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...seen sculptures of Martin Luther King [Jr.] in America, and none of them was perfect. I think I can do better.' LEI YIXIN, Chinese sculptor, whose commission to create a King statue for a Washington, D.C., memorial angered African-American groups, who complained that the job had been outsourced to China...
...past 19 months Sotheby's has created a stand-alone modern-Chinese-art division, and Christie's showcases the art alongside such modern masters as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. At a Christie's auction in October in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong, Yan Lei and Zhang Xiaogang set record prices. Another Christie's auction in Hong Kong in November broke records again: a 1993 painting by Zhang went for $2.3 million, the most ever paid for a work by a living Chinese artist at international auction...
...broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71 tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner ... At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats ... Next week, wearing a crepe-paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu." Read more at timearchive.com...
...months Sotheby's has created a stand-alone modern-Chinese-art division, and Christie's showcases the art alongside such modern masters as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. And at a Christie's auction last week in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong and Yan Lei set record prices, while Zhang Xiaogang's A Big Family Series No. 16 went for $1.36 million, surpassing its highest estimate. The Warhol Mao, of course, dwarfed all those sales, going for $17.4 million, suggesting that there's plenty of life in Western art yet. (And that...
...LEI, former managing editor, Shanghai Tatler Start out with a walk in the old neighborhoods near the Yuyuan Gardens. This is where Shanghai originated, and you can still get a sense of the ancient rhythms of daily life, pictured. Then, head to dinner at a tiny, authentic Shanghainese restaurant called Chun (Spring) on Jinxian Road in the historic French Concession. Two ordering musts: the braised fatty pork and the glutinous rice balls in a sweet wine broth. To finish the evening, check out modern Shanghai at a hot new bar called Mimosa, located on the south bank of Suzhou Creek...