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• Contemporary art market Asia now bigger than US for first time says Artprice

  
  Art Radar Asia — Authority: 121
  ASIAN ART MARKET Visitors enter a Sothebys auction room in Hong Kong for a sale of modern and contemporary art on October 6, 2008. For the first time ever, the total auction revenue from contemporary art in Asia is greater than the total of the United States artprice reports. The statistics are collected ...
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• A Whole New World

  
  Lauren Alexander Art — Authority: 417
  I couldnt believe my luck today. I am so glad I live where I live and how I ended up with a great job at an amazing museum I will never know. Today the teachers had a training session about Chinese Painting. First the curator gave us a talk in the gallery and it was very interesting and full of things I never knew. I ...
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• The Story Of Ancient China’s Love Affair With Inkstones

  
  CreativeCloud — Authority: 563
  Image: Art VirtueWhen ink was a precious commodity, before the days of ready-mixed ink pots, it was preserved in solid sticks (inksticks), ready to be ground and mixed with water for use by calligraphers and artists. The Chinese would use inkstones as mortars for grinding their inksticks, which was combined with a few ...
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• Stars Power: Huang Rui

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 573
  The Wall Street Journal reports on Huang Rui, a Chinese artist and a member of the “Stars” art movement that launched its first exhibit in Beijing thirty years ago: But back on Sept. 27, 1979, they were just a ragtag group of young artists — mostly in their 20s; Mr. Huang was 27 — trying to mount Communist ...
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• The Succinct Symbolism of Luo Brothers’ Art

  
  CreativeCloud — Authority: 563
  Image: Untitled A [2008]The three Luo Brothers were born in Nanning, in the southern Chinese region of Guanxi Zhuang, in the period after the country’s Cultural Revolution. Each was given a name conjuring images of patriotism and strength.Born in 1963, Luo Weidong’s name means ‘defender of the Orient’; Luo ...
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• Zhang Peng’s lost girls.

  
  Artistic Things :: Life + Art + Music + Fashion + Film + Technology + Inspiration — Authority: 141
  Art that is frightening or disturbing can provide a pleasing rush of adrenaline. Sometimes that is enough; I often find gallery-hopping to be akin to an old fashioned carnival sideshow in its entertainment value. But good art will use its power to frighten or disturb to make us think a little harder about things. ...
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• Go See Kwon Kisoo at Flowers Cork Street Through to 31st October

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 436
  Born in 1972, Kwon Kisoo trained in classical Korean painting at Hongik University. His paintings – graphic fantasias hatched with Technicolor wands of bamboo, popping with plum blossoms, or expanses of brilliant monochrome – are inhabited by a modern icon of his own creation: an alter ego named Dongguri.A ...
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• China’s Toilet Seat Waterfall

  
  Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities — Authority: 564
  The Toilet Seat Waterfall , a bizarre art project made up of thousands of recycled toilet seats, urinals, and sinks, attracts visitors to Foshan, in South China’s Gunagdong Province. The 100-meter-long, 5-meter-tall Toilet Seat Waterfall was created out of approximately 10,000 toilet accessories, like urinals, ...
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• Boston museum to exhibit Indian jewels

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Oct 20 (IANS) In the first exhibition of Indian art at a major American museum in nearly 30 years, 16 finest examples of Indian art will be featured at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston next month.The exhibition, “Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art”, from Nov 14 to Aug 22, 2010 [...]
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• Why do critics like Zhang Huan but not his show? Live pigs installation at White Cube 2009 – review roundup

  
  Art Radar Asia — Authority: 121
  CHINESE ANIMAL INSTALLATION ART REVIEW Zhang Huan is known for his performance acts of physical and psychological endurance. This time, however, he left that act up to a couple of pigs. Zhang Huan’s first show at White Cube Zhang’s first exhibition Zhu Gangqiang at the White Cube Gallery in London (to ...
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• LED City by Island 6 opens at The Opposite House Beijing from October 16th

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 436
  From 16th October to 16th December 2009, The Opposite House, Beijing, will host the work of Shanghai-based multidisciplinary art collective, Island 6 (Liu Dao) from Red Gate Gallery. The group of nine international artists will exhibit “LED City” for three months as part of the hotel’s rolling art ...
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• Short course on Chinese Contemporary Art at AW Asia New York, October 2009

  
  Art Radar Asia — Authority: 121
  CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART COURSE AW Asia is offering a four-part introductory course on Chinese contemporary art “that explores the rise and development of avant-garde art practices in China over the last thirty years”. Taliesin Thomas, Director of AW Asia and MA candidate in East Asian Studies at Columbia ...
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• Surprising new direction taken by cadaver artists and Saatchi stars: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu – interview

  
  Art Radar Asia — Authority: 121
  HONG KONG CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY ART Sun Yuan and Peng Yu , born in the early 1970s and both alumni of the prominent Beijing Central Academy of Art , have a long-established  reputation in Asia for their controversial collaborative installations featuring animals, human tissue and baby cadaver specimens. In the ...
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