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Tag Archives: Asian art market
ART HK crash course: all you need to know – Art Radar past coverage
Posted on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
ART HK 12 is mere days away and to celebrate Art Radar offers a list of some of our past posts on the largest and most respected art fair in Asia dating back to 2008.
Hong Kong art fair ART HK 11: Past ART HK editions coverage – compare and contrast
Posted on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
We step back into time to take a look at (and list) all our coverage of past ART HK’s, from 2008 to the lead up to this week’s event.
Fine art funds trends today – ArtInsight panel talk summary
Posted on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
ArtInsight’s second global art market seminar for 2011 discusses what makes for a successful art fund and whether art can be an asset class.
Most groundbreaking contemporary art from East? Three top art experts say no
Posted on Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Last week Art Radar outlined in an article the arguments presented for the motion by three of the speakers involved in “The Most Groundbreaking Contemporary Art is from the East” debate. This week we outline the arguments against the motion as presented by art professionals Sarah Kent, Kenny Schachterand Richard Wentworth.
3 contemporary Chinese painters make Artprice report top 10
Posted on Saturday, December 11th, 2010
ASIAN ARTISTS CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS ART MARKET Three Chinese artists feature in Artprice’s top 10 of contemporary painters by revenue, alongside four Americans and three Europeans. Artprice claims there is a turn towards ‘‘figurative American and Chinese painting, at the … Continue reading
Chinese auction houses climb worldwide revenue rankings – Artprice
Posted on Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Apparently oblivious to the recession, the Chinese art market posted its best-ever six-month auction earnings in the second half of 2009. Reflecting the rising importance of the Middle Kingdom in the world economy, China’s auction houses are claiming more and more spots in the world’s top 10 by revenue. Three of them appear in the Artprice Contemporary Art Market 2009/2010 Annual Report rankings. Continue reading
Mid auction season Hong Kong art market update: Sotheby’s sale round-up
Posted on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The seven day Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn 2010 sales series was a revealing and record-breaking event. Most artworks sold for well above estimates, mainland Chinese buyers outnumbered those from Hong Kong and Asian art sales eclipsed those of Western art. Art Radar trowels the media to find and summarise the best reports on the sales. Continue reading
Globalisation of contemporary art market evident in growth of art fairs – The Economist
Posted on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
ART FAIRS ECONOMY A recent article in the Economist comments on the globalisation of art and how art fairs accelerate the transnational exposure of artists, something that could become necessary for artists if they want to attract the attention of serious … Continue reading
“Korean Eye: Fantastic Ordinary” exhibition tours London, Singapore, and Seoul
Posted on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
KOREAN ARTISTS WESTERN EXPOSURE The Saatchi Gallery in London once again hosted the popular exhibition “Korean Eye“, which showcases emerging Korean artists to the West. This year the exhibition will travel; in October and November it will travel to Singapore … Continue reading
Korean art hit and miss at Seoul Auction Hong Kong: New York Times
Posted on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
SEOUL AUCTION HOUSE RESULTS A recent article by The New York Times explains the market trends of recent Hong Kong newcomer, Seoul Auction’s two highly successful auctions held in 2009: Korean collectors continue to acquire Western contemporary artists, Chinese artists … Continue reading
Visual culture of Shanghai on show at San Francisco Asian Art Museum
Posted on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
A look at Shanghai – visual culture of a city mapped over 160 years that charts its transformation from a humble port town to a bustling cosmopolitan city. At the Museum of Asian Art, San Francisco. Continue reading
Colin Chinnery, director of ShContemporary, on future of Shanghai Art Fair – interview Artron
Posted on Friday, January 29th, 2010
SHANGHAI ART FAIR INTERVIEW Colin Chinnery was in a precarious position as the new direction of ShContemporary, the Shanghai art fair, in 2009. The young art fair, having its 3rd incarnation in 2010, faced an uncertain future last year while the … Continue reading
Performance of Asia tops West for first timers at auction in 2008/09
Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
AUCTION PERFORMANCE It may be of some surprise that Asian artists have outperformed their Western counterparts in “first time auction results” during the height of the art market boom. According to ArtPrice’s 2008/2009 contemporary art market report, buyers are giving … Continue reading
Contemporary art market in Asia now bigger than US for first time says Artprice
Posted on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
ASIAN ART MARKET For the first time ever, the total auction revenue from “contemporary art in Asia” is greater than the total of the United States artprice reports. The statistics are collected from a 12-month period spanning from July 2008 … Continue reading



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