Art Industry News: Art Dealer Who Had an Affair With Princess Diana Dies + Other Stories
The $16,000 award is an initiative by the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China. (Artforum). David and Yuko Juda Foundation First Prize Winner Announced – Irish artist Kathy Prendergast is the ...
(Sep 11, 2018, artnet News)
Cao Fei gets double exposure with two exhibitions on home territory
A hollow in a world too full (until 9 December) is also the Chinese multimedia artist's first major institutional show in greater China, the precursor to a larger retrospective at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing in 2020. The ...
(Sep 11, 2018, Art Newspaper)
New Orleans Museum of Art Gifted More Than 1300 Works from Tina Freeman Collection
The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China, announced that the Brussels-based duo LarbitsSisters has won the first-ever NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize. The annual $16,000 award ...
(Sep 11, 2018, Artforum)
A Danish LEGO House, a South African art museum, and a Chinese village are among the Beazley Designs of the Year ...
A Danish LEGO House, a South African art museum, and a Chinese village are among the Beazley Designs of the Year ...
(Sep 11, 2018, Archinect)
Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts Fears Closure After Fire Devastates Art School
The Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China, announced that the Brussels-based duo LarbitsSisters has won the first-ever NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize. The annual $16,000 award ...
(Sep 12, 2018, Artforum)
LarbitsSisters Win Inaugural NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize
The inaugural NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize has been awarded to the Brussels-based duo LarbitsSisters by the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan, China. The NOVA Prize, awarded annually, ...
(Sep 12, 2018, ArtfixDaily)
Here's the Exhibitor List for 2018 ART021 Fair in Shanghai
ART021 co-founder David Chau stated in a release, “As one of the leading art fairs in China, we're proud to grow our international focus while continuing in our commitment to supporting the local ecosystem by presenting contemporary art by China-based ...
(Sep 12, 2018, ARTnews)
All The Details: Artist Ai Weiwei's Los Angeles Takeover Featuring Three Fall Exhibits
His long list of accolades include the lifetime achievement award from the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (2008), Honorary Academician status at the Royal Academy of Arts (2011), the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights ...
(Sep 12, 2018, Haute Living)
Contemporary art exhibition Shared History
RIGA - Contemporary art exhibition Shared History, organized by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, will take place at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6) from 22 September to 30 November 2018. Inhabiting spaces of the permanent ...
(Sep 13, 2018, Baltic Times)
Chinese artists debut at Saatchi Gallery in London
Will to Faith is the latest in a series of curated projects from START that reflect the fair's global agenda and furthers the reputation of this exciting contemporary art fair by combining credible and critically acclaimed exhibitions alongside a ...
(Sep 13, 2018, Global Times)
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair Announces Participating Galleries For Sixth Edition, November 8-11, 2018
Shanghai, China, September 12, 2018—ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair will return to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre for its sixth annual edition from Thursday, November 8 to Sunday, November 11, 2018. 103 premier galleries from 30 cities ...
(Sep 13, 2018, Dallasweekly)
What is Art Basel? A Guide to the World's Biggest International Art Fair
Since 1970, creators, collectors, and dealers of contemporary art have congregated at Art Basel, the world's biggest art fair. Intended to spotlight the top ... contemporary art fair. It is held once a year in three host cities—Basel in Switzerland ...
(Sep 13, 2018, My Modern Met)
Contemporary Chinese artists feature at Sydney fair - Xinhua ...
Contemporary Chinese artists feature at Sydney fair - Xinhua ...
(Sep 14, 2018, Xinhua)
Chengdu Parcours Art Festival Opens at Chengdu IFS, revealing Art to the Public
With the theme "Chengdu Impressions: Two Cities Tied by Art", the event brings the spirit and concept of the Paris Parcours Festival to Chengdu, "Making art an integral part of life", showcasing contemporary art installations of impressive artistic ...
(Sep 14, 2018, PR Newswire (press release))
Auction Preview: Contemporary Art at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Oct 1
What: Contemporary Art. Where: Sotheby's, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong. When: Oct 1, 1:00 PM HKT. Public Viewing: Fri, 28 Sep 18 | 10:00 AM - 05:30 PM HKT, Sat, 29 Sep 18 | 10:00 AM - 08:00 PM HKT, Sun, 30 Sep 18 | 10:00 AM - 08:00 PM ...
(Sep 14, 2018, Blouinartinfo)
Art Movements
LarbitsSisters has won the first-ever NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize from the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation and the Big House Contemporary Art Center in Wuhan, China. The annual award grants $16,000 to artists working with future-oriented ...
(Sep 14, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
London's newest public gallery, Goldsmiths Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), opened last weekend—to perhaps the wrong kind of fanfare—in a former plant-works building converted by the Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble. Its ...
(Sep 14, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Xu Bing: Creating a book about social commentary on literary culture
... to China. The reason behind his back-and-forth is simple: he wants to be where the energy is! Philip Tinari, the director and CEO of UCCA, and co-curator of the exhibition, understands that feeling well. In fact, Philip's connection to Chinese ...
