Jiangsu Art Museum, on Changjiang Road in Nanjing’s Xuanwu District, occupies a special place in the history of Chinese art. Built in 1936, it was the first national-level art museum in modern China, a milestone that marked the formal beginning of the country’s museum-based art development. Architect Xi Fuquan designed its original building, once known as the National Art Gallery. The façade of the main hall takes the shape of the Chinese character “山” (mountain), blending tr

Jinling Art Museum, located at No. 50 Jianzi Alley, Laomendong, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, is a comprehensive art institution devoted to exhibition, collection, and research. Its overall design was led by a renowned Chinese designer. The guiding concept was to preserve the original character of the industrial heritage site while making thoughtful adjustments to the interior structure and maximizing the use of space to meet the needs of modern exhibition practices. At the same

If you travel to Istanbul, what first rises in most people’s minds is probably the domes of its mosques, the wind off the Bosphorus, the legends of Topkapı Palace, or the particular kind of “imperial last splendor” embodied by Dolmabahçe Palace. But this time, what truly made me stop was neither a dome nor a chandelier. It was a group of paintings. I walked into the National Palaces Painting Museum, which operates under the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye. What it holds

1. What makes Morandi exceptional in an age of outward art Among the major responses to the crises of the early twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi is unusual because he did not answer violence with visual violence. Much of European modernism moved outward: Futurism glorified speed and impact, Expressionism externalized psychic intensity, and Dada turned war into rupture, provocation, absurdity, and anti-art. Morandi chose the opposite direction. He reduced the world instead o

“A Noble Household — The Aesthetics of Life and Self-Cultivation in the Mawangdui Han Tombs” (artifacts unearthed from Mawangdui) Dates: 2026.07.03 ~ 2026.10.07 Venue: Shanghai Art Museum (China Art Museum) “Blue and White+” Art Exhibition (a contemporary art exhibition themed around blue-and-white porcelain) Dates: 2026.06.05 ~ 2026.07.16 Venue: Liu Haisu Art Museum “Giorgio Morandi: Soliloquy” (modern painting) Dates: 2026.06.17 ~ 2026.10.10 Venue: Museum of Art Pudong “Jea

Cheng Shifa Art Museum is located on Hongqiao Road in Shanghai’s Changning District, in the well-known Gubei area. The museum is operated by the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, but it was named in honor of the celebrated Shanghai School artist Cheng Shifa. That background also makes it clear what the museum centers on: Chinese painting is the core of its collection and exhibitions. The building itself is understated yet grand, not unlike the Liu Haisu Art Museum. Both in a

Over the past six months or so, I have visited many art museums, but I often find myself thinking about one question: how can the artworks displayed in glass cases and picture frames form a real connection with viewers? That connection is not about teaching viewers the materials or techniques of a painting, nor even about introducing them to artistic schools or styles. Rather, it is about helping them truly understand and feel the emotions and thoughts an artist experienced w

The Shanghai Rodin Art Center is located at No. 1929, Expo Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai. It is an art institution converted from the former French Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and is currently presenting the major exhibition “Rodin: The Inheritance and Evolution of Modern Sculpture.” The center’s main building covers more than 8,000 square meters, with 4,200 square meters of exhibition space. Its exterior features a structure that appears to float above the g

Hearts in Harmony: Qiu Ruimin & Wu Huiming Art Exhibition (Contemporary Painting) Dates: 2026.05.20 ~ 2026.07.19 Venue: Shanghai Art Museum (China Art Palace) Youth Palace Art Exhibition (Contemporary Art) Dates: 2026.06.01 ~ 2026.09.20 Venue: Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai Geometry · Fog (Contemporary Art) Dates: 2026.05.22 ~ 2026.06.21 Venue: Fosun Foundation Shanghai Wang Chuan: Four Decades of Abstraction (Contemporary Painting) Dates: 2026.05.30 ~ 2026.08.30 Venue: Long

Fotografiska Shanghai is a chain art institution dedicated to photography and visual art exhibitions, along with related merchandise. Since their official website and social media do a relatively thorough job of promotion and marketing, I won't repeat that here. You can refer to https://shanghai.fotografiska.com/en, where you'll also find detailed introductions to the current exhibitions. When I visited today, perhaps because it was a weekend, the art center was quite crowded

