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Bloomberg review various UCCA shows
Qiu’s first solo show is one of three exhibitions at the Chinese capital’s largest non-profit private gallery, known as UCCA. Beijing’s 798 district, a tourist hotspot during the 2008 Olympics, has been almost a ghost town since summer, as the financial crisis sapped wealth and cut art purchases.

“The UCCA is a home for Chinese contemporary artists to come together to engage in a dialogue with each other and the rest of world,” the center’s director Jerome Sans says.
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Princeton is having a Chinese art symposium

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Some horsies on show in Kentucky

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Yawn

“Urban China: Informal Cities,” an installation in the glassed-in first floor gallery, concerns a magazine called Urban China that is edited and published by Jiang Jun, a young Chinese architect. One long wall is covered by snazzy verbal and visual graphics representing topics covered by the magazine, which include inventive forms of recycling, knockoff sneakers, migration, vernacular building forms, new architectural concepts like “dirtitecture” (haphazard, grass-roots construction or development) and much more. Computers on wooden desks allow visitors to browse through hundreds of photographs of things contemporarily Chinese.

All this is mildly informative but superficial. You won’t gain any very deep or revelatory insights about Chinese modernity. It isn’t really art, after all; it’s more like an overblown advertisement for the magazine.

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Aha, Rio carnival queen paints Obama on thigh

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Oh dear, George Soros sees no bottom to the abyss

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Erm – an art mall in Shanxi.
Who wants to mention to them its probably not the best time for this kind of folly?

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Guggenheim Italia has a futurist exhibit on ALL YEAR, so no excuses for not visiting.