Shanghai Eye will be away for a few weeks. Anyhow here is a last news round up of things to do during the quiet period ahead:
1. Evade China’s net nanny- use a proxy such as this one.
2. Go to North Korea.
3.Learn Shanghai dial...
Following widespread rumours to the effect google. gmail, etc, will be blocked in China, it appears it has happened. Fingers crossed it’ll get turned back on. Personally Shanghai Eye is taking a vacation, hopefully this will all be over in a few...
A long piece on Ai Weiwei and his call for an Internet strike. NB since yesterday Ai’s fanfou.com account was deleted. He used the fanfou account to update twitter…
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A general internet strike — no work, no games, no em...
Here’s a new piece, entitled 10,000 years.
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Paysage international, 1996, wall painting, 300 x 2000 cm, Le Consortium, Dijon. Photo: André Morin © Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, Paris, 2009.
Bit of an update on the ‘798 Biennale’ here.
Verbage:
The Beijing 798 Biennale wil...
Ai Weiwei is calling for an Internet boycott on July 1. NYT translated his ‘tweet’:
A prominent artist and critic of the Communist Party, Ai Weiwei, called Monday for Chinese to boycott the Internet on July 1 to protest censorship so...
* BEIJING 798 Biennale
Constellations will inaugurate the 798 Beijing Biennale, bringing together over 70 Chinese and international artists for exhibitions in Beijing’s 798 art district. Works will include painting, sculpture, works-on-pap...
China Merchants bank to offer an art sales service, or free paintings for a year service. Funnily similar to Shanghart’s service of long standing.
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China Merchants Bank (CMB) launched “art banking,” an alternative i...
Linkage here, its rather long with pics…
Quotage:
The phenomenon of self-contained “art zones” such as Beijing’s 798 Art Zone are symptomatic of both a desire to segregate art from regular life and an effort to enhance its mar...
Up-to-Date:
A Group Exhibition of 11 Artists’ New Work at the Second Anniversary of AroundSpace
On view at 108 AroundSpace, 696 Weihai Road, Shanghai
June 29 — August , 2009
Opening Reception: June 28, 2009 4:30 P.M
