... has gained attention at Hong Kong's ART HK International art fair. (Reuters) Day by Day: The first Broadway revival of the musical “Godspell” is set to open in November. (New York Times) Expansions: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has ... full story
The person was Pearl Lam, daughter of a Hong Kong business tycoon and owner of Contrasts Gallery, the most influential contemporary art gallery in Shanghai. "I thought we would meet in Beijing, but then she called me and said she was coming to ... full story
Over three years, the police have seized his computers, closed his blog, torn down his studio building in Shanghai, beaten him so badly that he required brain surgery — and now silenced him by cutting him off from friends and admirers. ... full story
Located in a former glass factory, the 6250-square-meter, multi-building Shanghai Museum of Glass is shifting this industrial space's function from production to art, education and exhibition, all centered around the theme, “Glass is a language of art ... full story
Lorenzo Rudolf, chief executive of Art Stage Singapore, is one art world figure who truly deserves to be described as “international”. Born in Switzerland, Rudolf took charge of Art Basel in 1991, transforming the modest event into a ... full story
Never heard of ART HK? Seeing as China is now the world's second largest art market, you may be hearing more about this expo as well as others, like the Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair held each fall in Shanghai. This year's ART HK will be 30% ... full story
The latest installment in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's “Perspectives” series devoted to contemporary Asian art, the 2004 work by Shanghai-based photographer and filmmaker Lu Chunsheng greets visitors at the far end of the entrance pavilion, ... full story
They feasted on crabs at long trestle tables, sang protest songs and felt they had scored a point against the Communist party officials that had solicited Ai, as a famous artist, to build a new studio in Shanghai and then turned around and ordered him ... full story
By Madeleine O'Dea, Sylvia Bai, ARTINFO China SHANGHAI— A little patch of Bohemia that has improbably flourished in Shanghai's commercial heartland for the last five years will this month be no more. On May 31 the last of the artist residents of 696 ... full story
Shanghai, May 10 (IANS) A Chinese artist has been ordered to spend a year at a labour camp after he had sex at a Beijing art gallery, a media report said. Fiftyseven-year-old Cheng Li displayed his work "Art Prostitution" by having sex with his female ... full story
