Winde unveils tourism strategy to create 100‚000 jobs
We are also hosting this briefing at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa‚ which is one of our most exciting new attractions.” Winde said that through Project Khulisa‚ tourism had been identified as one of the focus sectors for the province ...
(Sep 1, 2015, Times LIVE)
Museum Exhibitions in Orange County and Laguna Beach
Travelling to China a few months before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, I was very intrigued by the intensity of the contemporary art scene there. Particularly impressive for me was the work of young Chinese photographers and video artists, whose works ...
(Sep 1, 2015, Huffington Post)
Collector Adrian Cheng to Build Seventeen Malls in China with Art Exhibition ...
Collector Adrian Cheng to Build Seventeen Malls in China with Art Exhibition ...
(Sep 2, 2015, Artforum)
Bloomberg News Sacks 80 Journalists, Including A Critic Of Bloomberg News
Bloomberg is building a massive new campus in central London; its flower-and-fish festooned New York headquarters on Lexington Avenue, with its curving escalator and contemporary art, is an impressive testament to success and power. And while all news ...
(Sep 2, 2015, Deadline)
House Hunting in ...Germany
With around 3.4 million residents, according to a 2015 housing report by Berlin Hyp and CBRE banks, the city has three opera houses, a thriving contemporary art scene with about 600 galleries, dozens of theaters, myriad cultural activities and a ...
(Sep 2, 2015, New York Times)
5 Chinese Artists for Every Collector
The Chinese art market is growing rapidly, and to highlight these changing market trends, artnet will be publishing a report in mid-September, offering an in-depth analysis of the market over the last year. In anticipation of this report, we have put ...
(Sep 2, 2015, artnet News)
China is changing rapidly both economically and religiously. One art curator ...
China is changing rapidly both economically and religiously. One art curator ...
(Sep 3, 2015, Washington Post)
China is changing rapidly both economically and religiously. One art curator ...
China is changing rapidly both economically and religiously. One art curator ...
(Sep 3, 2015, Washington Post)
Hongtao Li Continues Conquest of the Art World
lth0 Chinese abstract painter Hongtao Li (right) is shown with Adriano Madaro, president of Cassamarca museum in Treviso, Italy, during his triumphant exhibition in July. Li's art has been critically and commercially acclaimed all over the world. His ...
(Sep 3, 2015, Asian Fortune)
The Art of Capital Flight
CAMBRIDGE – What impact will China's slowdown have on the red-hot contemporary art market? That might not seem like an obvious question, until one considers that, for emerging-market investors, art has become a critical tool for facilitating capital ...
(Sep 4, 2015, Project Syndicate)
Beijing's 798 Art Zone: Must-see tips from Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres
LEARN: Home to some of the best-known art spaces in China, be sure to visit UCCA, a not-for-profit centre founded by Belgian art collectors Myriam and Guy Ullens that has greatly advanced attention on Chinese contemporary art. Check out international ...
(Sep 4, 2015, The Australian)
Photos of the Day: Sept. 2, 2015
Indian drivers as they take a bath at Barabazar during a 24 hour general strike in Calcutta, India, September 2, 2015. A strike called by 10 trade unions in India saw schools and colleges closed, traffic light and some clashes in the eastern state of ...
(Sep 4, 2015, The Seattle Times)
Opinion: Will China's slowdown kill the market for high-priced art?
Just five months ago, Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, told an audience in Singapore that contemporary art has become one of the two most important stores of wealth internationally, along with apartments in ...
(Sep 4, 2015, MarketWatch)
5 best bets for a Staten Island Sunday: From the fair to the boardwalk
Presented in Tibetan, Chinese and English with subtitles. Run time: 104 minutes. ... Embrace emerging artists: Come check out new works coming out of the Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art. This season's ...
(Sep 6, 2015, SILive.com)
How China slowdown could burst the art bubble
What impact will China's slowdown have on the red-hot contemporary art market? That might not seem like an obvious question until one considers that for emerging-market investors, art has become a critical tool for facilitating capital flight and ...
(Sep 7, 2015, EJ Insight)
An Opinionated Chinese Art Critic Who Breaks the Mold
Based out of Chengdu, a city of 14 million people and a regional art center of China, ARTWOCA's raucous, slang-heavy articles (all written in Chinese) circulate widely in the city's art community and beyond. The writing is ... Gallery directors I spoke ...
(Sep 7, 2015, Hyperallergic)
Wuzhen Tourism Co., Ltd. Announces 2015/16 Winter Visitor Schedule
WUZHEN, China, Sept. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With the Christmas holidays just a few months away, Wuzhen Tourism Board is releasing its event schedule for 2015 with the aim of introducing visitors to the ancient water town's distinctive cultural and ...
