In the hot summer, the opening speed of new exhibitions in various places has slowed down slightly, but it is also the opportunity to slowly appreciate high-quality exhibitions. After several months’ stay, the Shanghai Museum’s "Spiritual Scenery: Tate British Museum Collection Exhibition" will end next Sunday. Shanghai Minsheng Modern Art Museum’s "Integrated Vision-Asia-Europe Classic Print Exhibition" will not last long. Teenagers and Japanese lovers in the summer vacation are looking forward to the memorial exhibition of Japanese contemporary animation director Makoto Shinkai this week; In Tokyo, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of foujita’s death. The Tokyo Art Museum and Fujita’s alma mater, Tokyo University of Arts Art Museum, have successively opened exhibitions to review his artistic life.
"The Paper Art Review" specially sorts out the recent exhibitions and lectures worth seeing in various places.
Shanghai
Spiritual Scenery: Tate British Museum Collection Exhibition (1700-1980)
Exhibition period: April 27-August 5, 2018
Venue: Shanghai Museum
This paper selects a group of works of British landscape paintings with great aesthetic value and originality from the great classical painters in the 18th century and romanticism in the 19th century, through pre-Raphael and impressionist painters, and finally to the works of avant-garde modernist artists in the 20th century, with a view to comprehensively tracing the development process of British landscape paintings spanning more than 300 years.
Century Collection: Shanghai Natural History Tracing Exhibition
Exhibition period: July 17-October 21, 2018
Venue: Shanghai Museum of History
The exhibition is jointly organized by Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai Museum and Shanghai History Museum. More than 100 natural history, anthropology, archaeology, art collections and related exhibits collected by Shanghai Museum, the former Asian Language Society, are displayed to explore the early development of China Museum and explore the cultural heritage of Shanghai.
Makoto Shinkai Exhibition: From The Voice of the Stars to Your Name. 》
Exhibition period: July 27th-October 7th, 2018.
Venue: Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art
The 15th anniversary exhibition of Japanese contemporary animation director Makoto Shinkai’s debut, by designing original paintings, images, three-dimensional models, materials and other exhibits, reviews his works from the Voice of the Stars in 2002 to Your Name in 2016. "The development track, showing the animation world of Makoto Shinkai.
Youth Tour-Exhibition of Five Works of the New Generation
Exhibition period: August 4-August 29, 2018
Venue: An Yan Art Space (1st floor, No.4 Lane 90, Tongren Road, Jing ‘an District, Shanghai)
Yang Xinjia, Hou Hongxu, Huang Junwei, Li Shutian and Zong Jiancheng, five "young painters", have a solid specialty and complete technology, and have gradually formed their own language style. They each have a professional college background, and today their paintings are gathered together, each of which is wonderful and sets off each other. An interesting observation is that they all have a strong sense of scene and substitution from the perspective of movies. Yang Xinjia’s watercolor works are just like a kind of freeze-frame, sometimes with close-ups, while Hou Hongxu’s oil paintings are in the middle, which is the scene of telling daily stories. Huang Junwei’s comprehensive material works seem to be depicted in a wide-angle panorama, with traditional elements such as Taihu Stone substituted.
Infrastructure-the Spatial Foundation of Community Discourse
Exhibition period: June 30-September 9, 2018
Venue: OCAT Shanghai Pavilion
With the theme of "Infrastructure, Jiangshan", the exhibition discusses the expression of various forms and behaviors of infrastructure in the whole landscape, and looks forward to the role and position of infrastructure in reconstructing large-scale regional space and meso-micro daily space in the future, and shows the process of infrastructure integration into cultural landscape in various forms such as devices, images, models and images.
Compass /Saudade Fosun Foundation China-Portugal Contemporary Art Exhibition
Exhibition period: July 3-August 26, 2018
Venue: Fosun Art Center
The exhibition brings together nearly 100 works by 12 Chinese and Portuguese contemporary artists, covering paintings, comprehensive material creation, installations, images and other media. It is the first time in China to systematically compare and sort out the development of contemporary art between China and Portugal.
Integrated Vision —— Asia-Europe Classic Print Exhibition
Exhibition period: June 26-August 12, 2018
Venue: Shanghai Minsheng Modern Art Museum
275 classic prints of Asia and Europe from 16th to 21st century were exhibited, including more than 30 folk woodcuts of Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, mainly Fengxiang woodcut New Year pictures and Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures. More than 140 Japanese ukiyo-e paintings, including the classic original works of the masters of ukiyo-e painting; As well as more than 70 European copperplate and woodcut prints, and selected the authentic prints of Diu Lei, Rembrandt, Goya and other artists.
