AnalysisArt market
East Asian unrest plays in Art Jakarta's favour
Fair is benefitting from Indonesia's burgeoning economy as well as cancelled Singapore fairs
NewsHong Kong
Hong Kong's cultural workers defy government pressure to hit streets in protest
Several thousand civil servants, including many from state-backed arts institutions, come out in support of ongoing pro-democracy protests
NewsCopyright
Taipei gallery accuses Mac Cosmetics China of plagiarising artist's work for lipstick campaign
Project Fulfill Art Space says Chinese branch of the cosmetics company did not have permission to use Chen Sung-Chih installation
NewsMuseums
Beijing's art scene gets much-needed boost as M Woods opens second space
Private museum is due to open a new venue in capital's historic Longfusi area
NewsChina
Two Beijing art districts abruptly evicted to make way for demolition
Police in riot gear escort hundreds of artists working in area studios from the premises
Podcast
Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show
We speak to the Ghanaian artist as he unveils a major new commission at the Whitworth as part of the Manchester International Festival. Plus, we find out about the Picasso blockbuster at UCCA in Beijing. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsLGBTQ
Shanghai shows of queer art hampered by venue issues and government censorship
LGBTQ exhibitions and works that are explicitly out and proud are magnets for official ire in mainland China
NewsHong Kong
Hong Kong’s art world unites as demonstrations gather momentum
The gallery community has encouraged strike action, with many closing to enable staff to join protests
PreviewArt market
Art Busan hopes to dodge US-China trade war crossfire
Free of the high taxes and stringent customs of mainland China, the fair adds to a burgeoning art scene in South Korea's second largest city
ReviewExhibitions
Liu Xia, widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, gets first show in Asia since release from house arrest
Exhibition at Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art reveals grief of families of political prisoners
ReviewArt market
Expanded Art Chengdu bucks slowing Chinese economy
Second edition of fair moves from tent to bricks-and-mortar in western China's 'skyrocketing' city
NewsProtest art
Stars Art Group, China's artistic freedom fighters, celebrate 40th anniversary
History repeats for avant-garde Beijing artists reflecting on groundbreaking exhibition and protests in 1979
NewsArt Basel in Hong Kong 2019
Brisk sales at satellite fair Art Central Hong Kong despite economic downturn
Upbeat mood at harbourfront fair despite a "recent slow market in the region," founder says
InterviewPainting
Liu Xiaodong: an interview with China’s great documentary painter
The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”
InterviewCommercial galleries
Five minutes with… Brett Gorvy on the Asian art market
Lévy Gorvy launches its Hong Kong space with a group show exploring how nature and tradition have provided comfort in turbulent times
NewsCensorship
Self-censorship on the rise as Hong Kong grows closer to China
Artists voice concern for Hong Kong’s artistic landscape amid so-called “mainlandification” of the SAR
PreviewArt Basel in Hong Kong 2019
US-China tension creates buyer’s market in Hong Kong
Despite a burgeoning arts scene in the city, worries persist that the trade war and economic uncertainty could affect business at Art Basel in Hong Kong
NewsOpenings
Collector Qiao Zhibing's delayed Tank Shanghai museum opens on West Bund waterfront
The reborn oil tanks host shows by teamLab, Adrián Villar Rojas and assorted Chinese artists
NewsLiu Ye
Liu Ye announced as David Zwirner's first Chinese artist following gallery's Hong Kong expansion
Zwirner plans to hold a solo exhibition of Liu's work in New York next year
NewsChina
Is Budi Tek's Yuz Museum branching out?
