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Shanghai Eye is now going to join the rest of China and disappear for a couple of weeks….
Happy year of the Ox

Shanghai Eye had a few paintings up at the new year party hosted by Dai Wei and Neocha. Photos below.

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Review of the painting here
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Putin’s deft canvas, titled Pattern, fetched 37 million roubles (about $100,000?) at a charity auction in St Petersburg – 32 million more than its reserve price. The work was sold...

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After becoming one of the hottest things in the art world over the last decade, galleries are now struggling to sell pieces, works are failing to reach minimums at auction and artists are having to rethink t...

According to climate specialists we are looking at a dramatic change in sea levels in the not too distant future.
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Sustained warming of at least a few degrees (more than approximately 4° to 13°F above average 20th century values) is l...

The next installment of BBc’s Art made in China is online for a few days. The presenter is one half of the old spitting image team, Roger Law. The interviews are all from about a year ago…

Germany has put out an international tender for a 10 million Euro monument:
The first stage of the open, international competition for a Freedom and Unity Memorial in Berlin has now begun! The submission date is 10. March 2009.
On 9. Novem...

I have built up a small collection of old photo albums over the years, mostly bought from this old fellow at Chengua Temple. TBH Mrs Shanghai Eye finds my collecting these a ‘bit creepy.’ Personally I find them very interesting, especially...

Rather dramatic, but Waldermar Januszczak goes on a long rant, even giving China a bit of a slagging, in his call for a cull of the art world. Nothing really to do with the Chinese art scene. Funnily, I remember the documentary he did back in the day...

A BBC radio documentary on the Italian futurists is available here, listen now before it disappears…