While the "red" - themed film Beginning of the Great Revival has made most of the headlines over the past weeks, three red art exhibitions running at Beijing's major museums have also drawn crowds. The exhibitions are being displayed simultaneously at ...full story
Beijing has demanded Ai pay $1.85 million in taxes and fines. Some in the art world have wondered if the market value of Ai's work might rise with his newfound global fame as a symbol of China's tight grip on dissent, which has seen the detention and ...full story
BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition of fine art opened in Beijing on Monday to commemorate the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which falls on July 1. A total of 379 works of art, of which more ...full story
We liked the video and we decided to include this work in the group exhibition we curated at the Today Art Museum in Beijing (China) in August 2010. TM: In the recent solo show of Matthias Fitz at Art Claims Impulse, entitled Re-Creation of an Unstable ...full story
The latest series is part of his 'The Invisible Man' exhibition Bolin added he was further spurred into pursuing his line of work after the Chinese authorities shut down his art studio in Beijing in 2005. He said: 'At that time, contemporary art was in ...full story
Just ask the Chinese curator who was questioned by authorities after putting Ai Weiwei's name under a blank wall in Beijing's Incident Art Festival. While Beijing's lively art scene might currently be scrubbed clean of Ai Weiwei's work, ...full story
Just ask the Chinese curator who was questioned by authorities after putting Ai Weiwei's name under a blank wall in Beijing's Incident Art Festival. While Beijing's lively art scene might currently be scrubbed clean of Ai Weiwei's work, ...full story
A waiter is reflected in a mirror as he pours Scotch whisky from luxury brand Royal Salute into glasses at a launch ceremony for the release of the '62 Gun Salute' series in central Beijing December 6, 2010. By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) ...full story
One week ago, the kids' teacher was telling them somberly about the plight of the artist, who had been in custody since Chinese authorities arrested him at Beijing's airport on April 3. On Wednesday Ai was released, much to the relief of the global art ...full story
He was born in Jiangsu Province and studied at the National Art School in Hangzhou and in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He returned to China and taught at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in Beijing, but was exiled to ...full story
