Infinite Strokes – Chinese Ink Painting
Chinese Arts Centre pays tribute to two artists, Mary Tang and Cathy Wu, who have shown commitment to the Centre over the last 20 years. Both artists have worked as workshop leaders for the Centre but are also accomplished ink brush painting and calligraphy artists in their own right. Cathy Yat Ming Ho (Wu)’s family was originally from Zhejiang Hanzhou in China. She was born in Sichuan, Chengdu, and she moved to Hong Kong in...
The Age of Conquest
THE AGE OF CONQUEST, in Rome Rome, Palazzo Caffarelli Until 5 September 2010 museicapitolini.org The Age of Conquest, an exhibition just opened in the Musei Capitolini, explores the question: how did Rome’s conquest of Greece (146 BC) influence Roman art? The answer is of course that the influence was huge: Roman copies of Greek masterpieces ensued, there were aesthetic influences in the decoration of sanctuaries and funerary...
Liberation Exhibition by Lu and Ding
Curated by Carol Lu Yinghua and Liu Ding and Chinese Arts Centre Preview: 24 June 2010 Date: 25 June – 14 August 2010 Artist: Brendan Fan, Yan Xing, Lin Yilin, Liu Ding Liberation is an exhibition growing out of an ongoing discussion with Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding around internet networking, and looks closely at the Chinese government’s control over the flow of information on the internet. Internet networking websites are systems...
Help Blists Hill Victorian Town Win
Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge, Shropshire has got just a few days left to beat of stiff competition to win £100,000. It is one of only four museums in the country shortlisted to win the prestigious Art Fund Prize. The Museum is encouraging people to get on line and vote as soon as possible as the voting closes at 5pm on Friday 18th June. The on-line poll has been set up to help the judges choose which museum will win the...
Outland a curated show
Timed to coincide with the London Festival of Architecture 2010, ‘Outland’ is a curated show that presents works by contemporary artists that engage with notions of alternative colonies, shelter or creating environments and cultures from found, appropriated and manipulated materials. But, it does so from a particular angle. As any survey of contemporary art tendencies in the past decade will show, architecture in its broadest sense...