In 2008/2009 his work was shown in a major retrospective titled I Want to Believe in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at the ...full story

Meg Maggio, director of Peking Fine Arts in Beijing, said the public should expect to witness more Chinese and foreign-owned corporations collecting higher quality artworks for public spaces to "enhance their corporate profile and public relations ...full story

Beijing's brainpower is complemented by an embarrassment of cultural riches. These include its numerous first-class museums, a plethora of performing arts events and festivals. The latter extend beyond the performing arts, to book fairs and literary ...full story

But on Friday, Ai spoke by phone from Beijing about his artwork, specifically his touring installation “Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads,” which opens Saturday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and runs through February. ...full story

For most people in Northeastern Wisconsin, Beijing's Forbidden City is out of reach. Time, money and distance make the former Chinese imperial palace seem unreachable. For a few more weeks, though, Milwaukee Art Museum offers an extensive display of ...full story

But on Friday, Ai spoke by phone from Beijing about his artwork, specifically his touring installation "Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads," which opens Saturday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and runs through February. ...full story

It's early Friday morning in Beijing and he's agreed to talk by phone about his artwork, specifically his touring installation "Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads" that opens Saturday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. But this is no ordinary art ...full story

Each subject possesses its own inherent drama of scale and density that the Beijing-based Shi does little, compositionally, to enhance or accentuate. He does, however, use a photographic process that lends these scenes remarkable presence. ...full story

In the second location, where Ai was held for 67 days, the artist famed for his work on the "Bird's Nest" Olympic Stadium in Beijing, was watched over by two police officers for 24 hours a day, with their faces often inches from his, watching his every ...full story

BEIJING — Photographer and installation artist Wu Yuren (???), who Hyperallergic profiled last year for his activist work, has returned after a year to visit the 008 and Zhengyang arts districts, both the sites of a heated battle between the arts ...full story