Pia Copper
Pia Camilla Copper-Ind is a freelance curator and expert of Chinese and Iranian art. She has lived for many years on and off in Shanghai and Beijing and befriended many of the avant-garde contemporary artists during her stays there. Formerly director of Chinese art at Artcurial auction house in P... Read more
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Magazine posts contributed by Pia Copper
Latest from the Middle East
02/21 |
Pia Copper
New Middle East exhibitions, including Niyaz Azadkhah's videos of women clothed in chadors and fiddling with prayer beads, pole dancing, or buying fancy lingerie in underground markets.
Art Dubai
03/17 |
Pia Copper
Art Dubai opened on March 14th to a crowd of curators and art collectors from all over the world and an increasing number from the region itself. Artlog contributor and curator Pia Cooper looks inside the neighborhoods and art scenes of Dubai and the Middle East.
Art and Revolution in Sharjah
04/11 |
Pia Copper
The tenth edition of the Sharjah Biennial, curated by Suzanne Cotter, Rasha Salti, and Haig Aivazian, is haphazard but at times deeply touching. Meanwhile, the swift and largely-unexplained dismissal of Sharjah director Jack Persekian, due to the content of an artwork by Mustafa Benfodil, has been big news.
A Renaissance for Arab Art
10/12 |
Pia Copper
The new museums of the Gulf have been the talk of the art world for some time now. The oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf spent the past decade investing in architects, curators and artworks, quietly building monuments for posterity filled with art and artifacts.
Meandering in Paris: Ai Weiwei, David Lynch, and Matisse
03/21 |
Pia Copper
It may seem strange to compare two exhibitions and a new art bar in Paris, but here goes. The three artists are Ai Weiwei (b. 1957), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), and David Lynch (b. 1946), an unlikely combination but the most inspiring of what’s on in Paris in the coming spring months.