Charlie Chaplin: Outstanding Vision
Exhibition period: June 8-October 7, 2018
Venue: BudiTek Art Museum
The exhibition explores the reasons that contributed to Chaplin’s success and brought him key opportunities, and studies the important role of photographic images in the process of artists’ legend.
WAVELENGTH: factory setting-immersive art experience exhibition
Exhibition period: July 8-October 8, 2018
Venue: Baolong Art Museum
The exhibition invited 40 global contemporary artists and designers from 17 countries and regions, including Xu Zhen and Anserme Rael, to present more than 100 interdisciplinary works of art, including visual art, fashion, installation and interactive art of new media. Inspired by the scene of factory assembly line, the exhibition showed a deconstructive vision of urban life.
2018 Shanghai Youth Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition
Exhibition period: from July 22nd.
Venue: Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles Exhibition Hall
Since the 1990s, it has been held once a year, which has played a positive role in discovering and cultivating outstanding young calligraphers in Shanghai and boosting the vigorous development of calligraphy in Shanghai. This year, out of more than 3,000 contributions, 49 winning works, 100 exhibiting works and 150 selected works were finally selected. The exhibition shows Shanghai teenagers’ solid calligraphy basic skills and certain copying creative ability.
Nian Ji | wangyi Di Photography Solo Exhibition
Exhibition period: July 28-August 20, 2018
Venue: Dehe Contemporary Art Center (No.93, Moganshan Road, Shanghai)
Wangyi Di now lives in Shanghai, graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy, majoring in stage art design. She once worked in Shanghai TV Station and now works in Shanghai Film Group Company, engaged in film and television drama production designer, photography and graphic design.
Han Yi Shen Fei: Calligraphy Exhibition of Past Dynasties Collected in Suzhou Museum
Exhibition period: June 15th-September 2nd, 2018.
Venue: Suzhou Museum
The works of more than 30 calligraphers in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties were exhibited, including Qian Liangyou’s Wu Zhongren’s Wuzhong Chorus, Shen Zhou’s Five Rhythms of Running Calligraphy, Xu Wei’s Seven-line Axis of Cursive Calligraphy, Zheng Zhi’s Official Calligraphy Axis, and Wang Duo’s Kulan Fuhua Scroll.
Ye Shengtao’s Literature Exhibition (Phase I)
Exhibition period: July 14-September 16, 2018
Venue: Suzhou Art Museum
Ye Shengtao’s diary manuscript, four letters from his father and son, 150 old photos and 20 letters with friends such as Bing Xin, Lao She, Guo Shaoyu and Zhu Ziqing were exhibited to outline Ye Shengtao’s life track.
Hangzhou
Cross-border treasure: 100 cultural relics tell the story of Zhejiang
Exhibition period: June 8-October 8, 2018
Venue: Zhejiang West Lake Art Museum
Exhibit 100 pieces/group of treasures from 39 Zhejiang cultural and cultural institutions, telling Zhejiang stories from prehistoric times to Ming and Qing dynasties.
Yun Mengze: Exhibition of Chu Cultural Relics Collected in Jingzhou Museum
Exhibition period: July 17-September 24, 2018
Venue: Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Kiln Museum, Hangzhou
Exhibition of 96 pieces/sets of cultural relics collected by Jingzhou Museum, from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, showing the material culture of Jingchu and the life style of nobles from various aspects such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Wuzhen
Transcript of ancient Persian poems
Exhibition period: July 28-November 28, 2018
Venue: Muxin Art Museum
In the past three years, Muxin Art Museum has successively published several manuscripts of European thinkers and writers admired by Muxin. This year, five manuscripts of ancient Persian poems with fine paintings came to Wuzhen. Persian miniatures are displayed in China from the future. Now, in Muxin’s hometown, we can get a glimpse of the precious original appearance of ancient Persian poems and miniatures.
Beijing
Qing Ping Fu Lai —— Qi Baishi’s Art Exhibition
Exhibition period: July 18-October 8, 2018
Venue: Palace Museum
More than 200 paintings, seal cutting and literature works have been selected, which are divided into four sections: "Heaven rewards diligence", "Helping the dream to return to the hometown", "Being strong in old age" and "White Stone seal cutting", showing the diligent and arduous exploration of Qi Baishi, a people’s artist, from all angles, his homesickness for his hometown, his lofty sentiments of being old but not decadent, and the impression of a blade.
Bing Xu: Thought and Method
Exhibition period: July 21-October 18, 2018
Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Bing Xu has always been committed to the mutual transformation between eastern and western cultures, transcending cultural boundaries and expressing his thoughts and practical problems with visual language. The exhibition is the artist’s most comprehensive solo exhibition in Beijing in recent years.
Overseas Kizil Grottoes Murals and Cave Restoration Image Exhibition & Monks and Artists
Exhibition period: July 14th-September 2nd, 2018.
