Artist opens subversive supermarket in Shanghai

The Chinese artist Xu Zhen has taken his Xu Zhen Supermarket project to the streets of Shanghai—to the bewilderment of many a Chinese granny. The conceptual art supermarket, which has “Fill the void” as its sales slogan, is a spot-on recreation of China’s ubiquitous mini-marts, peddling soft drinks and booze, junk food, cigarettes, condoms, and other familiar products. All of the branded packages have been emptied of their products, however. On Friday, 8 April, the store