Paintblog: new work - some big heads

Some new WIPs, oil on canvas, taken with the trusty phone camera

     

 

 

That’s a court victory

In the ongoing saga of Mark Kitto’s ousting from his own magazines by the government it seems he has finally got some good news to report-

” Now the State Council Information Office has begun talks on a settlement, but Mr Kitto believes that its offer undervalues the trademark for a magazine that prints more than 44,000 copies a month in Beijing alone. The Government is offering five million yuan (£333,000). Mr Kitto and his Chinese partner have demanded ten million yuan – a sum that he believes still falls short of the value of the brand.”

Spotted via ESWN, you can read the whole thing here.

Some art news (kind of)

Not really news but this website www.yahqq.com has nominated its top 100 artists. One (living?) foreigner makes the grade it seems, who can be found here. The Yahqq top 100 is here, check it out for a history of modern Chinese art, a lot of the greats are there.

And did anyone notice Saatchi did a Chinese version of his website?

Don’t forget its the Eastlink Auction soon (ish?) and a lot more pictures have been uploaded to the site.

Another and- here is a new? book on Chinese modern art photographers, looks to be the first project of a new publishing company.

Paintblog: new wips…

Some new work in progress shots with the trusty camera phone.

The ‘new studio opening party’ is slated for june 02.

   

UK band to play naked cow

UK band Mishkin  will play the naked cow today (Sunday) at 1pm and 3pm. Acoustic sets are promised, as well as BBQ.

(Another) new Beijing gallery planned?

Its reported leading London gallery ‘Haunch of Venison’ is mulling opening a Beijing branch after being bought by auction house Christies. The gallery reported sales of $80 million last year. Artists are of the monster munch space invaders type, ie. Bill Viola, Diana Thater, Keith Tyson, Etc.

It will also open branches in New York, etc. The gallery website is here.

Some upcoming exhibitions…

Island 6 has an upcoming show include Susanne Junker, later this month…and a few others.

EURASIAONE, 16 artists from Europe and China
May 25th to June 9th
Project- Initiative, Concept & Coordination:
Rolf Kluenter
Curator:
Andrea Neidhoefer, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art

NUITS BLANCHES
JUNE 1st
THIS PROJECT, PART OF CROISEMENTS / JIAO LIU FRENCH FESTIVAL, IS ORGANIZED BY THE FRENCH CONSULATE GENERAL OF SHANGHAI, TOGETHER WITH THE MILLIONAIRE FAIR
Island6 will participate with 20 interactive video projections

NYU SHOW, 8 american artists
June 9th to June 17th
curated by Mathieu Borysevicz and Jasmin Tsou

28 weeks later…

For those (like Shanghai Eye) who are bugging the DVD guy daily to find out if the new film 28 weeks later is ‘out on DVD’ here are a couple of tasters….

Here’s a review of the film, and here’s a short clip. Here’s the official site.

For those not even remotely interested here is a guy playing guitar. And here’s an article about hemp cultivation.

Update: and here’s a collection of zombie toys.

Random image from the archive

Here’s a random image from the archive,  its an anti- predicting the future poster

arh me harteys- more 696 stuff

We have a new interesting take on the whole 696 thing. At least no bats this time. Yet to see one I might add.

Don’t try to predict the future we always say.