(Sep 14, 2018, CGTN (press release))
Quintessentially Chinese art gives way to a global identity
It was just a lucky coincidence that his exploration of this material coincided with the arrival of Western curators and collectors eager to find “Chinese-ness” in Chinese contemporary art. I was struck during this encounter by the vast difference ...
(Sep 14, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Quintessentially Chinese art gives way to a global identity
It was just a lucky coincidence that his exploration of this material coincided with the arrival of Western curators and collectors eager to find “Chinese-ness” in Chinese contemporary art. I was struck during this encounter by the vast difference ...
(Sep 14, 2018, Art Newspaper)
The 5 Power Moves Transforming the Art Market This Fall
's Chop Suey (1929), a depiction of two women in pillbox hats waiting for their food at a Chinese restaurant—an iconic and instantly recognizable work of 20th-century American art. A profile of Ebsworth in the November 2007 issue of Seattle Met said ...
(Sep 14, 2018, Artsy)
'THE FATAL CONTRACT' – A CHINESE ... - Digital Journal
"THE FATAL CONTRACT // TRICOAST ENTERTAINMENT"“'THE FATAL CONTRACT' turns out to be a dangerous weapon, where the portrait is the metaphor of ...
(Sep 15, 2018, Digital Journal)
Comic Art, Lianhuanhua & CPEC
Recently, an exhibition of “Classic and Inheritance from traditional Chinese Lianhuanhua to Modern Comic Art” aimed to bring Chinese visual art, Chinese history and development to overseas audience and to promote mutual understanding and friendship ...
(Sep 15, 2018, Pakistan Observer)
Fall arts preview 2018: Top 10 visual art picks this season - The San ...
Fall arts preview 2018: Top 10 visual art picks this season - The San ...
(Sep 15, 2018, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Serbia's 57th October Salon mimics cacophony of contemporary art world in Belgrade
The Chinese art scene is represented by young painter and sculptor Cui Jie, with her painting "Bank of China Building," as well as Cao Fei, whose 42-minute-video "La Town" highlights both the mundaneness and vice of contemporary society through the ...
(Sep 16, 2018, Xinhua)
Detroit Institute of Arts expanding Asian galleries
... will span thousands of years up to the present day in galleries of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Indian and Southeast Asian art, as well as a gallery for Buddhist art across Asia. They will include historical masterpieces and modern and ...
(Sep 16, 2018, Plainview Daily Herald)
in china, OPEN architecture is building an art museum inside a sand dune
in september 2018, the UCCA — china's leading independent institution of contemporary art — announced that it will work in partnership with OPEN to program and operate the museum, which will now be known as the UCCA dune. the exhibitions will be ...
(Sep 16, 2018, Designboom)
Contemporary Chinese artist Huang Yan 'tattoos' Song dynasty-style landscapes on human bodies
Born in 1966 in China's northeastern Jilin province, the mountains of which have greatly influenced his works, Huang started out as a poet. In the early 1990s, he began exploring connections between traditional and contemporary art, and man and nature, ...
(Sep 17, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Father of modern ink-painting talks about his creative concept
“Five years later, I sensed that following and imitating exclusively Western contemporary art trends and styles was wrong. “I felt a powerful calling to promote and develop traditional culture, and began promoting the modernisation of Chinese painting ...
(Sep 17, 2018, The Star Online)
'THE FATAL CONTRACT' - A CHINESE MURDER-MYSTERY, THRILLER + A LOVE STORY IMMERSED IN THE ...
'THE FATAL CONTRACT' - A CHINESE MURDER-MYSTERY, THRILLER + A LOVE STORY IMMERSED IN THE ...
(Sep 17, 2018, MENAFN.COM)
10 Events for History Buffs to Check Out This Fall
At the end of September, the Institute of Contemporary Art is hosting a series of free tours of its feature exhibition, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85. ... September 28, 5:30-7 p.m., China Trade Center, 2 Boylston St., eventbrite ...
(Sep 17, 2018, Boston magazine)
Josh Roth, founder of UTA's fine arts division, dies at 40
Josh Roth, who founded the fine arts division at United Talent Agency and combined a passion for contemporary art with the art of deal making, died over the weekend at age 40. The cause of death was heart failure. Roth founded UTA Fine Arts in 2015 ...
(Sep 17, 2018, Los Angeles Times)
Elliot Davis named new director, ceo of Norton Museum of Art
Founded in 1941, the Norton Museum of Art is recognized for its distinguished holdings in American, European and Chinese art and a continually expanding presence in photography and contemporary art. Its masterpieces of 19th century and 20th century ...
(Sep 17, 2018, WPBF West Palm Beach)
ROLAND AUCTIONS TO SELL FINE JEWELRY, CENTRAL ASIAN, CONTEMPORARY ART, CLASSIC FURNITURE ...
