Events

Rabbit Lantern DIY Session

To celebrate the coming Chinese New Year, Salon des Arts is inviting local residents to come and join a rabbit lantern DIY session this week. Starting in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Chinese families used to make and carry rabbit lanterns during the Spring Festival. However, the traditional rabbit lanterns made from bamboo sticks, white paper and candles have long been replaced by plastic and electric ones. Salon des Arts will invite local craftsman to teach participants how to make an authentic rabbit lantern. Parents can bring their kids to the session and tickets include the cost of materials.

Date: January 14 and 16, 1 pm; January 18, 12:30 pm

Venue: Salon des Arts

东篱文艺沙龙

Address: Room 101/104, No.1, Lane 1363 Fuxing Road Middle

复兴中路1363弄1号101/104室

Tickets: 59 yuan for VIP members, 69 yuan presale and 79 yuan at the door

Call 6433-0552 for details

New Book Launch: Reflections on the Self

Born of middle-class Brahmin parents in 1895, Jiddu Krishnamurti was a great thinker and has influenced millions throughout the 20th century, including Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller and Joseph Campbell. Together with the Krishnamurti Foundation of America (KFA), East China Normal University Press has translated and introduced his book Reflections on the Self. Jaap Sluijter, executive director of KFA, will give a keynote speech at the book launch, introducing the author and his book.

Date: January 19, 2 pm to 4 pm

Venue: East China Normal University Press

华东师范大学出版社

Address: East China Normal University, 3663 Zhongshan Road North

中山北路3663号华东师范大学校内

Admission: Free

Call 5252-7198 for details

Exhibitions

Things from the Gallery Warehouse

The sixth annual Things from the Gallery Warehouse exhibition will be launched by ShanghART on January 17. This one-month exhibition will showcase videos and installations by four Chinese artists, including Shi Qing, Xiang Liqing, Xu Zhen and Zhang Qing. Started in 2009, Things from the Gallery Warehouse was conceived as a showcase for large-scale artworks which cannot be displayed at the gallery very often. This year's exhibition includes three works created by Zhang Qing from 2007 and 2009. One of the works features eight damaged hoods from car accidents. The artist has put numbers on the hoods to make them like dice, indicating that one's life can be changed in just one crash.

Date: January 17 to February 17 (closed from January 31 to February 3), 10 am to 8 pm

Venue: ShanghART

香格纳画廊

Address: Bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Road

莫干山路50号18号楼

Admission: Free

Call 6276-3275 for details

Group Exhibition: Femme Fatale

Entitled Femme Fatale, this group exhibition introduces artworks done by five artists from three different countries, including Chinese artists Sun Liang and Jing Shijian, Japanese artists Akir Ishiguro and Mika Shimauchi, and Israeli artist Gil Yefman. Shun Gallery invited Japanese curator Hiroshi Minamishima to hold this themed exhibition, discussing images of the fallen female.

Date: Until February 25, 10 am to 6 pm (closed on Mondays)

Venue: Shun Gallery

熏依社画廊

Address: Room 103/208, Bldg 3, 50 Moganshan Road

莫干山路50号3号楼103/208

Admission: Free

Call 5252-7198 for details

Bold, Beautiful and Damned

Born in 1956 in Los Angeles, well-known fashion and beauty illustrator Tony Viramontes studied fine art and photography in New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. When Viramontes made his debut in the late 1970s, his hard and direct style was a marked contrast to the prevailing soft pastel school of fashion illustration. He rapidly acquired prestigious editorial commissions, from Vogue in the US, The Face in Britain, as well as Jill Magazine, Marie Claire, Le Monde and City Magazine in France. Sadly, the artist died in 1988 at the age of only 33. This ongoing exhibition at Top Floor Gallery collects over 150 illustrations created by Viramontes, and a book entitled Bold, Beautiful and Damned written by fashion editor Dean Rhys Morgan is also available at the exhibition.

Date: Until February 23, 10 am to 10 pm

Venue: Top Floor Gallery

顶层画廊

Address: 1717 Nanjing Road West

南京西路1717号

Admission: Free

Call 2219-1717 for details

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Revisited

Chronus Art Center and Momentum Berlin present a New Year exhibition of selected video works from the first Kiev Biennale, featuring video works created by artists Gulsun Karamustafa, John Bock, Lutz Becker, Map Office, Tracey Moffatt, Miao Xiaochun and Yang Fudong. The included artworks showcase a utopian dream of freedom, equality and happiness of human beings. These artworks were displayed at Momentum Berlin last year and toured in Istanbul as well. The British curator David Elliott was director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford from 1976 to 1996, director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm from 1996 to 2001, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo from 2001 to 2006 and the director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art since 2007. Elliott will give a lecture at 3 pm on January 24 to talk about the diversity of modern art.

Date: January 16 to March 2, 10 am to 6 pm (closed on national holidays and Mondays)

Venue: Chronus Art Center

新时线媒体艺术中心

Address: Bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Road

莫干山路50号18号楼

Admission: Free

Call 6276-3275 for details

Moving Castle

Entitled Moving Castle, the experimental project is encouraging up-and-coming young artists to break down the boundaries of galleries and display their artworks in open public places. The first edition of Moving Castle has invited two Chinese artists Xia Mu and Wan Long to display their works at local coffee shop Septem Coffee for two months, featuring paintings and small installations. Events and lectures will also be held at the venue.

Date: Until February 22, 10 am to 10 pm

Venue: Septem Coffee

Address: Room 104, No.6, Lane 2006 Huaihai Road Middle

淮海中路2006弄6号104室

Admission: Free

Call 6210-0865 for details