Shanghai’s Tricky Museum Transformation
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…
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China’s Growing Auction Giant
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…
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China: One Country, Three Pavilions
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.
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Christie’s Will Expand to China
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…
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Guggenheim Museum Collects China
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…
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Turning Over a New Leaf
When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles
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Half the Sky: Chinese Women Artists in Philadelphia
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…
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China’s New Normal in Venice
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…
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Crossing the Line in China
As Ai Weiwei continues to openly criticize Communist party policy, his international profile is rising—but so is government response.
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