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Shanghai, today Find your Shanghai moment today. Today’s scheduled events appear first, followed by places, food stops and evening ideas. Check each venue’s hours before heading out.
On the calendar Event Exhibitions
A last-chance autumn look at how artists picture landscapes, with works from the Centre Pompidou collection at West Bund Museum.
Today · 11:00 CN¥100
Event Exhibitions
A West Bund exhibition follows the computer into art, design and architecture. Pair the gallery with a walk along the Huangpu.
Today · 11:00 Check price
Event Exhibitions
Ming and Qing porcelain from the Zande Lou donation makes a focused stop inside Shanghai Museum East’s ceramics galleries.
Today · 10:00 Check price
On the house Event Exhibitions
Painting and calligraphy from the Ching Banlee family’s Liangtuxuan collection, shown in Shanghai Museum East’s second-floor gallery.
Today · 10:00 Free
Event Exhibitions
Skateboarding becomes a way to read cities in a photography and video exhibition at Fotografiska Shanghai.
Until 26 Oct Check price
Event Exhibitions
Discarded photographic negatives become a portrait of everyday life in Thomas Sauvin’s Beijing Silvermine project.
Until 19 Oct Check price
Event Exhibitions
Robert Zhao Renhui uses photography and moving image to look closely at human relationships with the natural world.
Until 7 Nov Check price
Event Exhibitions
Contemporary art moves through courtyards, gardens and interior spaces at Amanyangyun in Minhang.
Today · All day Check price
Event Exhibitions
Zhang Meng brings drawing, artist books, sound and textiles together in a presentation spanning ten years of work.
Until 1 Nov Check price
Event Exhibitions
Xu Lishuang turns everyday actions, industrial objects and spatial movement into an exhibition at ShanghART M50.
Until 1 Nov Check price
Event Exhibitions
Han Qian follows hidden histories through video, sound and objects at ShanghART SUHE.
Until 25 Oct Check price
Event Exhibitions
Jewellery and contemporary art meet in an exhibition about colour on the second floor of the Power Station of Art.
Until 1 Nov CN¥60
Event Exhibitions
Hu Jieming’s media-art practice becomes an exhibition of works, documents and fragments on Duolun Road.
Until 12 Oct Check price
On the house Event Exhibitions
Seven artists explore painting, abstraction and value in a free exhibition at ICA at NYU Shanghai.
Today · 11:00 Free
Event Concerts
Reactor marks its official opening with two overnight programmes across the Dome and Pocket rooms at C·PARK.
Today · 22:00 CN¥138
Event Concerts
SYSTEM and VACUUM connect a Molecular Recordings programme with selectors working across several rooms.
Today · 21:30 Check price
Beyond the calendar
A little more of the city. Places selected from our city guide, alongside the dated events above. Check opening hours and reservations before setting out.
Build your itinerary Free entry Place Activities
A riverbank walk with room for looking. Historic facades on one side, the Pudong skyline across the water.
Free entry Place Activities
Contemporary art near the Bund, with free exhibition admission. Check what is on before building a day around it.
Free entry Place Activities
A green pause near Huaihai Road. Come without a checklist and let a park bench become part of the plan.
Place Activities
Ponds, rockwork and framed views in the old city. Give the garden its own visit, separate from the shopping streets outside.
Place Activities
Get your bearings at People’s Square before walking into the city itself. Urban planning becomes a useful lens for a Shanghai afternoon.
Place Activities
A Pudong afternoon with room to read. Shanghai Library East is as much a place to slow down as a building to look at.
Restaurant Shanghainese
A soup-dumpling stop in the Yuyuan area. Choose the branch on Yuyuan Road and make the meal a plan of its own.
Shanghainese · Xiaolongbao ¥¥
Restaurant Shanghainese
A sit-down meal in the Yuyuan area, with Shanghainese cooking and pastries. Plan around the lunch and dinner services.
Shanghainese ¥¥¥
Restaurant Chinese
Make space for a full vegetarian meal on Yuyuan Road. Seasonal ingredients give this Changning dining room its reason to linger.
Chinese ¥¥¥¥
Restaurant Chinese
A small Yandang Road noodle stop with a very direct proposition: sesame sauce, a bowl of noodles and the next stretch of the city.
Chinese ¥
Place Food & drink
A reservation-only room at The Shanghai EDITION, with warm wood, punch-led cocktails and the skyline close at hand.
Place Food & drink
A long polished counter in the Waldorf Astoria’s heritage building, for an evening that begins with the architecture of the Bund.
Place Food & drink
A high terrace at Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai, with Suzhou Creek below and a wide view towards Pudong after dark.
Place Concerts
An evening of live jazz above East Nanjing Road, a natural final chapter after the Bund and Rockbund.