Interviews, Interviews, Interviews

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Yesterday (Saturday) I interviewed Meg Maggio, the founder of the Courtyard Gallery in Beijing. She has been living here since 1988, and she's an incredible resource. She speaks flawless Chinese. Today I am interviewing Wang Qingsong and Zhu Ming, two of my personal favorites, and Meg has arranged for two more interviews on Monday, one with Liu Zheng and Ai Wei Wei. Zheng has an incredible book called The Chinese and a more recent series called Survivor. I had been trying to contact him, and Meg represents him, so there you go. It's been like that with Meg and this is an incredible city for art. Survivor is part of the Santa Barbara show. Ai Wei Wei is an avant-garde photographer and curator. He organized the controversial and well-recieved FUCK OFF show in Beijing in 2003. The artists here enjoy a lot more freedom than most Westerners would imagine.

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