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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 show.
His studio is an eclectic collection of half-finished creations and miniature models of things he has designed.
A giant white foam Indian Buddha head rests in the corner as Antonio labors over his current project — replica rifles that will form part of a dance performance.
While many of his works are displayed for an event and then packed up, he hopes one day to collect some of them for an exhibition in Shanghai.
“I would have things across China, in Italy, Germany and France, I can’t remember all the things I have created and I don’t know what has happened to them all,” he says.
Read more: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/shdaily_sing.asp?id=420517&type=Feature&page=0##ixzz0XvfI3qOJ

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SIC- Welcome to China!

Here is a great first time in China story from a Filipino journalist.
November is not the best time to visit China. Beijing was freezing cold, and so was Sian. Both were so heavily polluted with smog, visibility was down to 50 to 100 meters. On our last day in Beijing, it started to snow. On our last day in Sian, it snowed so heavily on our way to the airport that we were socked in for the next 30 hours. No aircraft could land or take off, delaying our flight to Shanghai by more than a day, although we had all checked in and boarded the plane..

Because no airport or airline authority could tell when flights would be resumed, a group of about 30 Europeans elected to check out of the flight and check in into an airport hotel.

Naturally, all luggages were unloaded from the plane for the Europeans to get theirs.

And here Murphy’s Law took over. After the Europeans had hand-picked their luggage, no one apparently thought of re-loading the rest of the luggage back into the plane. So when we finally took off for Shanghai the next day, the luggages of apparently 130 passengers, including the two of us, were left behind in Sian airport.

Shanghai does not have the historical monuments and artifacts of Beijing and Sian, but it does not have their smog either. It is a commercial and cosmopolitan hub that shows off its gleaming architectural landmarks in plain sight, without the intervening pallor of smog and dust that seems to blur and cover everything in Beijing and Sian.

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Artist here recreates a brothel
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Working proxy of the day: www.needhere.info

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Artinfo covers the Beijing auctions of Fang Lijun’s and other works
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