Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
SW7
020.7942.2000
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Maleonn, Days on the Cotton Candy #4, Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum
- When
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15 Mar 2008 – 13 July 2008
Mondays–Thursdays (10am–5:45pm)
Fridays (10am–10pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10am–5:45pm)
- Where
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Tube: South Kensington
- Price
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£8
- Links
Celebrating China's return to the graphic-art world stage, China Design Now embarks on a three-part journey along the country's coastline. The cities examined — Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing — each represent a key temporal and stylistic facet. While Shenzhen's transformation from fishing village to industrial monolith has birthed a burgeoning youth-art movement, Shanghai harnesses its rich cultural past (it was known in the 1920s as the "Paris of the East") for its consumer-driven urban middle class. This nostalgia contrasts with Beijing, the hyper-modern city of the future, whose grand architecture symbolises China's next steps.
