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 ›

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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 ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: There's a free lion dance show being put on at Times Square while Vienna Cafe is starting up their China indie film showings. There's an Oscar-awarded musical concert and also your last chance to see Wilson Yap's New York photo exhibition. Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

Every Friday, we try to help you figure out your weekend plans by bringing you a roundup of some of the best events in town. This week that includes art openings, Chinese indie movies and a discussion on what the Expo means, now and in the future. For live music, take a look at our Midweek Music Preview. more ›

France24 reports:

The buoyant market for Chinese contemporary art over the last few years has made millionaires in the country. But the financial crisis has led to a massive slump in demand for works.

We chanced upon this old, but super awesome picture of a RMB50 bill recreated with eggs on Neatorama. The art installation was exhibited in Guangzhou about two years ago. more ›

Boing Boing points us to this interesting art installation by Chinese artist Liu Jianhua who recreated the Shanghai skyline from dice and poker-chips. This was exhibited at the Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy. A close-up shot follows after the jump. [Photos by Cinghialino] more ›

Shanghaiist was at the opening of Shanghai-based artist Chen Hangfeng's latest art show at Art Labor over the weekend and left suitably wooed by the artworks, especially the delightfully detailed Logomania Wallpaper and the centerpiece glitterama, Luxurious Riffraff. more ›

One of Shanghai's luxury fairs with the most god-awful names is getting a makeover. And a name change. From now on, the Millionaire Fair will be known quite simply as — The Fair. more ›

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Anyone who's ever seen one of those fancy digital SLR cameras probably knows that professional photography ain't child's play. Right? Well, maybe not. Some friends of Shanghaiist marched into rural Sichuan a few months ago, and started up the Malafi Photo Initiative by handing out reloadable point-and-shoot cameras to a small army of volunteers. Oh, sorry; when we say small army, we really mean 14 little kids. And when we say reloadable cameras, we mean the ones that actually use film. You remember those, right? more ›

The exhibit is scheduled to travel to over 100 cities around the globe, with an estimated 2.5 million iewing the photographs, and it will be stopping in Shanghai from July 3 to 24 at the Songjiang Art Museum. The show features the winning works of the World Press Photo Contest, showcasing the most interesting, creative images of illustrious photojournalists from the past year. The exhibit, most recently shown in Moscow, The Netherlands, Chile and New York City, opens Wednesday at 10am. It's a little out of the way, we know, but we think it will be worth the trip. Shanghai-based Ariana Lindquist who won first prize in the Arts and Entertainments section of the awards will be exhibiting her works. more ›

Art World Project is an ambitious European-initiated project made possible only by the Internet. The vision is to develop a unique work of art with 50,400 contributions from artists all around the world, and upon completion, the artwork will be printed on a 3m by 10.5m canvas and net profits from the project will be donated to several children's charity organisations. Artists can get in touch and collaborate with each other through the internet platform, and the idea is that by having the contribution of an artist from Austria next to another from Australia or Nepal, art and cultural exchange will be inspired. more ›

Even just a few short years ago, the art district down on Moganshan Lu consisted of a handful of independent and quirkily ramshackle galleries quietly plying their trade. Today, the area has not only been considerably spruced up, but has also grown to include a number of upmarket cafes and shops. This development has inevitably created winners and losers, with numerous galleries falling by the wayside. more ›

Quality and beauty are the two features Andrew James looks out for when he sources for contemporary art. This was what he liked about Dorothy M. Yoon's works when he first came upon them at a London art fair. Last Saturday's opening reception for Dorothy's first solo exhibition in China attracted a good number of people, presumably intrigued by the bizarre portraits of Asian females in all kinds of blonde wigs imaginable. While surreal images of pallid-faced beauties may not appeal to every art buyer's taste, seasoned portrait collectors should figure if they like this series fast since the large group portraits come only in editions of 3. more ›

Feeling artsy today? Go catch London-based artist Dorothy M. Yoon's exhibition which features 13 Asian females in blonde wigs and equally blonde bleached eyebrows inspired by her childhood fantasies. A joint exhibition by contemporary artists Christeene Britton & Wang Youling celebrating harmony and life can be a good bet if you're looking for something a little more abstract (and perhaps a little less quirky). Enjoy. more ›

The observations by two veteran photographers of a rapidly changing Shanghai over ten-plus years should be reason enough to traipse over to Moganshan Road. Van der Hilst’s color Kodachrome works will allow us a glimpse into Shanghai on the brink of transformation in the early 1990s (good opportunity for some of us who had been in primary schools back then, too busy figuring out multiplication tables to notice) while French, the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent delves into the more recent past with his black-and-white documentation of life in Shanghai’s back alleys during the last five years. more ›

... with SCAA's Christmas gala which happens this evening at 6.30pm at O'Malleys! RMB 100 at the door gets you a glass of Champagne, two standard drinks, comfort food, lots of free gifts and one Holiday Raffle ticket for a chance to win over 100 prizes totaling more than RMB 150,000! For those of you on the hunt for Christmas trees but don't know where to get them, Smart Shanghai has the answers! 'Tis the... more ›