The Shanghai branch of 341-year-old Rongbaozhai auction house asked the court to break the two contracts it signed with Zhai and the other bidder, Zhou Feng, who is a friend of Zhai and is listed as a co-defendant in the case, the Hongkou District ...full story

A large-scale painting by Yan Pei-Ming, International Landscape by Night, 2011, is on show in an exhibition organised by the Centre Pompidou at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, located on the banks of the Huangpu River. The museum, which opened ...full story

Although he found fame in photography, Jin had in 1995 graduated from the traditional ink-wash painting department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Shanghai University. And on graduation, Jin had surprisingly chosen another art career path - new media, ...full story

Created from thousands of photos taken during French artist Alain Delorme's two artistic residencies in Shanghai, the title of his project, Totems, is ambiguous. Yes, these towering stacks of objects teeter totem-like and perilously, but Delorme is ...full story

“It is a prestige object for the city, to have a museum that, at least in scale, can compete with Tate Modern in London or MoMA in New York,” explains Jens Hoffmann, co-curator of the Shanghai Biennale. “The Shanghai Art Museum was also looking for a ...full story

Shanghai sculptures were not in the top 10, though six of the 59 "ugly" nominations are in the city. They include the group of three brightly colored women in bikinis in Shanghai Sculpture Park in Songjiang District (206,617 votes), as well as the ...full story

Seven other scrolls from the Nelson are featured in the exhibit in Shanghai. On their return to Kansas City, the six scrolls depicting landscapes and three works that didn't travel will be paired with landscapes by contemporary Chinese artist Xu ...full story

A major exhibit of big-name Chinese expressionists is the final exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum on Nanjing Road W. before it moves to its new home in the China Pavilion from the World Expo 2010 Shanghai in Pudong. The last day of the exhibition, ...full story

The 10,000-square-meter museum showcases the works owned by well-known fine arts collector couple from Shanghai, Liu Yi-qian and Wang Wei - one of the largest collections in terms of financial backing and scope in the nation. Going on is the exhibition ...full story

Paris' Centre Pompidou, one of the world's leading contemporary and modern artmuseums, has for the first time joined forces with a public artmuseum in China. The exhibition “Electric Fields: Surrealism and Beyond — La Collection du Centre Pompidou” ...full story