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5 June 2025

Chinese museum visitors accuse artist Heman Chong of ‘cyber harassment’

Visitors to Chong's recent show at UCCA Dune in China have accused the artist of “misogyny” after he allegedly reposted images of them to his Instagram account without consent

Lisa Movius
4 June 2025

Amid uncertainty over Trump’s tariffs, many collectors pause purchases while others ‘hold their noses and pay’

The antiques trade and lower- to mid-tier sectors of the art market are waiting for the situation to stabilise, while the most deep-pocketed collectors continue to transact

Daniel Grant
3 June 2025

London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

From a stolen portrait of Francis Bacon to encromancy, here's our selection of outstanding shows to see in the UK capital

Ben Luke and Louisa Buck
28 May 2025

Art Basel reveals exhibitor lineup for Paris fair's 2025 edition

The Swiss art fair giant's French expo continues to grow, with more than 200 exhibitors signed on for October

Carlie Porterfield
28 May 2025

Japan’s art islands gain a new attraction with museum designed by Tadao Ando

Naoshima New Museum of Art, showing work by contemporary Asian artists, opens on 31 May

Lisa Movius
20 May 2025

Chinese art collector to open non-profit in London devoted to contemporary Asian art

Yan Du Projects will open in October in Bedford Square with an exhibition of paintings by the Chinese artist Duan Jianyu

Anna Brady
15 May 2025

Art Basel Awards name inaugural medalists including artists, curators and patrons

The 36 medalists will be honoured at a reception during Art Basel’s Swiss fair

Carlie Porterfield
14 May 2025

Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther

The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others

Benjamin Sutton
13 May 2025

Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect

Kulapat Yantrasast has a design philosophy of “cultural Pad Thai”—multiple perspectives combined into something unique and approachable

Linda Yablonsky
13 May 2025

In Rotterdam, a new art museum explores the city's rich history of migration

Opening on 16 May, Fenix addresses the arrivals and departures that have given the Dutch port its energy and modernity

Senay Boztas
9 May 2025

Buzz in New York’s art trade during Frieze week masks uncertainties

Dealers and advisers at this week’s fairs expressed optimism, despite concerns about the wider socio-economic situation

Kabir Jhala
7 December 2017

Guggenheim commissions new works from five Chinese artists

Leading artists will produce site-specific works for permanent collection

Gareth Harris
1 March 2017

Chinese artists will be out in force at this year’s Venice Biennale

Pioneers and rising stars have been picked for the main exhibition by the Centre Pompidou curator Christine Macel

5 July 2024

A new wave: why Chinese artists and gallerists are increasingly heading to Japan

Tokyo’s rich, international art scene and accessible residency are among the factors encouraging China‘s cultural workers to move to the island country

Lisa Movius
26 July 2016

Talking about our generation: photo show celebrates Chinese artists of the 1980s

Xiao Quan’s portraits and street scenes capture the avant-garde during the country’s heady transition

Lisa Movius
1 May 2007

Selection of Chinese sculptor to create Martin Luther King memorial angers black artists

More than 4,000 people have signed a petition to appoint an African American architect and artist for the monument

Helen Stoilas
22 June 2020

Beijing gallery to open near Old Street putting unsung Chinese artists on the London map

Tabula Rasa, which was founded in the 798 art district in 2015, hopes to open in the UK capital this autumn

Lisa Movius
6 February 2020

Coronavirus: Australia stops two Chinese artists from entering country as more of China's art organisations halt programming

Beijing's Gallery Weekend and UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art have been forced to cancel or delay their events

Lisa Movius
25 June 2015

Chinese billionaire collector partners with Institute of Contemporary Arts in London

Adrian Cheng will support exhibitions by emerging Chinese artists at the institution

Anny Shaw
29 March 2019

Shortlist for inaugural Sigg Prize announced

Six artists in line for Uli Sigg’s $64,000 Chinese contemporary art prize

Julia Michalska
28 September 2015

Performance extravaganza 15 Rooms opens in Shanghai

Event’s first iteration in Asia includes five Chinese artists but no female nudity

Lisa Movius
16 June 2015

Cass Sculpture Foundation announces major Chinese art show in 2016

Large-scale installations by contemporary Chinese artists are being specially commissioned for next year

Ermanno Rivetti
22 March 2019

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

Lisa Movius
26 October 2015

Marketable names like Picasso still reign at Christie’s $11m Shanghai sales

But a new edition of the auction house’s First Open series with emerging Chinese artists also did well

Lisa Movius
1 January 2008

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

Michael Hue-Williams
2 January 2019

'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

Lisa Movius
8 December 2017

Three to see: Miami

From Chinese workshops to artists' studios, find out what to see beyond the fair

The Art Newspaper
24 March 2016

Hong Kong pop-up show provides a speedy guide to hacking

Chinese artists join Simon Denny in K11-Serpentine show organised by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Anny Shaw
19 June 2018

Ai Weiwei retraces his father's steps to Marseille in 1929 for new show

Chinese artists unveils new commissions alongside 50 works at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée

Aimee Dawson
30 September 2014

Frieze launches charm offensive to tempt China, with Fiac not far behind

Frieze welcomes UK’s new visa rules for visitors as event’s co-founder prepares to “increase the dialogue” with Chinese artists and galleries

Gareth Harris
31 August 2015

Emerging from Ai Weiwei’s shadow: China’s new art

As the Royal Academy hosts a major show of China’s best-known artist, the curators of a forthcoming exhibition of new commissions by Chinese artists argue that the latest art from the country is increasingly global in form and outlook<br>

Wenny Teo and Ella Liao
7 June 2016

Centre Pompidou’s chief US fundraiser awarded France’s top honour for boosting acquisitions of American art

