the new art season is ON

brace yourself--tomorrow marks the beginning of a new cycle and a whole new year of art mayhem with, like a gazillion openings around town. Did everyone hold a meeting and decide that March 8 would be the unofficial start of the art 'season' whereby which the Beijing artworld is bombarded with exhibition openings? If so, one hopes there would have been better planning since everything opens not only on the same day but more or less at the same time. I have been away for a month so I am sure I don't know the half of it but off the top of my head there is Zhu Jinshi at Arario, Qiu Xiaofei at Boers-Li Gallery (formerly Universal Studios Beijing), group show of young artists at Platform China, Wang Qiang at Marella, group show at Tang Ren, ?? show at new museum headed up by curator Li Zhenhua, group show titled Critical Mass at Imagine Gallery...the list goes on. ahhh, let the art circus begin!