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Dealers Are Busting Out the Blue Chip for Art Basel Hong Kong 2018
27 Mar 2018Dealers are placing their bets on how to best capitalize on Asia’s booming art scene. The sixth edition of Art Basel Hong Kong is kicking off this week with a marquee lineup of works to be sold at the fair and its related events. This year’s fair features 248 galleries, up slightly from 241 galleries last […]
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Chinese Contemporary Artists Lead Luxury Brands into New Territory
24 Mar 2018A new generation of wealthy, globally aware and media-savvy Chinese collectors made its mark in the world of art and it wasn’t long until luxury brands picked up on the cue. If it wasn’t already the case before, it was now clear to the art world and luxury houses alike that China was an essential […]
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The Art Market’s Unstoppable Growth: $63.7 Billion in 2017
21 Mar 2018We’re living in the golden era of unevenly distributed global wealth creation, which, for the art market, means business is booming. As the economist Clare McAndrew outlines in The Art Market | 2018, released by UBS and Art Basel, the global art economy grew for the first time since 2014 with $63.7 billion in total […]
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Zhang Xiaogang: Bloodline Series Index
19 Mar 2018In 2003, A big family series, from Zhang Xiaogang’s Bloodline series, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong for US$76,000. Despite the fact that he had several extremely successful gallery shows two years earlier, in 2003, Zhang had little presence in the secondary market, with only four lots selling at auction. This sale marked the beginning of […]
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Ai Weiwei Exhibits His Latest Installation in Qatar
17 Mar 2018Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is taking his international campaign to express solidarity with the world’s refugees to the Gulf, has opened his first exhibition in the region this month in Qatar. It includes a large-scale installation Laundromat (2016), featuring a collection of thousands of items of clothing worn by refugees, many from Syria attempting to reach asylum in […]
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Gustav Klimt: Painted Sensuality
15 Mar 2018All art is erotic. ” – Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt was seen as an artist who was far ahead of his time, and much of the work that was produced during the Austrian born artist’s career, was seen as controversial. It was criticized due to the erotic and exotic nature. Although symbolism was used in […]
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旺财报安 Year of the Dog Contemporary Exhibition Opening Cocktail
13 Mar 2018YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798 team’s heartfelt thanks to our artists, collectors & friends for making today’s ‘旺财报安 Year of the Dog’ Exhibition opening cocktail a great success! We look forward to your presence at our next event soon!
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Fondazione Prada’s Unfinished Tower Is (Finally) Completed
10 Mar 2018The final, towering touch to the Fondazione Prada in Milan is ready to be unveiled in April, three years after the billionaire fashion designer and collector Miuccia Prada opened the prestigious private museum in Milan. When the Fondazione Prada launched in May 2015, the nine-story, 197-foot Torre was still under construction. Now completed, the landmark building in the […]
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‘旺财保安 Year of the Dog’ Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition 2018
10 Mar 2018Dear Friends, We cordially invite you to ‘旺财报安 当代艺术展 | Year of the Dog Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition’ Opening Cocktail at YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798. Date: 10th March 2018, 3-6pm RSVP: beijing@yanggallery.info / +86 10 5762 3020 Venue: 3rd Taoci Street, 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015 We look […]
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JM Robert: Beautiful Crime
06 Mar 2018Young & Brilliant, that’s J.M. Robert. His art is so powerful, it will surround you and have you wondering what’s just happened. The life of an artist always comes with that je ne sais qua, that bohemiam halo, that mistery. Luckily for us, this 29 year old artist from Burgundy (France), has opened up about […]
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‘Pigcasso’ the South Africa pig sells paintings for £1,700
01 Mar 2018A pig who was saved from slaughter at the eleventh hour has becoming a world-renowned artist. Pigcasso, as she is now known, was rescued with her sister Rosie from a South African slaughterhouse when she was just two months old. Animal welfare campaigner Joanne Lefson took them to a farm in Franschhoek, near […]
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The Art Market Foresees Continuous Strong Sales at Christie’s London as Picasso sells for £13.7 million
28 Feb 2018The buying fire continues at Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Sale in London, a series of sales that takes place from 20th February to 7th March 2018. Christie’s is expected to collectively generate as much as £782 million ($1.1 billion). If achieved, it will be a record for a series of Impressionist and Modern and contemporary art […]
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Home is Where the Art is
28 Feb 2018Art is not only found in museums and art galleries. These days, you can even find it on your doorstep. Higher-end condominiums in Singapore now feature artworks for a “distinctive artistic experience” and to give residents a visual connection to home. At Pontiac Land’s Ardmore Residence, residents are greeted at the main entrance with […]
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrates the Lunar New Year with a Dog-Themed Exhibition
27 Feb 2018To celebrate 2018 Year of the Dog, the MET museum specially presents ‘Celebrating the Year of the Dog’, an exhibition featuring a selection of remarkable works, exclusively from The Met collection, that illustrate the animal’s close association with Chinese daily life. The traditional East Asian lunar calendar consists of a repeating 12-year cycle, with […]
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180 Faces: Liu Wei Solo Exhibition 2018
27 Feb 2018Liu Wei is one of China’s most expensive contemporary artists with an auction turnover of $12.3 million. Previously, Liu Wei’s ‘Landscape’ sold at $2,773,440 (HKD21,400,000), almost doubling its highest estimate of HKD12 million and breaking the artist’s previous record at Christie’s Hong Kong. In the following year’s Sotheby’s evening sale, he broke his own world record by realising HKD23.64 million […]
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Extended dates for ‘Ai Weiwei on Porcelain’ Museum Exhibition in Turkey
26 Feb 2018With the support of Akbank, Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Turkey, is hosting Ai Weiwei’s first exhibition in Turkey. The exhibition, which was planned to run between the dates 12 September 2017 and 28 January 2018, has been extended until 11 March 2018. Inspired by Turkey’s historic connections to China through the ‘Silk Road’, the exhibition […]
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Hong Kong’s First International Sculpture Park Opens
23 Feb 2018Hong Kong’s first international sculpture park brings museum-quality works to the public, dramatically transforming the landscape of the city. Opening at sites by the Victoria Harbour, including the Central and Western District Promenade, as well as waterfront areas beside the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong Arts Centre in the Wan Chai […]
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Jeff Koons: Those Wild Years
22 Feb 2018‘Nothing can touch me now- I am Jeff Koons and my art can defend me!’ He is one of today’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, whose monumental pieces are exhibited in museums around the world, and whose interests extend to blow-up toys, household appliances, kitsch and luxury fashion accessories. American contemporary artist Jeff Koons has […]
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French Art Industry Demands That Paris Relocate Jeff Koons’s Controversial Flower Sculpture
22 Feb 2018In January 2018, french cultural personalities penned an open letter in the daily newspaper Liberation urging the city not to go ahead with the planned installation of the gigantic sculpture ‘Bouquet of Tulips’ gifted by American contemporary artist Jeff Koons in the wake of the Paris attacks. Last week, art dealers are driving the latest wave […]
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The Duchess of Cambridge to Organize an Art Show at the National Portrait Gallery, London
20 Feb 2018Having always had a passion for the arts, the Duchess of Cambridge is putting her education to use. Kate Middleton—now Duchess Catherine—is curatating a spring exhibition of Victorian photography at London’s National Portrait Gallery, where she is a patron. According to the museum, the duchess selected several images for “Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography”and […]