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‘Shen Jingdong Story’: Shen Jingdong Solo Exhibition 2017 at Yanshan University Museum
21 Jun 2017A Dual Reflection on the Intellectuals – Shen Jingdong and His Works Text / Jiang Ming As a well known contemporary artist, Shen Jingdong created a unique image style I named the “Post Pop”. But more of our research should be the background, meaning, schema aesthetic value of his works and the humanistic reflection as […]
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YANG GALLERY X LPS Beijing Property Show 2017 Crossover Opening Event
17 Jun 2017YANG GALLERY is proud to collaborate with the LPS Beijing Property Show for the sixth consecutive year. YANG GALLERY featured eye-catching collections by established artists Chen Wenling, Tamen, Luo Brothers, Chen Jinqing, Hua Qing at the deluxe opening cocktail on 16th of June 2017 at the prestigious 5-star Sofitel Wanda Beijing, in the heart of […]
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5 Interesting Facts About Yayoi Kusama
14 Jun 20171. Pumpkins were a major part of Yayoi Kusama’s diet during World War II As a child during that tumultuous period, Kusama’s family relied on pumpkins to feed them, having grown fields of pumpkins in their nursery. Representing comfort and security to the artist, their “solid spiritual balance” appeal to her. The 88-year-old has since […]
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Art Hotels Around the World
05 Jun 2017In today’s world where the Arts and Culture sector is receiving rapidly growing awareness, a luxury hotel can no longer be defined by traditional dictates of spiffy service and quality linen – the value of artwork in its treasure chest and how well they are displayed are also important. Let us take a look at […]
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New Record for Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2017
04 Jun 2017From 26 to 31 May 2017 Christie’s Hong Kong held its Week Spring Auctions, including four auctions of Asian contemporary art, Asian 20th century art and Chinese contemporary ink. Christie’s Art and Contemporaries: Voices from East and West sale was a feature of the spring week sales and attained a total of HKD543,380,000 (USD70,071,430) in […]
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Fine Art, the Global Investment
02 Jun 2017It’s a fact that Fine Art as an investment class has outperformed the S&P 500 every year for the last 10 years. In fact, 64% of private banks say that estate planning around art is a strategic focus for them. People invest in Oil & Gas and lots of other things, so why not art? […]
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Ai Weiwei: ‘Trace’ at Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden 2017
30 May 2017One of China’s most provocative living artists, Ai Weiwei (b. Beijing, 1957) has spent nearly four decades exploring the relationships between art, society, and individual experience. His work, as prolific as it is eclectic, encompasses a wide range of media, including sculpture, installation, photography, film, painting, and architecture. Ai Weiwei began seeking to incite change […]
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Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow at the National Gallery of Singapore
30 May 2017Yayoi Kusama (born Japan 1929) is one of the world’s most influential artists, and has played a crucial role in the development of art in the 20th and 21st centuries. YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow is the first major survey of her work in Southeast Asia, and will focus on the […]
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Pan Dehai: There is a ‘Fat Man’ Expanded by Dreams Living Inside Us All
27 May 2017Pan Dehai is one in the trio of artists known as “Three Swordsman”, three of the most influential Chinese Contemporary Artists highly sought after in the world. The other two in this group are Zhang Xiaogang who created the globally renowned “Bloodline Series” and Mao Xuhui, who are achieving over HK$20 million continuously a piece […]
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National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts Graduation Exhibition at YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798
26 May 2017The 2017 Graduation Exhibition of National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts will be held with great anticipation at YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798 from 27th – 30th May 2017.
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The Contemporary Art Market Report 2016
20 May 2017The severe economic and financial crisis that has engulfed the entire planet since 2007, with almost ubiquitous negative interest rates as its most recent expression, has made the art market look like an oasis in the desert. Yes… it has shown signs of correction over the past year, but this was both necessary and foreseeable […]
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Sotheby’s shares soar after record $110.5 million painting sale
20 May 2017It only took 10 minutes for a 1982 painting, featuring a black skull on top of a colorful background, to soar to a record-breaking price at Sotheby’s New York auction house on Thursday, 18th May 2017. ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat completed Untitled in 1982 at a time when he was virtually unknown to the art world. Exhibited […]
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A Conversation with Qin Feng: Portraits & Desires in Ink
19 May 2017Merging an ink-and-wash and calligraphic style with a western abstract aesthetic, established Chinese contemporary artist Qin Feng re-interprets the age-old medium of ink painting infusing it with a new life and colour. Qin Feng’s (b. 1961) art blends Eastern and Western qualities. His works follow the traditional Chinese manner of brushing black ink onto paper […]
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LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault to Open New $166 Million Museum in Paris
15 May 2017French luxury goods billionaire Bernard Arnault will open a new museum close to his ‘Foundation Louis Vuitton’ in Paris, which opened in 2014. The collector enlisted Frank Gehry to revamp the building that formerly housed the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions. In a presentation attended by French President François Hollande, culture minister Audrey Azoulay, […]
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Ren Zhe: Sculptures Are My Spiritual Capsule
13 May 2017“Calligraphy is the most representational of the oriental spirit. Just like what the ancients say, ‘A person is reflected through his writing’. Through calligraphy, we can see the aesthetic structure and stroke severity, but also a person’s character. Oriental culture focus on the ‘spirit’, and this charm is reflected in my works.’ – Renowned Chinese contemporary […]
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Wu Guanzhong: The Beauty of Form
09 May 2017Wu Guanzhong, arguably one of the most important Chinese artists of the 20th century, has given the Singapore Art Museum his largest donation to a public museum comprising 113 oil and ink works painted during the years 1957 to 2007. These works represent Wu’s oeuvre over five decades and in both the oil and ink […]
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Tan Swie Hian: An Intimate Look at His Artistic Processes
02 May 2017Renowned Singapore living art legend Tan Swie Hian is particular about his notebooks. They have to be A5 and leather-bound, and the paper inside must be newsprint paper, which he describes as “very good, very absorbent”. He gets them custom-made by his favourite printer. To him, the importance of having the perfect notebook cannot be […]
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Louis Vuitton x Jeff Koons Art Collaboration
01 May 2017In recent years, it is undeniable that Art + Luxury collaborations have taken the world by storm due to the increasing global awareness of the importance & economic attributes of the Art market. China has been one of the most exciting testing ground as of late for collaborations between the art world and luxury, with […]
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Lin Xin: An Artistic Journey Reflected Through Machines
24 Apr 2017Extracted from the original article ‘Reading Lin Xin’ by Zheng Naiming In his The World is Flat Thomas L. Friedman quoted an African ballad and proverb. ” Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it has to run much faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a […]
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Ai Weiwei ‘Mountains & Seas’ Solo Exhibition 2017 at Château La Coste
21 Apr 2017Château La Coste, in partnership with Luise Faurschou, is pleased to announce an exhibition with internationally renowned Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei to celebrate the artist’s new permanent work on the vineyard. Over the past two years, Ai Weiwei has been developing a new permanent project for Château La Coste, entitled Ruyi Path […]