Random Shanghai stuff…

News round up- Things to do in the summer

Shanghai Eye will be away for a few weeks. Anyhow here is a last news round up of things to do during the quiet period ahead: 1. Evade China's net nanny- use a proxy such as this one. 2. Go to North Korea. 3.Learn Shanghai dialect. 4. Get into youku. Where else would ...

Admin note - And Google is down

Admin note - And Google is down
Following widespread rumours to the effect google. gmail, etc, will be blocked in China, it appears it has happened. Fingers crossed it'll get turned back on. Personally Shanghai Eye is taking a vacation, hopefully this will all be over in a few weeks. Have fun, as Tiffany would say..byeeee.....

Ai Weiwei still in the news

Ai Weiwei still in the news
A long piece on Ai Weiwei and his call for an Internet strike. NB since yesterday Ai's fanfou.com account was deleted. He used the fanfou account to update twitter... Quote: A general internet strike — no work, no games, no email or anything else online — for 24 hours on the ...

Paintblog- 10,000 years

Paintblog- 10,000 years
Here's a new piece, entitled 10,000 years.

News and events

Art show at Weihai 696 on June 28

Up-to-Date:
A Group Exhibition of 11 Artists’ New Work at the Second Anniversary of AroundSpace
On view at 108 AroundSpace, 696 Weihai Road, Shanghai
June 29 — August , 2009
Opening Reception: June 28, 2009 4:30 P.M

Published work

West Kowloon project update

Here’s a piece written recently for the Art Newspaper
SHANGHAI. Hong Kong’s West Kowloon museum project, which will involve building a large contemporary art space on 40 hectares of reclaimed land on a central site in the city, has seen ...

Paintblog

Paintblog- 10,000 years
Paintblog- 10,000 years

Here’s a new piece, entitled 10,000 years.

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International

Performance art audio

BBC radio programme here, includes He Yunchang.

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Believe it or not

**NEWS**ROUNDUP**JUNE19
**NEWS**ROUNDUP**JUNE19

China Merchants bank to offer an art sales service, or free paintings for a year service. Funnily similar to Shanghart’s service of long standing.
Quote:
China Merchants Bank (CMB) launched “art banking,” an alternative i...