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Cricket keeping lives on. In China, this hobby of cricket keeping has gone on for 1000 years. Chinese Art of Cricket-Keeping: The Ernest K. H. Lee Collection is taking place in San Antonio Museum of Art. You’d wish there were plenty of other images (there are a few) or some kind of interactive portion that has live crickets. Perhaps it does, but the PR is dry! (samuseum.org – Crickets)
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The horizon seems to keep growing. It was a matter of time until an article in the NY Times would mention China and Art Collectors and billionaires in the same article. Of course, rich buy rich things. In the later 80s, Japanese businesses were purchasing landmarks in the US. Many of us have forgotten that it led to paranoia including car bashings, movies like 16 Candles and Gung Ho, and ultimately the murderous beating of Vincent Chin. Yet Chinese businessmen, thus far, aren’t buying buildings, they’re buying US currency which seems to be devaluing daily, oil fields, and now great art. It’s inspiring for the richer Chinese to purchase Chinese art, especially the contemporary works by the many who top auction houses like Yue Minjun since that’s the work by their peers who grew up in the same periods of dictatorship then recovery and remembrance. Yet now it’s works by the “western masters” like Picasso and even Warhol. (NY Times – Chinese Art Collecting)
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