The contemporary art market reached a fever pitch in 2012, with record-breaking sales occurring around the world at auctions and art fairs alike. While that may have more to do with economics, we couldn’t help but notice the astounding amount of compelling art prompting us to take note this year. From photographs of the wild by Alaskan fisherman Corey Arnold to Chris Milk and Aaron …
While browsing the 2012 FIAC exhibition in Paris last month, we were thrilled to discover the Fonds Muncipal D’Art Contemporain (FMAC) or Municipal Fund for Contemporary Art, which was showing their 2012 purchases. As opposed to private galleries, FMAC is free from market constraints and selling perspectives. It pursues a purchasing policy aimed at collecting the most remarkable achievements of the new generation to curate …
Beyond the frenzied industrial development and Disneyfication of its historic alleyways, Beijing remains a city to discover. Fascinating hidden locations and scattered traces of the past are still preserved in the old capital— among them, the 100-year-old building behind the National Art Museum that once housed the former Sino-French University.The old building is now home to Yishu 8, a gallery that inherits the tradition of …
