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ArtTactic’s Chinese Contemporary Art Market Confidence Survey Shows Continued Strong Recovery
Over the past 18 months, the emergence of the mainland Chinese auction house as a strong regional force and the growing clout of new Chinese collectors has led ArtTactic to conclude that Chinese contemporary art volume in 2010 could approach 2007 pre-crisis levels.
Read Full Story »Consumption Standard For Chinese “New Nobility” Up 22% Over Last Year
According to the Hurun Report, a member of the new nobility should own three houses, an impressive art collection (probably of Chinese contemporary and traditional art), and spend around $1 million per year on luxury goods.
Read Full Story »More Chinese Companies Investing In Corporate Art
Mainland Chinese art collectors may still be somewhat new on the art scene, but in recent years another group of highly motivated, well-funded entrants has also joined the party: domestic Chinese companies looking to invest in corporate collections.
Read Full Story »Zeng Fanzhi: “Artists Need To Be Narcissistic”
Today marks the opening of Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi’s retrospective at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, a wide-ranging exhibition curated by Wu Hung that includes not only Zeng’s signature oil paintings but new sculptures, installation works and pencil drawings.
Read Full Story »Moleskine’s “Detour” To Hit Shanghai This October
Curated by Raffaella Guidobono, Moleskine’s “Detour” group show includes creations by artists working in a number of different mediums, from artists and filmmakers to graphic designers, writers and architects.
Read Full Story »Cai Guo-Qiang To Create Huge Gunpowder Painting For New China Gallery In Houston
Chinese art will hit Texas in a big way this October, as Cai Guo-Qiang will follow up his recent exhibition “Peasant da Vincis” with a massive gunpowder painting commissioned by the new Arts of China Gallery at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Read Full Story »New Generation Of Chinese Furniture Designers Combine Modern With Traditional
Recently, we’ve noticed something of a boom in the number of Chinese-language stories about upstart designers who are breaking from generic reproduction of Western styles or a slavish dedication to traditional Chinese design.
Read Full Story »Zhou Chunya: Let Luxury-Arts Partnerships Increase Art Appreciation In China
Zhou Chunya penned an interesting op-ed this week concerning the growing number of luxury-arts partnerships, writing that although they have their detractors, he feels these initiatives could play an instrumental and constructive role in the development of greater arts appreciation in China.
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