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CONVERSATIONS, EXHIBITIONS
CONVERSATIONS: Soraya Broukhim on “When Worlds Collide” Wang Qingsong at ICP New York
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s “When World’s Collide” exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP (January – May 2011). Her narrative is inspired by the artist’s acerbic commentary about China’s modern culture and she draws upon her observations in Beijing to [...]
Tags: Chinese contemporary photography, International Center for Photography, Wang Qingsong
HEADLINES
ArtNewspaper: The Venice Effect (and the commodification of culture)
Art Basel. Venice Biennale. Anyone with an ear to the ground in the international contemporary art scene will likely hear two events come up in summer travel plans. As for the question, “Do people buy art there?” The simple answer–with a sigh (or a matter-of-fact exuberance), depending on which side of the market one allies–is [...]
Tags: art market, Venice Biennale
EXHIBITIONS, Weekend Round-up
New York: Exhibitions on view through June 2011
Li Songsong at Pace Gallery, Chelsea (until August 5)
One of the leading painters of his generation, Beijing-based artist Li Songsong (b. 1973) presents 11 impressively large canvases composed of sculpted oil paint panels. Often characterized as wavering between photographic representation and pure painterly abstraction, his fragmented paintings reference images of current events fraught with political [...]
Tags: Li Jin, Li Songsong, Liu Qinghe, Wang Jinsong, Wang Tiande, Wei Dong, Wu Yi, Zhu Wei
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Chinese art at the 54th Venice Biennale // News and Exhibits
Chinese art, rather art from China, in the 54th Venice Biennale makes no spectacles or splashes in headlines this year but presents an international audience with emerging artists working in different media and varied artist circles–a welcomed change from the names representing more commercial Chinese art. Installation artist Song Dong (Beijing) and photography duo Bird [...]
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Guardian: Ai Weiwei confesses…?
14 April 2011 Guardian.co.uk: Ai Weiwei confessing to crimes, says state-run newspaper
“Hong Kong newspaper says police suspect artist of tax-dodging, bigamy and spreading pornography on web.
Chinese police say they have “firm evidence” that the detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei avoided tax, and he has begun confessing, a Hong Kong newspaper under Beijing control has [...]
Tags: Ai Weiwei
HEADLINES, ON THE GROUND
Sotheby’s auction preview at UCCA
For just a couple days in Beijing, the public will have a private opportunity to view the early contemporary Chinese art works acquired over the past decade by Baron Guy and Miriam Ullens. The powerful collection of early paintings by now established Chinese artists makes one lament their brief debut before being [...]
Tags: Sotheby's, UCCA, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
HEADLINES, ON THE GROUND
Is the geography of Beijing’s art landscape really changing?
The Global Times, a Chinese English-language publication, published a blogpost on January 5 titled “Changing geography of art in Beijing” to endorse the new plans for the Wall Art Museum to re-open near the Workers Stadium in Beijing’s bustling Chaoyang District. The first paragraph sets an ambitious projection for the private art center owned by [...]
Tags: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, wall art museum 
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (
China Institute: Blooming in the Shadows, Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985