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CONVERSATIONS, ON THE GROUND
CONVERSATIONS: The Changing Landscape of Beijing’s Artist Villages
“Where do the artists live?”
One of the most crucial (and controversial) topics in Chinese contemporary art today is the uncertain future of its artist villages. As in other cities, artists in Chinese urban hubs like Beijing and Shanghai have long looked to the rural or industrial outskirts for cheap studios to live and work. Some [...]
Tags: art village, Beijing, Caochangdi, Songzhuang Art Center, Suojiacun
HEADLINES
Caochangdi at Risk?
Currently up at ArtInfo is a new story about the possibility of Beijing’s Caochangdi arts district being redeveloped (i.e. demolished). But how real is the threat? Over on the ShanghaiEye blog, the hearsay is that the district is probably safe for another two years – or could go at any minute.
Either way, a new [...]
Tags: Beijing, Caochangdi, Pi Li, Timezone 8
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS
Breaking Forecast at UCCA
[ 十一月 17, 2009; 4:00 下午; ]
Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation of Artists
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
November 17 2009 – February 28 2010
UCCA's "Breaking Forecast" is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the season, featuring an all-star line-up of emerging and mid-career Chinese artists curated by UCCA Director Jérôme Sans and Chief Curator Guo Xiaoyan. [...]
Tags: Beijing, Cao Fei, Chu Yun, Liu Wei, MadeIn, Qiu Zhijie, Sun Yuan + Peng Yu, UCCA, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, Zheng Guogu
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS
China Design in Focus: Icograda Beijing
[ 十月 24, 2009 to 十月 30, 2009. ]
For the past week, Shanghai has been abuzz with design events as part of "Shanghai International Creative Industry Week" (Oct 15-22), centering around the 100% Design Shanghai fair (Oct 15-17), and featuring a host of other projects (more selections here and here). Many were staged at the derelict factory space turned creative hub 800Show on [...]
Tags: 100% design, Beijing, design, icograda, Liu Zhizhi, Ma Ke, Pan Gongkai, Shanghai, Stanley Wong, The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Xiao Yong, Xu Bing, Yao Dajuin
EXHIBITIONS, ON THE GROUND
Guo Hongwei “Things” at Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
Until October 8
Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
Guo Hongwei‘s first solo exhibition in Beijing features “things” and objects from his studio, which present a delightful range to his artistic process. In contrast to his series of oil paintings in a series of large-scale water colors based on family photographs from his youth, these familiar objects and [...]
Tags: "Things", Beijing, Chambers Fine ARt, Guo HOngwei 
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. (
(English) What will happen to Caochangdi?