Monthly Archives: December 2011

Tibetan art installation brings homeland to exiles

Tenzing Rigdol, a Tibetan contemporary artist, transported 20,000 kilograms of Tibetan soil to Dharamsala, India, for Our Land, Our People, a site-specific installation piece.

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Who are Australia’s top arts philanthropists? ArtsHub names 6

ArtsHub recently named Australia’s top six arts philanthropists, individuals who made a difference by supporting the Australian arts scene.

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New works by Xu Zhen’s MadeIn Company all about action

MadeIn artist collective held a solo exhibition of its new works titled Action of Consciousness which explored the concept of action.

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Yang Fudong’s video installations a contemporary form of Chinese hand scrolls

Yang Fudong sheds some light on his unique aesthetic through on explanation of the video works now on show at Spring Workshop and Osage in Hong Kong.

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Post-disaster reflections in Japan-Australia art exhibition “Alternating Currents”

The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in cooperation with the Japan Foundation attempts to show art that has been influenced by Japan’s Tōhoku earthquake.

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