Venue: Mumu Art Museum
Both exhibitions focus on Kizil and look around the world, presenting the treasures and legends of human civilization-the unique value and charm of Kizil Grottoes art born on the Silk Road.
Pang Tuan の natural secret language
Exhibition period: August 11th-October 7th, 2018.
Venue: Beijing Times Art Museum
Ton Mak, who graduated from University of London with a master’s degree in anthropology, worked in an advertising company before becoming a full-time artist. Due to the pressure of work, Ton often draws some graffiti to decompress, and creates the image of "Little Fat Bun" on a sunny day. Through this image, he emphasizes the magical power of nature and our application of nature.
Xi’an
Great Grassland Heritage: Treasure Art
Exhibition period: July 12-September 12, 2018
Venue: Shaanxi History Museum
The 370 exhibits, all from the National Museum of Kazakhstan, are cultural relics and replicas unearthed from Esek’s tomb in that country, mainly jewelry works from the early Iron Age to the Middle Ages, showing the unique culture and arts and crafts traditions of nomadic people in the grasslands of Asia and Europe.
Guangzhou
Five-color Xiangyun: A Special Exhibition of Monochrome Glazed Porcelain in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties Collected in Zidetang
Exhibition period: July 28-August 26, 2018
Venue: Guangdong Provincial Museum
Exhibit 68 pieces/sets of monochrome glazed porcelain collected by Zizitang, showing the elegance of monochrome glazed porcelain in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Feng Shang: China export fans from 18th to 20th century.
Exhibition period: August 15-November 19, 2018
Venue: Guangdong Provincial Museum
More than 200 China export fans and European-made Chinese style fans, supplemented by export silk embroidered Chinese clothes, shawls and jewelry, were exhibited in Guangdong Provincial Museum, presenting China export fans and their oriental aesthetic taste, which were popular in European markets.
Splendid Times —— Exhibition of Fine Artists in China in the 20th Century
Exhibition period: July 27-August 18, 2018
Venue: Guangdong Art Museum
The exhibition covers Beijing-Tianjin painting school, Shanghai painting school, Chang ‘an painting school, New Jinling painting school and Lingnan painting school in China in the 20th century, as well as representative artists and works of almost all important schools since the new period. These artists transformed the relationship between personal perspective and living reality into the relationship between artistic theme and the context of the times, showing their unique sensitivity to the times.
Taipei
Where is Penglai: Special Exhibition of Fairy Mountain Map
Exhibition period: July 1-September 25, 2018
Venue: Palace Museum
There are 30 paintings with the theme of fairyland in the exhibition, spanning the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are divided into three units: the ethereal fairyland, the unique cave, the practice of collecting herbs and the spiritual pursuit of the ancients’ desire to emerge from the immortal.
Xinglin Spring Warm: Exhibition of Interesting Painting and Calligraphy for Health Care
Exhibition period: July 1-September 25, 2018
Venue: Palace Museum
With the theme of health preservation, the exhibition is divided into three parts, namely, alchemy, medicine and traditional health preservation, and exhibits paintings and calligraphy related to health care, including Chou Ying-style Painting of Burning Dan in Jade Cave in the Ming Dynasty and Huang Tingjing, which advocates the spirit of nourishing qi.
Tokyo
50th Anniversary of Death | foujita Exhibition
Exhibition period: July 31-October 8, 2018
Venue: Tokyo Art Museum
Foujita, a modern painter who was born in Meiji Japan and spent most of his life in France, became a special figure in the history of Japanese art because of his remarkable artistic achievements and controversial life track. In 2018, the 50th anniversary of his death, Japan held the largest retrospective exhibition so far, presenting his artistic panorama.
Foujita in the 1940s: Greetings.
Exhibition period: July 28-August 15, 2018
Venue: Tokyo University of Arts University Art Museum
Tokyo University of the Arts (then called Tokyo Fine Arts School) adjacent to Tokyo Art Museum is foujita’s alma mater. The exhibition gathered a group of people who were interested in Fujita or had personal connections with Fujita in those days, aiming to hold a "tribute album" and reflect on the 1940s, the most controversial creative period in foujita.
Kyoto
Respond to Bauhaus
Exhibition period: August 4-October 8, 2018
Venue: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
In 1919, Bauhaus School was founded in Weimar, Germany, which was the most advanced comprehensive art school at that time. Bauhaus, the centenary of its founding, has deeply influenced Germany and the world with its educational philosophy and innovative curriculum. This exhibition introduces how the idea of Bauhaus was introduced, accepted and developed in Japan, reviews its process through about 100 related materials, records and student works, and compares it with the situation in India, which is part of a transnational project to rethink the modern significance of Bauhaus.
