Shanghai is a historic port which first opened up to foreign trade more than 100 years ago. It is therefore fitting that the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM)—a government-affiliated museum inaugurated in the former Royal Asiatic Society building in 2010—recently put up a major solo exhibition of an artist who is not of Chinese origin. “Misdemeanours” is both a survey of Indian artist Bharti Kher’s 15-year solo practice and a series of new site-specific works. The exhibition showcases her highly receptive nature in response to the everyday environment.

The Speech Writer by New Delhi and Karachi-based Pakistani artist, Bani Abidi, is a fictional account of a day in the life of a retired political speechwriter, in ten sequential flipbooks. Snugly encased in a rectangular yellow box, each of the palm-sized books, devoid of text, speaks to the fallibility of language.

The recently held Art Camp (12/25-30) was curated by artists Satadru Savon Bhanduri and Shawon Akand, who invited 30 artists from five South Asian countries (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka) to participate. The five-day long residency was held in the village of Rahimpur in Kushtia (a south-western district of Bangladesh).