Random Shanghai stuff…

News round up Feb 09, 2010

Zhou Tiehai show will be held at Shanghai Moca tonight around 7pm *** *** *** *** Russians, Chinese and British Diamond Dealer Fueling Art Market *** *** *** *** Via Danwei.org: Why shanghai's ticketmaster went bust *** *** *** *** Shanghai's middle class goes to Beijing to protest *** *** *** *** NYT looks at China's antiques ...

This Ain’t China- a photonovel

This Ain’t China- a photonovel
Eflux has published a new article by Monika Szewczyk on Allan Sekula's work, 'This Ain't China.' Monika Szewczyk considers the role of labor in art through Allan Sekula's 1974 work This Ain't China: A Photonovel, an exhibition of which she is curating at e-flux's project space from February 20 to ...

Call for Canadian artists living/working in China

Looking for Canadian artists living in China to participate in a group show to be held in the Canadian Expo pavilion. Work should reflect the themes of the pavilion: "The Living City: inclusive, sustainable, creative." All artists must live and work in China and should send in a sample ...

News: Bilingual Chinese art-o-pedia and other matters

News: Bilingual Chinese art-o-pedia and other matters
Art Daily reports on the Artspeak China online Chinese art wikipedia quote: ArtSpeakChina (ASC), the first online, collaboratively authored bilingual encyclopedia of Chinese contemporary art officially launched today. Now online at both www.artspeakchina.org and www.tanyishu.cn, the Wikipedia-style reference guide provides both English and Mandarin speakers with hundreds of in-depth articles on Chinese ...

News and events

UPDATED: “British avant guarde” to come to Shanghai this month
UPDATED: “British avant guarde” to come to Shanghai this month

Well, maybe not the artists themselves, who knows, but the Minsheng Art Museum in Red Town is holding an exhibition of senior British artists, such as Gilbert and George, Damien Hirst, et al, on Jan 28th Feb 9th.
Details here (in Chinese)

Published work

From the archive- the Shanghai Eye Ezine

THE VERY FIRST SHANGHAI EYE EZINE
Well hopefully this works, Shanghai Eye has dug out the very first Shanghai Eye Ezine, circa 2003….
If you click on the link you can download the pdf file…NB you need to click on the ‘dow...

Paintblog

Paintblog- Jan 2010 pt 2
Paintblog- Jan 2010 pt 2

Studio and travel shots from the last few days.

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International

Presser…on the eastern front

Presser
…on the eastern front
video art from central and eastern europe 1989–2009
22 January – 7 March, 2010
Ludwig Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ludwig Múzeum–Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum

Believe it or not

Boskop man- we had more intelligent ancestors
Boskop man- we had more intelligent ancestors

A new scientific research paper into skulls found in Boskop, South Africa, shows there were bigger brained human ancestors about. No one really seems to know what happened to them.
Article here
Quote:
“There’s just one thing we h...