New ART Rich list to be released

Hurun Report will launch its first Contemporary Art List on 1 March 2008 at the Capital Museum China. The list is based on the artists and works of art that sold most in public auction in the past year.

“Collecting contemporary art has become the leading hobby of many among China’s new rich and has contributed to the phenomenal growth in the Chinese art market over the last few years.”

Shanghai Eye received a preview copy, and will probably publish it over the weekend…

nb- its living Chinese artists.

Monster Chinese art sale

There’s a whole bunch of Chinese art up for sale at Sotheby’s. 292 lots.

Paintblog: Work in progress and other pics

Some new WIPs, moving some older work to their nice new home…

BTW- for any fans of the band police they may be in Shanghai in this year.

Here’s the lyrics to the ‘do do do’ song

Don’t think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They’re only cheques I’ve left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true

Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one’s jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true

 

 

 

Some new camera phone pics

A few camera phone pics from this week

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Mini news round up

Via popbitch, here is how to write a classified ad.

Here’s a look at new singer Soko. “look at the monkey”

No idea what this is.

One of the founders of Sots Art is p/reviewed here in the Moscow Times.

Some new vodka ad.

Fin.

Stolen art found in car o park 0

Yup.

mini art news round up

* A bunch of local art work will be up for sale in London:

“Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Sotheby’s Feb. 27 sale of contemporary art in London will include the most valuable group of works by Chinese artists it has offered in Europe, the auction house said.

The 10 Chinese contemporary works are estimated at 7 million pounds to 9.8 million pounds ($13.7 million-$19.2 million) in a 70-lot auction of contemporary art that has an overall valuation of 72 million pounds to 102.9 million pounds, said a press statement issued yesterday.

The Chinese group includes paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Liu Ye and Yan Pei-Ming, living artists who all have fetched over $1 million at auction, according to the saleroom-result database Artnet.”

* There is a rambling piece here, going over Indian and Chinese art.

*And newsweek covers Chinese artist Cai Guo-qiang here.

“Cai Guo-Qiang compares setting off explosives to making love: you may know how to do it, but there’s always room for surprise. The Chinese artist uses gunpowder—that ancient Chinese invention—as the primary material in his art, employing it in a variety of ways: in public art spectacles of explosions and smoky clouds, or burned directly onto paper to make remarkably elegant works that can hang on a wall.”

Big art news roundup

Its been a busy week in the arts, here are the more interesting stories of note…

* Singapore’s “New Contemporary Art Centre” will open in Beijing later this year, in Songzhuang.

“Songzhuang is considered to be the epicentre of Chinese contemporary art where some 1,500 artists, including internationally renowned artists like Fang Lijun and Yue Minjun, live and work, and meet regularly to discuss the latest developments in contemporary art.”

*There’s a good article here about Russian artist Rodchenko.

*Straight.com got all gushy about Beijing’s 798 art district, you can read it here. Definitely worth a read once you get past the usual stuff.
“The liberalizing policies that altered the Chinese economy also altered the government’s view of what was permissible in a post–Tiananmen Square world. The strictures of 20th-century socialist realism were jettisoned, and the 798 Art Zone was born amid artist-run fetish nights, Mao-as-a-pig sculptures, photos of full frontal nudity, and shock-art performances. The artists waited for the authorities to intervene. Were there limits to self-expression in this new China?”

*Reuters are now getting excited again.….about high prices for Chinese art.

“Now, amid global stock market turmoil, investors are scouring the region’s art for the next big windfall, hoping nouveau riche Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs will help pump up prices by stepping into a realm previously dominated by serious collectors.

“Chinese art is now viewed as another commodity to invest in,” said Anthony Lin, a Hong Kong-based art consultant who used to be the chairman of Christie’s Asia.

“There’s been between a 10-to-60-fold price increase in the past few years which is quite spectacular. India is slightly below, but it’s also amazing.”"

* Feng Zhenjie has donated some work to Singapore Art Museum.

* You can have a look at some Beijing artists abroad with Galerie Urs Meile.

*A big problem for Chinese art in Pittsburgh, according to this article:

“Pittsburghers, it seems, are not paying attention. An exhibition organized by University of Pittsburgh art history professor Josienne N. Piller that opened in the fall of 2004 titled “Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China” featured works by Chinese contemporary art heavyweights Xu Bing and Wenda Gu, among others. It was received warmly, but only among a small group of cognoscenti, most of whom were academics.”

*In other news….there is a good review of an Orkney island gallery here, Sports Illustrated have put all their models online- read about it here,

Vincent van Gogh’s letters to another artist here,  and Sotheby’s have put a new video online here discussing contemporary art.

Susie’s new work

Susanne Junker has added some new work to her site.

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