It’s been nearly 17 years since Claudia Albertini was among the art world’s movers and shakers who attended the highly anticipated grand opening weekend of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (now ...

Kuiyi Shen, who has a doctorate in art history, adored art since his childhood in China. Fitted in a Neptune-blue shirt and charcoal blazer, he stepped into the Harn Museum of Art at the University of ...

China’s once-booming private museum sector is facing a reckoning. Amid a slowing economy, real estate turmoil, and a lack of systemic support for cultural institutions, some of the country’s most ...

In contemporary society, the phenomenon of Shanzhai - “copycat” - pervades every sphere, and plagiarism never ends. When we look back at the origins of Chinese contemporary art, the accusation that it ...

The art world success of Zhang Huan makes a compelling story, the postmodern Horatio Alger myth at the heart of contemporary Chinese art. Today, at the age of forty-three, Zhang is a multimillionaire.

It is an exhibition eight years in the making, Clarissa von Spee beginning work on it when she was a curator at The British Museum in London. And now, on another continent, “China’s Southern Paradise: ...

The growing influence of corporations in the museum sector raises concerns about cultural quality even as China’s burgeoning art scene grows by leaps and bounds. The exterior of UCCA Clay, a new ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the Orchid Pavilion ...

Li Jiansheng, one of China’s foremost ceramic artists and scholars, will discuss Chinese and American cultural similarities and differences that find common ground in the clay medium, on Wednesday, ...