This 160,000 sq metre five-floor modern-art museum has invigorating international exhibitions and the inverted red pyramid building is a modern icon of Shànghǎi; however, the permanent Chinese art collection is prosaic and there's lots of propaganda. Occasional quality surfaces, such as Virgin , (初潮的处女) by Xiang Jing, a moving, tender and comic sculptural work depicting awakening sexuality, while the Shànghǎi and Paris gallery looks absorbingly at the influence of impressionism on Shànghǎi art.
Captions are clumsily translated. From the Shanghai Power Station of Art, hop on bus 1213.
