Remembering the Shanghai Art Academy (inevitably about to be locked down!)

The old Shanghai Art Academy, founded in 1912, existed to just after the 1949 communist take over. It’s alumni list is long and illustrious, it was a school that saw modernism and western art techniques fused with traditional Chjinese artistic styles to both pure art and commercial ends. The building, on Shunchang Lu (former Rue Bard) is now apparently slated for demolition – no plaque, no memorial and soon no building at all….click here to read my article in the South China Morning Post Weekend Magazine….