Art beat... finger on the pulse

Contemporary oil painting

Having toured several cities and attracted 500,000 viewers, the exhibition Oriental Aesthetics brings about 160 paintings back to its final destination, Beijing. The traveling show of Chinese oil works displays the various facets of the genre over the past three decades, presenting leading painters of different periods, such as Zhong Han, Shang Yang, Guo Runwen and Xin Dongwang.

9 am-4:30 pm, closed on Mondays, until Sept 10. Chinese Fine Art Center of China National Academy of Painting, 3/F, Building 1 of China International Exhibition Center, 6 Dongsanhuan Bei Lu (Road), Chaoyang district, Beijing. Reservation needed, 4000-678-688, 010-8414-1900.

Eye on experimental art

One Experiment in 10 Years marks the decade-long teaching and explorations of experimental art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, by displaying research papers and works of teachers and students of the major. Also, it celebrates the major of experimental art, which is to be upgraded to a college at CAFA. A part of the show displays 18 "cases" - the works of 18 graduates of experimental art - to demonstrate that art has been used not only as a tool but more importantly, a way of thinking and discussing social transformations.

9:30 am-5:30 pm, Tuesday to Sunday, until Sept 5. CAFA Art Museum, 8 Huajiadi Nanjie Street, Wangjing, Chaoyang district, Beijing. 010-6477-1575.

Xinjiang history on display

An exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is underway at the National Museum of China. On show are old pictures, telegraphs and relics which bear testimony to the hardships that generations of members of the organization have experienced. The corps is an economic and semi-military governmental organization administered by both the central and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region governments.

9 am-5 pm, closed on Monday, until Sept 14. National Museum of China, at the east side of Tian'anmen Square, 16 East Chang'an Avenue, Dongcheng district, Beijing. 010-6511-6400.

Shanghai

Landscapes in many hues

Some 50 paintings by Luo Weimin are on show at Zhu Qizhan Art Museum. Luo paints with highly saturated hues - in colorful strokes that dance so freely and wildly on his landscape paintings that audiences feel his passion. Luo is an interior designer who turned to painting only a few years ago.

9 am-5 pm, Tuesday to Sunday, until Aug 31. Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, 580 Ouyang Lu (Road), Hongkou district, Shanghai. 021-5671-0742.

Confession as art

Hu Renyi will be the first featured artist in a new project by Minsheng Art Museum that aims to provide a platform for young artists. In his show Come Clean, the artist explores the Chinese practice of writing essays for the purpose of making confessions or self-criticism. He collected documents and video recordings about these "confessions" and presents them as part of his show. In the second part, he will invite visitors to write their own confessions to inspire dialogue between the past and present, as well as between the audience and the writers.

10 am-6 pm, Tuesday to Sunday, until Sept 2. Minsheng Art Museum, Building F, 570 Huaihai Xi Lu (Road), Changning district, Shanghai. 021-6282-9287.

China Daily