Shanghai's First Ever Tattoo Expo On This Weekend
Just in time for that Carcass show, Shanghai's first ever Tattoo Expo is going down all weekend, right next to the Power Station Of Art. Their guests seem quite impressive, with over 50 tattoo artists...
View ArticleAll the Fun of the Fairs: Last Chance for Art Week Happenings
Busy times for art fans in the city, with all three of those Shanghai fairs well and truly underway. Ticking a range of boxes between them - blue-chip superstars at West Bund; young talents and even...
View ArticleWeekend In Art: All About [Pan]yu, Wet Market Art Fair, Contemporary Dance
Basically, here is your Saturday art night in sexy Changning. IN THE FLESH is a five month experimental movement series hosted and curated by the SLATE contemporary dance company. Artists are hand...
View ArticleShanghai Fashion Week Starts Today, Goes Till Next Wednesday
This week in "Events We're Not Invited To But We'll Show Up Anyway", the biannual Shanghai Fashion Week is back at Xintiandi from tonight until next Wednesday, October 21. We go almost every time,...
View ArticleHey Stop Looking At Your Phone, There's Some People Dancing In The Sky
So there's this dance / climbing group called Bandaloop from California in town for this China Shanghai International Arts Festival. They're doing choreography on the Jing'an Shangri-la this week. We...
View ArticleFashionWire: So Many Balls On Shannxi Bei Lu Tonight
As with every Shanghai Fashion Week, Xintiandi is currently flooded with huangniu, camera uncles, and people who just wanna be seen. But here's a free fashion show tonight that's not part of fashion...
View ArticleGo See This: Sebastião Salgado Solo Show Opens Friday
This is big. Brazilian photojournalist / conservationist / economics PhD / former Magnum co-op member / possessor of insanely nice eyebrows Sebastião Salgado's solo show opens at the Shanghai Natural...
View ArticleUpcoming Contest: 48 Hour Film Project
The Shanghai leg of the annual 48 Hour Film Project is back on November 13. That's the contest where professional and amateur filmmakers make 4-7 minute films in 48 hours for a shot at a 5000 (USD)...
View ArticleShanghai International Literary Festival Starts On Saturday
Hey readers. The 13th annual Shanghai international Literary Festival, organized by the folks at M Restaurant Group, starts on October 31. So that's a whole week of writers giving talks and dropping...
View ArticleBig Movies Coming To Theaters This Month
Lots of Western cinema coming to Shanghai this month, followed by a sharp drop-off of foreign films in December. For places to see these, check our list of cinemas. First up, Everest, with Jason...
View ArticleNew China Lit: The Anthill's 'While We're Here'
Fans of China lit, a new anthology of 33 China-based (or at one time China-based) writers is now out on Earnshaw Books, edited by two Beijing-based writers behind online writing collective The Anthill,...
View ArticleYoung Artist Cyber Sesh At OCAT Opening, Some Good Shows Closing Soon
Coming in a just a few weeks after their dark, violent video exhibition Play Back, OCAT’s new show The Ballad of Generation Y opens Saturday from 6-9pm. Looks like a fine overview of a new generation...
View ArticleWhatever Happened To Donnie Does Shanghai?
Shanghai's most infamous troll / web-video star / filmmaker / rapper Donnie has been gone for almost a year, but he just dropped a new rap video from America, where he's been working on his half-suit /...
View ArticleNot Star Wars. Beijing Gangster Flick 'Mr. Six' Deserves A Trip To The Theater
On the surface, Mr. Six tells the story of an ex-gangster in Beijing as he takes it upon himself to rescue his son from a rich kid and his gang of street racers -- a premise not unlike that of Man On...
View ArticleHere's Some Movies Coming To Theaters In Jan 2016
Star Wars: The Force Sort Of Wakes Up just made 53 million dollars in China's box office over the weekend, but there are a bunch of other films coming to cinemas this month that you may want to check...
View Article20th Century Fox's Jeffery Godsick Talks China & Hollywood
20th Century Fox is opening its first-ever Simpsons store in Beijing this March, with Shanghai stores coming this summer. With all that going on, Fox had their President of Consumer Products, Jeffery...
View ArticleWorld's Highest Exhibition Has More Lows Than Highs
National Geographic: A New Age of Exploration is in the Shanghai World Financial Center and it seems like a big deal. Ads for the exhibition appear in every station from Jing'an Temple to Lujiazui, and...
View ArticleNew Art Openings, Botero, And Good Exhibitions For "The Coldest Weekend Ever"
Art Labor kicks off their 2016 program on Saturday with group show, Teleportation. That features offerings from nine international talents, all produced through Epson inkjet printing. That's the crux...
View ArticleGandalf Is Coming To Shanghai
Shakespeare's been dead for 400 years (in April) and Sir Ian McKellen is coming to Shanghai to discuss the playwright during the 19th annual Shanghai International Film Festival. This is part of a new...
View ArticlePeep This: Sci-Fi Films From Shanghai By The Dude Who Does The STORM Visuals
If you went to STORM Festival or NEXXUS, or you've visited 7th Floor or ICON club, you've seen 3D visuals by French artist Chromaphase, a.k.a. Matthieu Tondeur. Dude often looks like a mad scientist,...
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