Shanghai opens two huge art museums today, both repurposed from structures built for the city's World Expo in 2010. The China Art Museum, showing Chinese Modern art from the late Qing dynasty to 1980, occupies the Expo's scarlet-hued China Pavilion, and extends to 160,000 square meters, while the Power Station of Art will host post-1980 contemporary art, mainly from China, in over 41,000 square meters of space in the former factory-shaped Pavilion of the Future. The opening programme in the China Art Museum includes
Meridian Lines: Contemporary Art from the Museum of New Zealand, an exhibition from the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa curated by Sarrah Farrar.
Image: The China Art Museum
