Shanghai Art Museum's destruction

Soon came the disintegration of the Shanghai Art Museum, the news, it will be reorganized as the "Chinese Art Palace." This proves once again the city in three decades of contemporary cultural decline, and the back light is difficult flashback fate.

Shanghai Art Museum, "Art Palace of the Chinese," the name of the street like a factory entrepreneurs are ambitious initiative, or an upstart pseudo-literary salon run by his wife. Nevertheless, both Shanghai and other provinces of the art world, or colleagues, not many people willing to Shanghai Art Museum's "destruction" lobbying. A dignified overseas famous Museum of Art fell to the occasion of such a desperate point where no one regret, it is worth considering.

This platform, known as Shanghai's landmark art exhibition center cautious long-term grass-roots art by a group of officials sits, on the whole, this group to the outside world the impression that lack of courage and progressive reform, although the ideal but they try too, all in order to not make mistakes and play it safe as a precondition. In many provinces outside Shanghai, surging and promote contemporary art, many of which are within the system of intellectuals and the arts and cultural officials the courage to play the game and get with the status quo, such as the China Academy of Art eighties, the nineties "Jiangsu Pictorial" decade of the new century, Guangdong Museum of Art.

Shanghai official and public opinion for nearly two decades has been shouting be tolerant to diversity, tolerance is a big "Hi" spirit, but the actual act contrary, not to mention be tolerant to diversity, and even their city's cultural elite have gone inclusive. Nearly three decades, Shanghai's avant-garde art, avant-garde literature, independent film and theater to explore areas such as talent has been in place in the pattern of the country. Strangely, most of them are not famous in Shanghai; more incredible is that other provinces in the 1980s and 1990s avant-garde fashion involved in the cultural circle of famous people, have been top of the provincial institutions (universities, art galleries, Painting) reuse or polishers. Even in the capital Beijing, in the 1980s and 1990s avant-garde movement of the elite are now located in Peking University, Tsinghua University, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Art Gallery, National Art Gallery and other important positions, only Shanghai's official cultural system has refused the city's cultural the elite.

Shanghai Art Museum is not without young within the cultural elite, they also made many changes in the Shanghai Art Museum's efforts, but in recent decades and had to leave one by one. Shanghai is China's cultural horizons highest bureaucratic groups, other provinces of the elite in the capital or outside the province as long as a minor celebrity, was immediately if the guest of honor to be his hometown. I have many times in Beijing to participate in some or the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Department of Culture leading the province out your hard elite private dinner, were invited to the elite and even some rivers and lakes are still wandering. Of course, the Shanghai cultural officials Qiaobu Shang elite in the country famous, Shanghai's young artists only get an Oscar or a Nobel Prize for Literature, Shanghai's cultural power system will respect you, so escape destruction.