Monthly Archives: May 2009

Which 5 Indian artists would you dare to buy now?

Posted on May 26, 2009

CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART Which artists from the Indian subcontinent are most likely to have a market in 10 years time? Think about it for a moment and then compare your results with those below: Top 5 Ranking: … Continue reading →

Posted in Acquisitions, Atul Dodiya, Collectors, Indian, Jitish Kallat, Market watch, Pakistani, Rashid Rana, Research, Subodh Gupta | Tagged Arttactic, Atul Dodiya, Indian art market, Indian artists, Jitish Kallat, N S Harsha, Rashid Rana, Subodh Gupta | 7 Comments

Outlook for Chinese art market – interview Larry Warsh – Arttactic podcast

Posted on May 26, 2009

CHINESE ART MARKET Larry Warsh of AWAsia in New York, a private organisation which provides Chinese contemporary art sourcing and curatorial services to global institutions such as MOMA and the Getty Museum, talks about his take on the outlook for the Chinese art … Continue reading →

Posted in Auctions, Books, Chinese, Globalisation, Interviews, Market watch, Museum collections, New York | Tagged art interviews, art podcasts, Arttactic, AW Asia, Cai Guo Qiang, Cai Guoqiang, Chinese art auctions, Chinese art books, Chinese art market, Chinese contemporary art, Chinese contemporary photography, Larry Warsh, MOMA Chinese art, MOMA Song Dong, Song Dong, Zhang Huan | 2 Comments

Taiwanese photographers, video artists and an architect at 53rd Venice Biennale

Posted on May 25, 2009

TAIWANESE ARTISTS VENICE BIENNALE Though they span architecture, film and photography, the four Taiwanese artists featured in the 53rd Venice Biennale exhibition ‘Foreign Affairs’ share a common focus. Each looks at the unequal treatment of the disadvantaged in the midst of globalisation, and has taken action through distinctive, … Continue reading →

Posted in Activist, Biennials, Crossover art, Domestic, Identity art, Italy, Nationalism, Photography, Political, Social, Urban, Venice, Video | Tagged 53rd Venice Biennale, Chen Chieh-Jen, Cheng-Ta Yu, Chien-Chi Chang, China Town series, Empire's Borders DVD, Hsieh Ying-Chun, language in art, Taiwanese art, Taiwanese art Biennale, Taiwanese artists, Taiwanese photograhers, Taiwanese video artists, Ventriloquists, word art, words in art | Leave a comment

Auction stars and museum artists for pennies at Klomp! charity auction Hong Kong

Posted on May 25, 2009

CHINESE ART DESIGN CHARITY When we saw the prices bid for artworks by some Hong Kong museum stars and hot international design talents in the Klomp charity auction in Hong Kong, we wanted to weep. You can buy original artworks … Continue reading →

Posted in anothermountainman, Auctions, China, Chinese, Crossover art, Hong Kong, Hong Kong artists, Market watch, Sculpture | Tagged Ajoy Sahu, Anothermountaninman, charity art auction, Crossover art, fashion in art, Hong Kong art, Hong Kong artists, Klomp!, Man Fung-Yi, Stanley Wong Ping Pui | Leave a comment

More art, better art, riskier art at Art HK 09

Posted on May 19, 2009

HONG KONG ART FAIR “What do you think of the art fair this year?” Advisors, fair visitors, writers and artists graciously suffered our question ‘du jour’ for the duration of the much-anticipated second edition of Art HK. Tipped to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairs, Hong Kong, Market watch, Recession, Russian | Tagged art fairs, Art HK, Art HK 09, Asian Art Fairs Ltd, Din Q. Le, Hong Kong art fair, Konstantin Bessmertny | 1 Comment

Wu Guanzhong retrospective Singapore Art Museum – New York Times review

Posted on May 19, 2009

CHINESE ART SINGAPORE Some of the best arts writing on the web is produced by the New York Times. Coverage of art in Asia is rare unfortunately which makes this review of the celebrated and influential 90 year-old Wu Guanzhong’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Chinese, Ink, Landscape, Line art, Oil, Reviews, Singapore, Surveys | Tagged An Unbroken Line, art in Asia, art news, art retrospective, Singapore Art Museum, Wu Guanzhong | Leave a comment

Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto – 4 fascinating video interviews

Posted on May 19, 2009

JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY Thank heavens for youtube which has given us a whole new way to appreciate art and learn about artists. In these video interviews, internationally-acclaimed Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto gives us a glimpse of his warm personality. Intelligent and mild-mannered, he responds with … Continue reading →

Posted in Hiroshi Sugimoto, Interviews, Japanese, Photography, Time, Videos | Tagged fashion art, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese photographers, Japanese photography, Light art, photography, time in art, waxwork art | Leave a comment

Chinese artist-run spaces rise up again?

Posted on May 18, 2009

ARTIST RUN SPACES BEIJING CHINA Eflux writer Carol Linghua Yu has written an interesting piece on the recent sprouting of independent artist-run spaces ‘born as a response to a specific situation in China’. Obsessed with constructing physical infrastructure and state-of-the-art … Continue reading →