Over 170 strangers gathered at the Today Art Museum in Beijing the night before Valentine's day to hold one another in tender embrace as part of a social experiment. Some of the participants hugged it out for several minutes talking about their past ...full story

A museum in Norway will later this year return to China seven marble columns that were looted by foreign troops from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, according to the museum and a mainland company said to have helped broker the deal. The columns ...full story

Natasha Dragun revels in the transformation of Beijing's former manufacturing hub into a creative hotspot. The first time I visited Beijing's 798 Art District in 2002, I spent two hours getting there in a smoke-filled taxi, my driver - completely lost ...full story

Both men are avid collectors of socialist art and icons, and recognised the potential of interpreting, on canvas, a Chinese socialist utopia with North Korean characteristics. They sketched some ideas and gathered photos of Beijing's most striking ...full story

Philip Tinari, director of the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing's 798 Art District, has recently been busy working with 17 mainland art galleries to prepare for The Amory Show in New York in March, one of the largest art fairs in the ...full story

With thousands of sheets of paper, Mr. Li, who lives and works in Beijing, has expanded on the techniques used in paper-based folk art and the traditional Chinese paper toys he grew up with. “Tools of Study,” his first solo U.S. exhibition which runs ...full story

The "Spirit Vision – Visually Impaired Art Exhibition" was held in Beijing from January 17 to 19, to show the flourishing life of visually handicapped people and their pursuit of happiness. Jointly sponsored by the China Welfare Fund for the ...full story

With a selection of 58 vivid paintings and 10 sculptures, international artist Ana Tzarev from Croatia has transformed Beijing's Today Art Museum into Wonderland, a larger-than-life garden of art. This is Ana's third exhibition in China, which runs ...full story

When Lorenzo Rudolf launched Art Stage Singapore in 2011, it quickly became one of the most-hyped events in the region, thanks to backing by local authorities and the presence of quality galleries drawn from the address book of Mr. Rudolf, former ...full story

Liu Bee-chi has visited annual art fair Art Beijing every year since she settled in Beijing in 2008, but it wasn't until 2011 that she bought the first piece of her art collection: a painting by Japanese artist Yoshio Suzuki. "I've spent a lot of time ...full story