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This has got to be the best 2009 calendar so far. You can review all 12 months here.

Here’s a series of photos of late 1970s Beijing. Above is reportedly a photo of an exhibition by the Stars group. The Stars had a well known exhibition series, held as historically the founding of Chinese contemporary art. They were disbanded mo...

For those in Shanghai who can’t attend the Hans Ulbricht event in Beijing, Mianmian will be doing the first reading of her work in mainland China (her work was ‘banned’ for a long time). She also promises some sound art and other thi...

Last WIP shots for the year…

Press release: Battery City: A Post-Olympic Beijing Mini-Marathon Statement from Hans Ulrich Obrist Time: 31st December 2008 2:00pm – 1st January 2009 2:00am Location: the shop, Beijing B1-1503, Building 15, Jianwai SOHO 39 East 3rd-Ring Rd.,Cha...

Click the link for a selection of about 150 images from the show “Power, contemporary art of south west China” To be frank, I tried very hard to find anything better than O level (GCSE for the young folk) standard. But I did like this one ...

It seems the esteemed website Art Intern will be aggregating Shanghai Eye content in future. Chief Editor of Art Intern said: “I have seen some good articles on your site, can I repost them?” Shanghai Eye CEO and Chief said: “OK̶...

shanghai Eye has established a presence (beach head?) on the Chinese facebook clone Kaixin Wang (happy net?). It is extremely popular with my art and media friends. Check out my ‘room,’ suitably low rent: “Everyone Chinese is on Kain...

here’s a BBC text on a lone crime fighter rescuing stolen art a stolen rembrandt

John Lennon has been roped in to promote the made in Shanghai ‘one laptop per child.’ TBH feels a bit odd this vid. The one laptop per child project is obviously a good one, just couldn’t they have roped in a living celeb? J Lennon w...