Author: Misha Maruma
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5 of the Best Local Shanghai Bands You Must See Live
If you want to get to know what’s happening in the live music scene in Shanghai then you need to get to know the local bands. Being an international city, Shanghai often has big acts passing through, but to get to the pulse of the underground scene you must get out to see the local…
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Making It in Shanghai: Interview with Redic
“Making It in Shanghai” focuses on people who have found success and made a significant cultural impact in Shanghai. “Steps of courage lead to places of confidence.” – Redic When people talk of “making it” they are usually referring to becoming successful in their chosen discipline. In the world of music and performing success can…
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Transience
“I’ve been here for 10 years and I can’t even recollect that 10 years. I came, I was here for a bit and now I’m ready to go. You can’t really measure it, it happens so quickly.” Alex Carroll is an American artist based in Shanghai. In the build up to his final exhibition in…
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Post-Punk Artists Old Aunties
Once in a while, you’re in a club waiting to see a band play when you’re blown away by the support act. Then you hear the band you came to see originally and it feels like a letdown. This is how I was introduced to Lao Ayi (老阿姨), or Old Aunties to use their English…
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The Language of Art
Jayson Atienza is a Filipino-American artist based in Shanghai. He’s known for his instantly recognisable signature painting style, which he originally developed by combining watercolour and ink. With a background in advertising, Jayson has worked with numerous well-known multinational brands. At heart, though, Jayson Atienza is an artist. In his series, The Language of Art,…
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Modern Ephemeral Duality
Ludo is a French street artist. His work connects the world of plants and animals with our technological universe and quest for modernism. He’s known for only using two colours in his work and using a technique of pasting, mainly in outdoor spaces. He is a very humble, quietly spoken man with a thick Parisian…
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A Conversation Between Science and Art – NYU Shanghai x Lu Yang
On July 24, 2016, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery and the Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) Summer School co-organized A Conversation Between Science and Art. New media artist Lu Yang shared her work with students from around the world and world-class neuroscientists from institutions such as NYU, Stanford, Yale, MIT and Google DeepMind. The presentation focused on Delusional…
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Eating the City: An Unusual Installation by Artist Song Dong
On Sunday, August 28th Song Dong and students from NYU Shanghai welcomed guests to the opening of the Beijing artist’s Eating The City exhibition in Shanghai, an event that was co-organised by NYU Shanghai Art Gallery. Eating the City is an installation that resembles a scale model of a city, but instead of being constructed…
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Pyroglyphix Remedy Tour 2015
Pyroglyphix are a rock rap band whose music combines elements of electronic and hip hop. In March 2014 the band were named ‘Suzhou’s Best Band’ at the City Weekend Suzhou Reader’s Choice Awards. The band released its first EP, Remedy, last year. This spring has seen them take in a number of dates around eastern…
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Teaching an American to understand the Laws of Cricket
My American friend Brian Vier has been asking to join my cricket team for ages. As we play on Sunday morning he never seems to make it. But that doesn’t stop him thinking he’ll turn up and be the best. You see, he already plays baseball and thinks that he’ll master cricket pretty quickly. That…
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Coherence is the last refuge of the unimaginative
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first place in the lottery of life Cecil Rhodes So the story goes, Cecil Rhodes marched into an area of southern Africa and planted a British flag into the ground: “And I shall call this land Rhodesia!” Although not strictly true it’s makes for a…
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Football in China: Chinese Super League 2013 season review
The 10th anniversary of the Chinese Super League ended in triumph for Chinese football as a whole as Guangzhou Evergrande became champions of Asia, but what of the league in general? The league was mired in controversy at the start of the season because of the long running match fixing scandal that has dogged Chinese…
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