Monthly Archives: June 2009

Collector Ciclitira, founder of Korean Eye, makes big plans for Korean art

KOREAN ART If you have an interest in Korean contemporary art, be sure to make time for the latest 20 minute podcast from Arttactic, a London-based research house. In it, British collector and sports promoter David Ciclitira, together with Rodman … Continue reading

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56 artist show Iran Inside Out – Will election unrest fan the debate about Iranian contemporary art?

IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION US New York’s Chelsea Art Museum is holding its “groundbreaking” exhibition Iran Inside Out (26 June to 5 September 2009) which features 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 21 others living in the diaspora. We are promised a ”multifarious portrait of … Continue reading

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Male manicurists and armpits: emerging Australian art at Para/Site Hong Kong

  AUSTRALIAN ART HONG KONG     Rare display of Australian contemporary art in Hong Kong From 20 June to 2 August 2009, renowned nonprofit Para/Site Art Space in Hong Kong makes its space available to the Chalk Horse Art Center, … Continue reading

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Newslink round up Art Basel 2009 – Indian, Japanese artists dominate coverage of Asians

ART FAIR Much of the traditional coverage of Art Basel takes the same format: descriptions of some highlighted artworks are interwoven with information about sales generally and, dealers willing, specifically. From this gathering of anecdotal, far-from-objective evidence some kind of assessment of the buoyancy of the market … Continue reading

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Top 5 sites for Japanese contemporary art news by Matthew Larking

JAPAN ART READING What are the top sources of information about Japanese contemporary art? The Japanese art scene can seem impenetrable to non-Japanese speakers and yet, despite  this, there is a growing swell of global interest in contemporary art from Japan. There … Continue reading

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