A number of Iranian and Chinese art and cultural figures including director of Mass Art Xia Ing and Consul General of Iran in Shanghai Mohammad-Hadi Sobhani attended the opening ceremony, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Friday. Speaking at the ... full story
The leading British/American abstract artist, Sean Scully will have a major museum exhibition in China to coincide with the Shanghai Biennale this year. Dai Zhikang, founder of the Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, has announced that it will host the ... full story
The exhibition, which is being jointly organized by Tix Media and the K11 Art Foundation, is one of a series of events planned to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and France. All of the artworks in the K11 show are on ... full story
Noah Horowitz, executive director of The Armory Show, said that the exhibition dubbed as Armory Focus: China "ultimately aims to demonstrate that China is not just a site for great new art, but a place where current art world models are being made and ... full story
When asked why he was willing to spend huge sums to establish a private art museum in Shanghai, Chinese-Indonesian agribusiness entrepreneur and art collector Budi Tek (Yu Deyao) replied with a well-known saying of Confucius: Zhiqi bukewei erweizhi ... full story
The paintings will arrive in Shanghai a week from now and go on display from March 8th to June 15th in a two-thousand square-meter space decorated to look like the garden at Monet's old apartment. Organizers say the budget for the exhibition is more ... full story
... Li's second visit to meet the students. The exhibition's curator, Shanghai-based art critic Wang Nanming, said that Li's works, featuring a minimalist style influenced by pop art, do not merely represent personal expression, but also engage with a ... full story
“In India, art is very pure. The artist works very hard to bring out what he feels. But in Beijing and Shanghai, art is sometimes like business,” says Chinese artist Zhu Jing Yi. “I visited galleries in Mumbai and saw some very interesting modern art ... full story
Dilwyn Lloyd, a Shanghai-based British artist and teacher who organizes regular art classes for small groups of kids, told the Global Times that he was passionate about art education for children not from a personal business perspective, but because he ... full story
These include Waling Boers, Dutch co-founder of Boers-Li Gallery in Beijing and Lise Li, the owner of Vanguard Gallery in Shanghai — both known for promoting avant garde art from China and elsewhere. Then there are Wong Shun-kit, executive director of ... full story
