Monthly Archives: December 2011

Steal a Banksy and keep it, guilt and prison free

Posted on December 14, 2011

There is a AUD15,000 Banksy lurking in a corridor of one of three of Melbourne’s Art Series Hotels and the company is offering its guests the opportunity to swipe it.

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Posted in Art tourism, Banksy, Graffiti, Hotel art, Melbourne, Promoting art, Street art | Tagged art marketing, art promotion, Art Series Hotels, art tourism, Australian hotels, Banksy, Graffiti, graffiti art, hotel art, Kate Nicholson, Melbourne hotels, No Ball Games, Promoting art, Stay the night. Steal the art., steal a Banksy, stencil, stencil art, stenciling, street art, Want to steal a Banksy? | 1 Comment

Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa plans multi-disciplined Sharjah Biennial 11

Posted on December 14, 2011

The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced that Yuko Hasegawa will head the curatorial team for the eleventh edition of the Sharjah Biennial, to be held in March 2013.

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Posted in Biennials, Curatorial practice, Sharjah, Yuko Hasegawa | Tagged appointments, art professional appointments, art world appointments, Asian art world appointments, biennial curators, curator appointments, curatorial appointments, Eurocentrism, Japanese art curators, Kate Nicholson, Middle Eastern art events, MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, professional art industry appointments, Saatchi, SAF, Sharjah art events, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, West Asian art events, Yuko Hasegawa | Leave a comment

Words in Art: How Indian-born painter Sujata Bajaj uses Sanskrit on canvas

Posted on December 13, 2011

For the last interview in our year-long “Words in Art” series, Art Radar met with the Indian painter Sujata Bajaj in her Paris studio. Read on for an overview of her practice.

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Hyperallergic blogger explores contemporary Philippine art with new series

Posted on December 13, 2011

While on a month’s residency at the Green Papaya Arts project, An Xiao is writing a new series on Hyperallergic based on the ‘contemporary art and technology scene’ in the Philippines.

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Posted in An Xiao, Connecting Asia to itself, Filipino, Manila, Overviews, Residencies, Resources, Technology, Website | Tagged An Xiao, art and technology, art and the Internet, art blogazine, art in Manila, art in the Philippines, art magazines, art residencies, art writing residencies, artist residencies, Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, contemporary art magazines, contemporary Filipino artists, Fete Dela WSK, Filipino artists, Filipino contemporary art, Green Papaya Art Projects, Hyperallergic, Jose Alain Austria, Manila art scene, Manila artists, Manila contemporary art scene, Naqiyah Sultan, Philippine contemporary art and technology scene, Ramon Orlina, residencies, Roberto Chabet, Ronald Ventura, Sentinels and Guardians, Sotheby's Hong Kong Contemporary Asian Art Spring Auction 2011, South East Asian art, Southeast Asian contemporary art, writing residencies | Leave a comment

Chinese artists Wang Qiang and Zhu Zi at White Space Beijing – picture feast

Posted on December 13, 2011

Work by two Chinese artists, Wang Qiang and his younger countryman Zhu Zi, are showing at White Space Beijing until 15 January 2012.

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Posted in Beijing, Charcoal, Chinese, Drawing, Emerging artists, Gallery shows, Nature, Oil, Painting, Pencil, Picture feasts, Urban, Wang Qiang, Zhu Zi | Tagged acrylic, acrylic on canvas, Bamboo grove, Beijing art exhibitions, Beijing art galleries, Beijing art spaces, Central Academy of Fine Arts, charcoal, charcoal drawing, charcoal on paper, Chinese art, Chinese artists, Chinese contemporary art, Chinese contemporary painting, contemporary Chinese artists, Drawing, Fish, High Platform, King of the city, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Lotus flowers, Lotus pond, Mountain River Water, pencil, pencil drawings, pencil on paper, picture feast, Renato Aguila, solo exhibitions, Two houses, Venus Hotel, Wang Qiang, White Space, White Space Beijing, Window, Zhu Zi | Leave a comment

Shirin Neshat’s inspiration from home – TED video

Posted on December 13, 2011

In a TED Talks video posted in May 2011, Shirin Neshat tells the audience how, as an artist in exile, she was inspired by her home country and people there.

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Posted in Activist, Feminist art, Identity art, Iranian, Islamic art, Memory, Nationalism, Photography, Political, Shirin Neshat, Social, Video, Violence, Women power | Tagged contemporary Iranian art, culture, democracy, exile, feminism, feminist, Feminist art, freedom, gender art, Green Revolution, heritage, history, Iran, Iranian Art, Iranian artists, Iranian history, Islamic aesthetic, Islamic authoritarian regime, Islamic Revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shahrnush Parsipur, Shirin Neshat, Silver Lion, TED, TED Talks, TED videos, TEDWomen, Teresa Cheung, traditions, Venice Biennale, Venice Film Festival, voice, women as subjects, women in art, Women Without Men | 1 Comment

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

Posted on December 13, 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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Christie’s ‘Faces of New China’ Private Collection Sale underperforms amidst art market slowdown

Posted on December 7, 2011

Christie’s Hong Kong November 26 Private Collection Sale provides a dramatic example of single-owner sales’ susceptibility to the faltering Asian art market.

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