The city's five-year plan to become China's cultural capital is fueling massive development in both public and privately owned museums. But can Shanghai provide the trained staff—and the art—to fill…
The Poly Group, a $40 billion state-owned enterprise, oversees activities ranging from arms dealing to an auction house that is the first in China to offer private sales and is rapidly promoting…
Every two years, the art world gets a vivid reminder of China's complex sovereignty issues and ongoing identity concerns—in the form of three separate pavilions at the Venice Biennale.
The move will allow Christie's to carve out a larger part of the Chinese auction market, which is now the world's largest. China's auction market is estimated to have generated $4 billion in revenue…
The commissioned works will be exhibited at the museum in three exhibitions from 2014 through 2017, and will enter the Guggenheim's permanent collection. Thomas J. Berghuis, currently deputy director…
How do Chinese women see themselves? How do female artists in China represent their private concerns, or register their take on a society undergoing rapid, mind-boggling change? Insights are currently…
For Venice Biennale visitors, 2011 may mark the first time that Chinese artists are presented as something other than Far Eastern tokens. Not only are an exceptionally large number of participants fro…