WHERE AESTHETICS KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES

Date: One of those afternoons made for wandering Location: 79 Fenyang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai (between Yongkang Road and Taiyuan Road) Time spent: About an hour and a half (not counting time lost to impulse shopping) I. The Building Is the First Exhibit Walking down Fenyang Road under the plane trees, I was won over by the building before I even made it through the door. The house was once the residence of a board member of the Conseil d'Administration Municipale, the

The Shanghai Chinese Painting Institute Art Museum is at 197 Yueyang Road in Xuhui District. It belongs to the Shanghai Chinese Painting Institute and is devoted to exhibiting and researching Chinese painting. Admission is free. The Institute runs on a "one institute, two museums" model: this gallery and the Cheng Shifa Art Museum. I've visited the Cheng Shifa Art Museum before, so if you're curious, feel free to look back through my earlier posts. This museum has three exhib

Art history sits where the humanities and the arts meet. It asks us to understand the artist's sensibility and also to analyze it with the rational methods of humanistic inquiry. As a student of art history, I therefore have to answer the question of existence twice: why the humanities, and why art. Of the two, I find the case for the humanities easier to make. The humanities (philosophy, history including art history, literature, languages, religious studies and the like) de

In early November 2026, once our two participating artists were confirmed, the work ahead fell into three main tasks. The first was confirming the works to be exhibited with each artist, gathering details on each piece and arranging shipping. The second was writing an introduction for each artist. The third was making a short promotional video for each of them. Mr. Wang's works are all landscapes he painted from life over the past two years, so most of our discussion was abou