Host of the 2008 Olympic games, Beijing is the cultural and economic center of China. In the recent years, the art market has expanded rapidly with growing interest worldwide as well as among domestic Chinese collectors. Artworks at CIGE came from five ... full story
South East Asia vibrant contemporary art scene also emerges as great protagonist at CIGE, with the participation of 7 galleries from Indonesia, 2 from the Philippines, 1 from Singapore, and 1 from India. In 2009 CIGE widens its artistic horizons ... full story
The fourth Affordable Art Beijing (AAB) will be held in The Orange in The Village at Sanlitun, Beijing from May 30 to 31 2009. The AAB was founded in 2006 by Tom Pattinson and Tamsin Roberts to give art lovers the chance to buy their own unique work of ... full story
Now an exhibition paying tribute to the family's artistic achievements is being held at the Poly Art Museum in Beijing. It has attracted many art lovers across generations. Playwright Wu Zuguang and Pingju opera performer Xin Fangxia have been famous ... full story
... images have been taken, many to be exhibited in public for the first time. After visiting four cities across China, starting in Beijing at the Beijing World Art Museum this week, the organisers say the exhibition will come to Liverpool early next year.full story
The manipulation of the contemporary art market has lessons in it for investors in all sectors of the Chinese economy. BEIJING -- China has endured multiple market collapses in the last year, but perhaps none can teach us more about the perils of ... full story
The Beijing artist photographed light fixtures in various government and corporate boardrooms and presents their after-image. These deceptively simple images provoke all sorts of associations. Decor as one of the trappings of power. ... full story
But few people in the art world here are lamenting the end of an overheated era. "Chinese artists were seen as ATMs," says Jerome Sans, director of the nonprofit Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. "Maybe now they'll stop creating for the ... full story
Art offers a haven from traditional investments; in Asia, stocks have fallen as much as a third in the past six months because of the credit crisis, the MSCI Asia Pacific Index shows. “Buyers are looking for value,” said Tian Kai, a Beijing- based art ... full story
Morris erupted onto the art scene in the mid-’90s with glossy abstract canvases and stylish films that mined the urban landscape for their source material. Her studio is in the Starrett-Lehigh building, a landmark of modernist industrial architecture ... full story
