Last night’s launch of took us back once again to , exactly one week on from the stellar . Where the latter was excellent, this latest intervention inside the Sino-Soviet icon lacked a certain something, namely a whole bunch of artworks still locked down in customs.
To , 2014 marks the longstanding fair’s return to the Shanghai stage after a two-year hiatus, during which organizers BolognaFiere cut ties with their former partners – most of whom were affiliated with the local municipal government – in favor of China Ministry of Culture’s Centre of International Cultural Exchange. Crucially, perhaps – or at least to the gossip we’ve been hearing – that new affiliate is in Beijing.
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