China's Art Boom

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July 2008
- Chinese Museums Confound Western Expectations
  
  New York Times | Jul 4, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - These days China feels "both older and newer than any place on the planet," writes New York Times art critic Holland Cotter. And nowhere is that tension more palpable than in the country's museums, which use antiquities from the millennia-old civilization in service of a rising world power. In a trip across China, the critic discovers a different approach to museum display. More »
June 2008
- Blogger Keeps Quake in Focus
  
  Jezebel | Jun 21, 08 8:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Chinese graphic novelist determined to keep the aftermath of last month's earthquake on the front burner is using her new blog to get the message out, and fellow citizen journalists on the other side of the world are catching on. "We love you, Coco Wang," a blogger at New York-based Jezebel writes to the Beijing-based artist. More »
April 2008
- Meet China's First Global Pop Star
  
  Independent (UK) | Apr 2, 08 12:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China may be storming the world right now, but it’s never had good luck with pop starts. That could change with Sa Dingding, a half-Mongolian singer/songwriter, who sings entirely in Tibetan over a velvety mix of traditional instruments like the zither and modern electronica. Universal’s hoping the whole eclectic, ethnic mix will make her prime iPod material, the Independent reports. More »
March 2008
- Art Funds Looking Far East
  
  Bloomberg | Mar 20, 08 11:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With major economies slowing and the US dollar near historic lows, art investment funds are looking to move away from the slowing Western art market, Bloomberg reports. Funds are sinking millions into works from China, India, and the Middle East. One leading fund has met its target for contemporary Chinese art and is aiming to expand into older works. More »
February 2008
- Chinese Art Boom Doesn't Translate in the 'Burgh
  
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Feb 10, 08
  
  Pittsburgh was once praised for its multi-ethnic communities, but nowadays it is seen by many as being far from multicultural, even provincial. Nowhere is this more obvious than with its visual-arts scene, where most of the focus on art and art collecting is on art by local artists.
- Chinese Artists Dazzle
  
  Denver Post | Feb 5, 08
  
  For the cover of its May 2006 issue, devoted to the global art boom, ARTnews magazine chose an eye-grabbing portrait by Chinese painter Feng Zhengjie %u2014 a boldly stylized image with throbbing, neon colors.
December 2007
- Art Market Sails Over Turmoil
  
  Associated Press | Dec 26, 07 6:01 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - US financial markets were in chaos this year, but the art market certainly wasn't. The expanding ranks of the super-rich, the weak dollar, and emerging connoisseurs from Russia, China, India, and the Middle East kept auction houses in fine form, the AP reports, with postwar and contemporary works—including a $71 million Warhol—leading the way. More »
November 2007
- The Man Behind the Smile
  
  New York Times | Nov 14, 07 5:38 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - It's contemporary Chinese art's most indelible image—the smile so huge it becomes false, accusatory—and it belongs to Yue Minjun, the artist who uses the grinning self-portraits, often many of them, in his paintings. The New York Times chats with Yue, who is enjoying his first US show in New York after one of his paintings sold for $5.9 million last month at an auction at Sotheby’s in London. More »
October 2007
- China's Art Boom Fueled by Asian Money
  
  AFP | Oct 16, 07
  
  Staggering prices for art from China at recent auctions reflects the huge appetite for both the spectacular investment returns and a fascination with all-things Chinese, experts say.
September 2007
- New Shanghai Art Fair Wows Critics, Dealers
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Sep 12, 07 5:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Western art dealers are jittery about the coming month's fairs in London and Paris, but at Shanghai's first international contemporary art fair the mood was buy, buy, buy. The Telegraph traveled to ShContemporary, a fair that assembled galleries from Asia, Europe and the US. Censorship might reign in the People's Republic, but inside the fair the mood was transgressive and fashionable. More »
April 2007
- Can Chinese Art Stay Hot?
  
  Portfolio | Apr 20, 07 12:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After a year of high excitement and higher prices, Chinese artists are hot at influential European fairs. But the bubble may have grown too fast, and Portfolio's Alexandra Wolfe reports on speculation that it's about to burst. One curator says Chinese art is "a consumer category, not a collector category.” More »