https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/category/art-and-culture-events/Stories from Xiang Li Arten-UShttps://www.xiangliart.com/blog/art-family-and-community-opening-the-chinese-empresses-exhibition-at-wellesley-free-library/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/art-family-and-community-opening-the-chinese-empresses-exhibition-at-wellesley-free-library/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:21:00 GMTOn Monday, July 20, 2026, we welcomed approximately 25–30 visitors to the opening reception of Xiang Li Art’s Chinese Empresses exhibition at Wellesley Free Library.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/multisensory-art-experience-at-creative-hub-worcester/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/multisensory-art-experience-at-creative-hub-worcester/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:44:25 GMTOn Saturday June 13, 2026, we returned to Creative Hub Worcester for an afternoon that brought together original silk paintings, personal stories, hands-on creativity, fragrance, jewelry, books, and plenty of joyful experimentation.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/multi-sensory-chinese-empress-experience-at-jmac/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/multi-sensory-chinese-empress-experience-at-jmac/Sun, 24 May 2026 04:41:40 GMTOn Thursday, May 21, we gathered at JMAC in Worcester for the opening reception of my mom Xiang Li’s newest solo exhibition, Multi-Sensory Chinese Empress Art and Culture Experience.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/when-fashion-becomes-a-canvas-met-gala-2026/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/when-fashion-becomes-a-canvas-met-gala-2026/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:40:39 GMTIntroduction Every year, the Met Gala produces spectacle. There is drama, excess, commentary, performance. But every once in a while, amidst the flash of celebrity culture, something deeper emerges.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/davis-museum-immortalizing-magu/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/davis-museum-immortalizing-magu/Tue, 05 May 2026 03:18:40 GMTOn April 8, 2026, we had the honor of attending “Immortalizing Magu: The Conservation of a Chinese Painting” at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-art-creative-hub-worcester/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-art-creative-hub-worcester/Tue, 05 May 2026 02:39:19 GMTThere are some moments that feel bigger than one event, one evening, or even one exhibition. The opening reception of The Creative Hub Worcester was one of those moments.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-at-labcentral-in-kendall-square/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-at-labcentral-in-kendall-square/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:25:39 GMTIntroduction There is something quietly beautiful about arriving at the end of something. Not at the opening, when the room is full and the energy is outward.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/creative-sector-day-at-the-massachusetts-state-house/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/creative-sector-day-at-the-massachusetts-state-house/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:57:19 GMTOn March 3, 2026 my partner Adam Leffert and I had the honor of representing Xiang Li’s Chinese Empresses art at Creative Sector Day, organized by MassCreative at the Massachusetts State House.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-at-labcentrals-gallery-1832/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-at-labcentrals-gallery-1832/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:17:42 GMTWhen people think of Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they think of biotechnology, research labs, and startups working on the future of medicine.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/lunar-new-year-at-the-worcester-art-museum-2026/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/lunar-new-year-at-the-worcester-art-museum-2026/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:20:15 GMTOn February 16, 2026, we had the joy of returning to the Worcester Art Museum for our second consecutive Lunar New Year celebration. Each year feels different.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-xiang-li-lunar-new-year-2026/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-xiang-li-lunar-new-year-2026/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:32:06 GMTOn February 19, 2026, my mother and artist Xiang Li, and I had the privilege of presenting her artwork at the Lunar New Year Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/art-is-love-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-performance/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/art-is-love-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-performance/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:14:35 GMTThere are moments when art stops being something you visit and becomes something you feel in your body.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/phoenix-art-museum-cloisonne/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/phoenix-art-museum-cloisonne/Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:55:07 GMTIntroduction I didn’t expect Phoenix, Arizona to give me a deeper connection to China’s imperial past, but that’s exactly what happened.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/discovering-chinese-art-at-davis-museum/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/discovering-chinese-art-at-davis-museum/Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:50:17 GMTWalking through the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, I didn’t feel like I was simply visiting a gallery.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/tatnuck-bookseller/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/tatnuck-bookseller/Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:41:42 GMTThis past Saturday, December 13, we had the joy of hosting a community art event at Tatnuck Bookseller, a place that feels less like a bookstore and more like a living room for Worcester’s creative soul.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/reflections-on-xiang-lis-2025-exhibition-at-the-new-england-botanic-garden/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/reflections-on-xiang-lis-2025-exhibition-at-the-new-england-botanic-garden/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:14:52 GMTThe summer and fall of 2025—when Xiang Li’s Chinese Empresses collection came to life among the gardens, ponds, and winding paths of the New England Botanic Garden—was one of those seasons.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-art-tatnuck-bookseller/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-art-tatnuck-bookseller/Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:05:09 GMTAfter wrapping up our exhibition at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, we were eager to find a new home for several of Xiang Li’s empress paintings.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-art-featured-at-mechanics-halls-club-321/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/xiang-li-art-featured-at-mechanics-halls-club-321/Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:42:41 GMTOn October 9, 2025, Xiang Li Art had the honor of being featured at Mechanics Hall’s Club 321 concert series in Worcester, Massachusetts — a one-of-a-kind evening that brings…https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/how-to-curate-a-successful-solo-art-exhibit/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/how-to-curate-a-successful-solo-art-exhibit/Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:47:24 GMTI recently wrapped up one of the most exciting projects of my life: helping my mom (artist Xiang Li) produce and curate her solo art exhibition at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Massachusetts.https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/chinese-empresses-coffee-table-book/https://www.xiangliart.com/blog/chinese-empresses-coffee-table-book/Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:00:48 GMTThere are times when I feel I know an artwork well. I’ve browsed the artwork online, lingered over the images, even written about them.