Yin’s ongoing international success is something of an anomaly, and a new exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery explores ...

In an excerpt from his Mellon Lectures, art historian Wu Hung explains how Enlightenment ideas underpin—and complicate—the long history of Chinese art. A view of the terracotta army in the mausoleum ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Artifacts of historical significance are often kept in museums for scholars and visitors to study ...

Is Central Asia Still Russia’s Backyard? This week, one of my favourite online sources for art news, ARTINFO, published a piece that compiled the ‘Ten Priciest Chinese Artworks at Auction in 2010.’ ...

Wei Zhike, “Views of Nanjing in the four seasons (detail)” (1635), ink and color on silk (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise stated) The Art of the Chinese Album, the ...

Continuing our celebration of successful women in the art world, artnet News has compiled a list of seven women who are making a name for themselves in the Chinese contemporary art scene. We learned ...

If there’s one animal in Chinese culture literally and symbolically – it’s the horse. It may not be mythical like the dragon, ...

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 ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

Zhang Daqian may not be a household name in the West, but in China – and the global art market at large – he is on par with the likes of Warhol and Monet. A master of classical Chinese painting who ...