{"id":311,"date":"2007-05-29T19:31:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/05\/29\/alfredo-martinez-lands-in-beijing-or-homeboy-in-china\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:38:56","slug":"alfredo-martinez-lands-in-beijing-or-homeboy-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/05\/29\/alfredo-martinez-lands-in-beijing-or-homeboy-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"~ALFREDO MARTINEZ LANDS in BEIJING or\/ HOMEBOY IN CHINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALFREDO MARTINEZ: NYC HOMEBOY HITS BEIJING -or- OUR MAN in CHINA&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>isn&#8217;t the internet wonderful &#8211; the world is getting <em>so<\/em> small &#8211; ALFREDO MARTINEZ reports that:<br \/> <br \/>\nhe has been invited. .  &#8220;to curate a show at 1artbase a 30,000 square foot space (see BELOW)<br \/>\nin a complex big enough to hold an art fair in. It&#8217;s all under construction but they work so fast here that you can go for coffee and come back and the doorways breaked (sic) over and a new doorway is installed twenty feeet along the wall.  It&#8217;s so large we can basically drop a tank in there, and it looks like a toy. So I need to find at least 50 more artists (chinese or western, I don&#8217;t care, but obviously leaning toward chinese). <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re giving me office\/live-work space, and getting an assistant for me. So I am pretty sure I found my Chinese patrons if I play my cards right, and I am only coming back to NYC at gun point.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Alfred0_bejing_.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"217\" alt=\"Alfredo- BEIJING\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PHOTO: COURTESY ALFREDO MARTINEZ, BEIJING, May 16, 2007<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/artlovers\/report\/2007-04-05.html\">artlovers last post on: ALFREDO MARTINEZ with PIX, 2007-04-05<\/a>  (scroll down a couple of rows)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALFREDO MARTINEZ: NYC HOMEBOY HITS BEIJING -or- OUR MAN in CHINA&#8230; isn&#8217;t the internet wonderful &#8211; the world is getting so small &#8211; ALFREDO MARTINEZ reports that: he has been invited. . &#8220;to curate a show at 1artbase a 30,000 square foot space (see BELOW) in a complex big enough to hold an art fair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}