What is itYou think you know blue-and-white porcelain until a show like this expands what that sentence even means. "Blue-and-White+" at Liu Haisu Art Museum starts from a familiar cultural object—qinghua porcelain—but treats it less like a heritage category and more like a visual language that's still under construction.
Across four floors and nearly a hundred works, the exhibition pulls the motif out of vitrines and lets it mutate across media: painting, sculpture, installation, and video. The curatorial idea is simple enough to state and harder to ignore in practice — What happens when a 700-year-old decorative system stops being preserved and starts being used? The answers are in the rooms.
Who is it forThis isn't a show that demands specialist knowledge, but it does reward slowing down. It's built around a single motif — blue-and-white — which keeps getting picked up and reworked across different mediums and rooms.
People interested in Chinese aesthetics will find plenty to unpack, but it's also easy to enjoy if you're just following how the same blue-and-white idea shifts as it moves through painting, installation, video, and other work.
How to visitEntry is free, no reservation needed, which already removes most of the friction. Metro Line 3 or 4 gets you to Yan'an West Road Station, a short walk away. The exhibition runs until July 16, open Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 5pm.
