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CAC Summer Reading Camp: Chthulucene, After Life, Hyperobject >> Read more

For a long time M50 and Moganshan Road was Shanghai’s (very) little 798 District. It was the cynosure of art production, with ShanghART and major artists like Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen long-term residents. But ShanghART has moved to the new West Bund cultural district, as has Aike Dell’arco and MadeIn Gallery. More than once […] >> Read more

New World Development Company Limited, AIKE-DELLARCO and Artshare.com are happy to jointly present a solo exhibition of acclaimed Hong Kong artist Lui Chun Kwong, entitled Ten Thousand Crags and Torrents. >> Read more

I’ve known about Lu Pingyuan’s stories for a long time, and even read a few of them myself. They read like contemporary version of Liaozhai —somewhat nonsensical and playful, with specious connections to art. I was curious to see how these stories would be transformed into artworks... >> Read more

Zhang Lehua’s art works are attempting to arouse the ambiguities in the condition that self-realization in today’s Chinese culture. He likes using varied media to display the crash underneath it. Provocation to the established rules and social ethics throughout his works in recent years. >> Read more

"CLUTCH", ShanghART’s first exhibition in its newly renovated H-Space, opposes older, lesser known or rarely seen works by 18 artists with most recent pieces from the same artists. >> Read more

Chen Xi has opted to look into some popular scientific theories from the perspective of a sci-fi fan. His ideas about “painting in a reduced dimension” perhaps complement Peng Yi-Hsuan’s drawings. >> Read more

On February 19, 1997, Jacky Yue left the Gobi Desert, leaving behind his job in a giant state-owned company. >> Read more

Yavuz Fine Art breaks the boundaries of convention and zeroes in on issues pertinent to the region. In the opening week of the Singapore Biennale, Iona Whittaker met Can Yavuz at the gallery, close to the Singapore Art Museum. >> Read more

In the 1950s, a comedy series called “The House of 72 Tenants” took the world of television by storm. It depicted the lives of the working class in Shanghai prior to Liberation in 1949; it became emblematic of life in Shanghai with one single line: “Rooms as small as pigeon cages, with lodgers all crammed inside"... >> Read more