Martin Amis has published an essay on terror here. “Unlike the poet, the novelist (see W.H. Auden’s glittering sonnet of that name) assumes that his or her reactions to the main events (in life, in history) are utterly median, average R...
There are going to be an awful lot of art shows over the next couple of weeks. This is one of them.
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Thames Town is jumping on the ‘art district’ bandwagon, teaming up with the more staid Shanghai Art Fair, with some subsidiary events being held in Songjiang. The 2008 (12th) Shanghai Art Fair will be from September 10 to 14, at ShanghaiMa...
Beijing’s 798 art district is to hold a 3 week festival, from Sept 28 to October 18. Details are thin on the ground, but looks like fun.
...Our nightlife correspondent, Johnny Come Lately (JCL) proffered the following for publication: Shanghai – nights out or nights in? We started out at the predominantly suave Japanese restaurant Haiku, bombarded with over large bottles of sake, a rauc...
here is a new paintblog vid, for my several 1000s of paintblog vid fans, erm
...Got this presser: NEW ‘RUSSELL HERRON IS A CUNT’ COLLECTABLE 2008 ‘RUSSELL HERRON IS A CUNT’ T-SHIRT (edition 12) Medium white t-shirt with ‘RUSSELL HERRON IS A CUNT’ printed over two lines on the front (‘Russ...
I think a correction is likely need in this round up of Shanghai’s art scene in local mag SH. Pierre Huber doing time in the local gaol? Likely not mutter experts… Quote: “Not everyone has been so enthusiastic. The image of the fair ...
The Uli Sigg collection rumour mill is still going strong. Quote: For weeks rumors have been circulating that Uli Sigg, one of the world’s most important patrons of contemporary Chinese art, would donate his extensive collection to the Shenzhen gove...
A new gallery will open soon in the French concession, well in fact more like 4 or 5 galleries. Elisabeth da Brabant, formerly of Art Scene China, is opening a new gallery/art center on Fuxing road, one in her house on Huaihai Road, and is managing a ...
