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‘Shanghai Is an Adventurous Place’: Why Dealer Almine Rech Is Opening Her Fifth Gallery in the Chinese City Next Month

With spaces in Paris, London, New York, and Brussels, French dealer Almine Rech has quietly reached mega-gallery status, and now she’s set to add yet another location to her list: Shanghai. Rech says she has witnessed the Asian art market blossom over the last decade, so much so that it no longer made business sense to just participate in the fairs there. “The market has evolved a lot,” Rech tells artnet News. “Now, for instance, in the West Bund fair in Shanghai or Art Basel Hong Kong—which I’ve participated in for much longer as it’s an older fair—we sell mostly to Asians

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The last women in China with bound feet: ‘They thought it would give them a better life’

Source: theguardian

Jo Farrell’s most recent photography project began, by chance, in the back of a cab. Her career-long interest is in documenting disappearing cultural practices, and in 2005 she got chatting to a Shanghai taxi driver about foot binding. “He mentioned that his grandmother had bound feet,” Farrell recalls. “Most people told me that it was such an old tradition, there were no women left. I went to the village of the cab driver’s grandmother, in the Shandong province, and met Zang Yun Ying. She became the first woman in my project.” What followed was a nine-year journey across China,

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M.PATMOS Wins 2015 Women’s International Woolmark Prize (IWP)

Source: Wardrobe Trends Fashion

Marcia Patmos, designer of M.PATMOS was announced the winner of the 2015 Women’s International Woolmark Prize (IWP), during the award’s event. After a global search, reaching across 21 countries and involving more than 60 designers, M.PATMOS competed against four other selected design talents from around the world during an intense judging session: V Major from China, STRATEAS.CARLUCCI from Australia, AUGUSTIN TABOUL fromGermany and Bird on a Wire from Lebanon. The winner receives a financial contribution of AU$100,000 (US$76,366) and the opportunity to be stocked in the most importa

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7 Women in Contemporary Chinese Art You Need To Know

Source: Artnet News

Continuing our celebration of successful women in the art world, artnet News has compiled a list of seven women who are making a name for themselves in the Chinese contemporary art scene. We learned some of their thoughts about contemporary art and what it means to be a professional woman.