I've come here eight times since 2008 [when he exhibited in a group show at the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art in Beijing]. The first time I came I had no idea what it was going to be like. At that time most of my peers, and frankly most of my ...full story

BEIJING (AP) — Outspoken artist Ai Weiwei said Tuesday that Chinese authorities are demanding he pay $2.4 million in back taxes and fines in a new show of government pressure on the dissident detained for nearly three months earlier this year. ...full story

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, currently confined to Beijing, is opening an art exhibit in Taiwan that focuses on the political significance of his inability to attend. The exhibit titled "Ai Weiwei, Absent" debuts at ...full story

This year, 28 percent of family donations were used in education on the Chinese mainland, compared with 32 percent in Hong Kong and 27 percent in Taiwan. In southwestern Guizhou province, 12 billion yuan ($1.87 billion) will be invested in the ...full story

TAIPEI, Taiwan — An art museum in Taiwan plans an exhibition by outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei starting this week. The Taipei Fine Arts Museum said Ai would not attend but did not say why. Ai was detained in April during China's sweeping crackdown ...full story

He has also produced sculptures of Einstein and Gandhi, along with 158 world leaders in politics and arts. Xikun is also the founder and curator of the first private museum in China, the Jin Tai Art Museum in Beijing. A firm believer of cultural ...full story

BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Shanghai's museums are interesting not only for their art, but also their architecture and history. A number have cafes and coffee or a glass of wine goes well with art. Wang Jie explains. A number of Shanghai art ...full story

With the northern autumn auction season under way in New York, London and Hong Kong, records for Chinese works are being broken at a regular clip. Last week, China dominated Sotheby's $411m round of Asian art sales in Hong Kong, while sales for ...full story

It's hard to know what to make of an exhibition called Guanxi: The Art of Conversations at the Today Art Museum in Beijing. The Chinese art scene is a complex network of contacts, rivalries and shifting alliances in which one's participation in any ...full story

Over seventy oil paintings from well-known Chinese artists born in Beijing will be exhibited starting today at the Songzhuang Art Museum in Beijing until Oct. 30. While all of the exhibition's seven artists were born in China's capital, ...full story