Plans to open an outpost for the Pompidou Centre in China appear to have stalled after unexpectedly difficult negotiations with the Chinese authorities.The initial project, launched last year, would have seen the Pompidou Centre, France’s premier museum of contemporary art in Paris, opening a museum in Shanghai by 2010.

Huang Du, senior curator at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, says: “It will be difficult for the (Chinese) government to accept a foreign museum over which it has no control.”

Read full article (The Art Newspaper, October 1, 2007)

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