsessed with Chinese contemporary art,” Tinari tells me. “It's something very special to do a retrospective for an artist at the height of their powers, in their native city,” Tinari says. “It's exactly the kind of show UCCA ...
(Jul 24, 2018, Artsy)
Photo of the Day: An Impromptu Beach Bon Voyage for de Sarthe Beijing
Today's photo is a closing, not an opening: last week, the Caochangdi branch of contemporary art gallery de Sarthe receive an abrupt notice that it had to clear the premises by the end of the month. Other buildings ... The title of another piece in the ...
(Jul 25, 2018, RADII)
Chinese Artist Sun Xun's First Exhibition at Richard Koh Fine Art in Malaysia
He has studied printmaking at the China Academy of Fine Arts and founded Pi (π) animation studio in 2006. Xun was awarded the Best Young Artists award by the CCAA, the Young Art Award by Taiwan Contemporary Art Link, and the Arts Fellowship by ...
(Jul 25, 2018, Blouin Artinfo)
Art Gallery of SA appoints first female director Rhana Devenport
“That's something that I think I can bring in an energised way, building on the success that already exists at the Art Gallery of SA.'' Ms Devenport's husband, multimedia artist Tim Gruchy, is a professor of digital arts at Shanghai University in China ...
(Jul 25, 2018, The Advertiser)
Corrections & Amplifications
Christie's International sold $877 million of contemporary art during the first half of 2018, up 14% compared with the year-earlier period, but its sales of Asian art fell 33%. A Life & Arts article on Tuesday about Christie's sales incorrectly said ...
(Jul 25, 2018, Wall Street Journal)
SENTIENT JET AND SOTHEBY'S ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE HAMPTONS WEEKEND EVENT FOR CONTEMPORARY ...
SENTIENT JET AND SOTHEBY'S ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE HAMPTONS WEEKEND EVENT FOR CONTEMPORARY ...
(Jul 25, 2018, Artvoice)
China Gay力: Show Your Pride With the Best Upcoming LGBTQ+ Beijing Events
One of the first exhibitions in Destination's fledgling Contemporary Art Culture Centre, Private Talent showcases a dozen Chinese artists who are involved in the city's queer community as curated by Pierre Alivon (pictured at top). Watch this space for ...
(Jul 26, 2018, The Beijinger (blog))
Artist Zhao Zhao's New Exhibition at Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong
In 2017, Zhao was nominated for the Chinese annual young artist in 11th ACC (Award of Art China) and one of Modern Painters “25 Artists to Watch.” “One Second • One Year” runs from August 8 through September 22, 2018, at Tang Contemporary Art, 10/F, ...
(Jul 26, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
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