SETI Artists in Residence Director Charles Lindsay Update from China
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 targeting. Plus the local artists are smart, generous and fun loving ...
(Sep 19, 2018, SETI Institute)
Shanghai takes center stage in China's burgeoning photography scene
Such closures were relatively common in China during the 1990s, with the state evidently wary of contemporary art. But things have changed dramatically, and, this week, the shuttered exhibition is being re-staged at Photofairs Shanghai, a sprawling ...
(Sep 20, 2018, CNN)
Travelogue: MOCA Yinchuan, an art oasis hidden between Ningxia's deserts and wetlands
There is perhaps no region in China more brimming with surprises than Ningxia. In this desert-locked region, rolling sand dunes and lush wetlands lay side by side. And in between these two topographical phenomena lies yet another unexpected wonder ...
(Sep 20, 2018, CGTN (press release))
The Yangtze Nanjing Contemporary Art Fair Begins in October
To be held from 11 to 14 October, the Yangtze Contemporary Art Fair will be a professional and high-quality art fair held in Nanjing in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere promoting in-depth communication between collectors and galleries. The Fair ...
(Sep 20, 2018, The Nanjinger)
Yangtze Nanjing Contemporary Art Fair Begins in October
To be held from 11 to 14 October, the Yangtze Contemporary Art Fair will be a professional and high-quality art fair held in Nanjing in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere promoting in-depth communication between collectors and galleries. The Fair ...
(Sep 20, 2018, The Nanjinger)
Art Stage Singapore highlights local art in 2019 edition
SINGAPORE - Imagine having your face reflected back at you in surveillance footage as you enter the gallery exhibitions of Art Stage Singapore. That is just one of several ideas Singaporean visual artist Urich Lau is considering for his upcoming ...
(Sep 20, 2018, The Straits Times)
Stanford Acquires Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpture, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Acquires Medieval Art
Last week, the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair made a record total of $21 million in sales. John Mawurndjul's bark painting “Ngalyod – The Rainbow Serpent” (1999) sold for an artist record of $140,ooo. The painting's previous anonymous owner had been ...
(Sep 20, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Shanghai photo fair focuses on up-and-coming artists, with Asian galleries strongly featured
“I hope to highlight the rich 'unofficial' exhibition histories of contemporary art in China, and the role photography and art can play to help illuminate the larger social and cultural landscape of China at that time,” he told the Photofairs Shanghai ...
(Sep 21, 2018, South China Morning Post)
6 Shanghai Art Exhibitions to Check Out This Weekend
Qiao Space is exhibiting over 50 works belonging to collectors of contemporary Chinese art. With a range of paintings, multi-media pieces, sculptures and sketches, the array is a unique look inside the homes (and storage units) of cultural patrons. If ...
(Sep 21, 2018, That's Online)
Art Movements
Ai Weiwei returns to the United States, Salvator Mundi's origins are revealed, and Chinese antiquities evade Trump's tariffs. .... Opening next month on October 17, 2018, the new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at Virginia Commonwealth University ...
(Sep 21, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Art fair's eye on Singapore
Imagine having your face reflected back at you in surveillance footage as you enter the gallery exhibitions of Art Stage Singapore. That is just one of several ideas Singaporean visual artist Urich Lau is considering for his upcoming project for ...
(Sep 21, 2018, The Straits Times)
The Art World This Week: Chinese Art Spared From Trade Wars, Elon Musk's Plan to Send Artists to the Moon, and Ol ...
The Art World This Week: Chinese Art Spared From Trade Wars, Elon Musk's Plan to Send Artists to the Moon, and Ol ...
(Sep 21, 2018, MutualArt.com)
Hong Kong auction houses hope for a bumper autumn, despite economic jitters amid US-China trade war
Chinese painters who went to France before the second world war continue to dominate modern and contemporary art sales. Wing On Street – Cloth Alley (1990) is not a Wu Guanzhong masterpiece, but it is a crowd-pleaser. The ink-and-colour drawing ...
(Sep 23, 2018, South China Morning Post)
Romuald Hazoumè, Gagosian, Park & 75th, New York
Artistic redistribution of consumer objects is increasingly a significant mode of production in contemporary art. South African Nobukho Nqaba and Zimbabweans Dan Halter and Gerald Machona have all used “China bags” or “Chinese totes”—mesh bags ...
(Sep 23, 2018, Forbes)
The South London Gallery's new Fire Station annexe and the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art cement south of ...
The South London Gallery's new Fire Station annexe and the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art cement south of ...
(Sep 24, 2018, Telegraph.co.uk)
Art Industry News: Takashi Murakami Says Even Famous Artists Feel 'Like Crying for Help' + Other Stories
Murakami wrote on it, “Right at this moment, as I write this text on this painting…I feel like crying for help.” He tells the South China Morning Post about the pressure he feels at all times: “I can get the big project, big money, but every month I'm ...
