Budi Tek, Influential Collector Whose Private Museum Helped Bring Contemporary Asian Art to International Stage, Has Died at 65
His Yuz Museum in Shanghai formed major partnerships with LACMA and the Qatar Museums.
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How Collectors in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan Are Shaping Their Countries’ Art Scenes
ARTnews takes a look at two regions in Asia that are becoming more important to the global art ecosystem.
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Amid Crackdown on Islam in China, Collector Budi Tek Plows Forward with Qatar Partnership
“We are going to be talking about good art, not religion that upsets people,” Budi Tek told the South China Morning Post.
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In Historic U.S.-China Partnership, Budi Tek’s Shanghai-Based Yuz Museum Will Partner With LACMA
The Chinese magnate will donate most of his art to a new foundation co-owned by the Los Angeles institution.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Shanghai’s Yuz Museum in Collaboration Talks
Budi Tek, who founded the Chinese institution and is battling cancer, is said to be looking to secure the future of his museum.
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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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Shanghai Museums Grow Up: At the Long Museum and the Yuz Museum
Two years ago, when Shanghai first announced its five-year plan to develop into a cultural capital, many people were dubious about plopping museums into a metropolis overnight. But now that…
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Morning Links: NSA Art Edition
St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum will open a satellite in Moscow with a focus on contemporary art. The museum could be open as early as 2018. [The Art Newspaper] China is the…
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Rain Room to Come to Shanghai, Singapore
At a panel discussion on Thursday at the Art Stage Singapore fair, Indonesian-Chinese collector Budi Tek announced that he will bring the Rain Room to his eight-month-old private…
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Westerners and Easterners Alike Flock to Art Basel In Hong Kong
Art Basel in Hong Kong, formerly known as Art HK, is the place to go for East-meets-West-style work like Wu Di's Plaything (2013). The painting shows a monkey-headed human figure in Western…
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