Monthly Archives: August 2011

Art Radar 3rd birthday loyal reader giveaway: Picasso photobook

Posted on August 31, 2011

Up for grabs by loyal Art Radar subscribers is a beautiful hardback photobook that documents a show of works by Pablo Picasso held at Ben Brown Gallery in Hong Kong.

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Inadvertent publication design advice: ArtAsiaPacific art book reviews

Posted on August 31, 2011

ArtAsiaPacific provides a source of design inspiration for those looking to make art books through its new “Book Blog” series, a focus on publication design and layout.

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Asian artists bring cross-disciplinary work to New York’s Performa 11

Posted on August 30, 2011

Introducing the Asian artists performing at New York’s Performa 2011 performance art biennale.

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Posted in Biennials, Globalisation of art, Installation, New York, Performance, Photography, Sound, Video | Tagged Asli Cavusoglu, biennial, China, Crazy English, Deepa Pant, Defne Ayas, Gladstone Gallery, Iona Rozeal Brown, Iran, Iranian artist, Iranian musician, Japan Society Lebanon, Lebanese artist, Li Yang, Ming Wong, Mohsen Namjoo, Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, new york, Overruled, palestine, Palestinian-American artist, Performa 11, performance biennial, performance-art biennial, RoseLee Goldberg, Shadi Sheybani, shanghai, Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari, singapore, Singaporean artist, Suheir Hammad, Tarab, Tarek Atoui, The Kitchen, The Last Word, The Sharjah Art Foundation, Turkey, Turkish artist, West Asian artists, Zhou Xiaohu | 1 Comment

Auction houses grow: Can art dealers compete? The Art Newspaper

Posted on August 30, 2011

The Art Newspaper examines a recent study that outlines some of the ways in which gallerists are innovating in order to stand out against their competitors.

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What sold at Art Taipei 2011? Day 2 in pictures

Posted on August 29, 2011

Art Taipei opened Saturday 28 August and closed two days later. Art Radar was in attendance on Sunday and we bring you works that we noticed had earned the red dot.

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Posted in Fairs, Galleries, Picture feasts, Taiwan | Tagged acrylic, acrylic on canvas, aluminium, art fairs, art fairs sales, art sales, Art Taipei, Art Taipei 2011, artwork sales, Asian art fairs, Beijing art galleries, Beijing Commune, Beyond the Dawn, Bing Heng Chiu, Brown VI, BUNKYO ART, CH-CP-009, Chen Wei, Chinese art galleries, Chinese artists, Chu Tehchun, Composition, Concerto, contemporary art fair sales, contemporary art fairs, contemporary art sales, Din Chin-Chung, Dodo with 100 Meeps Walking Through the Desert in Five Moments, Eslite Gallery, Fuma Contemporary Tokyo, G/P+g3/ gallery, Gallery Yang, He Juan, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Indian artists, ink, Inshallah, installation, Japanese art galleries, Japanese artists, Jennifer Wen Ma, Jia Art Gallery, Kate Nicholson, Lai Chiu-Chen, Lai Sio Kit, Liang Yuanwei, Lin & Lin Gallery, Liu Shih-tung, MADE in TAIWAN - Young Artist Discovery, Masaaki Miyasako, Michael Lin, mixed media, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, oil, oil on canvas, oil on linen, Painting, paper, pastel, pastel on paper, pencil, Pendulum Principle, Pu Shuai-Cheng, red dot, Ryota Nishioka, Sakshi Gallery, sculpture, single channel video, Sunil Gawde, Taichung City, Taipei art galleries, Taiwanese art fairs, Taiwanese art galleries, Taiwanese artists, Tokyo art galleries, Toshiyuki Kajioka, typhoon, Uneri, Untitled, UV ink print, Vacant Room, Vacant Room series, Video art, Vintage Gallery, Whitestone Gallery, Zang Kunkun | 2 Comments

How Saatchi and his YBAs influenced leading Asian artists – The Observer

Posted on August 24, 2011

In an Observer article, writer Ben Lewis reveals the influence that Charles Saatchi-and his Young British Artists had on the emerging Asian art scene.

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Takashi Murakami tops Japanese artist by auction price list – Artprice

Posted on August 24, 2011

Two out of the three artists on Artprice’s top ten list of best auction results generated by Japanese artists (August 2011) are contemporary: Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama.

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Posted in Auctions, Japanese, Lists, Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama | Tagged art auction, art auction results, art market watch, Artprice, contemporary art market watch, dot painting, Japanese art, Japanese art auction prices, Japanese art prices, Japanese art sales, Japanese artists, Japanese contemporary art, Japanese contemporary artists, Kaikai Kiki, Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., Kate Nicholson, market watch, outdoor sculpture, outdoor sculpture installations, Superflat, Takashi Murakami, TOPS series, Yayoi Kusama | Leave a comment

Sand-covered Cambodian artist Khvay Samnang’s Phnom Penh lake performance

Posted on August 24, 2011

Cambodian artist Khvay Samnang questions urban development in his home country through performance photography and video, on show at local gallery SA SA BASSAC.

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