Elina Brotherus – Films, Videos and Photographs
Wapping Project Bankside, 16 September – 23 October 2010 Talk: 16 September 2010 Elina Brotherus in Conversation with Sacha Craddock (Free – open to the public) Talk: 21 September 2010 UK, Collecting Films, a New Territory (strictly limited to collectors and press) [phpbay]photography Art, 1[/phpbay] Widely known in the UK as a photographer, the youngest to have been shortlisted for the former Citi Bank prize, Elina...
Ceramics In The City 2010
A three-day selling fair Friday 17 September 10am – 5.00pm Saturday 18 September 10.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 19 September 12.00 noon – 5.00pm Admission Free Ceramics in the City returns to the Geffrye Museum in September, showcasing stunning new work by 50 selected ceramicists, a mix of both well-established names and rising talents. An array of styles, techniques, texture and colour will be demonstrated in a wide variety of...
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...