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Funny, but nice rambling NYT piece here on NYCs top art buyers during the economic downturn.

A new gallery will open in Shanghai city center (well, Xiangyang Lu, Nanchang Lu) in April. The gallery is called Kogo, and a branch of Hangzhou’s only gallery of note. Currently it has some Zhang Peili, Ai Weiwei and Tang Song pieces up in the ...

Oops, forgot to mention this…news here. A shame really, where else in Shanghai can you buy 2-3 month old dog eared copies of modern painters? And why did it always take them 2o mins to tot up the bill? Oh dear, oh well…the mrs shanghai eye...

Here’s a round up of Chinese art news – in English- I daren’t look at the Chinese language press on Chinese art with all its doom and gloom…
Anecdotally, I have heard actually things are picking up a bit for the survivors...

Press release here

Interview with Jerome Sans by City weekend
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More Chinese rock and roll videos/documentary here
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An article about dealing with PR people in China, yes you k...

Shanghaiist has got excited about a new Shanghai hipster magazine, read here, and this website goes on about hipsters alot..
Are they like a cross of hippies and slackers?

Flash Art is seeking a New York
advertising agent.
The successful candidate has to be based in New York and responsible for being in touch with the galleries in New York but also in the rest of the United States, liaising with the Milan of...

I was lucky enough to visit the Berko Shanghai villa, to have a look at their new shipment of paintings into China. Took a few snaps of the place below:

To be filed in the random news category (via flashart):
Barbara Berlusconi, Nicolò Cardi and Martina Mondadori together for “Cardi Black Box”
Barbara Berlusconi, daughter of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is one of ...