Tino Sehgal is a pretty big deal. And undoubtedly, 2013 has been his best year yet. In June, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale – for an artist, this is comparable to an Oscar or an Olympic gold medal. Earlier in the spring, he was one of four artists shortlisted for Tate Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize. At 37 years old, he's amassed an impressive resume of institutions where he's exhibited, including a solo show in New York’s Guggenheim Museum in which the main spiral of the building's interior was emptied out for one of his tightly choreographed “constructed situations.” Read more »
The Hunan-based Sanxiang Metropolis Daily brings us this picture of a 5.1-kilogram, 90-centimeter-long (nearly a meter!) rat that you just might be seeing in your nightmares. Read more »
The above picture, according to a tweet from the official Twitter account of Justin Bieber's Believe Tour, shows the boy prince himself being hoisted on an invisible palanquin up the Great Wall. (PS, Justin Bieber is in Beijing. It appears he was at Spark last night.) Read more »
The above is by photojournalist Sean Gallagher, who found himself stuck in traffic earlier today just outside of Beijing. As he writes on his Instagram: Read more »
According to the Youku description, the party secretary of a Hubei town recently siced hired thugs from his hometown onto a construction site in Shiyan due to a contractual dispute. The brawl recorded here happened on September 27 around 9 am. Read more »
In a story that would make researchers of the Stanford prison experiment proud, on September 20 in a village in Anhui, a 15-year-old surnamed Pan found keys inside an urban management official's car -- a chengguan's vehicle -- hopped in, and almost instantly began trying to enforce the "law" as chengguan would. Read more »
Tracy McGrady appears to be unhappy with reports in Chinese media -- from late-August, it seems -- that his asking price to play in the Chinese Basketball Association this season was $2 million. Read more »
What do you think of when you think of the military? Pomp? Austerity? Solemnity?
Or, just maybe, Swedish pop band A*Teens's dippy pop hit "Bouncing Off the Ceiling"? Read more »
![Don’t look now, but four more sick from H7N9 [UPDATE]](http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-East-is-Read-small.png "Don’t look now, but four more sick from H7N9 [UPDATE]"){kind=small}
