Asia Contemporary Art Week expanded: from September 8 to November 18 New York followers can visit cutting-edge exhibitions, performances, and discussions at leading museums and galleries citywide.

For Arthub’s Northern comrades, check out “Independent Art Spaces Beijing” full program, including exhibitions, performances, concerts, screenings and lectures, all happening this week.

L-Art Gallery will present the group exhibition “Illusion of Reality” from August 20 to October 16. Showcasing artists Ma Haijiao, Wu Ding, Xu Bacheng, and Ye Funa’s artworks.

OCAT Shanghai will present Guo Xi and Zhang Jianling’s exhibition “The Grand Voyage: A Man Upside Down” from August 20 to October 20, which showcases the duo’s experiences during their 86-day trip sea.

Auditions for Lee Mingwei’s “Our Labyrinth” (presenting at the 11th Shanghai Biennale) will take place on the 3F Theater of Power Station of Art on Thursday/Friday September 1 & 2. RSVP required.

Taiwan Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale: Tehching Hsieh as the sole artist, will represent Taiwan with an exhibition to be curated by Adrian Heathfield.

This week Arthub would like to recommend artist Hai Bo from Changchun and his new solo exhibition “Northern Series” at Pace Hong Kong. The artist’s works use the theme of family to convey the vast, desolate northern wilderness he calls home, and disassociated people who pass over its yellow soil.

Arthub would like to introduce Michele Ciacciofera’s solo exhibition “Enchanted Nature, Revisited”, opening at CAFA Art Museum next Tuesday, July 26. The artist explains in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist that, “our identity is the history of the generations that preceded us, written and told in and by the system of tangible and imaginary symbols that represent it.”