(Sep 7, 2015, PR Newswire (press release))
Early Fall at American University Museum: Craft as Fine Art, Contemporary ...
Early Fall at American University Museum: Craft as Fine Art, Contemporary ...
(Sep 8, 2015, Newswise (press release))
SAMA goes big with Chinese art exhibit
Organized by the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, “28 Chinese” is the result of six research trips to China and more than 100 studio visits by Mera and Don Rubell, who own one of the largest private contemporary art collections in the world. The show ...
(Sep 8, 2015, San Antonio Express-News (subscription))
How China's slowdown could burst the international art collector bubble
What impact will China's slowdown have on the red-hot contemporary art market? That might not seem like an obvious question, until one considers that, for emerging-market investors, art has become a critical tool for facilitating capital flight and ...
(Sep 8, 2015, The Australian Financial Review)
'28 Chinese' exhibit comes to SAMA
Porcelain bowls, silk tapestries and delicate ink landscapes are not present in “28 Chinese,” the new contemporary Chinese art exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Instead, pieces that decontextualize everyday objects and tradional mediums ...
(Sep 9, 2015, UTSA The Paisano)
Sydney Contemporary: Art fair predicted to relieve collectors of $10 million
Art lovers of all breeds – from the casual admirer to the jet-setting, cashed-up art collector – are being courted by the Sydney Contemporary art fair. Ninety galleries from as far afield as China, Singapore, United States and Chile will show thousands ...
(Sep 9, 2015, Sydney Morning Herald)
Luminaria plans rolling along
The admission price will be in place, though the surcharge to see “28 Chinese,” the museum's current blockbuster showcasing contemporary Chinese art, will be waived both nights. “We are thrilled to have it here,” said SAMA director Katie Luber. “We ...
(Sep 9, 2015, mySanAntonio.com)
Dramatic Art Show and Reception
Lew was born in Shanghai, China, where he studied traditional and contemporary Chinese art with master painter Cheng Shifa. He later worked as a staff painter at the International Gallery in central Hong Kong while attending Hong Kong University's art ...
(Sep 10, 2015, Livermore Independent)
China's attempts to suppress artist Ai Weiwei will be tested when his new ...
China's attempts to suppress artist Ai Weiwei will be tested when his new ...
(Sep 10, 2015, The Australian Financial Review)
Daimler Contemporary
These events will be concerned with the works of individual artists, but above all with issues relating to current developments in Chinese contemporary art. A key event in the supporting program is a symposium in Berlin, where high-profile experts from ...
(Sep 10, 2015, E-Flux)
'First look' into breathtaking pieces at Asian Art Museum
“First Look” is conceptually and aesthetically elegant, exploring how contemporary art comes from a lineage of Asian histories and traditions. ... It is Chinese tradition, which is emphasized by red, a color associated with luck and joy in Chinese ...
(Sep 10, 2015, Daily Californian)
Artist Sun Liangang Wants to Cultivate the Next Generation of Geniuses
Artist and entrepreneur Sun Liangang is partially responsible for the impressive expansion of the contemporary Chinese art world. After all, he helped develop Caochangdi, an arts district known as "Beijing's Williamsburg," where dissident artist Ai ...
(Sep 10, 2015, artnet News)
Billionaire Investor Wilbur Ross: 'I Don't See China Exploding'
But billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, an avid Chinese contemporary art collector with years of investment experience in China, thinks that the situation is not as unsettling as some of his fellow billionaires have described. Ross sat down with FORBES ...
(Sep 10, 2015, Forbes)
USC Pacific Asia Museum presents international ceramic exhibit for first time ...
USC Pacific Asia Museum presents international ceramic exhibit for first time ...
(Sep 11, 2015, The Pasadena Star-News)
K11 to Juxtapose Dalí with Contemporary Chinese Art
While “Media — Dalí” will consist of some 240 works that span the entirety of Dalí's illustrious Surrealist career, the two complementary exhibitions are intended to allude to the towering influence of Surrealism on contemporary Chinese art production ...
(Sep 11, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
A rare Claude Monet water lily reunion at Cleveland Museum of Art highlights ...
A rare Claude Monet water lily reunion at Cleveland Museum of Art highlights ...
(Sep 11, 2015, cleveland.com)
Professor of Economics at Harvard University Kenneth Rogoff: The Art of ...
Professor of Economics at Harvard University Kenneth Rogoff: The Art of ...
(Sep 12, 2015, Jewish Business News)
BYU MOA's 'No Place Like Home' exhibit brings contemporary art's big-hitters ...
