Friday, 9 October 2009

I've finally gotten around to photographing some beautiful street art near our apartment.

I've been meaning to take snaps of this street art since we first encountered it on our walk to a restaurant to have dinner the first evening we spent in our apartment back in early September. The art is on Wuyi Street, a lovely, human-scale, tree-lined street that meets Yanan Road on the north side just about opposite from our building on the south side. The contrast between the hustle of Yanan Road and the serenity of Wuyi Street is striking. It's not that Wuyi Street is "empty" or "quiet." Indeed, it has lots of pedestrians, and even quite a few cars. But it doesn't have so much honking. And it does have this lovely art, which you can see here.

Nothing much else to report. We are settled back into our Shanghai routines.

Oh, but we are going to a recital this evening, our first in Shanghai! A pianist, Sandra Shen, is playing Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Sonata, and I simply can't miss that. The recital is at a gallery called Two Cities (or Twin Cities) in the Moganshan 50 art complex plunked down in a formerly industrial corner of Shanghai. The gallery is supposed to do an eclectic variety of concerts. Other places in the district do concerts of Chinese classical music. I'll write more about all this once we've seen it.