Pop Goes China

Timezone 8 is a mélange of café, bookstore and artspace. Crammed into this space is a small, but amazing exhibition of photographs taken by Chris Makos, Warhol's personal photographer in 1982.

Makos travelled to China with Warhol and a ragtag group of others at the behest ... Read more »

A Very Loud Quiet

Following on the heels of first generation 20th century Chinese colorists, Chen Ruo Bing is seen as a pioneer of color in the Chinese field. The artist sees color as a subliminal form of communication, a form that is stronger than spoken language. As the artist ... Read more »

Explicit, Humorous and Fresh

Andrew James Art is showing some oil paintings by the young artist Zhou Yilun under the title "Just Joking." The paintings range widely in their content from tigers to fighting soccer players to girls in bikinis splashing around. However, the paintings are unified stylistically with an ... Read more »

Blurred Lines

It seems unfair to think that a talented painter might also produce an impressive body of photographic work, but upon seeing Shanghai artist Liang Weizhou's latest show, it seems some people have all the luck.

A local Shanghai artist, Liang Weizhou, currently a professor at East China ... Read more »

Being and Nothingness

Step into Sichuan artist Qiu Anxiong's exhibition at the Bund 18 Creative Center and you will be struck by the minimalism of the show. Not just in the small number of works on display, but the room, the colors and the silence.

At first glance, it ... Read more »

An Immersion in Portraits

On a sunny and cool spring afternoon, the walk through the former French Concession to this furtively located gallery was one for the books. The weather was good and the chatter of a relaxed weekend filled the air. Located in an intricately designed edifice, built in ... Read more »

Art+Shanghai | VS Zhang Wei Solo Exhibition

Hidden in the back of a longtang in the former French Concession, but separated from the rest of the alley by a large wood paneled door, this gallery's exhibition spaces have been immaculately refurbished. A quaint courtyard out front distinguishes the gallery ... Read more »

Top class comedic imports act on Shanghai's laughter deficit

For so many of us in Shanghai with a limited grasp of the local dialects, it can often seem like we live our lives as observers–frequently mystified by what is going on around us. Okay, you probably won’t ... Read more »

Capturing Photographic Art

Curator Joyce Ho and guest curators Yangjun Peng and Jiaojiao Chen have assembled a selection of photography from 10 foreign artists. With one exception, each individual photographer has contributed work from a single series, containing a single artistic concept, from Charles Freger's vulnerable portraits of people ... Read more »