BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- What was China's hottest investment market in 2011? No, it wasn't stocks or apartments. It was art. Driven by speculative capital fleeing the country's turbulent stock market and a cooling real-estate sector, the art market ...full story

By Cao Yin (China Daily) BEIJING - A TV station in Hunan province has rung in the new year to the sound of controversy. Hunan Satellite TV, which displayed artwork behind a singer during the New Year's Eve program, did so without the artist's knowledge ...full story

A police surveillance camera mounted to a lamppost on a quiet suburban road in Beijing has one target: the turquoise door to the home of the artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The camera was installed two years ago, as Ai's blogging, tweeting, and art ...full story

... National Museum in Beijing. Reproductions of his bold ink paintings of horses have been issued as postage stamps. Video in the exhibition shows Chinese schoolchildren reading aloud from a biography of the artist that appears in their textbook. ...full story

By Yao Chun (People's Daily Online) Beijing, Dec.19 --The fifth Family Day of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art was held on Dec. 17. This half-day parent-child interactive activity contained two parts. The first part was called Mega Mural, ...full story

"The story of the last decade is the increasing dominance of Chinese buyers at Chinese art auctions," said New York dealer James Lally. "When one attends auctions in London or New York or Hong Kong, one tends to see the same faces, and see the same ...full story

A Chinese artist has created a gallery of 1600 tacky, pink-hued, currency-colored portraits to make sure they are not forgotten. By Bo Gu, NBC News BEIJING – Zhang Bingjian's art studio in the northern suburb of Beijing looks like a simple one. ...full story

Embassy compound in Beijing, there is an ever-lengthening waiting list to join the weekly tours. The visitors gaze at the vast ceramic wall installation by artist Betty Woodman and, among other works, Jeff Koons' oversize, balloonlike “Tulips” floating ...full story

During regular visits to Beijing, billionaire businessman Guy Ullens became intrigued by contemporary Chinese art, a fascination that developed into founding the personally funded Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. ...full story

"The exhibition is intended to give Portuguese audiences a comprehensive idea about Chinese ink art," Chinese Artists Association chairman Liu Dawei says. Liu's organization, Beijing's Rongbaozhai Art Store and the Chinese Embassy to Portugal in Lisbon ...full story