BYU MOA's 'No Place Like Home' exhibit brings contemporary art's big-hitters ...
(Sep 13, 2015, Daily Herald)
500 Best Galleries 2015: Beijing and China
There is a huge reshuffle within the Chinese contemporary art world, and this is a great time to stop just listening to the market-driven speculators and to be open to new creations in the Asian region. Name the last great book you read, art-related or ...
(Sep 13, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
A Departure for Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy in London
“So much of his practice is about cultural artifacts as readymades — the material produce of Chinese culture, or the sets of skills that are behind those objects, being repurposed,” said Philip Tinari, director of Beijing's Ullens Center for ...
(Sep 14, 2015, International New York Times)
Christie's Takes Fresh Approach To Emerging Chinese Contemporary Artists in ...
Christie's Takes Fresh Approach To Emerging Chinese Contemporary Artists in ...
(Sep 14, 2015, artnet News)
Look close: There's an invisible man standing in the middle of these photos
An unlimited number of times — if you're Chinese artist Liu Bolin. A full decade on from ... But in the contemporary art world, an artist that draws international fame, often faces the danger of being pigeon-holed into repeating the same act. Liu ...
(Sep 14, 2015, FOX31 Denver)
Christie's Takes Fresh Approach to Emerging Chinese Contemporary Artists in ...
Christie's Takes Fresh Approach to Emerging Chinese Contemporary Artists in ...
(Sep 15, 2015, Jing Daily)
Venus Lau Named Artistic Director of OCAT Shenzhen
Venus Lau has been named the artistic director of OCAT Shenzhen. A Beijing, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong-based curator and writer, Lau has won the Chinese Contemporary Art Award for Critics. She is a contributing editor to LEAP magazine and has written ...
(Sep 15, 2015, Artforum)
500 Best Galleries 2015: Beijing and Hong Kong
At the end of the decade I felt that the time had come to open a gallery in New York devoted to contemporary Chinese art. There was increasing international interest [in Chinese art] but no outlet for it in the U.S.A. I was taking a risk, but from the ...
(Sep 15, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Ink Remix: contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
And yet, these are the contemporary inflections that are being assigned to traditional Chinese ink art over the past decade, led by a new generation of artists who are using the medium to challenge the tradition and its perceptions, and to ruminate on ...
(Sep 15, 2015, ArtsHub (subscription))
Review: “Copyleft Appropriation Art in China”
With upwards of 100 million counterfeit goods being produced annually, China today has a much-maligned reputation for being the world's low-cost factory of everyday products. With clockwork efficiency, these cheap knockoffs magically appear on the ...
(Sep 16, 2015, BLOUIN ARTINFO)
Kenneth Rogoff: The art of capital flight
What impact will China's slowdown have on the red-hot contemporary art market? That might not seem like an obvious question, until one considers that, for emerging-market investors, art has become a critical tool for facilitating capital flight and ...
(Sep 16, 2015, Business Standard)
Banned Chinese Films to Unspool in Hamburg Despite Growing Pressure From Beijing
Founded in 2004 by Li, a renowned curator and critic of Chinese contemporary art and film, BIFF became a well-known forum for independent cinema in the country and had regular run-ins with Chinese authorities over the years until it was finally shut ...
(Sep 16, 2015, Variety)
New works invigorate Asian Art Museum
Arranged in three main galleries by somewhat broad themes, the modern works – by artists from Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and the U.S. — include photography, video, installations, ink paintings, baskets and ...
(Sep 17, 2015, San Francisco Examiner)
Hiding in plain sight: Works of Chinese artist, world's 'invisible man' come ...
Hiding in plain sight: Works of Chinese artist, world's 'invisible man' come ...
(Sep 17, 2015, Traverse City Record Eagle)
Class connotation: Liu Wei's 'Silver' at White Cube, Hong Kong
Hong Kong's current love affair with contemporary Chinese art continues with a freshly unveiled solo exhibition of mirrored sculptures, collage and a 'shape-shifting' video by the Beijing-based artist Liu Wei, at the city's White Cube outpost. The ...
(Sep 17, 2015, wallpaper.com)
Flashback: Sen. Sanders' 2011 'war on Chinese bobbleheads' in Smithsonian gift ...
Flashback: Sen. Sanders' 2011 'war on Chinese bobbleheads' in Smithsonian gift ...
(Sep 18, 2015, American Enterprise Institute)
Sinosphere | PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese
Many people, including Chinese readers, will recognize some of the names. They include the writers Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Susan Orlean, Ian McEwan, Paul Auster and Art Spiegelman. Chinese-born novelists are present, too — Ha ...
(Sep 18, 2015, New York Times (blog))
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