The latest Hiphop Hijack party (featuring DJ Mystykal Kut) is on at Zeal, as well as a few Valentine's-themed parties, the Battle of Wonky Kong vs Sweatshop at Shelter, and free-flow at Kaiba. If that's not your taste, there's also M50 gallery closings, a stroll through Shanghai, and a Deke Ehr's book launch. And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Bangkok celebrates the Year of the Black Water Dragon with a special underwater dragon dance. more ›

Shot by Ricardo Mendialdua in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: The general manager of Koryo Tours Simon Cockerell talks about North Korea, there's some Tuesday night music happened at Yuyintang and Mao Livehouse, take a stroll on the Bund for Wednesday, or check out an art gallery for Thursday! Read on for all the details, or head on over to our calendar for more! more ›

Starting the weekend off with a bang is the fifth edition of Brawl on the Bund, followed by the yearly festive Christkindlmarkt, and an IdleBeats screen print art show! Plus there's another UFC brunch fight at Masse Sunday, and the return of the Clampdown Rock and Roll Dance Party! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

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"Ai Weiwei and I are very good friends. And we have this ongoing, joking discussion about China. It goes more or less like this: he would say, 'Oh man, you are so naïve, you think China is this, and this, and this.' And then I would say, 'But China is really great, blah blah.' I would exaggerate my admiration for China a little bit to oppose him. He is a very, very angry man, very angry in China. They have done things to him, and he cannot forgive. I'm a foreigner, I'm an outsider, I see things more with rose-colored glasses. But he doesn't see a great future for China. So even my argument 'at least you have a great future' doesn't work with him. more ›

"He's an artist and should have the freedom to express his artistic views... This is also the core value of Taiwan." more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: The Album Leaf China tour, wine tastings, Haiku turns five, and China's first sex shop comedy! Read on for details, or check out our calendar for even more. more ›

Get your hipster-artist outfit ready! DADA is hosting the 9th edition of Shanghai Photographer Night tonight, a group exhibition featuring work by Lei Gong, Patrick Wack, Chad Ingraham, Eric Leleu, and Matthieu Belin. more ›

The Ice Cream Truck's Design, Art & Fashion Fair at Wharf 1846 featured fashion shows, DJ's and fine food, along with a variety of local artists, designers, and other artisans turning out to connect with the local hipster community. It was the sort lazy weekend afternoon gathering of creatives that one might take for granted in any number of with-it urban centers, but happens all too rarely in a city like Shanghai. more ›

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Photography enthusiasts, listen up! This Saturday, a special one-day street photography event put together by the one and only Sue Anne Tay of Shanghai Street Stories is happening at the Dutch Design Workspace -- and she promises it will be "absolutely fantastic". more ›

Hello September! As if signaling the end of August, this weekend isn't the most jam-packed ever, but Shanghai will always have (some) events up its sleeves. On the music end, you can catch Joy Division's Peter Hook at Shelter (more info in our Midweek Music Preview. Or there's the hotshot DJ Jacques Dumas at Zeal, parties with themes ranging from hippies to jet setters, and another great BEAN event with the kids! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more! more ›

Beautiful, mesmerising and poetic piece shot by Rishi Kaneria featuring professional stunt man Dante Ha. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Yoga superstar master Duncan Wong is in town, catch an arty lecture at Sasha's, a special project at Bridge 8, or one of most well known Chinese plays, 'Rhinoceros in Love' is on at the Shanghai Grand Theater! Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

Artist Liu Bolin is back with more of his famous "invisible" photos which are on show now at the Galerie Paris-Beijing. For his 19 new self portraits Liu posed in front of several international icons such as the American flag, Beijing's Olympic Bird nest, and a Venetian canal.
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A 6-ft tall sign spelling the words "Bye Bye Ai Weiwei" along a canal in Venice as the city's art biennale takes place has been puzzling passerbys and art critics alike. more ›

Renowned Canadian bubble artist Fan Yang is set to wow audiences in Shanghai this July with his Gazillion Bubble Show, where he will attempt to fit 150 people inside a single bubble. Here's a glimpse of some of the amazing things he can do, performed recently at a press launch:
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A new exhibition of Louis Vuitton luggage and handbags at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square is getting off to a flying start, proving offensive on both artistic and patriotic grounds. more ›

More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here). more ›

Now here's a bit of guerilla demonstration we can all get behind. Last week, in New York City, Cuban artist Geandy Pavon projected an image of imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's face onto the side of the Chinese Consulate building. This was the newest installment of "Project Nemesis," a project which, according to Hyperallergic, sets about to "impose the face of [dissidents] on buildings walls that house government offices" more ›

57 year old performance artist, Cheng Li, from Lanzhou, Gansu province, has been sentenced to a year of "reeducation through labour" for having sex with his wife in public during a show at the Beijing Modern Art Gallery two months ago. more ›

Models showcase the body painting works by New Zealand artist Men Bourk and Chinese painter Ren Zhongni at the Chongqing-Auckland International Body Painting Festival on May 8, 2011. The artists combined various iconic images of the two cities into their paintings. more ›

Well here's something you'll never see at any of the other Idol shows elsewhere. 30 year old Xue Qiaoping (薛巧萍) from Ninghai, Zhejiang, performs the dying art of requires the performer to keep several pairs of pig's buckteeth, each usually 5 or 6 cm long, in the mouth, and to move them rapidly in and out in varying patterns.
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"Huang Guofu didn’t let the childhood accident that left him armless at the age of four interfere with his love for painting. Instead, he taught himself to paint with his feet at the age of 12. He recalls staying up all night at times just to practice. After his father fell ill, Guong, 18 at the time, quit school and decided to pursue painting as a profession in order to help pay for treatments. He started selling his art on the streets where some purchased his work purely out of sympathy." [Huffington Post] more ›

Currently 'disappeared' artist Ai Weiwei's work, 'Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads', has just been unveiled at the Grand Army Plaza in New York City, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaking out on Ai's present detainment. Bloomberg declared that the occasion was 'bittersweet,' and that the lack of information regarding Ai's whereabouts was 'disturbing.' more ›

If you missed out on the 8th Shanghai Photographer Night that happened at Dada you can play a little catch up now. Here's three of the six videos that played that night--each participating photographer was asked to put their work into a slideshow with music. more ›

Yes, this one has been out and around the internets for a few months now. But just in case you missed it, as we did, take a look at BBC's latest profile of China's most famous artist-turned-dissident. more ›