Mini news roundup

Sep 28th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

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.

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