Some photos of the World Expo site, 100 days to go ceremony, some pics from the opening at OV gallery, and some work in progress shots from the Shanghai Eye studio. I’ll be off to the provinces while the paint dries, so no updates on this blog f...
Article on Yang Fudong’s current exhibition in Japan here. Includes interview. Based in Shanghai, Chinese artist Yang Fudong has gained worldwide recognition for his multimedia installations incorporating material shot on richly textured, black-...
China’s art museums are cash strapped when it comes to collecting, according to reports…. On Global Times (via Shanghaiist) Quote: Recently the Ministry of Culture initiated a project evaluating top-priority art museums nationwide, with th...
THE VERY FIRST SHANGHAI EYE EZINE Well hopefully this works, Shanghai Eye has dug out the very first Shanghai Eye Ezine, circa 2003…. If you click on the link you can download the pdf file…NB you need to click on the ‘download pdf bu...
There is a China daily article here on the ongoing demolition of art zones in Beijing. Quote: “I haven’t yet made any plans for the future,” the modern ink painter and furniture designer says. The 46-year-old, who signed a 30-year co...
You can follow Shanghai Eye on Twitter, my user name is Liyunfei This is my profile pic. Its from The Walking Dead, soon to be a major new TV serial…
...Here is the full text of latest published @i Weiwei interview, published in the latest edition (Jan 2010) of the Art Newspaper Ai Weiwei Feature The Art Newspaper visited Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on a cold Saturday afternoon this November, Beijing had...
Here’s an art blog by some painters from Holland, Denmark and China in Beijing. *** *** *** B6 gets profiled on Shanghaiist *** *** *** Georgina Adams mentions a new Chinese art fund in her weekly Financial Times column: Beijing’s Minsheng Ban...
The site BNet here asks if Astrazeneca’s new ads have borrowed from Chinese artist Liu Bolin, who erm, is probably aware of… Desiree Palmen…oh where will it all end…? Desiree… Liu… Some ad agency… (Eds note- t...
Jing Daily has the scoop Quote: This week, Prada released a short film made in partnership with the Chinese contemporary artist Yang Fudong, one of the country’s most renowned photographers. For the film, “First Spring,” Yang employs the stark b...
