BEIJING: OPENING THIS WEEK:

Our very own Iona Whittaker brings celebrated Brit Kate Downie to China for the first time to celebrate the cities’ most questionably charismatic charms.

Where Where Art Space

Live Drawing Hours: Thursday November 24 and Friday November 26, 5-6 pm

Exhibition open from November 26

SHANGHAI: OPENING THIS WEEK:

How can language be both concrete and abstract?  Wang Xieda’s character-inspired sculptural practice is the answer.

Wang Xieda: SAGES' SAYINGS

James Cohen Gallery Shanghai

November 26 – January 19

HONG KONG: OPENING THIS WEEK:

Sarah Lai,  A drowsy car, 2011, oil on canvas, aluminium, 168 x 183 x 50 cm; Courtesy of the artist & Gallery EXIT

Pretty Estranged—don’t miss the chance to realize how beautiful the uncanny can be.

Sarah Lai: Safety Island

Gallery Exit

November 25 – December 23

~Sophia Powers, ArtSlant Editor for India & China.

(Image at top: WANG XIEDA, Sages' Sayings, 2006, Bronze, 91 x 28 x 15 cm; Courtesy James Cohen Gallery)