It's one of those bleak Beijing days when the smog lies so low that the sky looks like a white canvas about to collapse. Liu Bolin actually prefers it that way. The city's horrendous air quality is perfect for outdoor photos, and the artist, standing ...full story

The India Pavilion at the ongoing Fifth Beijing Biennale art exhibition, Beijing is creating a splash. In a country popular for its vibrant culture and art forms, leading contemporary artistes from India have been drawing huge response for their work ...full story

The outspoken artist, blogger, filmmaker and architect is perhaps best known for helping design the famous "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. Some of the artwork on display includes photos taken of the stadium while ...full story

Driven by the booming Chinese art market, art galleries from many countries, including Pace Beijing, the subsidiary of Pace Wildenstein in the United States, and Raab Galerie in Germany, are exploring business and artistic opportunities in China. The ...full story

New Delhi: The India pavilion at the fifth Beijing Biennale - a sprawling art showcase - in the Chinese capital is drawing young crowd who are eager to know about the contemporary art movements in India, an official of the Lalit Kala Akademi that has ...full story

Few people appreciate more than Rosario Scarpato and Monica Piccioni that like Rome, 798 Art Zone was not built in a day. The two Italians have been closely connected to the now celebrated Beijing venue since 2002, a year after it began to attract ...full story

WASHINGTON — Ai Weiwei, the lionhearted Chinese artist, architect and activist who is having his first American museum survey here at the Hirshhorn, might be the world's most famous living artist. But going by the Hirshhorn show, “Ai Weiwei: According ...full story

HONG KONG — Chinese and international auction houses are encroaching on each other's territory in Hong Kong and Beijing for the first time as they step up the battle for the Asian art market. China Guardian Auctions Co., the country's second biggest ...full story

WASHINGTON -- Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's Olympic Stadium and has since drawn tough scrutiny for his political activism, is opening the first North American retrospective exhibition of his work in Washington. Ai, 55, is barred ...full story

BEIJING—Dissident artist Ai Weiwei says a Chinese government decision to shut down a company controlled by his wife amounts to a likely effort by authorities to "maintain face" in their long-running battle with him. Municipal authorities in Beijing ...full story