BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Swatch Group recently announced the opening of The Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. The watchmaker has rebuilt and transformed the southern building of the Peace Hotel into an art center. A special committee will ... full story
By Sophie Wang BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- In the view of painter Cao Pei'an, trying to combine Eastern and Western art is folly. The Chinese artist who has lived in Belgium for around 20 years is holding a solo exhibition of 70 watercolors and ... full story
For Zhang Huan's largest solo exhibition to date at the reopened Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, the venerable Chinese artist decides to tackle the future of his home country with "Q Confucius." "Q Confucius" is Zhang's thought-provoking examination ... full story
While some observers think the art bubble is about to burst, many experts consider it a normal correction to the market. The autumn auction season brought in 40 billion yuan ($6.3 billion) to the 219 auction companies tracked by Beijing-based Art ... full story
WHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: Over the short life of contemporary Chinese artist Chen Zhen — he died from an autoimmune disease in 2000 at the age of 45 — the artist created a body of work intimately connected to his Chinese roots ... full story
Once best known for finance and business, Shanghai is increasingly gaining an international reputation for its burgeoning artistic communities and homegrown talents. Abstract artist Ding Yi, painter-sculptor Zhang Huan, and photographer Ma Liang are ... full story
A visitor looks at a pottery bust of Mona Lisa during the US - China Art Exhibition in Shanghai, east China, Dec. 3, 2011. The US [Xinhua] Over three-hundred pieces of art from fifty renowned artists are presented in the exhibition. ... full story
YTL Hotels and Swatch Group have announced the opening of The Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. The world's leading watchmaking group has lavishly restored and transformed the former South Building of the Peace Hotel into an art hotel in the heart of ... full story
In his new book “Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions from London to Shanghai 1851–2010,” Paul Greenhalgh, former president of Corcoran Gallery of Art, dove into researching the fairs of the past 160 years. ... full story
Shanghai is No. 1! We are doomed unless we overtake Shanghai!" The New York Times also writing about the PISA tests interviewed US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan who, despite his appreciation for the arts, said: "We have to see this as a wake-up ... full story
