Art News, some big
Jul 18th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...My piece on Guan Yi published in the art newspaper has been made available online, you can read it here.
Guan Yi, 42, has assembled the most important holdings of contemporary art in China. He comes from a family which made huge sums of money in chemical manufacturing in Qingdao but in 1997 ceded management of the family business to his brother to concentrate entirely on collecting. At the time most contemporary art was going abroad to foreign buyers and he believed that “we Chinese should recognise that this art of our time is important”.
AFP reports foreign performers are being squeezed out even further.
IHT blogs on the art 798 thing.
And from the comments on that blog there is a link to a new film site about Chinese artists but it doesn’t work for me.
Talking of lost links, it looks like UCCA’s website is down.
