Chengdu Living

Tang Wu Gang is a young, up and coming artist with a unique style and a flair for armor, oil and good smokes. We take a closer work at the man and his art in this latest installment of Chengdu Artists

Moms across China are taking their bodies and their children back from the clan and the State and trying to create the “village” kids need themselves, through online and offline mama groups.

He Duoling, Chengdu local and co-founder of China’s infamous “Scar Art” movement, is not a surrealist. But he is widely regarded as one of China’s greatest living masters of realism and is creating incredible pieces in Chengdu’s artist sanctuary He Tang Yuese.

We chuckled at the “foreigner only” Tianfu International Complex when it was first announced, but now that the complex is coming online and filling homes, we wonder who gets the last laugh.

Luo Fahui is a painter who started out in a leaky hovel during the 1960s and now lives and works in a beautiful home outside of Chengdu. We take a look at his work, his home and listen to what his contemporaries have to say about Luo’s erotically charged painting.

Buying a home in China might be a great investment, but you can’t be too prepared for catastrophe.

Last night Beijing-based DJ Liman came to Chengdu and got Xiong Mao club rowdy with his costumed performance. Photos inside.

The historic 2011 Panda Electronic Music festival has just concluded. Here are our photos from all three days of the event which featured DJ Shadow.

After a year of absence, Chengdu’s best club is back. Xiong Mao has just opened in the newly constructed Chengdu East Music Park and brings a lot of promise with it.

Last Saturday I attended the Wall Lords graffiti battle in Chengdu, spending the afternoon watching incredible graffiti murals materialize in front of me. For Chengdu’s humble street art scene, this is the stuff of dreams. These are my photos.