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Shanghai Eye is back from the provinces…my, that Chinese New Year crush on the trains at least is already in effect.

Here are a few stories that came up while I was away:
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Make an artwork on a vinyl record. Places are still available.

Hardware Gallery, Sydney is holding a group exhibition in May 2010 as part of our annual vinyl month. 2009 saw us turn the gallery into an indoor vinyl market, complete with vinyl inspired artwork. For 2010, we are doing something different. We are seeking artists to use a vinyl record as their canvas. The deal is quite simple: It will cost you $30AUD to be part of the show. This cost will include your vinyl record, which we will supply to you. You can paint, draw, mark, scratch, etch…do anything you like with your record to create an artpiece. We will then curate all of the works into an exhibition. The exhibition will coincide with our annual Record Room promotion, which will attract music lovers, record collectors and art fans into one location.

Places will be strictly limited and entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Cost per entry is $30
Deadline for completed artwork is April 9th
Download the entry form at – www.hardwaregallery.com.au
and please forward this email to any other artists who may be interested in participating.
This exhibition will also be open to interstate and international artists.

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3D art museum

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Zhang Huan’s show at Shanghai art Museum opens this week
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EXHIBITION “Obscure Desire”
ARTIST Stephen J,shanabrook + Veronika Georgieva ;XU Guofeng+KANG Kai ; WU Jifeng ; ZHANG Yong
CURATOR Kartini Tanoto
OPENING 2010. 2. 5 . 6 – 8pm
EXHIBITION DATE 2.5 – 3.5
LOCATION 1918 ArtSPACE
EXPANDING

1918ARTspace is pleased to present”惑! Obscure Desire”, a group exhibition of paintings and photography by Chinese and foreign contemporary artists, WU JiFeng, XU GuoFeng & KANG Kai, ZHANG Yong, Stephen J. Shanabrook & Veronika Georgieva, whose compelling seductive works depict the mystery and perversity of human eternal desire. Influenced by Surrealism, the first art movement from the 1920’s to openly address topics of love, desire and sexuality, it revolutionalized the human experience personally, culturally, socially and politically, freeing the mind from all superficial rationality and restrictive customs and structures.

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Red Gate Gallery dates for 2010
Important 2010 dates:

Head On at the Watchtower, January – February

Red Commune at the Commune by the Great Wall, January – March

JUE I Music + Art, March 12 – 29

Control Lost, Zhou Jun Photography, March 20 – April 18

Mongolia : Mongolia, April 24 – May 9

Jiang Weitao at the Albers Foundation Residency, USA, May – June

Tan Ping at 50, May 15 – June 6

ART HK 10, HK Convention Centre, May 27 – 30

Han Qing, June 12 – July 4

Liu Qinghe, July 10 – 31

Island6, August 7 – 22

Su Xinping at 50, September 4 – October 3

Xie Guoping, October 9 – 27

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ZHANG DALI
Solo Show in Shanghai opens at Bund 18 this week…

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And last but not least China is supposedly offering some kind of weird visa/green card for creative types…
The Telegraph blogs look at the story here.

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