The Fat Ladies Are Singing in China
If you’ve ever channel surfed in mainland China, you know that 23 of the 40 available channels are devoted to Chinese women in headdresses singing in pitches so high that you’re thankful your television screen doesn’t shatter. This would be the Peking opera and there’s a lot of it here. What China lacks, according to Maureen Fan of the Washington Post, is European opera, though that’s about to change. The Mandarin opera “Farewell My Concubine” premiered in Beijing last month and more Chinese productions of European opera are expected to follow.
Sold! To the Guy on the Couch at Home!
A new Hong Kong auction house will become the first in the region to sell fine art over the Internet. Wednesday, Atting House launches a new online auction system whereby bidders can buy the most sought after Chinese art without leaving home. The first cyber-auction will offer 130 works from 66 up and coming contemporary Chinese artists, according to a press release.
The Pope of Pop Pops Into Singapore
For the first time, the people of the Lion City viewed over 100 works from the legendary pop artist Andy Warhol. The exhibition, titled “A is for Andy,” commemorates the 20th year anniversary of the artist’s death and includes prints of the famous Chairman Mao portrait and the iconic Campbell’s soup painting. Select Singaporean art collectors got a chance to bid on certain pieces during a preview this week, the public only had the weekend to view Warhol’s art. Seems a bit short.
Say Ru Lao! Photo Exhibition Opens in Lishui
Saturday, the 12th China International Photographic Art Exhibition took over the Zhejiang province city of Lishui. About 40,000 photographers from about 100 countries submitted photographs to the China Photography Association who selected about 360 photos to display. The Lishui exhibition began in 1981 and in recent years has become one of the most influential photography events in the world.
Image: “Farewell My Concubine”/China National Opera House
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