Beijing Your Way

Exhibition: Tradition and Innovation, Furnishings Solo Show by July Chow
Venue: the Rose Bud Art Center, 798 Art Zone, 2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Dashanzi, Chaoyang district, Beijing
Opening Hours and Date: 10:00-17:00, daily from Tuesday to Sunday ,until May 26, 2012.
How to get there?
By Car: From Sanyuan Bridge or Siyuan Bridge enter the Airport Expressway, and then leave the Airport Expressway at the entrance to Jiuxianqiao Rd.
By Bus: Take Bus 401, 402, 405, 445, 909, 955, 973, 988, 991 to Dashanzi or Wangyefen Stop.
 
Have you ever saw the transparent furnishings? Such as a suit of transparent furnishings made of plastics, glasses and adorned by traditional furnishings elements?
 
It seems amazing, yet, it has become real displayed furnishings, waiting for you to appreciate.
 
Chinese renowned artist July Chow is holding his solo exhibition, entitled Tradition and Innovation, about the transparent furnishings amazing combined with plastics ,glasses and the traditional elements of furnishings such as wood. The most eye-catching is the Ming style beds and chairs.
 
And what makes the exhibition more attractive is the adornment design element of Ming Dynasty.
 
The exhibition will run until May 26, at the Rose Bud Art Center in 798 Art Zone of Beijing.

Exhibition: IMARI-Renowned Japanese Porcelain Exhibition
Venue: Beijing Art Museum, Wanshou Temple, North of West 3rd-ring Road, Beijing
Opening Hours: 9:00 — 16:30, Tuesday to Sunday
Ticket: 20 Yuan
How to get there?
Bus Route: Take Bus No. 300, 323, 362, 374, 482, 811, 817, 944, 967, to get off Wanshou Temple Station
 
The IMARI-Renowned Japanese Porcelain Exhibited held in Beijing is organized by Beijing Art Museum and The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan.
 
The 160 precious IMARI porcelain exhibited this time are all the precious collections of The Museum of Oriental Ceramics. The exhibition will last three months until Aug 15, 2012.
 
IMARI porcelain is the name from Japanese porcelain made in the town of Arita. They were exported to Europe extensively from port of Imari, Saga between the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. Gradually, the Japanese as well as Europeans called them Imari.

Attraction: London-Style Street
Opening Hours: 9:00-18:00
Ticket: 30 Yuan
Add.: Water Cube, 11, Tianchen Dong Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing (in the Olympic Park on Beichen Lu)
How to get there?
Bus Routes: Take Bus No.81, 82, 510, 607 to Beichenxiqiao North Station.
Subway Line: Take Line 8 to get off at Olympic Park Station.

On May 16, the London Style Street at the Water Cube of Beijing was officially opened to visitors.
 
With the approach of the 2012 London Olympic Games, a series of such related experience activities are scheduled to be held at the Water Cube. And the activities will last until the end of October.
 
Visitors could fortunately view the iconic London landmarks just at the Water Cube’s London Style Street, such as the Big Ben, London City Hall, Hyde Park, London Eye and so on. And visitors could also take photos with London double-deck bus, drink the afternoon tea, or buy the London Olympics souvenirs, and so on.
 
There must be a moment that you feel you are really in London instead of at the London Style Street!

Event: Organic Food Fair
Venue: Zhongxiang Hutong, Jiudaowan, Dongcheng district, Beijing
Opening hours and Date: The Hutong, 11:00-14:00, May 19
Ticket: 50 Yuan
How to get there?
Subway Line: Take Line 5 to get off at Beixinqiao stop and out from Exit C.
 
Upcoming May 19 is the Food Revolution Day.
 
To celebrate it, The Hutong, a well-known center of Beijing’s culture exchange, for expats, foreigners, and locals to meet and connect. Its official website is: thehutong.com.
 
About the upcoming Organic Food Fair, visitors could have face to face communications with the farmers and producers. Then a talk on the composting, urban farming and growing produce in China.
 
What’s more, visitors could taste the locally made jams, honey, bagels, milk, and cheese. If you like the favor, you could buy them home to share with your family members and friends.
 
The ticket is 50 Yuan for adult, including “Organic Beijing” Starter Kit (RSVP’d guests only), Workshops, Entrance to Roof-Top Market and Organic Samples.
 
For more information, please visit its official website mention above: thehutong.com.

Event: “Standing on the Shoulders of Little Clowns” Exhibition
Venue: UCCA (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art) 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Date: until May 27, 2012.
Opening Hours: Tuesday — Sunday, 10:00-19:00 Last Entry 18:30
Closed on Monday
Ticket: Free
How to get there?
By Car: From Sanyuan Bridge or Siyuan Bridge enter the Airport Expressway, and then leave the Airport Expressway at the entrance to Jiuxianqiao Rd.
By Bus: Take Bus 401, 402, 405, 445, 909, 955, 973, 988, 991 to Dashanzi or Wangyefen Stop

The works or live shows in the exhibition are all created by five Chinese prospect young artists, named GUEST.
 
