Beijing-based art critic Carol Lu is equally sceptical: "A government drive to promote culture means we will have more physical features of cultural development. There will be a boom in large-scale galleries and other art spaces but this does not ... full story
These will include walks of Tiananmen Square and the 798 Art District in Beijing, as well as the Bund and Shanghai Museum in Shanghai. Alongside these will be a series of focused, thematic walks, for which the organization is well-known. ... full story
Through it all, Chinese contemporary art was coming of age. An exhibition, now seen as seminal, called China/Avant-Garde, was held at the National Academy of Arts in Beijing in 1989, although the authorities quickly intervened when an artist, Xiao Lu, ... full story
The Beijing World Art Museum is staging an oil painting group show entitled Academic Spirit to Greet the New Year. On display are more than 100 works by 30 young and middle-aged artists, including Ma Gang, He Wenqing, Yang Cheng, Wang Jian and He ... full story
... now based in North Antrim, at the exhibition in China. It is part of the Irish Wave 3 series, which takes place in arts venues in Shanghai and Beijing. It will celebrate contemporary Irish culture and Ireland's burgeoning links with China.and more »full story
By Katya Kazakina Zhang Daqian's “Lotus and Mandarin Ducks'' was sold for $24.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong in May. The world auction market's top earner in recent years must yield to Chinese artist Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), ... full story
He shows acquaintances cellphone images of his art the way others pull up snapshots of their children. More often than not, he turns up at black-tie dinners dressed in a polo shirt, black corduroys, and sneakers. In Hong Kong, he socializes with ... full story
Among the exhibitors are major galleries from Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Seoul, Beijing, Jakarta, Tokyo, Sydney, Taipei, Mumbai, as well as well-known dealers from Europe and the US such as Eigen + Art, White Cube, and Lehmann Maupin. ... full story
“They have approximately 190000 works of Chinese painting and calligraphy,” said Eichman, curator of Asian art, in describing the holdings of the Palace Museum in Beijing, known also as the Forbidden City. The exhibit comprises 56 paintings never ... full story
BEIJING — Chinese authorities agreed Thursday to review a fine imposed on a firm linked to controversial artist Ai Weiwei, who has said the $2.4 million penalty is an effort by the government to stifle his activism. "They have two months to review the ... full story
