Chinese Collector Qiao Zhibing Shutters a Shanghai Art Space as the West Bund Faces Changes
While Qiao Space has been closed and demolished, Tank Shanghai is safe.
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Stepping Forward, Stepping Backward: 12th Shanghai Biennale Examines a World in Turmoil
Through March 10 at Power Station of Art
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Acquiring Minds: Top 200 Collectors Reveal Their Mentors and Inspirations
Who influenced the connoisseurs on the list?
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Editor’s Letter: The Top 200 Issue | Fall 2016
As we at ARTnews were putting this issue together, I kept returning to the story of Ernest Hemingway and The Farm. Hemingway bought Joan Miró’s painting of that title—an exacting inventory of…
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From Palace to Tank: Art Collector Qiao Zhibing Is Parlaying His Shanghai Karaoke Club Into a Museum-Cum-Recreation-Space
Shanghai Night is a karaoke palace like no other—a lavish five-story complex with chandeliers, marble floors, and wood-paneled rooms for private parties. Visitors are astounded by the opulence…
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Private Practices: A Look at 12 Private Museum Openings
It’s been projected that in the next five years, 1,200 museums will be built in China; 400 of those spaces are expected to be private. Though more museums are opening in China than anywhere else…
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The 2016 Top 200 Collectors: Introduction
Four years ago, J. Tomilson Hill, vice chairman of the private equity firm the Blackstone Group, got a phone call from L.A.-based artist Mark Grotjahn, whose work Hill has collected in depth
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