8 – 22 September 2016 Private View: 8 September 2016, 18:00 – 20:00 Panel Discussion: 22 September 2016, 19:00 – 20:30 Bloomsbury Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Xiaowen Zhu from 8 September to 22 September 2016. Xiaowen Zhu's London debut, titled Unrolled Silks, will be the artist’s second solo presentation. Xiaowen Zhu (b.1986, Shanghai) is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, she u

Exhibition report by Angus McNeice in London (chinadaily.com.cn) Banished to opposite sides of the Milky Way, Chinese tradition has it that star-crossed lovers Zhinu and Niulang are only reunited once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh moon, when a flock of magpies forms a bridge across the "silver river." The Qixi Festival — or Chinese Valentine's Day — commemorates the annual meeting of that folkloric couple this Tuesday. While lovers head out on romantic dates acros