SHANGHAI'S cultural relics authority yesterday promised to protect the former site of what was once the best art academy in China but which has deteriorated into shabby homes over the last 60 years. The three buildings of the former Shanghai Art ...full story

Two major Shanghai-based art fairs will showcase the best cutting-edge Asian art this September. The Shanghai Art Fair and SH Contemporary are the two of the most noteworthy art fairs on Shanghai's art calendar. In 2011 China overtook Britain to become ...full story

The following story has been published in What's Up Miami blog and at the American Pavilion, Shanghai Art Fair 2011. It tells the story of two artists with the desire to create, Lebanese-Venezuelan Ben Bela Abounassif and Miami Art Gallery & Museum ...full story

'Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture' – a major new exhibition about the work of Foster + Partners, curated by the renowned writer and Times critic, Richard Cork – opens today at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Hong Kong has played an important role ...full story

But don't expect to see artists from Beijing or Shanghai in the group. This month SA is hosting photographers from the other China — the Republic of China (ROC), Taiwan. The Asian arrivals are part of the city's cultural exchange program, ...full story

Born in China, Liu writes, "I began drawing as soon as I was old enough to hold a pencil, but external factors choked off the waters of creativity, leaving the art-seed within me parched and dormant." She attended college in Shanghai and then business ...full story

Urban art burst onto the Chinese scene just a few years ago, and at first it created a spark. According to Schoeni, there were a few galleries that opened in Hong Kong focusing on street art, and it looked like the movement was gaining in popularity, ...full story

... and later charged with tax evasion arising from his Shanghai art studio business. He was released after Chinese authorities said he had confessed and had been a model prisoner, but he was ordered not to leave Beijing without permission for a year. ...full story

According to online art newspaper Artdaily.org, it will “disclose the world's most compelling choice of Chinese and Asian contemporary art, alongside a selection of Western artists and galleries”. Shanghai art aficionados will be able to enjoy works ...full story

Liu Kang, who died in 2004, is one of the local artists who helped to develop Singapore's art scene. He was an art educator and a founding member of the Singapore Art Society. He also received the Public Service Star Award in 1970 and was given the ...full story