Blog Author - Madeleine O'Dea

Ennio Morricone: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Composer Ennio Morricone will forever be associated with Clint Eastwood and the “Spaghetti Westerns” of ...
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Art Roundup: May 2009
Beijing in the springtime – perfect weather, a multiplicity of fantastic shows. So why is everyone heading for Hong Kong?
Gallery Crawl
The opening of “Turner from the Tate Collection” at the National Art Museum of China last week was held in perfect weather, grey, stormy and cold....
Gallery Crawl
A gallery crawl is sort of like a pub crawl, except the drinks are free. That’s if you are smart enough to hit the exhibition...
“Aircraft Carrier Project” at BTAP – Cai Yuan and Xi Jian Jun
It took RMB 100,000 and one year to construct the model aircraft carrier that now lists in a man-made “sea” at BTAP.
Stage Roundup: April 2009
Spring is festival time – as everyone in China knows – and this spring brings an absolute deluge of festival fare courtesy of  France’s ...
New Openings: Chocolate
Only in Beijing would you find a Russian bar dedicated to Napoleon. Clad in imperial robes, the invader of Moscow gazes from the wall as you glide...