Chinese art
Many Chinese collectors use their wealth to repatriate once-looted objects
Why bringing it back home is a mark of respect
Chinese auction data lacks credibility
Leading British university research questions saleroom reporting
Some of the leading contemporary art collectors of China
While the stereotype of Chinese collectors includes a focus on traditional and historical Chinese art, these collectors buck the trend
How the missing Zodiac fountain heads continue to be a sore point for China
Several have appeared at auction in recent years; the whereabouts of five remain unknown
Collectors from mainland China are beginning to buy across the board, both at home and abroad
“Is a new generation turning to contemporary art?”
MoMA and Asian Art Archive explore the evolution of Chinese contemporary art
Many key documents now translated
Saatchi purchase makes collector Howard Faber think again
$6m from sale of Chinese paintings, including a Zeng Fanzhi, encourages him to review his remaining collection
MoMA buys Chinese contemporary photographs including works by Ai Weiwei and Sheng Qi
Twenty-eight pieces have been purchased from collector Larry Warsh
“I always insist that the artist must be given carte blanche”: Interview with Huang Yong Ping
The artist discusses his work, politics, censorship, “fake art” and the Beijing Olympics
Meet China’s top collector of contemporary art
Guan Yi tells us about his plans to open a museum and sculpture park on a 16.5-acre plot of land in Beijing
We talk to Zhang Hao Ming, part-owner of Beijing’s Art Now gallery which took part in Art Basel for the first time in June
Telecoms millionaire, restaurateur, hotelier, reality TV producer, gallery owner and collector
Contemporary art chosen for new US embassy chosen “to connect” to China
The new embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others
First Ullens show is not representative of its subject matter
A letter to the editor
Interview with Cai Guo-Qiang on the eve of his retrospective: “I am eternally optimistic; I am Chinese”
The artist discusses his materials and his potentially explosive new book
The auction houses are distorting our understanding of Chinese art
Chinese auction house data deemed unreliable and misleading as not all artists have made it to the salesroom yet
Phillips de Pury plans seven-hour sale during Frieze week
The sales include the private collection of Marino Golinelli
1.3 billion Chinese people, but still not many substantial collectors of Chinese contemporary art
Here are the best known: one Swiss, one Chinese, one Belgian, three American and one British
Installation withdrawn from Huang Yong Ping retrospective due to feud over restoration responsibility and costs, then sold at auction
Institutions are powerless to prevent such abuses, says Walker Art Center deputy director Philippe Vergne
Specialist Barbara Pollock questions value of contemporary Chinese art
Pollock is forthright about her distrust of the current auction market in China
A turn of the tides: Art is flowing back to China as the Chinese market grows
Overseas collectors are shipping work to China for sale in the growing number of auction houses
Interview with Sherman Lee: “Innovation, wherever it occurs, is ‘modern’, and people could be more modern in ancient times than we are now”
One of the great connoisseurs of our time, the curator of the current exhibition of Chinese art at the Guggenheim talks about Chinese art seen from within and without
The sale of Chinese porcelain triumphed during Asia Week
Excellent results for an exemplary group of Chinese porcelain
Abundance of sophisticated fakes in China causes widespread worries
“The forgeries business is in full swing”
Following the postponement of Asia Week due to the World Trade Centre attack, sales flopped amid scant enthusiasm
Gandharan sculpture did well in an otherwise difficult week at the postponed Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions
Fakes of archaic Chinese jades are flooding the market
A dealer sounds the alarm
Diary of a dealer: veteran Asian art dealer Robert H. Ellsworth states “provenance is worth one-third of the price”
The market is driven by supply and demand and not by collectors’ taste, says veteran dealer in Asian art
Ming and Qing Chinese ceramics: A flood of fakes from Jingdezhen
Forgers reportedly work to order from Sotheby’s catalogues
What's on in London: Gwen John times two, with lots of unseen work
Fontana moves from Hayward exhibition to commercial gallery, Basquiat’s drawings come to the City and the centenary of the charming Ardizzone is celebrated
We must salvage what remains of the past: Interview with Johnson Chang
The guru of avant-garde Chinese art in the Eighties and early Nineties talks now of a return to tradition
There has been a softening in the middle-range of the art market
Percentage rates are down in many areas for the first half of the season