Shanghai Art021, which was dramatically shut in November because of a single Covid case, is staging a two-location pop-up this month

Enquiry prompted over wave of accusations at a major Beijing arts school

Collectors were fewer and more local, but the moderate success of some galleries attests to the city’s enduring commercial cache

An archaeological team from the Datong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has unearthed a trove of well-preserved figures that provide a glimpse at life in the region 1,500 years ago

An "ideological tightening" is spreading through the country as its leader begins a norms-defying third five-year term

Event's founders says the decision was made to "effectively protect the health and public health safety of the exhibitors"

Week-long hotel quarantines are still required of all international and Hong Kong arrivals to the mainland, deterring all but the most determined dealers

Joint venture announced amid declining sales figures at Chinese auction house

Sale marks a significant loss for Bouvier, who paid $70m to build the state-of-the-art facility in 2010

Show of works by 48 artists, from Bernini to Chagall, is first in a five-year programme worth €6m to the Florence museum

While Seoul is now the main contender to take Hong Kong's prime position, Tokyo and Taipei also present attractive prospects for the art trade

The Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou will shut its exhibition space on 9 October

Adrian Cheng's newest development K11 ECOAST is scheduled to open in 2024

New report reveals that 77% of galleries had lower sales this year compared to last, while several art fairs were cancelled

The directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Taipei Performing Arts Center both state that they are free of censorship

Gao Jie has created a series of expressive drawings showing the chaos of daily life under draconian restrictions

The Chinese government's hardline approach has drawn comparisons with the Maoist era

Plus, Winslow Homer at the Met and China's Russia problem

Following a 16-year-long case, involving stolen national treasures offered at auction in 2020, experts say more resources are needed to help people avoid unwittingly selling looted items

Suspension of loans from state-run Musée Matisse le Cateau-Cambrésis for Beijing exhibition shocks Chinese art world

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to ancient Chinese ceramics—and why Romanticism is not for him

As the Chinese art specialist steps back at Bonhams, he reflects on 50 years in the auction world as it went from provincial to global

Collectors can write their own message about China’s regime onto the blockchain

Collaborative research by major German institutions may expose huge amounts of Chinese objects taken during Boxer Rebellion

The Longlati Foundation in Shanghai and the Macalline Art Center and Fen Sonic HQ in Beijing put curation at the forefront

The 2,400-year-old remains of tea leaves were discovered in a royal tomb in Shandong province

The latest China Art & Wealth White Paper found that domestic annual sales dropped by 20% to $6.2bn last year, due to Covid-19 controls, but recovered quickly later in the year

Luxury fashion house withdraws image from exhibition after online campaign accuses artist of reinforcing stereotypes

A London panel has assembled the largest cache of evidence on the concentration camps in Xinjiang, but museums will not say if they have examined it

Prayer was one of five paintings by the Chinese artist “entrusted by an important institution” to the state-owned Poly Auction