Published work

Text: Shanghai Art Week

Sep 30th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...
Zhongyuan Wang

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For the Art Newspaper, nb, it seems Colin will not be doing SH again next year
Shanghai art week
Shanghai’s annual art week started early this year (4 – 12 September), and saw a busy mixture of parties, art fairs, conferences, gallery...


Text: Taiwan Biennial 2010 review

Sep 30th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...

For the Art Newspaper
When is a biennial not a biennial?
The 10th edition of the Taipei Biennial, held in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, launched without a title or a theme this year, as it set about exploring the global biennial phenomenon,...


PRESSER: When a billion Chinese jump

Jul 1st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...

Guardian Correspondent J Watts has a new book out, ‘when a billion Chinese jump.’
“Spectacularly important. It should be compulsory reading for all” —Rob Gifford, NPR Shanghai Correspondent, and author of China Road...


Zhang Dali on China’s memory hole

Jun 24th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff..., Recommended Reading

Below are my notes on Zhang Dali’s talk at OV Gallery.
You may remember, OV Gallery was shut not long after this talk , any how it just reopened on June 22nd so if you are interested in seeing this work pop along for a look, but remember n...


World Expo goody bag

Jun 14th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...

Shanghai Eye was recently in Suzhou, to cover the first World Expo forum. (Previous Expo coverage here.)
Below are some of the people who addressed the forum, who include China’s Culture Minister Cai Wu. Below are also photos of the goody...


Shanghai art scene article

Jun 8th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...

I was asked to write an introduction to Shanghai’s art scene, for Yishu Journal. It was published in their annual guide.
Shanghai’s Destiny on the Make
By Chris Gill
Shanghai is a city on the make, combined with the city’s ...


Interview with Johnson Chang

Jun 1st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff..., Recommended Reading
Interview with Johnson Chang

Interview with Johnson Chang for the FT’s Rui magazine

Image taken by Samantha Culp for ArtHK scene-and-heard, artforum, 2009
Johnson Chang (Chang Tsong-zung), possibly the leading contemporary collector of Chinese art, explains exc...


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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Update on SH Contemporary fall out

May 21st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...

Here is a short piece on the Pierre Huber/SH Contemporary bust up
for The Art Newspaper
shanghai. A recent court decision in Milan has ruled in favour of controversial dealer Pierre Huber, against the fair organiser BolognaFiere.
The...


Zhang Rui, where are you?

May 21st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Published work, Random Shanghai stuff...

Below is a piece on the disappearance of Zhang Rui, aka Zhang Haoming for the Art Newspaper..
An earlier interview with him in 2008 here.
Leading Chinese collector, dealer and gallerist, Zhang Rui, also known as Zhang Hao Ming, has been a...