Lisa Movius

Shanghai

China Bureau Chief at The Art Newspaper

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Arts writer based in Shanghai, covering most of Asia primarily for The Art Newspaper. Swimmer. Cat lady. Opinions my own. ta/she/her/they/them/thee/thou

Articles

How Myanmar's art community rallied after a deadly earthquake

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

The human toll and long-term infrastructural damage to an already embattled Myanmar continues to mount following the devastating 7.7 earthquake on 28 March. The country’s art community, both at home and in exile, has been raising funds for the country’s rebuilding efforts and providing channels to support relief, rather than filling the coffers of the ruling Tatmadaw junta.
Taiwan's newest art institution taps into a flourishing local scene

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

A new art museum opening on 25 April in New Taipei City, Taiwan’s most populous metropolitan area with four million residents, is expected to help the city carve out a distinct artistic identity and emerge from neighbouring Taipei’s cultural shadow. New Taipei City is a municipality in northern Taiwan that surrounds the capital, but is administratively separate.
Guy Ullens, collector and patron of Chinese contemporary art, has died, aged 90

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

Baron Guy Ullens de Schooten, the art collector and patron who cofounded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens, passed away on 19 April at the age 90. Already a longtime avid collector, Ullens became an enthusiastic supporter of Chinese contemporary art in its heady formative years in the 1980s and 90s.
Nova Contemporary gallery taps into Thailand’s burgeoning market

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

The influential Thai gallery Nova Contemporary is expanding this month, opening a 412 sq. m location in Bangkok’s Bang Rak neighbourhood. The inaugural show, Affinities (26 April to 5 July), is a survey of 28 mostly Thai contemporary artists organised in co-operation with Bangkok CityCity Gallery. The relaunch comes at a time when the Thai art market is “definitely expanding”, albeit gradually, says the gallery’s founder, Sutima Sucharitakul.
Monet riverscape could splash down for more than $30m during New York auctions

4 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Lisa Movius

Claude Monet’s Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule (1891) will be among the works leading Christie’s 20th-century evening auction next month during marquee spring sales in New York. Expected to sell for between $30m and $50m, it is among the highest estimates of the lots announced so far for the auction season. The painting is one of 24 in Monet’s Les Peupliers series, inspired by eight cottonwood trees along the banks of the Epte river just south of his house in Giverny.
Seoul museums shut their doors as court removes President Yoon

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

Cultural venues in downtown Seoul closed today in anticipation of today’s verdict on whether to uphold the impeachment of South Korea’s now-former president Yoon Suk-yeol, following his failed imposition of martial law on 3 December. South Korea’s eight-member constitutional court, which delivered a unanimous guilty verdict at 11am local time, is like many government sites located in the Gwanghwamun area, immediately adjacent to the Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Samcheung-dong gallery district.
Le patrimoine de Birmanie lourdement touché par un tremblement de terre majeur

1 month ago | artnewspaper.fr | Lisa Movius

Le bilan ne cesse de s’alourdir après le séisme de magnitude 7,7 qui a frappé la Birmanie, suivi d’une réplique de 6,7 vendredi dernier. À ce jour, plus de 2 000 personnes ont perdu la vie et plus de 4 000 ont étéblessées, selon les derniers rapports. La guerre civile en cours complique l’acheminement de l’aide humanitaire et la circulation d’informations fiables.
Myanmar heritage sites destroyed by earthquake

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

The death toll continues to mount after Myanmar’s 7.7 earthquake and 6.7 aftershock Friday afternoon, with more than 1,700 people confirmed dead. The country’s ongoing civil war makes it challenging for relief aid to get in and for reliable information to get out—though Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the military junta which seized control of the government in 2021, has made a rare appeal for international assistance.
Top shows to see during Art Basel Hong Kong

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius |Hannah McGivern

How to Be Happy Together , Para Site, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Rd, Quarry Bay, until 6 AprilThe iconography of Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai looms over both sides of Victoria Harbour this year.
No longer eclipsed by their counterparts on the mainland, Hong Kong’s artists are finally on the rise

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

Art from Hong Kong is among some of the most powerful presentations at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong fair and the city-wide art week. The city’s artists are increasingly emphasising its unique artistic identity and the impact that recent political shifts have had on such a contained place. “Nearly six years ago, the rest of the world watched aghast as Hong Kong became engulfed in a spectacular conflagration of competing ideologies and values,” says the Hong Kong journalist Enid Tsui.