The Indonesian-Chinese collector, who is behind the Shanghai institution, recently partnered with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
NewsBiennials & festivals
Singapore Biennale to look on the bright side of life
Exhibition in November "puts its faith squarely in the potential of art to rework the world”
NewsArt market
Taipei Dangdai attracts cautious but ‘committed’ local collectors in its first edition
Dealers report a high rate of works on reserve amid some strong sales at the launch of Taiwan’s new contemporary art fair
NewsArt fairs
Inaugural Taiwan and Singapore fairs shrug off the gloom
Economic doldrums and stiff competition do not deter Taipei Dangdai and SEA Focus, but Art Stage Singapore is cancelled at the eleventh hour
NewsArt fairs
Art Stage Singapore cancelled
Fair director Lorenzo Rudolf says the "given circumstances" leave no other choice
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Environmental issues grow on the Taipei Biennale
Co-curators Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda have invited Taiwanese indigenous land right protesters to occupy parts of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum
NewsLGBTQ
Largest exhibition of LGBTQ art in Asia to open in November
The collaboration between Sunpride Foundation and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre explores issues of inclusion in ‘Asia’s Gay Capital’
NewsChina
'Hundreds' of cultural figures caught up in China’s Uyghur persecution
Most of the north-west Chinese region's Uyghur writers, artists and scholars have already been imprisoned
NewsArt market
Censorship could stifle China's art market
Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art
NewsChina
Pompidou pops up in Chengdu but 'is not considering a permanent presence'
French museum takes Cosmopolis biennial platform to southwestern China less than a year before Shanghai outpost opens
AnalysisArt market
Is Hong Kong 'the problem solver for the global art industry'? Fine Art Asia's director thinks so
Andy Hei says tax advantages and broad Asian clientele help keep city's edge of Mainland China—but he is not deterred from holding Beijing fair this month
ReviewGwangju Biennale
Gwangju Biennale's 11 curators delve into South Korea's hidden traumas
The theme of Imagined Borders addresses the fraught relationship with the North as well as global tensions surrounding migration and identity
NewsChina
Chinese curator and critic Li Bowen resigns editor post following anonymous allegations
Highlighting a “gray area between morality and law”, a WeChat user has accused Li of a pattern of emotional abuse and deceptive behaviour
AnalysisArt market
Fair’s fair? The murky world of stand costs
Research by The Art Newspaper uncovers wide disparity in both fee structures and transparency
News
Cao Fei gets double exposure with two exhibitions on home territory
Show at Hong Kong's Tai Kwun is artist's first major retrospective in greater China
News
Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art to open 'Guggenheimian' second museum
New space, with portions burrowed under the sand, will be located by the Bohai Sea shoreline
NewsActivism
Philippines Supreme Court upholds conviction of artist-activist Carlos Celdran for 'offending religious feelings'
Case against Filipino artist who protested in support of reproductive rights in Manila Cathedral, continues as solicitor general asks court to reconsider
News
Construction of Hong Kong's M+ Museum will not be delayed after main contractor fired
West Kowloon Cultural District terminated Hsin Chong's contract on the grounds of insolvency
News
Chengdu MoCA quashes rumours of demise but its problems are endemic in China’s art museums
Institution’s difficulties echo experiences of other new Chinese cultural spaces linked to property developments
NewsAi Weiwei
Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei's studio in Beijing
The space is latest artistic casualty in the city's gentrification campaign
NewsArt market
Beijing’s Caochangdi galleries given two weeks’ notice to relocate ahead of demolition
Among those affected are the Hong Kong-based de Sarthe Gallery, which opened in Beijing in 2014, and X Gallery
News
Three Chinese cities in the running to host Musée Rodin outpost
Paris museum will lend the new space more than 100 of the artist’s works
NewsArt Basel 2018
ShanghArt and Waldburger Wouters to open project space during Art Basel
This will be the first time a major Chinese gallery has opened a space in Europe
NewsArt market
Zao Wou-Ki dominates Hong Kong auctions
Chinese-French Modern master continues to lead Chinese Modern art market
NewsOpenings
Hong Kong museums scene finally on the rise, as Central Police Station opens
Long-awaited Tai Kwun complex will give local artists a world-class exhibition space
NewsChina
Massive arts district to launch in 2019 in valley near Beijing
“Eco-city” announced at Venice Architecture Biennale will include a museum, artists’ studios and an art park
NewsArt market
Art Stage Jakarta 2018 cancelled amid unrest in Indonesia
Organisers cite the Asian Games and country's presidential election next April as reasons for the decision, but say fair will return in 2019
