So, who knew? Shanghai has a brand spanking new Hongqiao airport, well, terminal 2, but apparently 90-odd-percent of flights will go through here. It opens mid-March! Wow, all for the World Expo obviously and the ‘70 million visitors.’
...Journal for Artistic Research (JAR): Call for support
Deadline for expressions of interest: January 31, 2010
Constitutive meeting: March 5/6, 2010 in Bern, Switzerland.
http://www.jar-online.net/call/call.html
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Jerome Sans (interviewed here by shanghai eye) will release an album on modern sky, China.org reports.
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Sans, in addition to his well-known role in promoting China’s contemporary art, has his own rock-electro band called Liquid...
According to Bloomborg Russian Oligarch Ambramovich has bought some art, to go in his lazer powered super mothership dingy thing…
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Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought 35 contemporary artworks for his luxury yacht, “Ec...
Weihai 696 resident Kenta interviewed on CNNGO.
Some great quotes, and a photo of I think the best performance ever at Weihai 696, the Japanese artist dustbin robot. When that guy walked out onto the street I wasn’t sure he would make it b...
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Dear “Collectrices”: Is it really a man’s (art) world?
Is it, really? The facts seem to be indisputable: Whether you check the top artists on Artfacts or the lists of influential art people and billi...
Here’s the list of the 20 most powerless people in the Art world.
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shanghai Daily has published a short guide to Weihai Road here. Includes 696 and a few other hidden bars/galleries in the area, and even, a-hem, the local audio visual outlet.
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Here’s is the blog of a 10 year old boy artist in Chongqing.
...It would appear the website of Chinese art publisher timezone8 is blocked, in Shanghai at least…
About Timezone8 (from their site via VPn):
Timezone 8 is a Hong Kong-based publisher of books on contemporary art, architecture, design ...
