Monthly Archives: January 2010

Touring Taiwan: 50 of Taiwan’s top artworks on display at the Busan Museum of Arts, Korea

Posted on January 21, 2010

Taiwan’s top painters represented in Touring Taiwan: Highlights from the Taipei Fine Arts Museum Collection As part of a cultural exchange between Taiwan and Korea, the Busan Museum of Art is currently showing Touring Taiwan: Highlights from the Taipei Fine … Continue reading →

Posted in Korea, Landscape, Museum shows, Museums, Nationalism, Painting, Social | Tagged Busan Museum of Art, Chinese brush painting, gouache painting, Kate Nicholson, Korea, oil painting, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, taiwan, Taiwanese painters, Taiwanese scenic destinations, TFAM, Touring Taiwan: Highlights from the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, watercolor painting, Yang San-lang, Yen Shui-long | Leave a comment

Top 6 research sources for contemporary Chinese art by Asian art history major

Posted on January 21, 2010

TOP BLOGS, BOOKS, NEWSPAPER SOURCES FOR CHINESE ART What do you read? What information are you looking for? Where do you find it? These are the questions on our lips every day when we talk with art world movers. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, China, Chinese, Lists, Research, Resources, Reviews, Scholars | Tagged art, Art Asia Pacific, art websites, Asia Art Archive, China, Chinese, Chinese art, Chinese contemporary art, contemporary art, contemporary art websites, e-flux, Research, Resources, Song Dong, sources Asian art, top books Asian art, top sources for Chinese contemporary art, top websites Asian art, Wu Hung, Zhang Huan | 2 Comments

{Inter}Viewing Possession with Leung Chi Wo, Hong Kong artist at Asia Art Archive – interview

Posted on January 19, 2010

HONG KONG ARTIST INTERVIEW The remarkable Hong Kong artist Leung Chi Wo explores the idea of possession and value in his fascinating installation exhibiton entitled {Inter}Viewing Possession, curated by Carl Cheng Chi-Ming and Livia Garcia. Leung Chi Wo is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art spaces, Artist-run, Documentary, Events, Hong Kong, Hong Kong artists, Installation, Interviews, Leung Chi Wo, Profiles, Shows, Video, Videos | Tagged artist interview, Asia Art Archive, Carl Cheng Chi-Ming, Chinese University of Hong Kong, ChooChooTV, ChoochooTV Media Entertainment, Erin Wooters, Hong Kong artist, Inter}Viewing Possession, Leung Chi Wo, Livia Garcia, Para-Site Art Space, [art]attack | Leave a comment

Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s solo at Royal Academy – what did the critics call it? Performance art and Turkish toilet

Posted on January 11, 2010

INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART SCULPTURE Anish Kapoor’s sculpture fills London’s Royal Academy British Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s mid-career retrospective at the Royal Academy in London, England, has just wrapped up. Two years in the making, the exhibition ran from 26 September … Continue reading →

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China to use "soft power" of arts for international influence

Posted on January 5, 2010

CHINESE ART AND POLITICS China wants its own version of Hollywood. An intriguing article in the Toronto Star examines China’s growing recognition that media and culture can be a powerful tool to spread political, social and economic ideologies beyond its borders much … Continue reading →