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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Hong Kong artist activist Kacey Wong on Ai Weiwei arrest – interview
We talk to Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong about why he is so strongly involved in local protest action and what Ai Weiwei’s detention means for the city’s art community.
Posted in Activist, Ai Weiwei, Censorship of art, Chinese, Hong Kong, Hong Kong artists, Interviews, Kacey Wong
Tagged 1001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei, activist art, activist artists, Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei arrest, Ai Weiwei detention, Ai Weiwei protest, Ai Weiwei protest action, Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings Interviews and Digital Rants 2006-2009, art, art awareness, art issues, art news, Art Radar, art radar exclusive, artist interview, artist interviews, artists, Asian art, Asian art scene, Beijing, China, Chinese art, Chinese art scene, Chinese artists, Chinese censorship, Chinese contemporary art, Chinese government, Chinese propaganda, contemporary art, contemporary artists, Education Bureau Hong Kong, educational propaganda, fake studio, Fake Studio in Beijing, Free Ai Weiwei!, freedom of expression, function of art, government, hong kong, Hong Kong art, Hong Kong art community, Hong Kong art scene, inside look, installation art, interview, Kacey Wong, performance art, Politics, propaganda in education, protest art, protests, Renaissance, Social activism, Tangerine, Tin Man No.11, Zoe Dulay
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Disavowing globalisation: Singaporean art critic and curator Weng Choy Lee in conversation – podcast
What does literature or the idea of friendship have to do with globalisation? We bring you a summary of Singaporean art critic and curator Weng Choy Lee’s ART on AIR talk.
Posted in Critic, Curators, Globalisation of art, Podcasts
Tagged art and globalisation, art criticism, art critics in conversation, art history, art in Singapore, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, curators in conversation, facebook, friendship, globalisation of art, Jaime M. Salazar, James Elkins, Lim Tzay-Chuen, literature, Lucy Davis, Rex Butler, Robert Leonard, Sanjay Krishnan, Shannon Castleman, singapore, Singaporean contemporary art, Singaporean contemporary artists, The Substation, Weng Choy Lee
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Japanese contemporary art book resource: Tokyo Visualist
Art Radar looks at Tokyo Visualist, a book that helps readers access the world of Japanese contemporary art through interviews, essays and artist biographies.
Posted in Books, Japanese, Resources
Tagged Amazon, art book reviews, art resources, artist survey, book reviews, Chinese contemporary artists, contemporary Japanese Art, contemporary Japanese artists, Fish and Chips, Flimsy Royale, Japanese art, Japanese art book, Japanese artist survey, Japanese artists, Japanese contemporary art, Japanese contemporary artists, Kate Cary Evans, Kengo Kito, Kumi Machida, Lens, Masako Shinn, Miwa Yanagi, Shimabuku, Tokyo Visualist
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Work of 3 Chinese artists gets first time MoMA showing in performance photography exhibit – curator interview
We talk to MoMA about 3 photographs by Chinese artists Ai Weiwei, Rong Rong and Huang Yan, on show for the first time since their acquisition by the museum in 2008.
Posted in Curators, Eva Respini, Interviews, Museum collections, Museum shows, Performance, Photography
Tagged Ai Weiwei, art curation, art curator, art curators, Beijing, Beijing East Village, Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Caochangdi Photospring 2011, Chinese art academies, Chinese art market, Chinese contemporary art, Chinese contemporary artists, Chinese photography, contemporary photography, curator interview, East Village, Eva Respini, exhibition curation, Holding Forth, Huang Yan, interview, Laurel Nakadate, live art performance, Marina Abramovic, MOMA, MOMA acquisition, MOMA Chinese art, MoMA curator, MoMA exhibition, MoMA New York, museum curation, museum curators, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art New York, performance, performance art, performance photography, photography, photography exhibition, PhotoSpring, Rong Rong, Sheng Qi, Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960, Study of Perspective - Eiffel Tower, Study of Perspective - White House, Sylvia Xue Bai, The Art Newspaper, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Zhang Dali
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The future of museums – short thought
In this “short thought” Kate Cary Evans explores the future of museums, asking them to focus on excellence in scholarship rather than on getting people through their doors.
Posted in Museums, Short thought
Tagged art academics, art and the Internet, art archives, art collections, art education, art museums, art preservation, Art Radar contributors, Art Radar team meeting, art scholars, art scholarship, art tourists, contemporary art museums, education and the Internet, FCC, FCC HK, Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, from Art Radar, future of art musuems, international art museums, Kate Cary Evans, museum collections, museum visitors, museums and the Internet, scholarship, short thought, team meeting
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Write about art and get published with Art Radar journalism course – low introductory price expires soon
As a student of the Art Radar Certificate in Art Journalism and Writing, you will learn the ins and outs of the writing about contemporary art.
Posted in From Art Radar, Resources
Tagged art course, art education, art school, art writing, art writing school, become a journalist, Certificate in Art Journalism and Writing, editing training, from Art Radar, how to copy edit, how to edit, how to get published, how to write, journalism course, journalist training, learn journalism, learn to write about art, online journalism, online writing education, online writing school, writing certification, writing course, writing for the Internet, writing online, writing school
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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