"Some buyers from the mainland, never before showing at any auction events in Hong Kong, appeared at Sotheby's sale," according to Qiu Jiahe, an art market analyst with Shanghai Securities News. According to Wang Yannan, president of China Guardian, ...full story
EXPAT students are invited to take part in the Seeking Chinese Impressions - a design competition that requires the students to create paintings, pictures, crafts and clothing designs that combine Chinese culture and modern art, the Shanghai Education ...full story
Works by finalists for the 2012 Credit Suisse Today Art Awards are on show at Today Art Museum in Beijing. Featured artists include top award-winning photographer Jiang Zhi, painters Hu Xiaoyuan and Ji Yunfei, installation artists Shao Yinong and Xu ...full story
As a major platform for selling and buying art, this year's Shanghai Art Fair welcomed more than 50,000 visitors and the turnover of the fair exceeded 100 million yuan ($16 million), according to Wang Anwei, a member of the organizing committee of ...full story
Veteran artist Wu Changjiang has developed a growing affinity for Tibetan culture and people ever since he first set his foot on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau some 30 years ago. "I was enthralled by the mysterious and breathtaking natural beauty of the ...full story
A total of 146 galleries from 12 countries have participated in the annual Shanghai Art Fair. This year's show is the 16th edition. Two exhibition halls feature domestic and overseas master artists' work, such as Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010)'s print works ...full story
In the last month alone, two major cultural institutions--the China Art Palace and the Power Station of Art--have opened in Shanghai, on the former site of the 2010 World Expo. These state-run art museums are already being compared to iconic global ...full story
This year the event is taking place in the Power Station of Art (PSA) beside the Huangpu River, as opposed to its usual home in the former Shanghai Art Museum (SAM) on Nanjing Road West. Transformed from a former power plant, PSA has been heralded ...full story
From November 1-4, 2012, New York-based gallery A. Jain Marunouchi will be exhibiting during the 16th edition of Shanghai Art Fair that will take place at ShanghaiMART in China. In less than a year, A. Jain Marunouchi has been traveling three times to ...full story
The new speed record for setting up a major contemporary art museum belongs to the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened this month in a former power plant after less than a year of planning and construction. The museum opened with one ...full story