(Sep 24, 2018, artnet News)
9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week
At this event, Barbara Pollack will discuss her new book, Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise, which focuses on the Chinese contemporary art world. Pollack, a longtime ARTnews contributor who has profiled collector Michael Xufu Huang and ...
(Sep 24, 2018, ARTnews)
Artists Remix and Riff Off Oberlin's Architecture
As part of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, artists have transformed the Oberlin College campus with sculptural reflections on architecture. .... on the floor in vinyl, and Araujo's attempts to insert himself into the ...
(Sep 24, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Noah Becker Talks to Architect Chuanjingwei Wang About Animal Care Facility Design
Wang: I was born and raised in Wuhan, China, which is a dynamic city. The humidity, history and ebullience of the city created a ... Wang: Contemporary art has considerably influenced my design. Its structural ambiguity, material collage, and ...
(Sep 24, 2018, whitehotmagazine.com)
Takashi Murakami Opens Up About the Pressure of Being a High-Profile Artist
Earlier this year, his show The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago reigned in record-breaking numbers at the museum, becoming the most visited show in its history. Probing his success, Murakami told the South China ...
(Sep 24, 2018, Hyperallergic)
Beishan Broadcast Wall: Taiwan's eerie sonic weapon
One sunny summer afternoon, a group of 30 people line up to enter a mysterious concrete tower on a small island at the northern tip of Taiwan. They are not curious tourists waiting to take a peek at the three-storey structure made up of 48 loudspeakers ...
(Sep 25, 2018, BBC News)
'Weirdly mouth watering': Art Gallery of NSW to host touring treasure
And now the prosaically named Meat-shaped stone is headed to Sydney in February, part of the gallery's first ticketed exhibition for the New Year, entitled Heaven and earth in Chinese art: treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei. The first ...
(Sep 25, 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald)
From a Late Night Eruption at Berlin's Infamous Berghain Club to Fifty Shades of Simon Fujiwara, Here Are 8 Things ...
From a Late Night Eruption at Berlin's Infamous Berghain Club to Fifty Shades of Simon Fujiwara, Here Are 8 Things ...
(Sep 25, 2018, artnet News)
Editors' Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York's Art World This Week
Join award-winning journalist, art critic, and curator Barbara Pollack, one of the foremost experts on contemporary Chinese art as she discusses her new book, Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise. As a new generation of young Chinese ...
(Sep 25, 2018, artnet News)
From Black Cat Alley to China Lights
On the final exam in my contemporary art class, I ask my students to make the case that Taco Bell's Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco Supreme is both the best and the worst food ever imagined. There's no objective answer, of course, but I always hope ...
(Sep 25, 2018, Shepherd Express)
Artist Li Yiwen is Making Erotic Chinese Ink Stamps
If you want to make sure a document is really going to be worth anything in China, you've got to get it “chopped”, i.e. stamped with red ink from a company or organization's seal. Where in the West a scrawled signature makes a contract legally binding, ...
(Sep 26, 2018, RADII (blog))
Chinese Whispers: A unique look at Uli Sigg's collection of contemporary Chinese art
Legendary pioneer and art collector Uli Sigg has been following the development of contemporary art in China since the late 1970s, collecting many artworks along the way. Now you can see more than 100 of these works in a new exhibition at MAK in Vienna ...
(Sep 26, 2018, Creative Boom (blog))
7th Berlin Art Week kicks off
BERLIN, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Seventh Berlin Art Week kicked off on Wednesday, presenting a variety of contemporary art programs from all over the world. This year's Berlin Art Week features two trade fairs, fifteen exhibition halls, countless ...
(Sep 26, 2018, China.org.cn)
Art Insider: Johnson Chang
Johnson is widely regarded as the person who kick-started global interest in Chinese contemporary art, turning painters such as Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi and Fang Lijun into international sensations by curating era-defining exhibitions such as "The ...
(Sep 27, 2018, Hong Kong Tatler)
Power Station of Art
... Southeast University and Architectural Society of Shanghai. It is the first presentation of historical archives, which systematically aim at the rise and development of modern Chinese architecture by a contemporary art institution in China. By ...
(Sep 27, 2018, E-Flux)
The weird and whimsical worlds of Mika Rottenberg
Arriving at the newly opened Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (Goldsmiths CCA) earlier this month, members of the press were hurried past a small group of students, who were handing out print-outs, blowing vuvuzela horns and holding up a large ...
(Sep 27, 2018, Apollo Magazine)
Inaugural Edition of Taipei Dangdai Fair Announces Exhibitor List
Some 90 galleries will participate in the first edition of Taipei Dangdai, a new fair set to kick off in Taiwan on January 18, 2019. Led by Magnus Renfrew, the former director of Art Basel Hong Kong, the fair has, in its inaugural edition, drawn a ...
