Beijing

East-West fusion

As a representative of Chinese new ink, Wang Hao's show Effusive Colors and Floating Fragrance at Today Art Museum tries to break the boundary between the East and West. The artist combines abstract paintings from the West and yixiang (philosophy) from the East to create a new kind of painting. Wang, 46, learned oil panting from his father and turned to colored ink paintings several years ago.

10 am-6 pm, through April 18. Today Art Museum, 32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang district. 010-5876-0600.

Sichuan landscapes

Sichuan province, in China's Southwest, has been a source of inspiration for famous painters like Huang Quan and Zhang Daqian. The area's magnificent mountains and rivers have been depicted in their works. About 110 paintings by 11 Chinese artists from Sichuan are now on display in the city. The show is part of New China Artists, a project initiated by China National Academy of Painting, to document China's great ink artists born after 1949.

10 am-5:30 pm, through Friday. Art Gallery of China National Academy of Painting, 54 North Xisanhuan Road, Haidian district. 010-6841-1369.

Shanghai

Cinema and relics

American artist Michael Joaquin Grey is now being featured at Chronus Art Center. His solo exhibition My Lagerstatte is composed of three cinematic works that resonate together to create an audiovisual journey for the conservation of cultural relics, immortalized through different materials and technical inventions of the past centuries.

11 am-6 pm, Wednesday-Sunday, through May 2. Chronus Art Center, Room 101, Building 18, 50 Moganshan Road, Putuo district. 021-5271-5789.

System of objects at play

System of Objects is a new exhibition at Shanghai Minsheng Museum of Modern Art. Featuring 44 artists whose practices vary from painting, sculpture, installation to video and animation, the exhibition is about the interaction between objects and man.

10 am-9 pm, daily except Mondays, through June 28. Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, Building F, 570 Huaihai Road West, Xuhui district. 021-6282-8729.

Wang Gongxin's video show

The ongoing exhibition at OCAT Shanghai features the video works of Wang Gongxin over the past 20 years. Born in Beijing in 1960, Wang is a pioneer in the field of new media in China, and the exhibition has been curated by the artist himself.

10 am-7 pm, Tuesday-Thursday, Sunday; 11 am-9 pm, Friday and Saturday, through May 24. OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, 30 Wen'an Road, Zhabei district. 021-6608-5119.