A retrospective sheds light on the ’85 New Wave movement and the shaping of art between the conservatism of past and present
A Shanghai native reflects on the catastrophe of the Chinese government’s autocratic attempts to stop the spread
From Luka Yuanyuan Yang's video project on America’s Chinatowns to Yu Ji's investigation of forgotten histories in an unoccupied apartment, these are the best shows from the city
Prada’s latest foray into the Chinese market successfully marries art and brand development
At Shanghai’s Qiao Space, the artist’s ambitious new project raises more questions than it answers
The artist’s first large exhibition in China at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, captures how hope and disappointment can co-exist in the same frame
The artist’s first large-scale exhibition in China at the Long Museum, Shanghai, sheds new light on the sublimation of personal history in her work
With President Xi and the China International Import Expo in town, taking stock of ‘progress’ seemed both a timely and complicated endeavour
From the opening of the 12th Shanghai Biennale to Miao Ying’s explorations into the ‘Chinternet’, a rundown of the best shows in town
At MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, the Beijing-born artist blends socialist realism with conventions of lianhuanhua, palm-sized Chinese picture books
The Beijing-based artist’s films draw on the emotional strategies of pop culture to explore identity and belonging in a hyper-mediatized world
At Shanghai's Power Station of Art, a retrospective of the artist's large-scale installation work asking: why are we here? How will we be remembered?
A group show engaging with botanical histories and nonhuman futures at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai
Madeleine Thien takes a look at a celebrated painter who merged Western composition with Chinese brush-and-ink style
'Frontier' at OCAT, Shanghai traces contemporary Chinese art's geopolitical concerns and the new complexities of living in a cosmopolitan world
From Shanghai to Dubai, a new history charts the frontiers where underground scenes battle big business for electronic dance music’s soul
China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ isn’t just about infrastructure, but as a new exhibition reveals, an ambitious effort to spread Chinese values globally
ShanghART, Shanghai, China
With the ART021 and West Bund Art and Design fairs opening this week, a guide to the best gallery and museum shows in the city
From the new issue of frieze: Changes in urban cultures and queer aesthetics across the Sinosphere
