Chinese art prices fell about 28 per cent last year, according to Artron, and galleries have cut staff, reduced exhibition space or even shuttered their doors. Red Gate Gallery, one of the original contemporary art galleries in Beijing, ...full story
At the time she was an architecture student at the Fine Art College of Shanghai University, earning money by creating oil paintings for a restaurant. She spent all her money on old furniture, decoration and memorabilia. She frequented Dongtai Road ...full story
... she is schmoozing potential donors in the teahouse of the Chinese garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. Moser, the assistant vice president for advancement, tells tales of courting Hong Kong tycoons ...full story
okai Studios, as you probably know, are the creative bods behind Bund 18, 796 Huaihai Lu, Shanghai Art Gallery, Lounge 18 and their latest creation: Sin Lounge. Sin’s energetic design certainly has plenty of chins wagging, so we caught up with Kokai ...full story
We first meet Pierre, played by Mr. Lepage, an artist who’s been living in Shanghai for 20 years. He’s visited by Marie, played by Miss Michaud, an old friend from Montreal, who’s looking into adopting a Chinese baby. The third character is Xiao Ling, ...full story
The 2009 edition is to be marked by an outstanding event: The French Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Universal Exhibition has decided to invite the 2009 Marcel Duchamp Prize artists to China as representatives of French contemporary art . ...full story
Now in his 50s, Pierre (Lepage) is living in Shanghai, where he runs an art gallery and has taken a shine – professionally and personally – to a young dancer-turned-artist named Xiao Ling (Tai Wei Foo). Pierre still has no intention of moving back to ...full story
Two senior management appointments have been announced at new twin luxury hotels under development in Shanghai, the 'city retreat' Zendai Hotel Yin and the five-star Zendai Art Hotel, which will open in Pudong in 2010 in time for the Shanghai World ...full story
This exhibit is on loan from the Shanghai Bright Artworks. "The Artist Within" is an interesting exhibit in that the focus turns back onto the artists themselves. A series of photographs taken of internationally acclaimed artists and illustrators of ...full story
Be sure to check out the contemporary work of Shanghai artist Liu Jianhua, whose “Obsessive Memories” collection of porcelain figurines will halt you and lead you into your own obsessive moment. Each figurine is headless and without arms. ...full story