AP Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, seen outside his demolished Shanghai art studio in January, was detained by Beijing authorities on Sunday. (AFP/Getty Images) China confirmed Thursday that it has detained a renowned artist who had been missing ...full story

Hidden in the broad blandscape of dumb interior design and dull decor, a number of iconic pieces have made their way into Shanghai bars. Keep an eye out for these incidental -- but awesome pieces -- of artwork around the ...full story

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, seen outside his demolished Shanghai art studio in January, was detained by Beijing authorities on Sunday. (AFP/Getty Images) Ai Weiwei remains in detention by Beijing authorities for a second day with no reason ...full story

The Twitter postings -- which indicated they were written by one of Ai's assistants -- said a group of police also arrived at his studio in Beijing's Caochangdi art district to execute a search warrant. Police also took away eight of his staff members ...full story

A Xiaojiaochang woodcut print exhibition of 80 works is underway at the Baoshan District Folk Art Museum through the end of April. It's a fascinating view of a modernizing city. "They truly reflected the emergence of modern Shanghai during that time ...full story

The Himalayas Art Museum is taking crowdsourcing to the extreme. The Shanghai-based institution, which in 2009 changed its name from the Zendai Museum of Modern Art, has launched a global contest to find its ...full story

London is the EU's only major art centre. None of its major competitors – New York, Geneva, Shanghai – is affected by the new duty. Since droit de suite was introduced in 2006, Britain's share of the global art trade has fallen from 27 per cent to 22 ...full story

In 1947, Wu traveled to Paris to study arts on a government scholarship. After he came back to China in 1950, he taught fine arts in many schools in Beijing, including Tsinghua University and China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Wu's artwork has ...full story

Shanghai hosts all the museums you'd expect in a world-class city: countless art spaces, history exhibitions and urban planning centers. But, if you explore a little more, you'll find that the city has its share of ...full story

"We want visiting art museums to be a regular part of citizens' lives," Zhang added. In Beijing, the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) also opened its doors to the public for free on March 2, and has since welcomed some 6000 visitors every day ...full story