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...impact of Chinese artists on the Australian art scene is already being felt from within. Sydney gallery director Gene Sherman describes this world as "a very delicate ecosystem, both in terms of the practitioners, and also in terms of people like us." While artists like Guan Wei, Ah Xian, and Liu Xiao Xian, all of whom moved to Australia following the Tiananmen Square killings 16 years ago, are hardly household names, they are for the dealers, curators and gallery directors who make the art world go round. Their works are being quietly amassed by the collections that count, and they...
...They couldn't say hello in English, let alone have a conversation," says Gene Sherman, recalling the day Liu ("Shannon, we called him") shepherded brother Ah Xian and friend Guan Wei into her gallery in early 1989. Then on residencies at the University of Tasmania's School of Art, all three would settle permanently in Australia after Tiananmen Square, their causes helped by lobbying from the former cultural attach? to Beijing, Nicholas Jose. But while they exhibited in group shows together in the early '90s, only Guan Wei was picked up by an Australian commercial gallery. As it transpires, going...
...driver of the vehicle, Wei Yang, 18, from Brooklyn, N.Y., was uninjured...
...feasible to say that groups that want money from our grants fund must advertise their events on our calendar,” said Benjamin D. Wei ’08, one of the sponsors of the bill...
...told a group of officials he was willing to take responsibility for last week's blast, according to Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper. But it will take more than that before Fuxin's workers feel safer underground...