He first made headway with his unique art form in the early 1990s, where he and a small group of other artists from Shanghai organized a forum on how to modernize traditional water-ink painting. This eventually led to the founding of the New Shanghai ... full story
What is contemporary art in China? And in what way do we perceive the rapidly disappearing Mao murals throughout the ever changing city of Shanghai? Conceptual artist Pia Johanson and street photographer Elke Martini are investigating and documenting ... full story
It was in Shanghai under the tutelage of a 12-year-old nanny that Max first cultivated his love of art. “I'm very lucky as an artist,” said Max, speaking by telephone from New York. “I lived in Shanghai for 10 years. We left Germany at the right time. ... full story
Jeremie (Jeremie Renier) and his wife and kids live in Shanghai, where he works for a multinational corporation. The hold "home" has on the younger siblings has slackened. Initially, "Summer Hours" was to be one in a quartet of short films by different ... full story
“This auction has many good items, but I'm not buying the big lots, just the small ones,” said Lu Feifei, a Shanghai- based art dealer who bought Emperor Qianlong's jade-hilted saber-and-scabbard for HK$59 million and his parade armor for HK$14 million ... full story
By KEN JOHNSON The celebrated filmmaker Yang Fudong, who was born in 1971 and lives in Shanghai, is having a New York moment. His best-known work, a beautiful but tryingly long, slow and portentous series of movies called “Seven Intellectuals in a ... full story
[Shanghai Daily] Several artists teamed up to paint a partially demolished building near the Moganshan Road art district. Unfortunately, as soon as it was done, it got peed on. [56minus1] The China Pavilion at the World Expo is supposed to be painted ... full story
Art and design students from Chinese colleges and universities will be asked to communicate the science of sleeping and dreaming - anything from jet lag to the physical and psychological effects of night-working - and to use their creative skills to ... full story