ROLAND AUCTIONS TO SELL FINE JEWELRY, CENTRAL ASIAN, CONTEMPORARY ART, CLASSIC FURNITURE ...
(Sep 17, 2018, ArtfixDaily)
Berlin Art Week
For five days, from September 26-30, 2018, Berlin Art Week will focus on current trends in contemporary art and invite visitors to explore new themes and developments. With the art fairs art berlin and Positions Berlin Art Fair, the ... Beside the ...
(Sep 18, 2018, E-Flux)
5 Contemporary Chinese Artists Inspired By Robert Rauschenberg
When he was eight years old, Qiu Xiaofei's father took him on a day trip to Beijing specifically to see Rauschenberg's “ROCI China” exhibition. “My dad was always curious about contemporary art,” Qiu recalls. “Although he didn't understand [the ...
(Sep 18, 2018, Hong Kong Tatler)
5 Contemporary Chinese Artists Inspired By Robert Rauschenberg
When he was eight years old, Qiu Xiaofei's father took him on a day trip to Beijing specifically to see Rauschenberg's “ROCI China” exhibition. “My dad was always curious about contemporary art,” Qiu recalls. “Although he didn't understand [the ...
(Sep 18, 2018, Hong Kong Tatler)
Our must-see guide to Ningxia – Part 1
The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China's northwest is perhaps one of the country's least understood provinces. Sandwiched awkwardly between Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, the region evokes images of ...
(Sep 18, 2018, CGTN (press release))
Top Artists and Top Artworks Featuring in China Guardian BEIJING: 52nd China Guardian Quarterly Auctions ...
Top Artists and Top Artworks Featuring in China Guardian BEIJING: 52nd China Guardian Quarterly Auctions ...
(Sep 18, 2018, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Yusaku Maezawa: The Japanese billionaire who wants to fly to the Moon
His company recently made headlines after it launched a bodysuit that customers can use to upload their exact body measurements to the clothes shopping site. He has splashed his cash at high-profile contemporary art auctions and paid $110.5m (£84m) ...
(Sep 18, 2018, BBC News)
North Korea directs artists to glorify the state. The paintings are now on view in the South.
Twenty-two paintings by North Korean artists, many held in private collections in China and the United States, are part of South Korea's Gwangju Biennale, which opened this month and runs through November. The exhibition comes amid North Korea's flurry ...
(Sep 18, 2018, Washington Post)
Frick collection invites contemporary artist into its permanent galleries for the first time
The Frick has occasionally shown contemporary art in its temporary exhibition spaces but this is the first time a living artist will present his work in the permanent galleries, which house historic art and furnishings collected by the industrialist ...
(Sep 18, 2018, Art Newspaper)
Banned in 1999, a Legendary Chinese Photography Show Is Restaged
Many of those artists have gone on to become household names of Chinese contemporary art, and a selection of them will present works at the Shanghai Exhibition Center this week, in a recreation of “The Same But Also Changed” for the Insights section of ...
(Sep 18, 2018, Artsy)
A round-up of impressive art shows in Asia from September to October
A sculpture by China's Wang Liwei, titled 'Empty of Characteristics 2', is on display at the Asia Contemporary Art Show. The 13th edition of the Asia Contemporary Art Show is opening its doors on September 29 at the Conrad Hong Kong. More than 2,000 ...
(Sep 19, 2018, South China Morning Post)
College alum donates 'Star Frog Man' art to biggest fans
As renowned Chinese art historian and critic Lu Hong points out, “The wisdom of Zhu Wei's works lies in showing us that when one is pursuing a contemporary expression, the most important thing is to retain the means of a traditional rendition, to ...
(Sep 19, 2018, The Williams record)
K11 Art Foundation and Royal Academy of Arts announce a three-year partnership and Artist-in-Residence Exchange ...
K11 Art Foundation and Royal Academy of Arts announce a three-year partnership and Artist-in-Residence Exchange ...
(Sep 19, 2018, Saudi Gazette)
After Public Hearings, Trump Administration Revises Proposed Tariff ...
After Public Hearings, Trump Administration Revises Proposed Tariff ...
(Sep 19, 2018, Artforum)
Geta Brătescu (1926–2018)
Chinese art removed from Trump's updated trade tariffs | On Monday, art and antiquities made in China were removed from a revised list of Chinese imported goods to the US that are to be subjected to a 10 per cent tariff from 24 September. The original ...
(Sep 19, 2018, Apollo Magazine)
Swiss art sales set a steady, humble pace
Meanwhile, emerging Asian, and mainly Chinese, collectors also prefer to invest in more established artists. For Keller, that is not surprising. “It may take one or two generations of collectors to make bolder moves into contemporary art”. For Swiss ...
(Sep 19, 2018, swissinfo.ch)
SETI Artists in Residence Director Charles Lindsay Update from China
... edge technology and the psychological challenges of climate change. With its ancient history, early adopter culture and intellectual curiosity, China provides a fast track environment for the contemporary art territory which the SETI AIR program is ...
(Sep 19, 2018, SETI Institute)
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