Having just opened its doors in October, the Power Station of Art in Shanghai is already making big moves as China’s first state-run contemporary art museum.  The 19th century industrial site was converted by the state into a premier public art center, and is currently hosting a massive exhibition in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris to show 119 of the Centre’s works.  “It is a prestige object for the city, to have a museum that, at least in scale, can compete with Tate Modern in London or MoMA in New York,” says Jens Hoffmann, co-curator of the Shanghai Biennale. (more…)

Shanghai is opening two state-run museums today, celebrating China’s National Holiday. It will inaugurate the China Art Palace in the former China Pavilion of the 2010 Expo, as well as The Power Station of Art in a converted factory, formerly The Expo’s Urban Best Practices Area. The Power Station of Art will be China’s first national contemporary art museum. The 2012 Shanghai Biennial opens there tomorrow and runs through March 2013. The museum is also planning an Andy Warhol retrospective. (more…)