For 200 - 1600 RMB ($30 to $250), audiences can see the conductor play in the Great Hall of the People in Tian’anmen Square. My parents always loved Clint Eastwood westerns…
Giant neon by Chinese artist He An.
Artist Wang Gongxinn has taken over an empty storefront next to a pancake shop where he projects an exact replica of the shop at night. From the artist’s website:
During the day, It’s Not About the Neighbors is a sculptural installation, an uncanny imitation of the neighboring pancake shop’s façade—a simple aluminum and glass storefront commonly [...]
Sad to read that the TVCC tower was destroyed last night when a blitz of New Year fireworks in downtown Beijing set the building on fire. Luckily the building was not in operation yet and no injuries have been reported only one fatality has been reported. Friends of ours spent years developing this project only [...]
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Converse sponsored a documentary last summer about Beijing bands, one of which was Jonathan’s band PK14. Along with Queen Sea Big Shark, the bands toured 6 cities on a converted bus, at the same time as the Summer Olympics hit.
[via Shangahiist]
Saturday, January 31, 2009
French photographer Pierre Siedel takes eerie photos of people stopped in moments within the chaos of Beijing subways.
In these photographs, the subject in the midst of the bustling is being stripped away from his/her surroundings, transcending space and time.
This method became my “artistic medium” in which the subjects are placed in the artificial urban [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Swiss architecture firm HHF teamed up with Ai Weiwei to produce this gallery space for the collection of a New York/Beijing-based gallerist. The building is located in Salt Point, NY – about 1.5 hours from the city.
Images by Iwan Baan via Dezeen.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
lived in China for five years and took note of the tiny, sometimes beautiful details of humans.
More work here.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 1983
Flea Market at Union Square. 1987
Chen Kaige. 1985
Before he was a superstar artist and architect, Ai Wei Wei spent ten years in New York City, photographing his friends and capturing everything he saw.
Ai Weiwei on his NYC photos:
These photos were taken between 1983 and 1994 during the decade I spent living [...]