China’s art and entertainment scenes are in flux — emerging voices, boundary-blurring practices, and aesthetics as politics. Together, they form a sharp lens on shifting cultural currents, which we’ll be highlighting throughout the month.
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To celebrate the Year of the Horse, China Post released a set of three stamps featuring “Chu Yu Tu” (Coming out of the Stable), a masterpiece by Yuan Dynasty artist Ren Renfa. The original handscroll, which measures about two meters in length, is now at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Here’s the twist: Ren Renfa did more than just paint. By day, he was a hydraulic engineer overseeing major water projects for the Yuan court. But history remembers him for something else entirely, his meticulous, lifelike horses.
Centuries later, those horses are galloping onto envelopes and postcards across China. Not bad for a side hustle.
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To celebrate the Year of the Horse, China Post released a set of three stamps featuring “Chu Yu Tu” (Coming out of the Stable), a masterpiece by Yuan Dynasty artist Ren Renfa. The original handscroll, which measures about two meters in length, is now at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Here’s the twist: Ren Renfa did more than just paint. By day, he was a hydraulic engineer overseeing major water projects for the Yuan court. But history remembers him for something else entirely, his meticulous, lifelike horses.
Centuries later, those horses are galloping onto envelopes and postcards across China. Not bad for a side hustle.
#Radiimedia #Radii #YearOfTheHorse #RenRenfa #ChineseArt
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Michael Wolf spent over 20 years walking Hong Kong’s streets. But instead of photographing people, he looked at what they left behind.
“Lost Laundry,” his final book in the Informal Solutions series, captures something most of us walk past without noticing: clothes blown off lines by the wind, draped over wires, tangled on rooftops, clinging to billboards. It’s accidental art, scattered across the city.
Wolf saw beauty in these moments, the way a stray sock or a forgotten shirt could tell a story about the people below, even when they weren’t in the frame.
Published by @buchkunstberlin, this is the last chapter of his decades-long visual diary of Hong Kong’s back alleys. A quiet tribute to the city’s vernacular charm, and a reminder that sometimes the best stories aren’t staged, they’re just… left hanging.
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Michael Wolf spent over 20 years walking Hong Kong’s streets. But instead of photographing people, he looked at what they left behind.
“Lost Laundry,” his final book in the Informal Solutions series, captures something most of us walk past without noticing: clothes blown off lines by the wind, draped over wires, tangled on rooftops, clinging to billboards. It’s accidental art, scattered across the city.
Wolf saw beauty in these moments, the way a stray sock or a forgotten shirt could tell a story about the people below, even when they weren’t in the frame.
Published by @buchkunstberlin, this is the last chapter of his decades-long visual diary of Hong Kong’s back alleys. A quiet tribute to the city’s vernacular charm, and a reminder that sometimes the best stories aren’t staged, they’re just… left hanging.
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Artist Wu Jianan (@wujian_an ) collaborates with @wmagchina for the February Art Issue, reading Dior SS26 Haute Couture as layers of quiet motion: forms that bloom like seeds held inside their shells, weightless yet full of structure.
Those plants, those winged creatures, they recall the ancient gods of Chinese mythology. Beings born from the union of human and nature, dancing between sky and water. Through paper cutting, the simplest material holds depth, light, and air.
When traditional Chinese folk craft meets high fashion, it doesn’t disappear into the background. In Wu Jianan’s hands, shadow puppetry and paper cutting step back into history, and straight into the future.
>> Click the link in bio to read the full story.
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Artist Wu Jianan (@wujian_an ) collaborates with @wmagchina for the February Art Issue, reading Dior SS26 Haute Couture as layers of quiet motion: forms that bloom like seeds held inside their shells, weightless yet full of structure.
Those plants, those winged creatures, they recall the ancient gods of Chinese mythology. Beings born from the union of human and nature, dancing between sky and water. Through paper cutting, the simplest material holds depth, light, and air.
When traditional Chinese folk craft meets high fashion, it doesn’t disappear into the background. In Wu Jianan’s hands, shadow puppetry and paper cutting step back into history, and straight into the future.
>> Click the link in bio to read the full story.
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“Have you ever saved a fox with a spicy salted duck in the snow?”
“Yes! Are you that fox?”
“No, I’m the duck you abandoned. Die!”
Without any professional production, Saving the Fox in the Snow (a Chinese AI short drama shot in a Shaw Brothers aesthetic) has taken over the entire internet.
In traditional Chinese dramas, a scholar saves a fox in a snowstorm and she repays him with love. This time the camera pans, it wasn’t the fox who transformed. It was the duck. Frozen all winter, gained sentience, and now it wants blood.
Leave firewood? The firewood complains. Leave a bomb? The bomb holds a grudge. This never-ending story has become a blank template handed to the entire internet...an open-source meme universe with no end in sight.
Would you leave that spicy salted duck there?
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“Have you ever saved a fox with a spicy salted duck in the snow?”
“Yes! Are you that fox?”
“No, I’m the duck you abandoned. Die!”
Without any professional production, Saving the Fox in the Snow (a Chinese AI short drama shot in a Shaw Brothers aesthetic) has taken over the entire internet.
In traditional Chinese dramas, a scholar saves a fox in a snowstorm and she repays him with love. This time the camera pans, it wasn’t the fox who transformed. It was the duck. Frozen all winter, gained sentience, and now it wants blood.
Leave firewood? The firewood complains. Leave a bomb? The bomb holds a grudge. This never-ending story has become a blank template handed to the entire internet...an open-source meme universe with no end in sight.
Would you leave that spicy salted duck there?
#RadiiMedia #Radii #AIShortDrama #ChineseInternet #SavingTheFox
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What if a city could hold different versions of you? For Bandung-based musician, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker Putt April (@putt.april), it does. Every spot on his map is a place where a specific mood, chapter, or version of himself lives.
It begins at Porches and Ivy, his “first baby”, a simple space he built after years of hiding, now a front porch for coffee and new conversations. Then Homer Coffee, his second home, where his whole ego is on display: the coffee, the talk, the music. Always welcome.
There’s Warteg Dago Pojok, where homesickness meets the simplicity of a meal that almost tastes like his mother’s cooking. And beyond Bandung, his map extends to Kios Ojo Keos in Jakarta and Studio Macan in Bali, each one a thread in the fabric of his creative life.
This is an invitation into the rooms where Putt April has lived, worked, and become himself.
Follow @RADII_media for more ultimate city guides across Asia.
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What if a city could hold different versions of you? For Bandung-based musician, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker Putt April (@putt.april), it does. Every spot on his map is a place where a specific mood, chapter, or version of himself lives.
It begins at Porches and Ivy, his “first baby”, a simple space he built after years of hiding, now a front porch for coffee and new conversations. Then Homer Coffee, his second home, where his whole ego is on display: the coffee, the talk, the music. Always welcome.
There’s Warteg Dago Pojok, where homesickness meets the simplicity of a meal that almost tastes like his mother’s cooking. And beyond Bandung, his map extends to Kios Ojo Keos in Jakarta and Studio Macan in Bali, each one a thread in the fabric of his creative life.
This is an invitation into the rooms where Putt April has lived, worked, and become himself.
Follow @RADII_media for more ultimate city guides across Asia.
#RADIImedia #Radii #Bandung #Indonesia #CityGuide
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