Shanghai Modern

Shanghai Art Museum’s annual exhibition Shanghai Modern officially opens. Through three narrative sections—Red Radiance, Metro Life, and New Wave in Shanghai—it traces the cultural evolution of the city since the 20th century. The exhibition features over 600 works (sets) across diverse media: woodcuts, posters, architecture, design, oil painting, Chinese painting, photography, film, comics, and music. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the city’s DNA of modernization and the civilizational code of people-making-history.

During the 2004 exhibition Techniques of the Visible—the 5th Shanghai Biennale—Xu Zhen modified one face of the clock tower atop the Shanghai Art Museum (formerly the Shanghai Race Club), making it run 60 times faster than normal.