More pertinent than Picasso

Picasso, eat your heart out!

The largest exhibition by the larger-than-life Spanish Cubist on the Chinese mainland lured nearly 300,000 viewers to the China Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site for three months, ending on Jan 10.

But 200,000 more visited the latest retrospective solo show of Han Meilin - the Fuwa designer, who is hailed as the "Picasso of China" - in the 45 days ending on Feb 9 at Beijing's National Museum of China.