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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Ai Weiwei transparent communicator: Interview Tate’s Juliet Bingham – Part I
Tate curator Juliet Bingham talks to Pippa Dennis on the challenges of curating Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds and the artist’s talent for social media.
Posted in Ai Weiwei, Guest writers, Installation, Interviews, Juliet Bingham, Pippa Dennis
Tagged Ai Weiwei, AIDS demonstrations, Anish Kapoor, APAC, art and the Internet, art commissions, artist blogs, artist communication, artists and social media, artists blogging, artists on Twitter, Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee, audio sculpture, blogging, Bruce Nauman, ceramic seeds, China and the Internet, Chinese antiques, Chinese artist, Chinese ceramics, Chinese contemporary artist, Chinese pottery, commissioned art, contemporary Chinese artist, contemporary Chinese politics, contemporary Chinese society, curator interviews, Dada, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, Duchamp, Duchampian, Haus der Kunst, installation art, Jingdezhen, Juliet Bingham, large-scale art, multi-directional broadcasting, Pippa Dennis, radical art, ready-made, sculpture, Sichuan earthquake, social media, steel sculpture, student protests, Study of Perspective, Sunflower Seeds, Table and Pillar, Tate Liverpool, Tate Modern, The Real Thing, Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, Turbine Hall, Twitter, uni-directional broadcasting, Unilever series
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Can you sell big to first-time collectors? Indian Art Summit 2011 round-up
Third Indian Art Summit proves Indian arts ability to attract big crowds, global art buyers and top-end galleries. But did everyone agree on its success?
Posted in Business of art, Events, Fairs, Market watch
Tagged affordable art, Anish Kapoor, Anupam Poddar, Aravist, art buyers, art fair, Art in Picture, Art Market Monitor, Artforum, Ashish Anand, Auguste Rodin, Bharti Kher, Bhupen Khakhar, biharplus, blue-chip artists, Business Standard, Carbon 12, contemporary art, contemporary art collectors, contemporary art fairs, contemporary Indian art galleries, Cul-de-sac in Taxila, Dali, Deccan Herald, Deepak Shinde, Delhi Art Gallery, Devi Art Foundation, DNA India, Financial Times, first-time collectors, Flickr, FN Souza, foreign collectors, Frieze, GR Santosh, HCL, Hemavathy, Hindustan Times, India Real Time, Indian art galleries, Indian Art Summit, Indian Art Summit 2011, Indian contemporary art, Indian contemporary artists, Indian diaspora, Indian Today, installation art, international artists, Jamini Roy, Japanese horror film, Japanese horror movie, Kiran Nadar, local collectors, MF Husain, Minal Vazirani, Nadine Knotzer, Neha Kirpal, new collectors, newKerala.com, NGMA, Open, Pablo Picasso, Pragati Maidan, Rajshree Pathy, Ranbir Kaleka, Saffronart, sculpture, SH Raza, Shiv Nadar, sify news, Subodh Gupta, Swapnil Khullar, Tejal Shah, The Times of India, The Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Video art, video installations, vm2827, young collectors
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Young Japanese curators bankrolled by Takashi Murakami – Japan Times
Report by The Japan Times on cutting-edge exhibitions organised by Japanese curator group 0000 that drew attention (and funds) from Takashi Murakami.
Posted in Curators, Japanese, Professionals
Tagged 0000, 0000 gallery, art curators, art dealers, Art Fair Free, Art Fair Tokyo, art funding, art professionals, artists supporting the art scene, contemporary Japanese Art, contemporary Japanese artists, curator, Elena Nikolaeva, funding, gallerists, Hidari Zingaro, Japan, Japanese art galleries, Japanese art scene, Japanese art spaces, Just a Party, Kaikai Kiki, Kim Okko, Nam HyoJun, oooo Gallery, Soh Taniguchi, Takashi Murakami, The Japan Times, Tokyo, Yutaro Midorikawa, ¥2010 Exhibition
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Rare India China art collaboration: West Heavens project a success?
Rising Asian superpowers China and India address the lack of intra-Asian contemporary art exchange with West Heavens exhibition series and summit.
Posted in Chinese, Connecting Asia to itself, Events, Gallery shows, Indian
Tagged Art Forum, artistic exchange, Atul Bhalla, Australian National University, Buddhism, canvas, Chaitanya Sambrani, China, China Art Academy, Chinese performance art, city, cultural exchange, Gayatri Sinha, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hu Xiangcheng, India, India-China Summit on Social Thought, installation, Johnson Chang, Journey art, Karita Kan, Kathmandu, Lee Ambrozy, Lhasa, Liu Dahong, Nain Singh, Nilima Sheikh, Over Land, Painting, performance art, photography, Place Time Play, Qiu Zhijie, Raqs Media Collective, shanghai, Silk Road, silk scrolls, Three Gorges, Tushar Joag, West Heavens
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Online VIP Art Fair disappoints: Is damage fatal?
Guest writer Pippa Dennis on slow connections frustrating VIP Art Fair users, galleries demanding refunds, and global young collectors liking online medium.
Posted in Art and the Internet, Business of art, Events, Fairs, Pippa Dennis, Promoting art
Tagged Amir Shariat, Anna Schwartz, Auctor Capital Partners, Augusto Arbizo, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Chris Ofili, Christopher Baer, David Zwirner, Eleven Rivington, Elizabeth Higgins, Gagosian Gallery, Georgina Adams, Gursky, Hai Bo, Hofer, James Cohan, Jane Cohan, Jens Faurschou, Kevin Zucker, Limoncello, Mary Magdalene (Infinity), Matthias Schaller, Nicollette Eason, Noah Horowitz, Pace, Pace/Macgill Gallery, Pilar Corrias, Pippa Dennis, Schaller, Sothebys, Stephanie Schumann, Study for Night Music for Raptors, VIP Art Fair, VIP lounge, White Cube
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3 art innovators share intriguing business models at first ArtInsight seminar
ART EVENTS LONDON ARTS MANAGEMENT GLOBAL ART MARKET On 25 January, an ArtInsight-organised seminar brought together the experiences of three innovators in the art business: Sigrid Wilkinson, Julie Lomax and Joe La Placa. Though the seminar did not focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Business of art, Globalisation of art, Lectures and talks, Market watch, Promoting art
Tagged All Visual Arts, art business, Art Council England, art patronage, ArtInsight, Arts Co, commissioning, globalisation of art, House of Voltaire, Studio Voltaire, Sylvia Xue Bai, Value Pricing and Developing an Art Business in the New Economic Climate
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Hong Kong art fair ART HK 12: Final day sales figures
Hong Kong art fair ART HK 12: Art practice and the camera lens – 3 artists discuss at Asia Art Archive
ART HK 12: Sales figures days 1 and 2
ART HK 12: Redefining the space we live in – Asia Art Archive Open Platform speakers
ART HK 12: Hong Kong artist Lee Kit wins ART FUTURES prize
ART HK 12: Art Radar live-tweets daily – resource alert
Art journalism online course: A reason to talk to art world influencers
ART HK 12: First time Asian galleries talk art fair strategy
Chinese affordable art fair AAC to launch Hong Kong edition
Adequate professional talent for China’s expanding arts infrastructure? The New York Times