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Meanwhile, though tickets to visit CAFA's art museum typically costs 10 yuan ($1.50), for the Kiefer show tickets are priced at 60 yuan. No reasons were given for the costlier tickets.

Even the venue for Kiefer's first show in China has been changed many times. It was earlier reported that the first show of Kiefer's works would be held at the Baijiahu Art Museum in Nanjing, in East China's Jiangsu province.

As for whether Kiefer will be in attendance at his first show in China, Li says they are still communicating about it with the artist.

Last year, Markus Lupertz, another leading figure of Germany's neo-expressionism movement, attended the first show of his works in China.

If you go

9:30 am-5:30 pm, Nov 19 to Jan 8, Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, 8 Huajiadi Nan Jie, Wangjing, Chaoyang district, Beijing. 010-6477-1575.