Shanghaiist: Angry migrant workers occupy Pearl Lam's Contrasts Gallery

arturo_S

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:50:00 +0800

Well, well. Contrasts is owned by Peal Lam, described by the New York Times, in a recent fawning profile, as a kind of "Auntie Mame" of the Chinese contemporary art scene. Daughter to a Hong Kong shipping tycoon, this diminutive heiress loves showing off her wealth to the international art world and the media that loves to cover its excesses. I'd love to see some of those publications run this photo of the migrants in her unheated gallery next to the garish images of her apartment that ran in the New York Times and Departures. It'd be fun, too, to get some information on who - exactly - gave the order to "stop payment" and cut off the power.

EL JEFE

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:14:27 +0800

How you like them contrasts?

T

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:20:16 +0800

lamb skewer - your childish little anti-expat screed makes zero sense here, since foreigners are not the artist in question, nor are they the customers of, nor staff of Rolls Royce China. You should save it for the next time Shanghaiist reports on a fight at Tongren Jie.

Les Izmore

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:49:24 +0800

If someone is paying you to make comments like this bit of incoherent drivel they're pissing away their money.

nanheyangrouchuan

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:05:13 +0800

Eeeeexcccccellent, the foreign population must be made to pay the price for its lack of vision and its comfortable foreign god lifestyle.

ryeguy98

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:40:09 +0800

This happens all over the city this time of year. On Saturday about 12 migrant workers were camped out in the Rolls-Royce show room next to Xintiandi (PWC building) all day and well into the night. They were pissed as the local manager didn't pay their wages for the auto shop built for Rolls' customers. Great to see scruffy looking migrants camping out to get their wages next to million dollars cars sold to coal bosses. Should have got a pic, but the police drove them away Saturday night, I am keeping an eye out if they come back.