WHERE AESTHETICS KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES

Founded in 2008 at the initiative of China Minsheng Bank, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum was the first non-profit art museum in mainland China to emerge from a financial institution. It is currently located at No. 48 Weihai Road in Shanghai’s Huangpu District. From the outside, the building looks like an ordinary office block. Yet when I visited, it was hosting Sculpting This Life of Mine: A Major Giacometti Exhibition. Although the ticket desk was on the fifth floor and the ga

2026 Shanghai “Images on the Edge” Art Exhibition (painting, text, video, installation, and immersive spatial experiences) Dates: Aug 15-Dec 13, 2026 Venue: Modern Art Museum Shanghai “One Porcelain, One Color, One World: Special Exhibition of Ming and Qing Monochrome-Glazed Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum Collection” (ancient porcelain) Dates: Jul 18, 2026-Feb 14, 2027 Venue: Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum “Beauties of Shanghai: Lin Fengmian and Shanghai-School Paintings of E

If you are visiting museums in Nanjing, the Jiangning Imperial Silk Manufacturing Museum is a wonderful choice. It does not win you over with a single “star object” right at the entrance. Instead, it excels at unfolding the cultural memory of a city slowly and gracefully: one end tied to the historical legacy of the Qing-era Jiangning Weaving Office, the other to the interwoven cultural threads of Dream of the Red Chamber, Yunjin brocade, classical gardens, and paper art. The

The Nanjing City Wall Museum is located at No. 1 Bianying, Laomendong, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, right next to the Zhonghua Gate barbican. It is a first-class national museum with a total floor area of 12,000 square meters. As a museum dedicated to the history and culture of ancient Chinese city walls, and as an exhibition venue supporting the application for World Cultural Heritage status, it is the largest specialized city wall museum in China. The museum