Blog Tag - UCCA

Art Attack: Conan Takes On Chinese Copycat, Irish Dance and Parkett Art
The entertainment worlds of East and West are melding so much, soon we won’t be able to tell if a movie, TV show, art exhibit or concert was...
Art Attack: James Cameron, Gangster Wives and Caochangdi
Warmer climes are coming: dust off our bikes, unpack your tank tops and get used to going outside again. Galleries are installing new works, museums...
Art Attack: Food Writers at Capital M, Valentine’s Music and Last Calls
Forgive me, I’ve been less on top of artsy news this week because I’ve been too busy trolling the internet at odd hours to keep up with this Jeremy...
Art Attack: Culture Wars, Chinese Fortune Telling and Indie Flicks
Have you all heard, Hu Jintao's declared a culture war on the West? There's a signed essay circulating that cites the invasion of cultural exports...
Art Attack: Top Ten Stories of 2011
We know 2011 was the year of Weibo, the year of more debt crisis all over the world, the year of campus scandals, more natural disasters and...
Kaboom! Get Stuck Between a Rock and an Art Space
Zhan Wang has a thing for rocks. He’s been working with the medium for more than a decade now, transforming traditional Chinese scholar rocks –...
River of Ghosts: Indie Thai Filmmaker Loves the Dark
Apichatpong Weerasethakul – you can call him “Joe” – is a leading force in Thai cinema’s new wave and a favorite at Cannes, where his latest film,...
Meet Philip Tinari, the new director of UCCA
New UCCA Director Philip Tinari discusses the exciting changes ahead for 798’s flagship art venue First, can you catch us up on how the UCCA is...
Exploding Boulders, Nighttime Creatures and Feng Shui At the UCCA
Expired student IDs? Falsified senior citizen cards? Time to clean out the wallet, stop scrimping and forget about your Hello Kitty coin jar (still...
Art Attack: Interviewing Kevin Spacey, Taming Shrews, Windy City Comedy and Nordic Docs
Raise your hand if you’ve heard Kevin Spacey’s name or read about him somewhere in the last week. Yeah, thought so. You’d think the man was trying...
Art Hike: 798
For those who might have been out of town, the August issue of our magazine featured five Art Hikes: short pedestrian routes in five of Beijing's...
Beijing Design Week: Tagging Along with Graffiti Artist Niels "Shoe" Meulman
Noticed any new street art adorning the uncommonly bare walls of the Imperial City? Chances are, if it’s part of Converse’s new street exhibition “...
Art Attack: Inside the Beijing Design Triennial, Indie Flicks, Christian Bale's Funny Face and More
As we head into the National Day celebrations, we’ve got more design exhibits to see, indie films ranging from dark to inspiring to laugh-out-loud...
Art Attack: The Last Emperor at the PSB, Art by Subway and Bike, Banff Films and More Fringe Festival Fun
This week, Beijing’s cultural scene goes imperial with a Weibo reveal of the last emperor’s hukou registration and a fascinating exhibit at the...
Art Attack: Party Like Brazil, Remembering 9/11, and Caochangdi Art
This weekend, enjoy a Brazilian block party a la documentary festival DocBrazil, set in everybody’s favorite “new Nanluogu Xiang,” Wudaoying hutong...