this is the book i should have bought and read before i went to beijing - nine lives introduces nine artists (wang guangyi, geng jianyi, fang lijun, gu dexin, li shan, zhang xiaogang, xu bing, zhang peili, and wang jianwei), their personal histories and views on china today - karen smith, a uk born art critic, arrived in beijing in the early nineties to learn mandarin - she saw the future of emerging chinese art and never left - in 1993, ten contemporary chinese artists debuted at the 48th venice biennale - she runs a business promoting and selling avant-garde art - her business is china avante-garde - the book was criticised for promoting ‘chineseness’ essentialism and vasarian 'heroic agency of the artist'- but karen has a very good repuation in beijing and early this year, she was appointed to the advisory board of oct contemporary art terminal in shenzhen, affiliated with the he xiangning art museum - what i also like about her is that to welcome visitors at her home, she has 'made a massive table, which can seat 20 people' - i would love to sit at that table with dan!
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