Pékin Fine Arts

[6] She lived there till 1990, then moved to Hong Kong, where she worked as an attorney first for Exxon Chemical, then for international British law firms, McKennas, and Sinclair Roche, advising United States, Asian and European clients.

"[4] However, as the 798 District, the center of art in Beijing, attracted increasing numbers of tourists and boutiques, galleries began to move instead in Caochangdi Village, a quiet location lined by birch and pine trees.

[4] Pékin Fine Arts was set up in a complex designed by Ai of simple, low buildings, whose gray brick cladding is reminiscent of the traditional alleys (hutongs) found in old Beijing.

[10] Pékin Fine Arts showed a solo display of abstracts by Chinese artist Aniwar, as well as "one of the biggest surprises"[11] at the fair—a Mini Cooper car painted with colored spots by Damien Hirst and owned by Charles Saatchi; it was priced in the region of $2 million.

[15] Maggio, Poly Auction's foreign adviser, said that people could no longer expect to find "bargain shopping in the third world"[15] and this was causing the negative response.

[17] The installation was based on Voronoi mathematical diagrams and was made from 125 sheets of plastic, which were cut into 600 interlocking acrylic cells[16] to form a structure twisted back on itself.

[18] Suling Wang, a London-based Taiwanese painter[18] who has studied with Peter Doig,[19] exhibited works on paper and large scale paintings,[19] which combined aspects of the Chinese tradition of landscape with Western abstraction.

[18] In August 2007, Maggio entertained a museum group at the South Silk Road restaurant in Soho New Town, one of six eating places opened by artist Fang Lijun for major collectors and curators from Seoul, Hong Kong and the West to meet the elite of the art world,[20] over dishes such as caterpillar fungus chicken soup in steam pot.