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3. Like Strings of Splendid Beads: Exhibition of Works of Calligraphy and Painting Donated by Qu Geping

The exhibition displays artworks donated by Qu Geping, a pioneer of environmental protection and one of the founders of environmental protection education in China. 

Qu Geping is associated with many famous calligraphers and painters, such as Zhao Puchu, Qi Gong, Li Keran, Wu Zuoren, and Huang Zhou through close friendships. Moreover, his collection of hundreds of outstanding artworks can be considered to represent a microcosm and epitome of modern and contemporary Chinese calligraphy and painting.

If you go

Venue: Tsinghua University Art Museum

NO. 1, Tsinghua University Campus, Hai Dian District, Beijing

Time: 9:00—17:00 (No entry after 16:30)

Tuesday to Sunday; closed Mondays (Except for statutory holidays)

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4. Christopher Le Brun: A Sense of Sight, Abstract Work 1974-2020

The Red Brick Art Museum is holding the exhibition Christopher Le Brun: A Sense of Sight, Abstract Work 1974-2020 until May 9. Featuring his paintings and sculptures spanning almost 50 years, the exhibition unprecedentedly shows the long development of the abstract in his work and reveals the essentially formal nature of his work as an artist.

Christopher Le Brun is one of the most influential figures to emerge in British Art in the 1980s. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1980 and in 1982 took part in the epoch-making exhibition Zeitgeist at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin.

If you go

Venue: Red Brick Art Museum

100 meters west of the intersection between Maquanying West Road and Shunbai Road, Hegezhuang Village, Cuigezhuang Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Time: Summer: May 1-September 30, 10:00-18:00 (Latest entry at 17:30)

Winter: October 1-April 30, 10:00-17:30 (Latest entry at 17:00)

Closed Monday (Except for public holidays)