The Beijing artist photographed light fixtures in various government and corporate boardrooms and presents their after-image. These deceptively simple images provoke all sorts of associations. Decor as one of the trappings of power. ...full story

Art offers a haven from traditional investments; in Asia, stocks have fallen as much as a third in the past six months because of the credit crisis, the MSCI Asia Pacific Index shows. “Buyers are looking for value,” said Tian Kai, a Beijing- based art ...full story

But few people in the art world here are lamenting the end of an overheated era. "Chinese artists were seen as ATMs," says Jerome Sans, director of the nonprofit Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. "Maybe now they'll stop creating for the ...full story

... of Czech artists to visit Beijing. Sklenar took an instant liking to Chinese culture and history, and continued to create works featuring the country. An ensemble showing of Sklenar's works opened at the National Art Museum of China on Saturday. ...full story

Morris erupted onto the art scene in the mid-’90s with glossy abstract canvases and stylish films that mined the urban landscape for their source material. Her studio is in the Starrett-Lehigh building, a landmark of modernist industrial architecture ...full story

At the same auction last year, a 1995 Zhang painting sold for HK$47.4 million, a record for the artist. “They are more reasonably priced,” said Sandra Walters, a Hong Kong-based collector who runs a namesake art-consulting company. ...full story

Another £5 million was spent to make it safe Eating babies Channel 4 showed the controversial documentary Beijing Swings in 2002. It depicted Zhu Yu eating a baby’s body and a couple smearing the dead bodies of Siamese twins with their blood.full story

By Le-Min Lim April 6 (Bloomberg) -- A work by I Nyoman Masriadi was the top lot yesterday in Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction -- at a price that was a fifth of the record for the artist set last year. Art dealers said demand was being held back by economic ...full story

"Contemporary Ink Art Evolution," organized by Ping Jie, curator of the REC Foundation in New York, has already appeared in a larger version at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, and RAAB Galerie, Berlin. The show will continue its tour at the ...full story

By Ralph Jennings TAIPEI (Reuters) - Chinese tourists eager to see art treasures heisted from China decades ago have swamped a famed Taiwan museum, forcing it to deploy crowd-control measures and fuelling a huge expansion. As many as 15000 visitors per ...full story