They exhibited the works in a way like a circus, including funny installations, absurd paintings and featured live shows.
 
Visitors could laugh suddenly sometimes, or stare the works without any expression on faces. , GUEST attempts to capture the absurd, poke fun at the self, and entreat the audience to “stop being so serious”.
 
The works draw influence from the theatrics and fantastic disorder of a carnival, encouraging “an exit from reality, then a willingness to laugh at oneself, and finally a realistic acceptance of chaos,” in the artists’ words.

Event: The 3rd Nanluoguxiang Theater Festival
Venue: Nanluoguxiang and its around 11 theater, Beijing.
Date: until June 30, 2012.
Ticket: 80 Yuan,
      40 Yuan for students
 
On May 14, the third Beijing Nanluoguxiang Theater Festival kicked off, and it will run until the end of June.
 
During the festival, there will be 48 local and overseas plays presented to the audience, including some original works’ premieres.
 
Moreover, audiences could also view the performances of popular plays, contemporary dances dramas, monologues and French nouveau cirques.
 
Theses plays will performed at several theater in and around Nanluoguxiang, such as Penghao Theater, Yifu Theater, Pioneer Theater, Renyi Experimental Theater, Fengshang Theater, Donggong Theater and Fangjia Theater.

Exhibition: Precious European Musical Instruments
Venue: the Art Exhibition Room, NCPA (National Center for the Performing Art), Beijing.
Opening Hours and Date: 9:00-17:00, from Tuesday to Sunday, until May 27, 2012
Add.: No. 2, Changan Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
 
The exhibition on Classical European Musical Instruments at NCPA is not only the first such exhibition held in China, but also the largest one held until now all over the world.
 
Visitors could fortunately view the perfectly violins and keyboard instruments made during the 17th to 18th centuries in Europe.
 
The number of the precious musical instruments exhibited achieves as many as 40, both the collections from the musical instruments’ collectors from China and even the world.
 
And some world top musical instruments are even also exhibited this time! Music goers could closely appreciate the world top instruments and also learn the top technique of making instruments.

Event: Beijing Taiwan Street Sightseeing and Culture Festival
Venue: Beijing Taiwan Street, No. 2 Shijingshan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing
Date: until May 20, 2012
How to get there?
Subway Line: take Line 1 to take off at Babaoshan Stop.
 
Is it possible to view the genuine Taiwan sightseeing and taste the local snacks in Beijing instead of going to Taiwan?
 
Beijing Taiwan Street located in Shijingshan District will be your best choice.
 
Visitors can view the genuine Taiwan sightseeing such as Riyuetan, or Sun and Moon Pool, 101 Building, Ali Mountain, Fishman’s Wharf and so on, and what’s more, various of local Taiwan food and snacks, handicrafts are available.
 
You can bargain with the Taiwan shoppers for the crafts you like.
 
The festival will last until May 20, 2012.

Exhibition: Paintings of Women on TV Screens Exhibition, by Artist Xie Hongjun.
Venue: Art Channel, No. 255, Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Date: until May 26, 2012.
How to get there?
Bus Routes: take Bus No. 418,402,973, or 688 to get off at Caochangdi station
Official website: artchannelgallery.com.cn
 
This exhibition is a collection of paintings about the women on TV screens.
 
The artist Xie hongjun employs the traditional classic painting art to represent the women screened on TVs.
 
Since the invention of the camera and films, the various relationships between photos and Realist oil paintings have been explained in countless ways.
 
The most of the portraits works created by Xie Hongjun features the women from different eras and different stations in our life. It is said that women are always objects being viewed, so the state of women can well reflect an entire era.

Exhibition: “Paradox” Exhibition
Venue: 3rd floor exhibition hall of building 1, Today Art Museum, 32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang district, Beijing
Time and Date: 10:00- 17:00, until May 13, 2012
Ticket: Free
How to get there?
Bus route: take bus 28, 38, 57, 348, 300, 801, 802, 683, 810, or 974 to get off Shuangjinqiaobei Stop.
 
This exhibition can be conceived as an invite from Xiang qinghua himself. He want to invite us to experience his individual,private and ‘else’ way of view in his works.

This exhibition can be conceived as an invite from itself for an issue. Can it be not only a view-space of exhibt but a palce of issues? The issue is about what is and how can we experience Xiang qinghua’s ‘else’ way of view through his works this two years.

As a time of view-experience,for Xiang qinghua’s works ,if they are regarded as erroneous ways of view and image results, what are the right ones?

Finally, the issue is, as a rhetorical question can be experience in this exhibition for Xiang qinghua’s works, It’s a paradox, isn’t it? (Source: todayartmuseum.com)