Archive for March 2010

Now everyone can be an abstract artist

Mar 31st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
Zhongyuan Wang

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Now everyone can be an abstract artist

It had to happen, try bomomo.com

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Admin note

Mar 31st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

Just a note- these are the most popular search terms for www.shanghaieye.net over the last few months-
erm…
Ranked from top to bottom
weird stuff
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$104 mln Giacometti a fake?

Mar 31st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

The final art market irony?
Izvestia (a Russian newspaper) says it is likely a fake, bought by Ambramovich.

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Aieee! The GFW is being exported

Mar 30th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
Aieee! The GFW is being exported

Details here

This year someone in China misconfigured something which effectively exported China’s main method of implementing blocks (man in the middle DNS spoofing) semi globally over the Global Crossing backbone for the last few weeks.


Painting not yet dead

Mar 29th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
Painting not yet dead

The NYT reports
Quote:
Yet old habits die hard. No less a personage than Klaus Biesenbach, the Museum of Modern Art’s new chief curator at large, recently told The Art Newspaper that he preferred the phrase “contemporary practice” to...


PRESSER: ShanghART Isaac Julien: TEN THOUSAND WAVES

Mar 29th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

Isaac Julien: TEN THOUSAND WAVE:
2010-03-23 17:04
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Isaac Julien: TEN THOUSAND WAVES
Opening:20 May 2010, 18:00
Duration:21 May ~ 20 June 2010
Date:Daily 13:00~18:00
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Presser- artists’ pub opens

Mar 28th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: International, Random Shanghai stuff...

Artists’ Pub – Artists’
Publications Network and Communication Platform
http://www.artists-pub.eu
Share this announcement on: Facebook | Delicious | Twitter
“Artists’ Pub” is an internet portal ...


Russian media in the 90s

Mar 27th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

Vanity Fair/NPR interview with Mark Ames, pioneering editor of Moscow’s The Exile (now shut of course).

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Upcoming art events, Beijing and Shanghai

Mar 26th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...