The week in Chinese art: 14-20 September
September 20, 2009
*Ai Weiwei underwent surgery in Germany this week for injuries sustained in a dust-up in Chengdu last month. He seems to have come through just fine – the big man himself was tweeting photos soon afterward.
*It was a great week to buy and sell Chinese art in New York! Sotheby’s sold $15.5m, but Christie’s topped that with total Chinese sales of $23.9m. The most surprising result was the eighteenth-century imperial desk set estimated at $30,000 that sold for more than $1.4m. But despite all the good news, the Wall Street Journal still called the sales “pared-down.”
*Danwei reported on an illustrated article in fashion magazine 1626 that mix text and image to simultaneously mock and clarify Chinese mispronunciations of global fashion brands.
