HOTLOG

I digitize and edit photos of the installation. Manage to delete all the shots from the opening by mistake - what an idiot! I shoot some more and hop in a cab. Today is my last chance to see the Planning Exhibition Hall and the "Wall" exhibition at the Millennium Art Museum. My schedule is like a marathon but I manage. The exhibition Hall is not as impressive as the one in Shanghai, but still. A huge model of the city can be viewed from the floor and a surrounding gallery. It shows planned and finished projects, including the Forbidden City, the Olympic City and the area around CCTV. I skip through the rest of the exhibitions, buy a catalog and an ice cream and take the subway to the Millennium Monument.

This is some real communist architecture! The exhibition represents a huge selection of young Chinese artists and is super interesting. I will comment later. Unfortunately the catalog is very heavy and expensive. I regret not buying it.


Iain comes to see my installation, and helps me take down and wrap up the big photographs that will be shipped tomorrow morning. We take a cab to town to meet Ola and Kathinka and a group of Norwegian culture workers in a Japanese restaurant. After dinner Ola and Kathinka and I go to the Tea House Mette recommended before I left Norway. It is very charming with a traditional courtyard, right by the Forbidden City. Kathinka and I talk into the small hours. Great to have a new friend :)

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