{"id":19745,"date":"2013-02-08T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=19745"},"modified":"2024-01-06T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T10:17:28","slug":"news-china-auction-sales-halve-bored-by-song-dong-xu-bing-at-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/news-china-auction-sales-halve-bored-by-song-dong-xu-bing-at-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"News: China auction sales halve, bored by Song Dong, Xu Bing at Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New York Times:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/08\/arts\/design\/song-dong-doing-nothing.html?ref=arts&amp;_r=0\">Nothing Doing with Song Dong\u2019s \u201cDoing Nothing\u201d<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(February 7, 2013 )<strong><br><\/strong>New York Times critic, Roberta Smith almost couldn\u2019t be bothered writing about Song Dong\u2019s (\u5b8b\u51ac, born 1966, Beijing)massive show at Pace Gallery.<br>Almost.<br><em>\u201cThe early works here demonstrate that Mr. Song has come a long way from the generic international Conceptualism of his youth, however daring they may have seemed in China when they were first made. But more recent pieces suggest that his development still has a way to go. \u2026, they are also simply well-done examples of done-to-death assemblage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ArtLyst&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artlyst.com\/articles\/oxfords-ashmolean-museum-exhibits-contemporary-chinese-artist-xu-bing\">Oxford\u2019s Ashmolean Museum Exhibits Contemporary Chinese Artist Xu Bing<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(February 5, 2013)<br>First exhibition devoted to landscapes of Xu Bing (b.1955, Chongqing) opened at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, titled \u2018Landscape Landscript\u2019. 1990-98 Xu Bing lived in New York. Since returning to Beijing in 1998 Xu&nbsp;has been Vice President of CAFA, China\u2019s leading art school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><\/em>The Art Newspaper:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/articles\/Sales+halve+at+China%E2%80%99s+leading+auction+houses\/28536\">Sales halve at China\u2019s leading auction houses<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(Melanie Gerlis,&nbsp;February 4)<br>The author notes that \u201cThe figures exclude private sales, a growing area for auction houses\u201d &nbsp;(no kidding) but the article fails to mention the crackdown on alleged art smuggling and taxation (upon which The Art Newspaper has itself&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/articles\/Concern-grows-for-health-of-shippers-detained-by-Chinese-customs\/26485\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;), which just maybe, possibly, kinda also had something to do with auction sales dropping off a cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New York Times:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/28\/arts\/design\/as-art-market-rise-so-do-questions-of-oversight.html?ref=global-home&amp;_r=0\">As Art Values Rise, So Do Concerns About Market\u2019s Oversight<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;(Robin Pogrebin and Kevin Flynn, January 27, 2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times:&nbsp;Nothing Doing with  &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/news-china-auction-sales-halve-bored-by-song-dong-xu-bing-at-oxford\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[5316,13361,13359,11227,13360,344,62,5380],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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