Nightlife & Activities

Cindy Sherman's Solo Exhibition

Date: Dec 15-Jan 13 - 10 am

Venue: Fosun Foundation Shanghai

Fosun Foundation Shanghai presents "Cindy Sherman's First Solo Exhibition" through Jan 13, showing a well-acclaimed collection of the remarkable senior figure of photography in the United States. Bringing together 128 series of photographs and several shooting props along with references spanning different periods, this retrospective survey traces Cindy Sherman's career from the 1970s to the present day and attempts to explore dominant themes in her visual creation throughout four decades. In conjunction with the exhibition, Cindy has nine world's brand new works to be unveiled to the public. She also custom-designed two pieces of wallpapers for Fosun Foundation Shanghai. Considered one of the most influential artists of her generation, Cindy Sherman came to prominence in the late 1970s with a group of artists known as the Pictures Generation.

Russell Young: Superstar in Shanghai

Date: Dec 15-Jan 6 - 10 am

Venue: Modern Art Museum, Shanghai British-American contemporary artist

Russell Young is best known for his compelling, larger-than-life silk-screen paintings of cultural icons. This exhibition presents the artist's work spanning the last two decades, portraying Liz Taylor, James Dean and Bob Dylan alongside political giants John and Jackie Kennedy and showing how Young absorbs, processes and re-contextualizes the imagery of popular culture from the second half of the twentieth century onward. This exhibition uses "superstar" as a concept to focus on the exhibition experience, and tries to define the essence of what truly makes a "superstar" and interpret the process of creating a superstar. By presenting screen-printed reproductions of celebrity police mug shots, Young has stripped away their invincible pop status and replaced it with a more human identity, fracturing the conventional celebrity portrait and acknowledging the human beneath the icon, that popular culture often veils.

Unight x Nova present Panama with Mendo in Shanghai

Date: Dec 15 - 10 pm

Venue: Fusion, Shanghai

One of the underground's most requested remixers and head of the Clarisse Records label, the ever-ready Mendo has well over a 200 tracks to his name released over a nearly 20-year period and has stamped his style across some of the best electronic music labels. A spinner since the age of 15 and the holder of a quintessential "music is life" philosophy - this after inauspicious childhood inspiration was provided by acid house, new beat and anthems such as Technotronic's "Pump up the Jam" - Mendo's career from this point forward has thrived on the excitement "to produce a song, then play it in front of thousands of people and make them hysterical."

Piece of Peace World Heritage Exhibit Built with Lego Brick in Shanghai

Date: Dec 15-Feb 24 - 10 am

Venue: Parkside Joy City, Shanghai

Since its 2003 debut in Japan, the Piece of Peace has spent the last 15 years traveling around the world, attracting more than 3 million visitors. The exhibition showcases a choice selection of 40 world-famous World Heritage sites. At the Piece of Peace Lego World Heritage Exhibition China's you can visit The Statue of Liberty, the Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower, Barcelona's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Moscow's Red Square in Moscow, and the Great Wall, and many more famous sights. Each installation ranges from being made by 800 pieces of Lego to astronomical numbers of 100,000 pieces. Not only is the Great Wall of China depicted, Mexico's El Pipila sculpture and Denmark's Roskilde Cathedral are also a topic of creation. All the models are, of course, built with Lego building blocks. The goal in showcasing the sights of the world is to build bridges in a sense of "more building blocks, more peace".