Why Young Chinese Artists Are Avoiding Political Art
“Ten years ago there was a tendency to read Chinese art as a direct commentary on Chinese sociopolitical conditions,” Philip Tinari, the director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, said. “Now there is more appetite to look at it as ...
(Jul 26, 2018, The Atlantic)
Discover The Spiritual, Mind-Opening And Controversial Work Of Chinese Artist Zhang Huan, Part 2
Born in 1965 in the central province of Henan, Zhang Huan grew up in rural poverty during the days of Maoist indoctrination. Recognized for his exceptional drawing skills, he started special art training at the age of 14. Back then, art education in ...
(Jul 26, 2018, Forbes)
Rhana Devenport to Lead the Art Gallery of South Australia
Previously, she served as director of Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for seven years, as manager of public programs for the Biennale of Sydney, and as senior project officer for the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Devenport ...
(Jul 26, 2018, Artforum)
Emrgence - A Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition - NOW Magazine
The Emergence - A Contemporary Chinese Art exhibition will run from Aug 11-21 atToronto Centre for the Arts. The art forum will be held at the Debate Room in ...
(Jul 26, 2018, NOW Magazine)
Six de Koonings Found in a Storage Unit, and 355 Works Worth $480M Donated to Hong Kong Museum of Art
David Killen, a New York art dealer, purchased the contents of an abandoned storage unit in New Jersey for $15,000 and thinks he may have acquired six previously unknown paintings by Willem de Kooning. Inside the unit were unclaimed works from the ...
(Jul 26, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Photofairs pushes boundaries of photography
It proved to be a turning point in the Shanghai art scene as it brought together artists who are today recognized as pivotal in the development of Chinese contemporary art and of a larger artistic network in the region. Wang's re-imagining of the 1999 ...
(Jul 27, 2018, Shine News (press release))
Photo of the Day: Floating Ancient Faces at M WOODS
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. For its latest show, private 798 museum M WOODS takes a break from its regularly ...
(Jul 27, 2018, RADII)
Summer Heat: Mendive in the Bronx, Poblet in Havana, Domenech in Miami
IN HAVANA… XXY at the Gran Teatro. Just opened last week, XXY, Humo y espejo (Smoke and Mirror) features 24 artists in the collection of the Consejo Nacional de Artes Plástica. Curated by María Carla Olivera, the show is “un llamado al Ser y a ...
(Jul 27, 2018, Cuban Art News)
Grand Touring: Luxury Travel's the New Prada Bag for Young Chinese
The company's trips carry themes from “Aristocratic Britain” (events include grouse shooting) to “Napoleon and the Birth of Modern Europe” (a highlight is a tour of the Waterloo battlefield) to a look at the UK contemporary art scene. It includes ...
(Jul 27, 2018, Jing Daily)
How Contemporary Female Artists Are Grappling with Sexual Violence in Their Work
Then we speak to arts journalist Barbara Pollack, who has a new book on the emerging generation of Chinese contemporary artists. Titled Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise, the book — her third on the topic — is published by I. B ...
(Jul 27, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Artists Stage a Contemporary Art “Black Market” in Tokyo
TOKYO — On July 21 and 22, the art collective Chaos Lounge held the first Contemporary Art Black Market at the “art factory” BUCKLE KÔBÔ in Tokyo. The event was organized to address an existential question that haunts Japanese artists: Is art possible ...
(Jul 27, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Photo of the Day: Blocks of Blockchain at Long March
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. Sitting on the theory-heavy end of the exhibition spectrum is Special Economic Zone, ...
(Jul 28, 2018, RADII)
A safe haven for Chinese artists, three unorthodox Beijing art spaces provide a place to create and exchange ideas ...
A safe haven for Chinese artists, three unorthodox Beijing art spaces provide a place to create and exchange ideas ...
(Jul 28, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Rhana Devenport to Lead Art Gallery of South Australia
Previously, she was director of Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for seven years, manager of public programs at the Biennale of Sydney, and senior project officer at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Devenport also curated ...
(Jul 28, 2018, Artforum)
Photo of the Day: Unironic Selfie Worship at Parkview Green 798
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 close this week's photo series out with an exhibit for Barcelona-based artist Joan ...
(Jul 29, 2018, RADII)
'The Art of Resistance' – Painting by candlelight in Mao's China
It is hard to believe that 50 years have elapsed since the Cultural Revolution set off a storm of chaos in China. Shelley Drake Hawks describes fascinating anecdotes gleaned from artists, family members, academics and memoirs. The Art of Resistance ...
(Jul 29, 2018, The International Examiner)
Grand Touring: Luxury Travel's the New Prada Bag for Young Chinese
The company's trips carry themes from “Aristocratic Britain” (events include grouse shooting) to “Napoleon and the Birth of Modern Europe” (a highlight is a tour of the Waterloo battlefield) to a look at the UK contemporary art scene. It includes ...
(Jul 30, 2018, Jing Travel)
In today's art auctions, the 'male gaze' is going out of fashion
The market for contemporary art is, for example, being transformed by some curators' desire to rehabilitate underrepresented names, particularly female and African-American artists. Similar imperatives are driving museum purchases of pre-20th century ...
(Jul 30, 2018, The Independent)
EGGY the cat woos the market
At university, Li spent swathes of time in the library reading a wide range of books covering photography, design and Chinese geomancy, the practice of searching for appropriate locations based on the "Book of Changes." Upon graduation, he worked from ...
(Jul 31, 2018, China.org.cn)
Master of his own universe
“I didn't hear [anyone], I was [focussed on] the painting,” Sun says later, stepping into the concourse outside Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art once he has expended his reserve of ink. “Even when my friends called me, I [wouldn't] know. ... Sun, 38 ...
(Jul 31, 2018, GRAZIA AUSTRALIA (press release) (blog))
Art Fair East to return to Norwich for a fourth year
The fair - which has previously brought signed editions by Banksy and other famous artists to the region - is open to artists, dealers and galleries interested in exhibiting all manner of contemporary art including painting, sculpture, drawing ...
(Jul 31, 2018, Norfolk Eastern Daily Press)
After months of turmoil, Museum of Contemporary Art gets a new director with ties to New York's famed MoMA
After months of turmoil, including the firing of its chief curator and the announced departure of its current director, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has chosen its next director: Klaus Biesenbach, chief curator at large at New York's ...
(Jul 31, 2018, Los Angeles Times)
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