London's outpost in Beijing - The Bamboo Garden - has lost its lustre since the days
it housed the court's favorite eunuch. The sexually challenged official's prize relic,
a glass cage of live scorpions, did not survive the last renovation of the hotel.
The replacement tank holds a couple of moribund eels, a dancing troup of live shrimp,
a few turtles, and more fodder for the hotel restaurant.
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| Beijing artists, Wang Gongxin and Lin Tian-Miao, partied together with London and a group of video/installation artists. She will be visiting their studios during the coming days. |
| Taxi receipt from London's hotel, The Bamboo Garden, to the "art meet". |
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Wang Gongxin on his tiled roof. |
| Lin Tian-Miao holding her twined teapot sculpture. |
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Li Xianting is an art critic and the "éminence grise" of China Pop. |
| Wu Wenguang is a filmmaker who wrote and directed the popular film "My Life in the Red Guards" |
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Gu Dexin is co-founder of Beijing's New Measurement Group. He is holding Wang Gongxin's "Hole to Brooklyn." |
| Wang Jian Wei is an installation artist whose work appeared this year in Documenta X (Kassel, Germany). He is also holding Wang Gongxin's "Hole to Brooklyn." |
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The spot where Wang Gongxin installed his "Hole to Brooklyn". American kids just dig a hole to anywhere in China. Wang's aim is accurate - his tunnel bulls-eyes Brooklyn. |
