This rapid cultural development has made Shanghai an important destination on the international art circuit: The Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art and countless new private galleries, though young, are turning it into a contemporary arts hub to rival China's capital, Beijing.
Most German regions have their fair share of music, art and theatre.
Ms Lee-Chun's show is Spinello Gallery's contribution to PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair, one of the many satellite fairs that take place this week alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, a monster exhibition that draws galleries from all over the world to network, mingle with the jet-set, and, vitally, to sell art.
His hard work landed Gupta an invitation in 1999 to Arco in Madrid, the sort of contemporary art fair that can make a gallery owner's reputation.
But the endless parade of Murakami-Bourgeois-Fontana-Warhol-Hirst is becoming so tedious one almost begins to dread these events where once the opening of an art fair sparkled with excited anticipation and eager chatter over new discoveries.
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Thousands of art enthusiasts will flock to Miami from 2 to 5 December during the ninth run of Art Basel Miami Beach (the sister event of the 41-year-old Art Basel fair which takes place in Switzerland every June).
For Baratta, choosing Gioni was part of an effort to broaden the appeal of the sometimes daunting new art at the heart of the fair.
Long before the storm, Ripple and his partners had established their firm as a highly respected regional player in architecture and design -- jointly renovating and expanding the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Fair Grounds Race Course and the Aquarium of the Americas.
Every art fair saw a flood of Sol LeWitts, of the then-chic-now-forgotten Italian Transavangardia, of Keith Harings and Kenny Scharfs and huge, thickly-painted canvases by Georg Baselitz.
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"A lot of collectors look for undervalued groups of art, and women could easily be considered the last big group, " says Michel Witmer, a New York collector and board member of the European Fine Art Fair.
According to Sarkozy, taxing service providers in the name of protecting French art is only fair game.
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To be fair, wireless technology is something of a black art.
With all that the Art Basel Miami Beach fair has to offer, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of art on display.
At Art Athina, the capital's international art fair, a few dozen volunteers perform a range of functions, including welcoming visitors and providing information about enigmatic paintings.
The film specially produced by Laser for the fair is made up of footage from a series of focus groups of art experts discussing what the official look of The Armory Show should be.
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Hong Kong kicks off a set of Asian art sales on Friday, and next week the rest of the art world will descend on London's Frieze Art Fair for contemporary sales.
Though PULSE is a smallish fair for lesser-known exhibitors, its opening party is a true microcosm of the art world: the art-lovers are easily identifiable by their enthusiasm and sometimes by their haircuts, which, depending on the degree of asymmetry, advertise that the individual operates in a realm where flourishes of this sort are not just acceptable but hallmarks of authenticity.
Assessing the fair value of derivatives and thinly (if at all) traded mortgage securities holdings is far more art than science, with wiggle-room galore.
Soon after, at the 2001 Milan Furniture Fair, the couple met Stefano Grandi, head of an Italian company that makes motors and an art patron.
The university was named with Plymouth College of Art among colleges which failed to meet targets in figures from the Office for Fair Access (Offa).
"It's only a matter of time, " observes Yamini Mehta, head of the Indian art department at Christie's auction house, pointing to the inclusion of London-born Bharti Kher, 38, in the Basel, Switzerland art fair this coming spring.
About 40 of Gary's new-style paintings will go on display at the Affordable Art Fair at London's Battersea Park from 21-24 October.
For last year's Frieze Art Fair in London, she created "The Vanishing Lake, " a site-specific exhibition of her drawings and tapestries shown within a Georgian house on Fitzroy Square.
The exposition's buildings turned out to be mostly neo-classical pastiche, but the fair did bequeath a sense of cultural pride and, more tangibly, the makings of a new home for the Art Institute.
In 2009, Deutsche Bank signed a deal to be the lead sponsor for the Art HK fair for "up to five years, " according to the statement released at the time of announcement.
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