Monthly Archives: September 2011

Chin Chih Yang’s roving projections challenge Art Taipei audience: video and interview

Posted on September 21, 2011

Art Radar interviews Chin Chih Yang on the multidisciplinary work be brought to Art Taipei 2011

Posted in Chin Chih Yang, Consumerism, Environment, Fairs, Interactive art, Interviews, New media, Performance, Portable art, Social, Taiwan, Taiwanese, Video, Videos | Tagged art fairs in Asia, Art Taipei 2011, artist interviews, Asian art fairs, Broken Mind, Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program, catastrophic events, Chelsea Museum, Chin Chih Yang, Christmas tree lights, electric lights, environmental art, Exit Art, film projection, Flux Factory, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Gordian Knot, ICFAC, image projection, installation art, Interactive art, interactive installation art, interactive performance art, International Chinese Fine Arts Council, interviews, Kate Nicholson, multidisciplinary art, multidisciplinary artists, New Media Art, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, NYFA, Parsons, performance art, Pratt Institute, projection, Queens Museum of Art, roving projection, rubbish, social art, Swing Space residency at Governors Island, Taiwanese artist, Taiwanese artists, Taiwanese contemporary art, Taiwanese contemporary artists, The Control of Fear, Urban Artists Initiative Fellowship, US artists, Video art | Leave a comment

Contemporary art funding in Asia: 5 top posts

Posted on September 21, 2011

Art Radar’s ‘Lists’ series continues with a look at five of the top posts on contemporary art funding in Asia.

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Posted in Funding, Lists, Nonprofit | Tagged Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, art fairs, art funding, art market, art museums, Asian art, Chinese contemporary art, Clarissa Chimkiaco, Collectors, contemporary art, contemporary art spaces, corporate funding, corporate sponsorship, exhibition, galleries Philippines, government art funding, Green Papaya Art Projects, Hong Kong art, Hong Kong art scene, Hong Kong art spaces, Hong Kong galleries, independent art spaces, Jennifer Yee, new art museums, nonprofit art funding, Para/Site, private donors, Simon Birch, Tate Modern, Valerie Doran | Leave a comment

Graduate artist Liu Xinyi’s playfully political Chinese Art Centre installation

Posted on September 14, 2011

Young Chinese artist Liu Xinyi’s commentary on international politics, an installation made up of exercise grippers, is on display at the Chinese Art Centre in Manchester.

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Posted in Chinese, Gallery shows, Globalisation of art, Installation, Liu Xinyi, Manchester, Political | Tagged Chinese Art Centre, Chinese Art Centre Manchester, Chinese installation art, Civil Diplomacy, diplomacy, Emerging artists, emerging Chinese artists, First Step, globalisation of art, Goldsmiths, Goldsmiths College, graduate artists, installation art, installations, Kathleen Ditzig, Liu Xinyi, Manchester art exhibitions, Nationalism, political art, University of London, young Chinese artists | Leave a comment

Tour new Tokyo art and design district – The Japan Times

Posted on September 14, 2011

The Japan Times takes a quirky look at a new Tokyo art district in Nihonbashi, publishing an article in which Kit Nagamura brings you a colloquial chronicle of his tour.

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Posted in Art districts, Galleries/Art spaces, Tokyo | Tagged Alimentare e Bar Renea, art district tours, Art districts, art gallery reviews, art space reviews, art tours, CASHI Contemporary Gallery Shima, contemporary art tours, Gallery Hashimoto, Gallery αM, Hitoshi Ohashi, Japanese art districts, Japanese art galleries, Japanese art spaces, Kate Nicholson, Kit Nagamura, macaroni fortune telling, Nihonbashi, Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG, Shooting galleries in Nihonbashi, The Japan Times, Tobin Ohashi, Tokyo Art Collectors Group, Tokyo art districts, Tokyo art galleries, Tokyo art spaces, Tokyo art tours, Unseal Contemporary | 4 Comments

4 Russian artists to watch: Turku Biennial 2011 selection

Posted on September 14, 2011

We explore the work of four Russian contemporary artists – Tatiana Akhmetgalieva, Alexander Gurko, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov – as shown in Turku.

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Posted in Biennials, Drawing, Russian, Textiles, Thread | Tagged 54th Venice Biennial, Academic Graffiti, Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts St Petersburg, Alexander Gurko, Ana García-Pineda, art and technology, Barbarian Gallery, BeggingBot, biennales, binary code, Calvert 22, Cia Rinne, Concert for 10 Blinds, contemporary art events, Daniel Andersson, Deirdre Carmichael, digital art, Drawing, Elena Gubanova, Elena Kolovskaya, Essi Kausalainen, Filtering the White Noise, Finland art events, Galerie Forsblom, Giulio Frigo, human anatomy, Hyun-jin Kwak, Ignacio Uriarte, Ivan Govorkov, Job Ramos, Jukebox, Kajsa Dahlberg, Kandinsky prize, Klotho, Magdalena Dziurlikowska, Magnus Bärtås, Mauro Vignando, mechanical art, New Media Art, Patterns of the Mind, Pro Arte Foundation, Rubén Grilo, Russian artists, Sissi, Sound art, St Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Industry, Tatiana Ahmetgalieva, textile art, textiles, The 2-Bit Counter, The Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, The Chrysalis Stage, The Space of Options, Thom Vink, thread, Thread art, Turku Biennial, Ural Industrial Biennial, We Are Here, Whisper | Leave a comment

3 Asian contemporary art museums make Flavorpill worldwide top ten list

Posted on September 14, 2011

Cultural news website Flavorwire has published a top ten list of the best art museums worldwide. The list includes museum from the Asian region: Seoul, Beijing and Doha.

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Posted in Lists, Museums | Tagged art museums, art museums in asia, Asian art museums, contemporary art museums, contemporary art museums Asia, Flavorwire, Kate Nicholson, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, list post, Mathaf, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art | Leave a comment

Photographic duo RongRong and inri get first Hong Kong retrospective

Posted on September 14, 2011

More than sixty works by Chinese artist RongRong and his Japanese companion in art, inri, are on show at Blindspot Gallery for the first time.

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Posted in Chinese, Gallery shows, inri, Photography, RongRong | Tagged artist collaborations, Bad Goisern, Blindspot Annex, Blindspot Gallery, Caochangdi, Chinese photography, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, contemporary photography, East Village, Elmgreen & Dragset, exhibition, gallery show, gallery shows, Gilbert & George, Hong Kong gallery show, Hong Kong photography shows, Hongkong, inri, Japanese photography, Liulitun, Michele Vitucci, NEWPHOTO magazine, performance photography, photography, RongRong, Ruins, The Blindspot Gallery, Three Begets Ten Thousand Things, Three Shadows, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Wedding Gown | Leave a comment

Delfina Foundation gets bigger: More room for Middle Eastern artists

Posted on September 14, 2011

The Art Newspaper has reported that The Delfina Foundation, a key supporter of artistic exchanges between the UK and West Asia and North Africa, is expanding.

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