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Alec Soth: ‘Photography gives me permission to ring a doorbell and invite myself into someone’s life’

‘Seeing you all sitting here, I am jealous as hell,’ says American photographer Alec Soth over Zoom to our roomful of journalists at Shanghai Center of Photography. It’s 7.30pm in China and 6.30am in Minneapolis. Sitting in his home with a purple polo shirt and a...

2022-09-06

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Don’t miss this Alex Da Corte exhibit that reimagines the cultural icons of our immediate past

We’re watching looped footage of a woman with a ’60s-era coiffure chatting on the phone as she toys a set of kitchen knives with intent and chucks glances that seem to stick right into us. On the next screen over the Pink Panther lies flat on...

2022-09-06

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Don’t miss this: Tomokazu Matsuyama’s exhibit is a little Nirvana

Colourful canvases that merge Japanese manga with European paintings, enlarged stainless-steel deer antlers with Cadillac wheels, sculptures inspired by Buddha and fashion magazines… Welcome to the world of Japanese-American artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. Born in Japan in 1976, Matsuyama finished his studies in Tokyo before moving to...

2022-09-06

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The Shanghai Biennale exhibit showcases what the world needs the most right now

After a series of warm-up events over the past year, the third and final phase of the 13th Shanghai Biennale ‘An Exhibition’ finally launched last month, taking over three floors of the Power Station of Art through Sunday 25 July. Set against the backdrop of a...

2022-09-06

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This major art museum is opening in Pudong with Miró and more

Photograph: courtesy Museum of Art Pudong Hot off the back of the UCCA Edge opening, we’ve got another high-profile art museum opening on our hands: the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) is slated to open its doors next Thursday 8 July with a trio of big-name...

2022-09-06

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3 reasons you can’t miss the new West Bund Museum x Centre Pompidou exhibition

Photograph: courtesy West Bund Museum It’s the one we’ve all been waiting for: the second of three major exhibitions spanning the five-year Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project finally arrived at the West Bund Museum in late July and runs through February 2023. Tracing modern...

2022-09-04

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A wonderfully colourful street art exhibition is now at Bund 18

Photographs: courtesy Bund 18 Jiushi Art Gallery If you like rainbow colours and funky patterns, the latest exhibition at Bund 18 Jiushi Art Gallery might be just the ticket: a fantastic show from Spanish street artist Okuda San Miguel, presenting a collection of his iconic works defined...

2022-09-04

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Curator Michael Muli on bringing African digital art to Shanghai

Nairobi-based artist Namikoye Wanjala may be a new name to Shanghai’s art scene, but they (the artist uses ‘they’ pronoun) have been at the of top of independent curator and fellow Kenyan Michael Muli’s list for some time now. Currently, Muli’s presenting work by the second...

2022-09-04

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