Beijing

Sounds of youth

The Second Young Concert Artists Festival, Beijing, will be staged at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in late June. Performers include Huang Chufang from China on piano, Bella Hristova from Bulgaria on violin, Jan-Erik Gustafsson from Finland on cello, and Americans Nokuthula Ngwenyama and Todd Palmer on viola and clarinet.

The program covers the chamber works of Beethoven, Debussy, Mozart, Ravel, Chopin, Brahms and Mendelssohn.

On June 26, French pianist Jean Efflam Bavouzet will perform with young musicians.

7:30 pm, June 23, 25, 26. Forbidden City Concert Hall in Zhongshan Park, northwest of Tian'anmen Square. 010-6559-8285

Thinking inside the box

Today Art Museum is hosting a video exhibition of eight works by as many international artists, including Cao Fei and Wang Jianwei from China.

Their works are shown in the H BOX, a collapsible screening room designed by architect Didier Faustino.

The H Box travels the world with a selection of works updated annually. To date, 21 videos have been produced and screened in major museums and art centers in Europe and North America.

10 am-5:30 pm, until July 11. Today Art Museum, 2/F, 32 Baiziwanlu, Chaoyang district. 010-5876-0600

TV on canvas

Central Academy of Fine Arts veteran Chen Xi is staging her solo show, featuring 18 of her serial oil paintings of TV sets showing historic moments in modern China.

Chen says she "is trying to record how mainstream media, such as China Central Television, forms the Chinese people's collective memories".

Also on show are installations with projected texts and old TV sets, screening TV program clips and documentaries about historic moments and cultural icons.

9 am-5 pm, until June 20, except Mondays. National Art Museum of China, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng district. 010-6401-7076

Veneer of Vermeer

Jin Shangyi, a 77-year-old veteran oil painter and educator, is holding his solo show Compliments.

This academic exhibition focuses on three paintings completed in 2010, inspired by the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632-75). These pictures are reproductions of famous works by Vermeer that Jin has modified to express his own perspective on contemporary life, he says.

9 am- 5pm, until July 3. Cafa Art Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, 8 Huajiadi Nanjie, Chaoyang district. 010-6477-1575

Ode to liberation

A grand art exhibition is being held to mark the 60th anniversary of the Tibet autonomous region's peaceful liberation. On show are 215 ink paintings, oil works, prints and folk art works Chinese artists have created since the 1930s.

9 am-4 pm, until June 29. Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, 9 Fuxing Lu, Haidian district. 010-6686-6244

Shanghai

Tune of revolution

The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra will present symphonies by Chinese composer Lu Qiming under the baton of Wang Yongji. Popular songs and music from revolutionary movies will also be played. The concert is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

7:15 pm, June 26. Shanghai Grand Theater, 300 Renmin Dadao, Huangpu district. 021-6386-8686

Sacred spots

The artistically exceptional Lithuanian couple Svajone and Paulius Stanikas live and work in Paris. The Stanikas present the exhibition Altars, which blends Renaissance and contemporary styles in its paintings, photographs and the couple's autobiographical video, Inferno. The use of monochrome alludes to the semantics of the sacred notion of an altar.

10 am-6 pm, June 11-July 10. The Other Gallery, 101 Building 9, 50 Moganshan Lu. 021-3353-2273

All that glitters

The 2011 Shanghai International Jewelry Exhibition will run through the weekend. It's an opportunity for jewelry makers, wholesalers, retailers and designers to cooperate and develop.

9 am-5 pm, June 16-19. Shanghai New International Exhibition Center, 2345 Longyang Lu, Pudong New Area. 021-6587-6481

Digital doings

Ink painters Nan Xi and Cai Guangbin have created a series of paintings inspired by digital art. They say the show is intended to initiate links between traditional ink art and modern techniques.

9 am-5 pm, until June 20. Shanghai Art Museum, 325 Nanjing Xilu. 021-6327-2829

Art show hits the road

After 12 days on show in Beijing, the 2011 Martell Artists of the Year exhibition will move on to the Shanghai Art Museum. The show features dozens of works by five award-winning artists. They are conceptual sculptor Sui Jianguo; oil painter Li Songsong, who retraces historical memory; photographer Hai Bo, who captures historical change; and art, fashion and portrait photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

After Shanghai, the show will travel to the Guangdong Museum of Art.

9 am-5 pm, July 15-28. Shanghai Art Museum, 325 Nanjing Xilu. 021-6327-2829