Artifacts of historical significance are often kept in museums for scholars and visitors to study and view. But artifacts recently found at the University were kept in a more discreet place. Staff at ...
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the ...
The painter Qi Baishi has become the first Chinese artist to join the $100 million club. A set of Qi’s ink-brush panels, Twelve Landscape Screens (1925), sold for $140.8 million (931.5 million yuan) ...
Auckland Art Gallery Exhibition Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now Explores Brings Ai Weiwei & Xu Zhen To NZ The contemporary Chinese art on display in Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now is spellbinding ...
"425 illustrations, 323 in color." In this first systematic introduction to contemporary Chinese art, Wu Hung provides an accessible, focused and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese ...
Part one: Models and patterns. The emergence of dynastic time in Chinese art -- Reconfiguring the world: The first emperor's art projects -- Conflicting temporalities: Heaven's mandate and its ...
When a privately-held painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci went under the hammer for a record $450 million in November, many looked to China in search of its mystery buyer. While the ...
In the wake of the industry-rocking pandemic and threats of a recession looming, the market for Chinese art in 2021 was surprisingly robust, according to the tenth annual Global Chinese Art Auction ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A young, bespectacled computer graphic artist unknown outside China has found instant notoriety overseas after a computer-generated image of his sparked a row between Beijing and ...
Responding to turmoil in the global financial sector, Asian art collectors also proceeded with caution this week, sending the hot market for contemporary Chinese art towards an apparent cool down. At ...