By Arts Online Ai Weiwei's Beijing studio is surrounded by mysterious construction and at least two security cameras are nearby. (CBC News) Even before arriving at the home of one China's most celebrated activists, there were rules to follow.Ai Weiwei's "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold&full story

Chinese artist Li Wei dressed himself as a monk to 'fly' above the Fontaine of Lyons at La Villette in Paris. The renowned photographer even has red smoke pouring from his shoes to add to the effect. The Beijing-born artist suspended himself in the air ...full story

In this sociopolitical tradition stands the work of the Beijing-based artist Liu Bolin, who employs photography as a means to explore the Chinese national identity while silently protesting its government. His series Hiding in the City was born out of ...full story

By Chris Michaud | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new exhibit of works by American artist Andrew Wyeth is set to open next month in a land where the master realist exerted some of his greatest influence -- China. The exhibit of more than 30 works by the ...full story

BEIJING — It almost wouldn't be a real Chinese art opening without security officials barging in and ordering paintings off the wall. By that yardstick alone, the Saturday opening of Bald Girls, a feminist art show in the 798 arts district of Beijing, ...full story

Myanmar's painters and gallery owners expect a blossoming art market as more outsiders engage with the country. The major US stock averages are back to where they were at 2008 levels, before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but investors remain wary of ...full story

The bearded and burly Ai, 54, has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States and last year was named the world's most powerful artist by Britain's Art Review magazine. He helped design the futuristic Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Beijing ...full story

These 10000 objects were accumulated over five decades by Zhao Xiangyuan, the mother of conceptual artist Song Dong. It took nearly a fortnight for Song and his family to arrange them in the Barbican – creating this latest iteration of Waste Not.full story

By Wang Jie BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai has around 16 private museums and most are faltering. The successful ones are mainly industrial museums backed by industries such as textiles and banking. Wang Jie investigates.and more »full story

BEIJING--Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has criticized the Chinese government, accusing rulers of "manipulating the public for their own interests" and criticized Beijing's patriotic education during peacetime as "sinful." In an interview with The ...full story