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Artinfo has a gloriously, erm, marvelous, travel piece on Shanghai here.
It begins:
In colonial times, Shanghai was known as the Paris of the Orient for its grand boulevards, gracious Western-style architecture and oh-so-worldly denizens. Although much of that city has been bulldozed, replaced by a metropolis of phantasmagoric skyscrapers, that spirit of sophistication and culture lives on, and the two-year-old ShContemporary art fair is one of its most vibrant expressions.

In not very related news Artinfo also looks at an artist led demo/squat in some abandoned property in Hamburg.

Update:
More German art related censorship here.
Chinese journalists have been barred from reporting on the event ‘Mauersteine’ (wall bricks) in which four of the country’s internationally famous artists are participating to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the wall’s fall on 9 November this year.

‘This clearly is press censorship. We find that simply stupid,’ said the director of Beijing’s Goethe Institute, Michael Kahn-Ackermann, who together with German Ambassador Michael Schaefer had organized the event in Beijing.