If we get past the end of the world in 2012 futurist George Magnus writes in the Times that China will still be a long way off income parity with the West even by 2030.
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No one can dispute, or regard as unwelcome, China’s economic ...
Viewpoints & Viewing Points – 2009 Asian Art Biennial
October 24, 2009 – February 28, 2010
National Taiwan Museum of
Fine Arts
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COMPLICATED BIENNALE KICKS OFF SOON
The Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture announced the opening of its third edition “City Mobilization”, scheduled to run from 6 December, 2009 to 23 January, 2010 in...
AAA fundraiser catalogue here.
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Ai Weiwei in the NYT. NB a similar interview by Shanghai Eye should come out at the Art Miami fair.
Lately, there are indeed signs that the government is reaching its limit. His blogs on Chinese Web sites, about issues political and otherwise, h...
Eastday rounds up the past Swissweek, marching, band, art talks, etc…all in preparation for the World Expo. No Haibaos were harmed either.
...After the demise of Lehman Brothers-
DEUTSCHE BANK SIGNS AS LEAD SPONSOR OF ART HK
Deutsche Bank and ART HK are pleased to announce that Deutsche Bank has signed an agreement to be the lead sponsor of ART HK for an initial period of up to...
Weihai Road 696 studio artist Anotonio gets the Shanghai Daily treatment here.
Now operating out of his second-floor studio at the 696 artists’ complex on Weihai Road, Antonio is frantically developing props and backdrops for his next sh...
China has a new art Academy.
Twenty-one Chinese artists – including Zeng Fanzhi, Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun – have become the first group of appointed artists at the newly founded Contemporary Art Academy of China (CAAC).
Xinhua...
What else is there to do on a Sunday afternoon except write up Ai Weiwei interviews and scan old sketchbooks? Here are a few pages from an old Shanghai Eye sketchbook circa Autumn 2000. Note the city mag ‘La Grande Mer’ – a short liv...