The Shanghai chi K11 Art Museum is located on level B3 of the K11 Art Mall at 300 Middle Huaihai Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai. It was established in 2013, with a total area of approximately 3,000 square meters. When I visited today, the museum had only one open exhibition: "Golden Glimpses of Dunhuang — An Exhibition of Kirikane Art." The exhibition features kirikane artworks by Dou Wei, a researcher at the Dunhuang Academy and an artist. What is kirikane art? It was a te

The Liu Haisu Art Museum is located at 1609 West Yan'an Road, Changning District, Shanghai, with a total floor area of 12,540 square meters. According to the official introduction, the museum's collection is primarily based on artworks donated by Liu Haisu himself, comprising 913 pieces — including historical calligraphy and paintings by masters of various dynasties that Liu collected throughout his lifetime, as well as his own oil paintings, traditional Chinese paintings, an

Not long ago, I paid a visit to the Picasso Art Center in Shanghai. The exhibition had a rather poetic title, Back to the Origin: Picasso and Africa, a showcase of Sino-African art and cultural exchange. To be honest, walking in, I was skeptical: Picasso, a Spaniard... what "origin" could he possibly share with Africa? The exhibition promptly slapped me across the face with the answer. Zimbabwean woodcarvings, stone sculptures, and oil paintings on canvas stood side by side w

Today, I had originally planned to visit the Shanghai Museum. But when I arrived at the entrance, I discovered that starting May 6th, the museum had closed for renovations and wouldn't reopen until early July. So I pulled up the Amap app on my phone and started searching for nearby art galleries worth exploring. That's when the "Shanghai Picasso Art Center" caught my eye. It's a century-old Western-style townhouse nestled in the bustling heart of Shanghai. I noticed from the

Parallel FLATFORM: Light & Shadow Works Concert (Video Art) Duration: 2026.05.01 – 2026.06.28 Venue: Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (PSA), 1st Floor Splendor of 56 — Exhibition of Ethnic Art Jewelry Duration: 2026.04.25 – 2026.05.24 Venue: Shanghai Art Museum (China Art Palace), 0m Level, Space E The 6th China Painting Exhibition (Chinese Ink Painting) Duration: 2026.04.25 – 2026.05.31 Venue: Shanghai Art Museum (China Art Palace), 5m Level, Galleries 25, 26 & 27 Negativ

The Shanghai Pudong New District 3723 Art Museum is a privately run non-enterprise institution established on June 21, 2023. Its registered address is located on the 2nd floor of 66 Yincheng Road, Pudong New District, Shanghai. Its legal representative is Teng Haiming, and its scope of business includes art collection, preservation, research, exhibition, and display, as well as public art outreach and cultural exchange activities. The above is the official venue introduction.

The first birdsong of early spring is often more truthful than the calendar. It alights on the windowsill of a certain morning, slight and delicate, like a tiny seed of sound—not yet fully opened, and yet already bearing tidings of the whole spring. At that time, the trees are still gray-brown, and the wind still carries a lingering trace of winter’s bite. But once that single call reaches you, you suddenly know—warmth is on its way. It is a certainty no weather forecast can

The Shanghai Fosun Arts Center is a non-profit arts institution founded by Fosun Group and the Fosun Foundation in 2016, located at 600 Zhongshan East 2nd Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai. The building was co-designed by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio, its three floors of golden rotating fringe curtains forming a distinctive facade that has earned it the nickname "the dancing house." The Fosun Arts Center is currently hosting "A Star That Never Changes—MOLLY's 20th

The Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art was founded in 2003 by the Hongkou District Bureau of Culture and Tourism (formerly the Hongkou District Bureau of Culture). It is the first public museum on the Chinese mainland dedicated to contemporary art and the first professionally run modern art museum established on a government platform in China. Located at No. 27 Duolun Road, Hongkou District, the museum was planned and built with a modern, multi-functional vision. As a non-p

Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum is a non-profit art museum located on the 6th floor of 27 Zhongshan East First Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai. The Bund venue opened on September 30, 2018, within the historic Jardine Matheson Building, a protected heritage structure. It belongs to the Jiushi Art Museum cluster, which also includes Jiushi Art Space at Bund 18 and Jiushi Art Salon at 230 Beijing East Road. On 31 March 2026, the new wing of Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum officially open