(Sep 27, 2018, ARTnews)
Yantai hosts 'Sino-British Contemporary Art Exhibition'
... the exhibition's organizers, the Sino-British Contemporary Art Exhibition aims to be an important platform for promoting cultural interaction between the two countries and stimulating independent and rational thought among artists in both China and ...
(Sep 28, 2018, Global Times)
Art Industry News: Ai Weiwei Discusses the Chinese Government's 'Surreal' Destruction of His Beijing Studio + Other ...
Art Industry News: Ai Weiwei Discusses the Chinese Government's 'Surreal' Destruction of His Beijing Studio + Other ...
(Sep 28, 2018, artnet News)
Aussie artists eye cashed-up Chinese buyers spending big on contemporary art
China's wealthy citizens have been splashing out on real estate and luxury cars. Now they are turning to contemporary Western art to show off their cultural sophistication. Topics. Contemporary Art · China. Featured Stories. Features. A slice of orange ...
(Sep 28, 2018, ABC News)
Meet the FOCers: Chinese Tourists Flock to Fashion Outlets of Chicago
Targeting the Chinese luxury traveler demographic with contemporary art is smart because those consumers have become much more attuned to the art of living artists recently, and they're generally excited by retailers that offer them unique and ...
(Sep 28, 2018, Jing Daily)
Australian artists compete for slice of China's burgeoning appetite for contemporary art
In 2010 he completed his first artistic residency in Beijing and since then has been part of numerous exhibitions across China, including Art Basel Hong Kong, Asia's leading contemporary art fair. "Every time I've been to China, looking at the art ...
(Sep 28, 2018, ABC News)
Affordable Art Fair kicks off in New York
Vanessa Seis, Director of Affordable Art Fair NYC, said "we are contemporary art fair, and we sell contemporary works by living artists under 10,000 dollars. It is our mission to make art more accessible for everyone." "So far the fair is going well ...
(Sep 28, 2018, China.org.cn)
Brisbane inspires two-storey high art in conceptual 'map' on the wall at GOMA
Qiu's Map of Technology Ethics — an enormous ink drawing on a wall of Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) — combines Chinese calligraphy with the map-making traditions of 17th and 18th century explorers. Speaking to the ABC shortly after ...
(Sep 29, 2018, ABC Local)
Perrotin Shanghai art gallery opens with Wim Delvoye solo show
In the case of Perrotin Shanghai (see W* Nov 2018) showcasing Belgian neo-conceptual artist Wim Delvoye, it also speaks volumes about China's rapidly diversifying tastes in contemporary art. Belgian-born Wim Delvoye already has a notorious reputation ...
(Sep 29, 2018, Wallpaper*)
Australian artists compete for slice of China's burgeoning appetite for contemporary art
In 2010 he completed his first artistic residency in Beijing and since then has been part of numerous exhibitions across China, including Art Basel Hong Kong, Asia's leading contemporary art fair. "Every time I've been to China, looking at the art ...
(Sep 30, 2018, ABC News)
Sixth Wuzhen Theatre Festival Coming in October
The medium of expression spans multiple forms including contemporary art, experimental drama, multimedia imagery and pantomime. The festival will open with Tea ... Young Theatre Artists Competition - Demonstrating its achievements in nurturing the ...
(Sep 30, 2018, PR Newswire (press release))
The most avant-garde Chinese theatre group - "Meng Jinghui's Theatre" - tours the US in November
This tour, organized by Seattle-based independent lifestyle magazine WEGET Magazine and Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, will open in Seattle, tour along the west coast cities San Francisco and Los Angeles and eventually end in the east coast in ...
(Sep 30, 2018, PR Newswire (press release))
Newest skyscraper in China looks like a giant penis, gets mocked online with phallic comments
China has some of the most fascinating architecture in the world, boasting grand designs and awe-inspiring styles that has even caught the eye of Chinese president Xi Jinping. But one newly-opened skyscraper in the province of Guanxi has everyone ...
(Sep 30, 2018, SoraNews24)
Palm Beach, Florida: A Love Story Of Two Museums
After his first wife's death, Norton married Ann in 1948 and the two worked to consolidate The Norton's reputation as one of the country's finest art collections with over 7,000 pieces in European, Chinese and contemporary art. Ann herself worked ...
(Sep 30, 2018, Forbes)
China's popular theatrical artist to entertain US audience with classical contemporary Chinese drama
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Famous contemporary Chinese theatrical director Meng Jinghui will start a month-long tour to the U.S. in November, which will allow American drama-lovers to engage directly with most appealing theatrical ...
(Oct 1, 2018, Xinhua)
$65 million Chinese oil painting leads one of Asia's largest ever art auctions
Born in Beijing before moving to Paris after World War II, Zao is known for combining classical Chinese painting techniques with the abstract influences of Western modernism. Sunday's auction result "crowns (him as the) king of Asian oil painters ...
(Oct 1, 2018, CNN)
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