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Following the news on the new Shanghai skyscraper, Danwei has found a post here showing all the entries for the building. I like the squiggly one.

Xinhua has the scoop:
“China’s tallest building, to be built in Shanghai, will look like a coiled dragon, according to its designer.”

A dozen overseas and domestic firms offered designs for the building from April 2005 b...

Who is this guy? Anyhow, they let him go.

Have been a bit slack posting Work In Progress (WIP) shots of late…so here is one, suitably blurry and everything, a part of the map series

Here’s a general overview of the Beijing art scene
Currents of change

China’s art community is in a constant state of flux, buoyed by an increasing talent pool of diverse artists, they are swept this way and that by various forces...

Some Chinese and other artists have opened a “Part concept store, part Chinese-style tourist ‘museum’, part forum for consumer reflection.”

There are two websites, one in English and one in Chinese and English.
release fol...

A series of articles will appear in this month’s Art Newspaper that I wrote on my last trip, here are some of the mock ups, will post texts up at a later date.

“If You’re Happy, Clap Your Hands”
“如果感到高兴，你就拍拍手”
-Japanese Group Show of 80’s Generation Artists-
-日本80后艺术家群展-
Artists/艺术家:
秋山幸 Miyu...

The Telegraph is running a series of ‘letters from China,’ including profiles of various personalities in the new China. In this piece an artist who sculpts brothel orgies is profiled.

An older Reuters peice on the ‘bubble....

Release:
Frieze Film 2008: Road Movie
Frieze Film 2008 announces Road Movie, an experiment in film making, authorship and dispersal made in response to the way in which digital platforms such as YouTube have made film a medium freely avail...