If modern artists have taught us anything, it’s that art is about more than pretty pictures. Our fifth exhibition, Beyond the Frame, thrillingly illustrates just how much more that can be.

The works on show transcend frames and frameworks of every kind: window and picture frames, national borders, the confines of tradition, conventions about tools and techniques, the line between photography and animation—even the distinction between visual art and comedy.

As jazz musician Charlie Parker once said: “Man, there’s no boundary line to art.”

Among the highlights:

    * Dong Yuan’s meticulous paintings of the views from 42 windows of a Beijing apartment building

    * a pathway of oil puddles recreated in porcelain by dissident Ai Weiwei

    * Liu Di’s surreal photographs of gigantic animals squatting in suburbia

    * photographs of inmates in Burmese prison camps by Lu Nan

    * a stop-frame video filmed in a French village by Luxury Logico

    * a wood sculpture still in touch with its roots by Song Jianshu

    * Tsong Pu’s abstract painting made with traditional signature stamps

    * Xie Molin’s stunning 3D painting, created with a machine engineered by the artist.

We’re open Thursday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Come along and enjoy the show—it’s free!