New York
Collection Sketch and Print Exhibition: Travel
Exhibition period: July 31-October 29, 2018
Venue: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibit European and American sketches, prints, watercolors and book illustrations since the Renaissance. Because this kind of art is sensitive to light, it can’t be exhibited for a long time, so the exhibits will be updated every 13 weeks and exhibited for 4 rounds every year. The theme of the new exhibition is travel, focusing on Europeans’ exploration of the world in the 16th-18th century.
Nudity in Klimt, Schiller and Picasso’s Works
Exhibition period: July 3-October 7, 2018
Venue: Metropolitan Museum of Art
About 50 nude paintings collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including works by Spanish artists Picasso, Austrian artists gustav klimt and Egon Schiele, were exhibited to commemorate the centenary of the death of Klimt and Schiller.
Rebellious women: challenging Victorian fashion
Exhibition period: July 17, 2018-January 6, 2019.
Venue: New York City Museum
Exhibit photographs, costumes, prints, etc. collected by the New York City Museum, and tell the story of new york women’s resistance to Victorian fashion in the 19th century. These independent women have an indelible influence on the social, cultural and economic development of new york in the 20th century.
Washington
Sense of humor: satire exhibition
Exhibition period: July 15, 2018-January 6, 2019.
Venue: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition of Renaissance caricatures, English satirical works and 20th century caricatures, etc., showing the expression of sense of humor by art..
Space: Collection Exhibition of the National Gallery of Art in Washington (1966-1976)
Extension: August 4, 2018-to be determined
Venue: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Five pieces of minimalist and post-minimalist sculpture installations collected by the National Gallery of Art in Washington are all donated by American collector Virginia Dwan, and each exhibit will be exhibited independently in a single exhibition hall.
London
Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933
Exhibition period: July 30, 2018-July 14, 2019
Location: tate modern.
About 70 works are exhibited, presenting the artistic practice of Weimar Republic in Germany from 1919 to 1933, and trying to explore the anxious and chaotic magical realism phenomenon of German art under this special historical background.
Friendship in Portrait Works
Exhibition period: June 30, 2018-May 13, 2019
Venue: British National Portrait Gallery
Show the historical and contemporary works with the theme of "friendship" in the British National Portrait Collection, including photography and painting, and show how portrait works express the feelings of happiness and leisure between friends.
Bacon, Freud and Centennial Painting
Exhibition period: February 28th-August 27th, 2018
Venue: Tate British Museum
This paper reviews a group of artists who were active in London in the middle and late 20th century, focusing on lucian freud and Francis Bacon. Although their painting styles are different, these artists focus on presenting the most authentic people and environment, and the exhibition will show their exploration and innovation in painting techniques through paintings.
Paris
Being in the society: pastel exhibitions in the Louvre in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Exhibition period: June 7-September 10, 2018
Venue: Louvre
The pastel painting exhibition in the Louvre Museum featured about 120 works by European masters selected from the precious pastel paintings in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Zhao Wuji: Silent Space
Exhibition period: June 1, 2018-January 6, 2019.
Venue: Museum of Modern Art, Paris
On display are 40 large-scale oil paintings and ink paintings by Zhao Wuji, a French Chinese painter, from the mid-1950s to the early 21st century. This is the first time that Paris has held a solo exhibition for him since 2003, and some of the exhibits are on public display for the first time.
Berlin
Portrait of Artists: From Picasso to andy warhol
Exhibition period: June 29-October 7, 2018
Venue: Berlin National Museum
160 portraits collected by German photographer Angelika Platen were exhibited, which recorded the images of the most influential artists in the 20th century and explored their personalities, work and life.
现代建筑师的速写本
展期：2018年6月30日—10月7日
地点：建筑绘图博物馆（Museum für Architekturzeichnung）
展出10位现代建筑师的手稿，包括80张素描和140本写生簿，辅以音频和视频访谈、照片、建筑模型等资料，通过手工绘图呈现他们的设计思路与过程。
柏林工艺美术博物馆150周年纪念展
展期：2018年5月19日—9月23日
地点：克佩尼克宫（Schloss K?penick）
为纪念柏林工艺美术博物馆创建150周年，展览展出重要藏品、照片和展板，回顾博物馆150年的发展历程，并追溯柏林市在此期间发生的重要历史事件。
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上海博物馆
框架中的景致：从临摹自然到探索心灵的历史脉络
时间：2018年7月29日 周日 09:30-11:30
地点：五里桥社区文化活动中心三层影剧院（龙华东路600号）
主讲人：吴雅凤
英国风景画的传承与创新是泰特美术馆创立的宗旨之一，此次展出于上博的画作，足以呈现出英国风景画从临摹自然到心理剖析的历史大脉络。
