{"id":10936,"date":"2019-11-10T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T08:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/10\/shanghai-art-fair-china-set-to-be-global-art-centre"},"modified":"2019-11-10T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T08:15:29","slug":"the-scene-has-exploded-china-gets-set-to-be-leading-global-centre-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10936","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The scene has exploded\u2019: China gets set to be leading global centre for art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai is fuelling China\u2019s transition to world\u2019s biggest art market \u2013 despite the thorny issue of censorship<\/p>\n<p>Sitting at one of her exhibits in the West Bund Art &amp; Design booth of Shanghai art week \u2013 a sake bar that has just been placed on hold for a collector \u2013 Pilar Corrias reflects on the huge change she has seen since she started exhibiting here in 2013. \u201cEnergy has been building in China for well over a decade, but the way the scene has exploded over the past five years has been extraordinary \u2013 and it is driven by the fairs,\u201d says the London-based art dealer, pouring sake from the bar, a work by Rirkrit Tiravanija, <em>Untitled 2019 (The Form of the Flower Is Unknown to the Seed)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been coming to Asia for 10 years and got in early, via Hong Kong. I could never do that now: there\u2019s too much competition. They all want to break the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/10\/shanghai-art-fair-china-set-to-be-global-art-centre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai is fuelling China\u2019s transition to world\u2019s biggest art market \u2013 despite the thorny issue of censorshipSitting at one of her exhibits in the West Bund Art &amp; Design booth of Shanghai art week \u2013 a sake bar that has just been placed on hold for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10937,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions\/10937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}