Admin note

Will be away from the electric brain for a while. Light blogging ahead.’

mmm, brains…

Some zombie madness here.

Mini news roundup

The FT has posted a Phillip Dodd profile of Shanghai artist Sun Liang.

“Imagine the Chinese equivalent of George Baselitz, the German artist with a lyrical leaning yet historical imagination; someone capable of the most delicate touch and of the most deliberate bluntness. One of Sun’s 1989 paintings is called “Icarus and the Nine Suns” - which marries the Greek myth of the man who flew too near the sun with the Chinese myth of the bird shot for trying to fly too far from the earth.”

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Here’s a review of Photo Beijing

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And that’s about it, unless you are in Beijing, try visiting NAMOC for the USB collection show there, should be good.

Turtle egg garbage dumpers

The full story behind this interesting image here on ESWN.

mini news round up

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Following the global economic collapse, it looks like the first visible sign here in the fair city of Shanghai will be the sale of AIG owned Shanghai center (portman) to who ever wants it. Get ready for a rough 2009. As one US broker told Shanghai Eye, “this last week historically has been very significant, we have seen a real shift of financial markets from the US to Asia.”

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Despite the financial turmoil we all know the art market is doing OK - after all in depressions art buyers tend to thrive. Saying that Chinese media are getting rather itchy, as I guess no one told them.
Now, bad boy of the financial markets, Andy Xie, who has been preaching economic doom for years, has turned his attention to art. “Contemporary Chinese art may be worthless,” he told Shanghai Securities News. He then goes on at length about financial bubbles and such things.
Can he not go back to critiquing bonds, derivatives and Chinese government macro economic policies?
His long predicted economic collapse has yet to appear. Erm…

Eds note: less economics please
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Apparently Ullens/UCCA are cooperating with Lan Club (this place?) according to the local media, who for some reason are titilated by the whole thing. Why?

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Do you prefer Sharks been eaten by crocodiles….

or instead artists being fed upon by the media. Aiwei wei and others are grilled here. (Essentially it is saying modern art is unaccessible, under the title “is art too difficult, or are audiences too shallow? Goes on at length.)

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If you want to see some original Man Ray work the show is still on:

Exhibition Dates 展览日期
2008/9/10-10/31

Opening Hours 开放时间
10:00 - 18:00, everyday , except Monday and national holidays.
每天，出星期一和国定假日

Venue 地址
WHITE FACTORY 1/F, Building 11, 696 Weihai Lu, Shanghai
上海市威海路696号11号楼1/F
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Why are there more shark attacks despite Chinese shark fin soup issue?
The answer.
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did anyone else notice ifeng had an exclusive photo shoot with abi titmuss?

Hirst shark catcher revealed

THe man who catches Hirst sharks is interviewed here.
He said: “I’ve been a shark hunter all my life, so I found it a great honour to have someone like Damien Hirst call and ask me to catch one.

“It’s brilliant when I see pictures of the sharks I’ve supplied splashed over papers around the world — and also to see the incredible prices they fetch.

“To think what Damien Hirst has done just by putting his name to a shark.

Art press slammed?

Here’s an interesting video on the art newspaper website

Ivor Braka, independent art dealer and former student of Sotheby`s, hits out at “Grub Street” reporting in a recent article in The Art Newspaper. The article referred to unsold works by Damien Hirst ahead of his solo auction at Sotheby`s in September 2008.

On China related topic here’s an interview with Ulli Sigg, and that train.
The train piece is here.
(erm artist name pronounced wrongly..)

Admin note: correction

Quick note- I’ve added a correction to the Shanghai Biennale review here, it wasn’t the same train. Oops, I thought I’d already corrected it but something didn’t work out. Anyhow full exposure, its corrected now.

Ed: You’re fired, etc..

Shanghai eye ‘in Vogue’

Shanghai Eye somehow sneaked into this month’s vogue magazine…

Chinese live music

If you were wondering if there was a site with all the latest Chinese music live vids online and such stuff… its here.