Monthly Archives: December 2011

Tibetan art installation brings homeland to exiles

Posted on December 28, 2011

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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Posted in Art and the community, Community art, Connecting Asia to itself, Identity art, India, Installation, Journey art, Memory, Migration, Nationalism, Political, Tenzing Rigdol, Tibetan, Trauma | Tagged art and the community, community art, community art projects, Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, Dr. Lobsang Sangay, exile, Face of Tibet, fourteenth Dalai Lama, installation art, Iris Ferrer, Kate Nicholson, Norbu Wangdu, Our Land Our People, political art, public art installation, social art, Tenzin Lhawang, Tenzing Rigdol, Tibet, Tibet Post, Tibetan art, Tibetan artists, Tibetan Children's Village School, Tibetan contemporary art, Tibetan Diaspora, Tibetan unrest, Tibetan Uprising | Leave a comment

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

Posted on December 28, 2011

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

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Posted in Art and the community, Australia, Business of art, Funding, Philanthropists | Tagged art and the community, art funding, Art Gallery of NSW, art philanthropy, arts funding, ArtsHub, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Betty Amsden, Catriona Mordant, David Walsh, Harold Mitchell, Hilda Chan, MONA, Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Museum of Old and New Art, Peter Weiss, Philanthropists, philanthropy, Simon Mordant, Sydney Symphony, Tim Fairfax, Tim Fairfax Family Foundation | Leave a comment

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

Posted on December 28, 2011

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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Posted in Chinese, Gallery shows, Installation, MadeIn, Oil, Painting, Sculpture, Shanghai, Xu Zhen | Tagged Action of Consciousness, antiquities, art, artifacts, artist collective, Chinese art, Chinese artists, Chinese contemporary art, Chinese exhibitions, Christopher Moore, contemporary Chinese art, Divinity, exhibition, gallery shows, H-Space, historical artifacts, installation art, Liya Prilipko, MadeIn, MadeIn Company, mixed media, oil painting, Physique of Consciousness, Play, Prey, Randian, sculpture, Seeing One's Own Eyes, Seeing One’s Own Eyes - Middle East Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai art galleries, Shanghai art spaces, ShanghART, ShanghART Gallery, silicon, solo exhibitions, TimeOut Shanghai, Tribal art, visual illusion, Wikipedia, Xu Zhen | 1 Comment

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

Posted on December 28, 2011

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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Posted in Chinese, Hong Kong, Installation, Lectures and talks, New media, Video, Yang Fudong | Tagged 35mm film, An Estranged Paradise, Anselm Kiefer, art, art lectures, art news, art talk, art talks, artist lectures, artist talks, Asia Art Archive, Asia Society, Backyard — Hey! Sun is Rising, bamboo forest, Beijing, China, China Fine Arts Academy, Chinese art, Chinese artists, Chinese contemporary art, Chinese hand scrolls, Chinese media art, Chinese new media art, Chinese painting, contemporary art, contemporary Chinese art, Documenta 11, Documenta XI, exhibition, Film, filmmakers, filmmaking, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Hanart Square, hong kong, installation, Leslie Van Eyck, Lucian Freud, multiple views film, New Media Art, One World Exposition, Osage, Osage Kwun Tong, Osage Open, Painting, photography, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, ShanghART Gallery, spatial film, Spring Workshop, The Fifth Night, Three Kingdoms, Valerie Doran, Venice Biennale 2007, Video art, video installation, Videotage, Yang Fudong, Yellow Mountain | Leave a comment

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

Posted on December 27, 2011

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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Posted in Asia expands, Connecting Asia to itself, Curatorial practice, Environment, Foundations, Globalisation of art, Installation, Japanese, Museums, Nonprofit, Perth, Trauma | Tagged 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Allens Arthur Robinson, Alternating Currents, Alternating Currents - japanese Art After March 2011, art and music collaboration, art exhibitions, art museum exhibitions, art museum shows, artist collaborations, artist collectives, Australian art events, Australian-Japanese relations, Azusa Hashimoto, curatorial practice, Double Orchestra, exhibition, group exhibitions, ICRJ, International Conference of Reconstruction of Japan, Jaime Pacena II, Japan Foundation, Japanese art, Japanese art in Australia, Japanese artists, Japanese contemporary art, Japanese contemporary artists, Leigh Robb, Michele Vitucci, Museum shows, Nadegata Instant Party, National Museum of Art in Osaka, Perth, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, PICA, Sakiko Sugawa, Skunk Tunnel, Taro Izumi, Tsunami, Yellow Cake Street, yellowcake, Yoshihide Otomo, Yukio Fujimoto, Yuko Mohri | 2 Comments

4 Philippine artist-run spaces profiled – Asia Art Archive

Posted on December 27, 2011

Asia Art Archive introduces four new artist-run spaces that opened in late 2010 and 2011 in Manila. Art Radar takes a look and adds one of our own.

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Posted in Artist-run, Artists as curators, Manila | Tagged art in the news, art in the Philippines, art spaces, artist-run spaces, Artists' Regional Exchange, Asialink, Asian Art Archive, Collective Markati, contemporary art, Department of Avante-Garde Cliches, Filipino artists, Jason Tecson, Jes Aznar, Joseph Tecson, Kanto Artist-Run Space, Krem Contemporary, Light & Space Contemporary, Lost Projects, Marc Gaba, Mideo Cruz, Philippines, Pow Martinez, Renato Aguila, Ringo Bunoan, Sam Kiyoumarsi | Leave a comment

Learn how to write about art and get published: Art Radar journalism course

Posted on December 27, 2011

Art Radar has been successfully training art writers since its inception and have designed a certificate programme based on this experience. Sign up now!

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Shahidul Alam’s ‘My Journey as a Witness’: book excerpt and giveaway

Posted on December 21, 2011

A retrospective publication dedicated to the work of renowned Bangladeshi photojournalist and social activist Shahidul Alam has been published by Skira. Win a copy.

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