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Reinventing Landscape
A last-chance autumn look at how artists picture landscapes, with works from the Centre Pompidou collection at West Bund Museum.
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What’s happening in Shanghai
Current and announced events, with venues and useful visiting details.
Current and announced events, with venues and useful visiting details. Choose a starting point from our growing Shanghai selection, then follow its official sources to plan your visit.
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Jota Mombaça: stuck in movement (in the tide)
An announced autumn exhibition at Rockbund Art Museum, opening on 31 October. A free art stop to plan around a future Bund visit.
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Natural history, later into the evening
Shanghai Natural History Museum extends its opening hours for selected Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday dates.
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Computer Worlds
A West Bund exhibition follows the computer into art, design and architecture. Pair the gallery with a walk along the Huangpu.
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Transient Possession, Lasting Delight
Ming and Qing porcelain from the Zande Lou donation makes a focused stop inside Shanghai Museum East’s ceramics galleries.
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Ai Apaec: a paper-art workshop
A bookable museum workshop for ages 9–18, with two Sunday sessions exploring a heroic journey through paper art.
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Pearls Returned Home: Phase II
Painting and calligraphy from the Ching Banlee family’s Liangtuxuan collection, shown in Shanghai Museum East’s second-floor gallery.
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Shanghai Ballet: The Heartbeat of Muqam
A young musician’s return home provides the story for a ballet shaped by Uyghur Muqam traditions.
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Symphoniacs in Concert
Bach and Vivaldi meet electronic rhythm in Symphoniacs’ tenth-anniversary concert.
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Robert Wilson: Dorian
Dorian Gray, Francis Bacon and Oscar Wilde meet in a music-theatre work shaped by Robert Wilson’s visual language.
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Game of History
The contest between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang becomes a chessboard in this Jiangsu dance drama.
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Cassiel Gaube: Soirée d’Études
House dance footwork becomes a series of choreographic studies for three dancers.
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Pillars
Ancient Chinese buildings and the people who protected them inspire a dance drama about architectural memory.
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Shanghai Grand Opera House Opening Concert
Chinese and international singers join Shanghai ensembles for the new Grand Opera House’s opening concert.
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Anna Netrebko in Concert
Anna Netrebko joins Artur Ruciński and Alexander Kopeczi for an evening of opera arias and ensembles.
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Joshua Bell and Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell directs and plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto before Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony.
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Lucinda Childs: DANCE
Lyon Opera Ballet performs Lucinda Childs’ DANCE, where repeated movement meets Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt.
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Rosas: Exit Above, After the Tempest
Walking becomes a starting point for thirteen performers moving through blues, pop and choreography.
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Rachid Ouramdane: OUTSIDER
Twenty dancers and four extreme-sports performers test trust, risk and collective movement in OUTSIDER.
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Vienna Philharmonic with Tugan Sokhiev
Two Vienna Philharmonic programmes pair Beethoven and Brahms on the first night, then Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
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Mount Hua: A Legend of Love and Deliverance
Shanghai Yue Opera revisits the Lotus Lantern legend in a new production about family and freedom.
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The Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
The Bolshoi brings its full Don Quixote production to Shanghai Culture Square for three evenings.
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Prime Minister Liu the Hunchback: Night Trial
Beijing Jingju revives the Night Trial chapter of its comic historical opera about Liu Yong.
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Rosas danst Rosas
Four dancers turn repeated everyday gestures into the charged movement language of De Keersmaeker’s 1983 work.