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The China Design Now show in London gets a good write up from the guardian here.

quote:

“It would be disingenuous to say that art has nothing to do with politics. Culture and nationhood are inextricably bound together, and the commodification of culture is all about us. The British Council has been selling Englishness in language lessons and cultural events to people across the world for decades.

Yesterday, Jonathan Jones wrote on this blog that by engaging with Chinese art and culture – as with the recent Terracotta Warriors exhibition at the British Museum, and the V&A’s current China Design Now show – we are engaging in a rage for the country that compares with the “left’s willed blindness to Stalin’s crimes in the 1930s”. He didn’t think we should be so willing to cement cultural ties with oppressive regimes, and that by doing so in this instance we risk bowing down before the “most powerful bully in the playground”.”

In other news Japan has nearly blocked Damien Hirt’s dead cows, over fears of mad cow disease. No its true, its not April 1 anymore.

Also some dark dealing in Australia.