Art… Enlightenment, Cell, Studio: Beijing, Berlin, and Ai Weiwei 4 Apr 20114 Apr 2011 In its typically understated fashion of reasserting totalitarian facts, the Chinese government appears to have arrested the dissident provocateur Ai Weiwei in Beijing. (Hat tip to Evan Osnos in Beijing…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Tremors on the Periphery: Sinuiju Unrest 26 Feb 2011 Yesterday I got a message from one of my favorite North Korea specialists, Owen Miller at the School of Oriental and African Sciences in London, concening a recent disturbance in…
Art… Transmediale Infusion 4 Feb 20114 Feb 2011 One of the beauties of living in an existence torn between the 19th century (hemmed by Prussian systems, Schumannian aufschwungen, the epistolary desire) and the 21st century (all the while…
China… Drop That: Cruising the Xinhua Bookstores in Lhasa 14 Oct 201018 Nov 2016 About forty minutes before I was due to vacate downtown Lhasa, I scampered across town over to the largest Xinhua bookstore (naturally, it was right across from the Tibet Autonomous…
Art… 拆 the World 9 Jul 2010 那是艺术家的责任：震动我们的思想，批评形式，创新观点。 可观摩观摩！ （徐在黑暗监狱座之外，当然）。 Apart from the Edward Wong story which is linked in the below picture, I'm not familiar with the case of artist Wu Yuren, nor have I seen…
Chinese Avant-Garde… sputniko 2 May 20102 May 2010 Sputniko is absolutely tremendous: a performance artist/DJ with wit, originality, and commitment to a floating future from Japan, via London (thanks to a friend [of a friend of a friend]…
Chinese Avant-Garde La science en Chine : un géant est né [Science in China: A Child is Born] 13 Apr 201013 Apr 2010 From Liberation: Où en est la science chinoise ? Au deuxième rang mondial par sa production d'articles de recherche dans les revues scientifiques depuis 2007, elle continue sa vive croissance.…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Censorship and Mockery: Chinese Contemporary Art in French Eyes 8 Mar 20109 Mar 2010 Here on this website, we have tossed off a few missives in the past about Sino-French relations and the role played of looted art therein. And why not? Since even…
Chinese Avant-Garde Scenes from Shanghai / JingDaily Update 15 Feb 201015 Feb 2010 In preparations for the World Expo 2010, the city of Shanghai is changing even more rapidly than usual. Do yourself a favor and check out this excellent montage of images…
