The Renaissance spirit

Several high-profile art exhibitions are also being held in Shanghai. Among them are Painting the Essential: Surrealism and the East, at the West Bund Museum up to Sept 24 and 400 Years of Western Figure and Portrait Paintings, which runs through July 23 at the Powerlong Museum.

Modern Time: Masterpieces from the Collection of Museum Berggruen/Nationalgalerie Berlin at UCCA Edge in Shanghai will be on from June 22 to Oct 8.

Xie Dingwei, general manager of Tix-Media and executive director of the Bund One Art Museum, says the influx of top-notch art shows to Shanghai is good news for audiences. "Nurturing audiences is a long process, and we are finally seeing the fruits of our work in Shanghai," says Xie.

"Several art museums in Shanghai have built long-term partnerships with acclaimed foreign institutions. Besides our partnership with the Uffizi Galleries, the West Bund Museum is collaborating with the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Art Pudong is doing the same with the Tate (a family of four art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall). These collaborations will help to bring more good art to Shanghai."

If you go

Botticelli and the Renaissance

April 28-Aug 27, 10 am-6 pm (last entry by 5:30 pm).

Bund One Art Museum, 3F, 1 Zhongshan No 1 Road East, Huangpu district, Shanghai.