Guest contributor Michael Rank posts a book review on danwei.org about China: Museums by Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande and Antony White. This is a new guide to China’s museums featuring everything from archaeology, sex, tap water and the Cultural Revolution. “This book is an invaluable guide to 218 of China’s finest museums; it makes no claim to be comprehensive since China boasted of 2,310 museums by 2008, according to an official count that excluded newly permitted private museums and new museums are opening all the time.” (see full review)
> For a complete list of art museums in Beijing click here
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (Read more)
Book review: China Museums
Guest contributor Michael Rank posts a book review on danwei.org about China: Museums by Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande and Antony White. This is a new guide to China’s museums featuring everything from archaeology, sex, tap water and the Cultural Revolution. “This book is an invaluable guide to 218 of China’s finest museums; it makes no claim to be comprehensive since China boasted of 2,310 museums by 2008, according to an official count that excluded newly permitted private museums and new museums are opening all the time.” (see full review)
> For a complete list of art museums in Beijing click here