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Tokyo Is Getting a Yayoi Kusama Museum in October
26 Aug 2017Renowned Japanese ‘Dotty Queen’ Yayoi Kusama has built a museums dedicated to her workin the Shinjuku section of Tokyo, and it is scheduled to open on October 1, according to the Japanese media. Somehow, the artist has managed to keep the project very hush-hush until now. The five-story museum—a white, large-windowed, curved structure—was built by […]
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Why is Art So Expensive? What is Art?
23 Aug 2017“What is art?” Pablo Picasso replied: “What is not art?” Perhaps Art is a lie for Picasso, yet, it is also a truthful lie. What then, is art in the eyes of the average person? And why is art so expensive? Let us return to the most primitive state of art with a simple summary: […]
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National Day ’17 Special Feature: Journey Through Art with renowned Singaporean artists Tan Swie Hian & Fan Shao Hua
09 Aug 2017In the past 52 years, the arts and culture sector has developed and progressed significantly in Singapore. ‘The arts and culture are an integral part of Singapore which the country must continue to nurture because “Man does not live by bread alone’, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. We do wish for the finer things […]
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Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Continues to Heat Up
01 Aug 2017Since the early 90s of the last century, the art auction industry in China began to rise and till date, had gone through two decades of transactional seasons. To understand more about the fundamental basis of the Chinese contemporary sculpture market, we must first look at the basic direction of progress of contemporary sculptural art […]
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Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump’s Art Collection Is Worth Up to $25 Million
26 Jul 2017Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have released new financial disclosures, including more than 70 assets “inadvertently omitted” from Kushner’s initial filings. Among them is Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s contemporary art collection, valued somewhere between $5 million and $25 million. Ivanka Trump frequently takes pictures of herself and her family posing in front of artwork that […]
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We Are Moving to Serve You Better
10 Jul 2017We are pleased to announced that YANG GALLERY • Singapore will be relocating to our new address from 16th July 2017 onwards: The Shopping Gallery Hilton, #01-11, 581 Orchard Road, Singapore 238883 For more information please contact us anytime: shion@yanggallery.com.sg / +65 6721 8888 Welcome to YANG GALLERY, where Art meets Fashion, Luxury, Investment & […]
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Cosmetic Giant DABAO Product Launch Conference at YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798
05 Jul 2017YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798 is pleased to partner Johnson & Johnson (China) Investment Co. Ltd to host the product launch conference of Chinese cosmetic giant, Dabao, under the group. Beijing Dabao Cosmetics Co., Ltd. was founded in 1985 and is based in Beijing, China. The company develops, produces, sells, and exports herbal cosmetic products […]
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Art is the Most Profitable Alternative Investment
04 Jul 2017In the past two centuries, many successful enterprises & power figures in the world are relating themselves with Art. Among them are famous families such as the Rockefeller family, the Ross Charles family; luxury groups and big corporations such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, MontBlanc, LVMH, Gucci, Prada, Swatch, Martell, Hugo Boss, Cartier, LVMH, IBM, Samsung. A […]
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The Most Expensive Artworks in the World
01 Jul 2017There’s a booming art market that’s defying political and economic downturns for the past 10 years globally. In a generally unstable economic context in recent years, the Art Market has shown remarkable stability and resilience. Let us take a look at some of the most expensive artworks ever sold. $250 million. The Card Players by […]
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Hansel & Gretel: Ai Weiwei’s Monumental Art Installation at the Park Avenue Armory
24 Jun 2017At Hansel & Gretel, an interactive installation about modern surveillance by Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, selfies are part of the experience. A collaboration several years in the making, this immersive, super-high-tech installation in two parts reunites Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist-activist-dissident, with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the Swiss architects […]
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‘Shen Jingdong Story’: Shen Jingdong Solo Exhibition 2017 at Yanshan University Museum
21 Jun 2017A Dual Reflection on the Intellectuals – Shen Jingdong and His Works Text / Jiang Ming As a well known contemporary artist, Shen Jingdong created a unique image style I named the “Post Pop”. But more of our research should be the background, meaning, schema aesthetic value of his works and the humanistic reflection as […]
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YANG GALLERY X LPS Beijing Property Show 2017 Crossover Opening Event
17 Jun 2017YANG GALLERY is proud to collaborate with the LPS Beijing Property Show for the sixth consecutive year. YANG GALLERY featured eye-catching collections by established artists Chen Wenling, Tamen, Luo Brothers, Chen Jinqing, Hua Qing at the deluxe opening cocktail on 16th of June 2017 at the prestigious 5-star Sofitel Wanda Beijing, in the heart of […]
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5 Interesting Facts About Yayoi Kusama
14 Jun 20171. Pumpkins were a major part of Yayoi Kusama’s diet during World War II As a child during that tumultuous period, Kusama’s family relied on pumpkins to feed them, having grown fields of pumpkins in their nursery. Representing comfort and security to the artist, their “solid spiritual balance” appeal to her. The 88-year-old has since […]
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Art Hotels Around the World
05 Jun 2017In today’s world where the Arts and Culture sector is receiving rapidly growing awareness, a luxury hotel can no longer be defined by traditional dictates of spiffy service and quality linen – the value of artwork in its treasure chest and how well they are displayed are also important. Let us take a look at […]
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New Record for Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2017
04 Jun 2017From 26 to 31 May 2017 Christie’s Hong Kong held its Week Spring Auctions, including four auctions of Asian contemporary art, Asian 20th century art and Chinese contemporary ink. Christie’s Art and Contemporaries: Voices from East and West sale was a feature of the spring week sales and attained a total of HKD543,380,000 (USD70,071,430) in […]
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Fine Art, the Global Investment
02 Jun 2017It’s a fact that Fine Art as an investment class has outperformed the S&P 500 every year for the last 10 years. In fact, 64% of private banks say that estate planning around art is a strategic focus for them. People invest in Oil & Gas and lots of other things, so why not art? […]
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Ai Weiwei: ‘Trace’ at Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden 2017
30 May 2017One of China’s most provocative living artists, Ai Weiwei (b. Beijing, 1957) has spent nearly four decades exploring the relationships between art, society, and individual experience. His work, as prolific as it is eclectic, encompasses a wide range of media, including sculpture, installation, photography, film, painting, and architecture. Ai Weiwei began seeking to incite change […]
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Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow at the National Gallery of Singapore
30 May 2017Yayoi Kusama (born Japan 1929) is one of the world’s most influential artists, and has played a crucial role in the development of art in the 20th and 21st centuries. YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow is the first major survey of her work in Southeast Asia, and will focus on the […]
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Pan Dehai: There is a ‘Fat Man’ Expanded by Dreams Living Inside Us All
27 May 2017Pan Dehai is one in the trio of artists known as “Three Swordsman”, three of the most influential Chinese Contemporary Artists highly sought after in the world. The other two in this group are Zhang Xiaogang who created the globally renowned “Bloodline Series” and Mao Xuhui, who are achieving over HK$20 million continuously a piece […]
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National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts Graduation Exhibition at YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798
26 May 2017The 2017 Graduation Exhibition of National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts will be held with great anticipation at YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798 from 27th – 30th May 2017.