Archive for May 2010

HK auctions doing well…

May 31st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
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HK auctions doing well…

The art auctionsi n HK are going full swing. Zeng Fanzhi selling well. Zeng’s depiction of a man with slicked, black hair and outsized hands sold for HK$19.7 million ($2.5 million), twice the presale top estimate, at Christie’s International’s e...


Admin Note

May 30th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

The About Shanghai Eye page has been updated.

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Minsheng art museum article in NYT

May 30th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

The New York Times writes about the new Minsheng Art Museum in Red Town, Shanghai, here.

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*UPDATED: OV Gallery shuttered

May 29th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff..., Recommended Reading

This show which includes recent photo work by Zhang Dali has been closed, and OV Gallery ‘closed indefinitely,’ by authorities. Nb Zhang Dali showed this work recently in Guandong Museum of Art. THis has been picked up by a couple of the l...


This is what happens when you rent museums for private events

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

Smoking gun here. Revellers vomited and tried to urinate on museum exhibits. Hmm, kind of proves the case for better funding of museums, rather than asking them to pan handle for small change. Quote: here’s a letter detailing the debauchery at a...


PRESSER: EU show Influencias at the Expo

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

See announcement below, BTW ,the Expo is apparently not that busy at night, and looks all pretty, lit up and what have you, night tickets are RMB 90. The Consulate General of Spain in Shanghai, announces the exhibition opening of Influencias, a route ...


PRESSER: Art HK opens today

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

Apparently its only RMB 400 on the train from Shanghai to Hong Kong these days. Shanghai Eye is not attending, my passport is with the PSB for a week getting my new visa. Ha! PRESS RELEASE ART HK 10: THE CURTAIN RISES TODAY ON ASIA’S HOTTEST EVER AR...


Beijing art protests on cover of Art Newspaper

May 28th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...
Beijing art protests on cover of Art Newspaper

The Beijing art demolitions issue made the cover of the May edition of The Art Newspaper.

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PRESSER: Li Lei exhibition

May 28th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...
PRESSER: Li Lei exhibition

Li Lei, director of the Shanghai Art Museum, has an exhibition on of his recent abstract paintings and a few small bronzes at Elizabeth de Brabant. Worth a look. May 28 – August 15, 2010 Art Center, Upper Gallery The focus of the world is curren...


Presser: E -art conference in Shanghai

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

Its starts May 31 Digital China 2010 Shanghai Symposium is a joint presentation of Shanghai eARTS Organisation, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University, and the Institute for Arts- and Media Administration Free University Berlin and has bee...