China
Take a look at Zaha Hadid’s fluid and otherworldly plans for a new art center in China.
“No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.”
Enter Lin Tianmiao’s ghostly wonderland.
Marking the anniversary of his eighty-one-day detention by the Chinese government one year ago, dissident artist Ai Weiwei is letting us all in on the government’s twenty-four-hour surveillance of his every move. Ai has installed cameras throughout his home and studio—over his bed, at his desk, outside his door, in his courtyard—sending a twenty-four-hour livestream to weiweicam.com.
Pace, Gagosian, and other powerhouses may be rushing into China, but Meg Maggio beat them to it by twenty years. Her Ai-Weiwei-designed Beijing gallery, Pekin Fine Arts, represents major artists like Wang Qingsong, who currently has a show at the International Center of Photography in New York. “Never underestimate the vast cultural and linguistic divide,” Maggio tells us.
