Blog Tag - Art

Two Beijing Museums' Exhibitions You Can’t Miss This Summer
For many, summer is a time to explore the great outdoors, soak up the sun, and wear as little clothing as possible. For the rest of us, it is a time...
Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Jul 31-Aug 6
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
Turn the Front of Your Favorite Fangjia Venue Into a Canvas With the Artsy Eye-Dotting the Dragon Project
The hutongs have never been just alleys and courtyards. They've also served as stone to be chiseled, clay to be molded, canvases to be splattered...
Aotu Studio Aims to Reopen in August; Hosts Demolition Themed Performance Art In the Interim
While brick laying and demolition have laid waste to many a hutong institution as of late, one of those alleyway venues is hoping to turn strewn...
British Artist Talks About Walking, Mapping the Sixth Ring Road for Psychogeographic Project
Fewer things could seem worse to most Beijingers than spending more time than necessary on one of the city's ring roads. But one of the capital's...
South African born artist The Dean Kriel
For an artist, finding an outlet for your work can be a challenge in any city, and Beijing is no exception. Some exhibit in coffee shops, others at...
R Funky La Galleria Revamped Menu, Eating Art Around Art
On a recent second visit to the art gallery-cum-restaurant space Galleria in the basement of Jiaming Center next to East Third Ring Road, we found...
A Drink With: Amy Daml Founding Member and Contributor to China Art Aggregator Website Loreli
We recently caught up with Amy Daml, co-creator of the art aggregator website Loreli (WeChat ID: loreli-china) which compiles some of the best...
R The British Museum Brings A History of The World in 100 Objects at National Museum Until May 31
History and art enthusiasts, brace yourself, because this spring is going to be lively. Maybe many of you already went to the National Museum of...
Art Reverts to Type at Aotu Studio With Chris Warren's 'RSI'
Contemporary artists use many unusual materials to produce their work, from pickled sharks to elephant dung. Now a Beijing-based artist has produced...
126 Treasures From The Louvre Museum on Exhibit at National Museum of China Until March 31
Not everyone has the time to fly over and queue up at the world-renowned Louvre Museum in Paris. If you are someone in this category, don't worry,...
Throwback Thursday: After 9 Years of Contemporary Art, Future of UCCA Still Remains Unclear
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
R Art Weekly: Do We Refuse to Be What We Are?
As Albert Camus said, “Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.” In this week's Art Weekly roundup, we'll talk about human beings in...
DP Art weekly: “Bu Di 2016”, “Clue”, “On Reading and Writing”, “Facing the Wild Future” and ‘Before the Beginning and after the End II’
Of artists, Freud once said, “for these people, meaning does not matter. They are only interested in the harmony between lines, shapes, and borders...
Detail from A Garden of Dreams by Yu Hong
I was engaged in the sort of hard-hitting investigative journalism for which the Beijinger is famous – OK, I was skimming China Daily over breakfast...