Nightlife & Activities

Xie Nanxing: Spices

Date: March 17 - May 17 - 10 am

Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Xie Nanxing: Spices presents a new series of seven major oil paintings created in the last two years, reflecting a shift in the artist's thinking away from his earlier attempts to mediate between realism and conceptualism, in favor of a more objective search for the roots of his artistic practice. In these works, common tropes and references from Western art history and techniques developed by old masters are deftly handled, obliquely or ambiguously brought onto the canvas. The enlightenment narrative that has undergirded contemporary painting in China throughout the past several decades of rapid development is expressed here as the confusion and complexity that lies between two vastly different visual and historical contexts. This exhibition is less a summary or an argument than a timely corrective: Xie Nanxing views his own "misreadings" of the Western classical tradition in the same vein as Columbus mistaking the tree bark he found in the Americas for Indian spices. The exhibition will also include sketches and supplementary materials that elucidate Xie's creative trajectory.

Specialty Coffee Class

Date: March 17-31 - 10:30 am

Venue: Greybox Coffee

Brewing your own coffee is fun, easy and satisfying. The simplest, most accessible way to start is with a filter brewing method. Come in and spend 1.5 hours with Greybox team and we'll have you brewing beautiful coffee. We will show you the basics of brewing hand-drip coffee, and we will explore the different variables (grind, time and agitation) that can be adjusted to change the taste of your brew. You will find it easy to brew coffee the same way at home. We will be drinking lots of delicious coffee throughout the session.