Dan Eckstein's Picture China

Dan Eckstein is documenting his six-week journey through China. His photos are not the usual snapshots by some tourist passersby. You can see his deeper understanding of the culture through his "Beijing Hutongs" including this one.

Pompidou centre to open site in Shanghai

The Paris-based centre, which is Europe's biggest contemporary art museum, told AFP it could confirm that "discussions were very advanced on setting up in Shanghai". "China is destined to become a major player on the world artistic scene," the centre said in a communique. Art from the 20th and 21st centuries is due to be exhibited at the Chinese branch of the Pompidou centre with works from the Paris museum as well as other exhibits which are more specific to China.

Wang Jin: PVC Robe (phoenix)

This piece is part of a series called "Chinese Dream". For Wang Jin, the combination of the perfect contemporary material with an iconic shape from Chinese tradition, the Beijing opera robe, represents the path that tradition takes. In contemporary society, tradition is often shunned when actually every minute that passes becomes part of tradition. The flow of tradition through contemporary life is inevitable and important. Wang Jin is almost indifferent to the fact that plastic is transparent, he chose plastic because it is plastic and has substance, contemporary substance.

Xiangluying Fourth Lane I, Chun Shu, Xuanwu District, Beijing

History Images by Sze Tsung Leong, including 22 photographs that show the dramatic urban changes that have transformed cities in China, are part of an ongoing exhibition "New Photography" at the High Museum in Atlanta. Leong states that “these photographs are of cites caught in the tenuous period after the end of one history and at the beginning of another history.” Photographed with a large-format view camera in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Xi’an, Fengdu and Pingyao, these highly detailed images portray the nationwide process of destroying built history and its replacement with a radically different urban reality.

Leong is, according to himself, "American and British, born Mexico City 1970. Currently lives and works in New York. " His artist statement about the History Images can be found here.