<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt">Dear John,<br><br>You might find it interesting to know that the K11-Art Mall - as a business, as a concept and a physical space - originated in the city of Hong Kong. <br><br>You are free though to discuss is HongKong is part of China or not.<br><br>You might want to check sources and find out that "<b>K11</b> is a shopping mall in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> located in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masterpiece_%28Hong_Kong%29" title="The Masterpiece (Hong Kong)">The Masterpiece</a>, developed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Development" title="New World Development">New World Development</a> and completed in December 2009. The building features a 340,000-square-foot, 6-storey shopping centre beneath the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Hong_Kong,_Tsim_Sha_Tsui" title="Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui">Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui</a>. New World Development claims that it is "The World's First Art Mall".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K11_%28Hong_Kong%29#cite_note-officialsite-1"><span>"</span></a><br><br>In Shanghai K11 officially reopened on May 28, 2013 , in a building that was formerly called the <b>Hong Kong New World Tower</b>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K11_%28Shanghai%29#cite_note-1"><span></span></a><br><br><div><span>You might need those brass balls indeed!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>best, Bert<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John Hopkins <jhopkins@tech-no-mad.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> spectre@mikrolisten.de <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 3, 2013 5:40 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [spectre] Fwd: Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money - Art After Social
Media Era<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br>> Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money - Art After Social Media Era<br>><br>> Shanghai K11 Art Mall, is kicking off its new media art exhibition with<br>> the theme of “Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money”. The two-month<br><br>Interesting that any pretext of a complicated interface between art/commerce is <br>completely dropped in China: ART MALL! lol! -- not even the Amurikans would have <br>the brass balls to synthesize that one!<br><br>As for the Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money part -- I see the seeds of serious <br>discontent being sewn into the pants of the rising dragon -- when it finds out <br>the joke, there will be hell to pay...<br><br>John<br><br><br>-- <br><br><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD<br>beobachten das Tao, anstatt gerade die Dow<br>vom Umfang der Ostsee<br><a href="http://neoscenes.net/"
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