Archive for April 2009

Displode – new show today

Apr 23rd, 2009 | By Chris | Category: News and events
Zhongyuan Wang

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Info here.
How much information is there? Data stream overload? Seemingly infinite number of words to google? How do you display this information, is the structure part of the answer and the problem? When the worlds financial structures implode ...


Quiet art news day…

Apr 22nd, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
Quiet art news day…

Ah, its quiet out there.
Anyhow here are some links:

The NY Times calls for artists to post their experiences during the economic crisis thing here.
Some good ones, for instance:
Since I didn’t have any money in the first pl...


Diary: Panda fashion night at Shanghart

Apr 22nd, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

A big crowd descended on the Shanghart Huaihai road location for a kind of after-show celebration of Zhao Bandi’s Panda fashion stuff. There is a large size video of the Paris event in the gallery, where models, including Furong Jiejie, strutted...


Britart Re-union

Apr 20th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: International
Britart Re-union

45 min radio prog here on Britartists

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Art news round up…April 20

Apr 20th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

Here are today’s random links on an art theme…mostly via twitter again. Useful…except I can never remember who posted which link.
I think we’ve had this before, but here it is again, Victorian China pics…

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Weihai Road 696 event photos

Apr 20th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Paintblog, Random Shanghai stuff..., Recommended Reading

The Weihai Road 696 event went pretty well, I think most people enjoyed themselves, and the support from Shanghaiist and Smartshanghai certainly helped. Didn’t have much time for taking photos, but there seemed a lot of people hanging around wit...


frieze Writer’s Prize 2009

Apr 19th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: International

Frieze critics competition is open, presser follows:
frieze Writer’s Prize 2009
http://www.frieze.com
frieze writer’s prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics. The award will be judge...


Weihai Road 696 preparations in full swing

Apr 16th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

The Weihai Road 696 event this weekend has led to a frantic round of preparations as the various artists get ready for visitors. The car sticker company is busy decorating a fleet of Toyota’s as well, which is a bit different. Perhaps they are g...


Is your youtube blocked?

Apr 15th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

Try Vodpod…

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Shanghai to hold World Music festival April-May

Apr 15th, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
Shanghai to hold World Music festival April-May

I’m writing an article on the World Expo these days, and they asked me to put this up on my blog, and asked if any other sites Laowai like to visit would post it too (I imagine they already have?)…Its arranged by Ian Lin.
Anyhow, loo...