NewsPolitics
Women beaten at Beijing’s 798 Art District for wearing rainbow badges
The attack on the two young women by 798 security staff has been condemned by LGBT groups, online activists and China’s art world
News
Leading Chinese art academy opens international design museum
Alvaro Siza-designed space in Hangzhou celebrates Germany’s influential Bauhaus school
NewsArt fairs
Brisk sales at inaugural edition of Art Chengdu in Sichuan
Local institutions and high-income individuals among fair's busier collectors
NewsArt market
Two new art fairs hope to tap into mainland China market
Art Chengdu and JingArt aim to join the first rank of the country’s burgeoning events calendars
NewsArt market
Bronze looted from Summer Palace sells for £410,000 despite protest from China
Chinese authorities tried to stop the UK auction of the Tiger Ying vessel, which was taken by a British soldier in 1860
FeatureArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
No end to gender woes? Time’s not up in Asia
There is a gross gender imbalance across the Asian art world, but the representation of female artists, curators and dealers is also on the rise in the region
NewsArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
Artists shortlisted for 2018 BMW Art Journey
Astha Butail, the winner of last year's prize, is previewing her upcoming project at Art Basel Hong Kong
PreviewArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
Spotlight on… Art Central in Hong Kong
What to see at Art Basel in Hong Kong's satellite fair
InterviewArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
Five minutes with... David Zwirner
Speaking in January ahead of his Hong Kong space's grand opening, the US and UK-based dealer explains the challenges and opportunities of the city
NewsArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
Arresting development: a peek at Hong Kong's Central Police Station
Long-awaited heritage and arts centre, Tai Kwun, is expected to open in May
NewsControversies
Chinese art professor responds to sexual assault allegations
Xu Gang has been dismissed as curator of the Shenzhen Biennale
NewsArt market
Will new global galleries stifle competition in Hong Kong?
Opportunity knocks, but there is a risk that it will deliver a blow to local artists and gallerists
NewsChina
Shanghai's East Bund on the rise as museums building boom continues
State-backed projects along Huangpu river could rival West Bund's private museums and galleries
NewsChina
Antique ivory not affected by China's complete trading ban
Regulation follows partial ban and intensive public campaign
NewsBiennials & festivals
Shanghai Biennale 2018 to focus on the 'ambivalence of the present age'
Head curator Cuauhtémoc Medina draws on ee cumming's concept of proregression
News
London's Serpentine Gallery to open pavilion in Beijing
Space designed by Jiakun artchitects will draw inspiration from Confucianism
NewsArt market
David Zwirner on opening his 'second wave' Hong Kong gallery
New York dealer credits first generation of overseas galleries with creating audience for Western art, but will not show Asian artists 'right off the bat'
NewsArt market
China Guardian to open new flagship in Beijing
The art centre, designed by Ole Scheeren, is the first purpose-built for auctions in the country and will open this spring
News
China gets first state-funded photo museum
Foto Lianzhou festival paves the way for city’s permanent venue devoted to the medium
News
Ink art museum opens in Shanghai suburb
Baolong Art Museum is backed by the collector Xu Jiankang
NewsBiennials & festivals
Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda named co-curators of next Taipei Biennale
Exhibition opening in November will explore grassroots communities
NewsArt market
Pace reveals details of its new Hong Kong space
Yoshitomo Nara show to inaugurate the new gallery during the week of Art Basel in Hong Kong
NewsArt market
Qi Baishi paintings set new $141m record for Chinese artist
Set of 12 ink panels by traditional master sell to Chinese buyer at Poly Auction Beijing for RMB931.5m
NewsPolitics
Beijing artist who filmed mass evictions of migrants released on bail
Hua Yong was arrested after posting images of government crackdown
NewsPolitics
China lifts ban on Korean art
Embargo was enforced after South Korea installed air-defence system amid tensions with North Korea
NewsDesign
V&A's first foray into China opens to visitors
Design Society in Shenzhen, steered by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, unveils four galleries this month, with two to follow in 2018
NewsPhotography
Photographer Lu Guang reveals how China’s love of bloodwood is destroying African forests
Collaboration with Greenpeace documents logging in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
FeaturePodcast
Podcast episode nine: $450m! The Leonardo breaks all records
How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum in Indonesia
NewsArt market
International players vie for a slice of Shanghai
Art021 and West Bund Art & Design fairs open as galleries, fairs and museums move in on city's fast-growing art scene