The Beaubourg gallery also appoints a new curator tasked with discovering young Chinese artists

Gareth Harris
26 March 2025

Basquiat to Chagall: Hong Kong's international auction houses turn to household names during art week

As mainland Chinese art buying continues its post-pandemic contraction, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are pivoting from ultra-contemporary Western artists towards tried-and-tested 19th- and 20th-century big hitters

Kabir Jhala
31 August 2015

Made in China, destined for Sussex

In September, the Cass Sculpture Foundation will unveil the first of 17 major commissions by Chinese artists. Here, the director of the UK foundation explains how such an ambitious undertaking was realised<br>

Claire Shea
30 June 2005

Increased Chinese involvement at Art Basel is proof of China's contemporary art market expanding

Influential forces in the Western art world are courting potential Chinese buyers, but this market is far from mature

Georgina Adam and Cristina Ruiz
7 November 2023

The bumpy road to acceptance of China's LGBTQ+ artists is explored in a new anthology

Against a backdrop of growing censorship, a book charting the struggle of the community to gain mainstream recognition offers some hope

Lisa Movius
1 November 2011

Records tumble as the Chinese mainland embraces its modernists

“Modern Chinese art has one goal: how to merge western art and Chinese art. Now Chinese collectors recognise the value of these works.”

Alexandra Seno
24 March 2016

Interview: Cai Guo-Qiang takes stock of Chinese art now

Artist-turned-curator looks beyond political messages and record prices for group show in Qatar

Pac Pobric
30 April 2012

What Chinese collectors are really buying

While ancient art and ceramics remain popular, Contemporary Chinese art is taking off at home, and buyers outside the mainland are slowly looking toward Western art

Georgina Adam
30 April 2007

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

Anna Somers Cocks
31 March 1997

A brief guide to Chinese contemporary art

China is in the news more and more as its economy booms and Hong Kong gets handed back this summer; Chinese art is beginning to penetrate Western consciousness

The Art Newspaper
14 September 2018

Quintessentially Chinese art gives way to a global identity

Contrasting Zhang Xiaogang with a young 'post-passport' generation

27 March 2018

From Beijing to Mayfair: French dealer to open new gallery in London

Specialist Hadrien de Montferrand brings a unique mix of influences to his work

Georgina Adam
4 June 2019

Vancouver's art market sees influx of Chinese cash

As British Columbia clamps down on foreign real estate investment, Chinese collectors are investing in contemporary Canadian art with "no expense spared”

Hadani Ditmars
5 October 2018

Mega-galleries bank on Chinese art at Frieze

Trend follows dealers’ move into Eastern market

Anny Shaw
30 April 2012

Ullens makes U-turn to refocus on Asian space

After seeming to grow cool on his Chinese venture, the collector is now staging numerous shows and branching into Indian art

Gareth Harris
23 February 2022

Photo London makes play for China after selling 25% stake

Top photo fair divests shares to World Photography Organisation, which launched Shanghai Photofairs in 2014

Tom Seymour
2 August 2016

Shanghai’s Long Museum takes aim at female artists

The institution hosts its first exhibition dedicated to international and Chinese women, with works spanning ten centuries

Lisa Movius
31 August 2008

MoMA buys Chinese contemporary photographs including works by Ai Weiwei and Sheng Qi

Twenty-eight pieces have been purchased from collector Larry Warsh

Helen Stoilas
1 December 2012

China gets its first contemporary art museum

The opening of the Ullens Center will transform the local scene and the West’s understanding of what’s happening in China

Cristina Ruiz
23 May 2016

China’s rising young stars shine in a man’s world

It takes more than talent for vastly outnumbered female artists to come to the fore

Lisa Movius
1 February 2006

C.I. Kim to open New York gallery, following spaces in Beijing and South Korea

The Korean collector is being compared to Charles Saatchi

Lucian Harris
12 August 2015

Guggenheim appointments reinforce commitment to Chinese contemporary art

Two new curators will commission work for 2016 group show

Julia Halperin
20 November 2024

Vancouver Art Gallery expands Asian art programme with $1.1m gift

The museum’s renamed Centre for Global Asias seeks to “recognise the many Asias that exist, within the geography of Asia itself and in the global diaspora”

Hadani Ditmars
23 April 2025

Guy Ullens, collector and patron of Chinese contemporary art, has died, aged 90

The Belgian businessman co-founded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens

Lisa Movius
30 April 2011

Collectors from mainland China are beginning to buy across the board, both at home and abroad

“Is a new generation turning to contemporary art?”

Melanie Gerlis
22 March 2016

New film on Uli Sigg's life takes Chinese art collector back in time

Documentary screened in Hong Kong this week revisits China as Bamboo Curtain was lifted in the 1980s

Javier Pes
7 March 2022

Collector Budi Tek donates contemporary Chinese works to Lacma, including Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads

The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition

Scarlet Cheng
1 January 2007

Specialist Barbara Pollock questions value of contemporary Chinese art

Pollock is forthright about her distrust of the current auction market in China

Georgina Adam
7 June 2024

We must survive: Yokohama Triennale entwines stories of darkness and resistance

“Even though we are confronted with situations of hopelessness, resilience is our kind of hope,” say Chinese curators Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding

Lisa Movius
24 March 2016

Why the personal is political in China

At the fair younger artists address China’s most pressing issues

Lisa Movius
30 June 2015

Manchester show is a taster of what’s to come at Hong Kong’s vast M+ museum

The selection of 80 works is a peek at the Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s comprehensive collection of contemporary Chinese art

Ben Luke
11 November 2016

China’s new Silk Road leads west to Middle East

Biennials in country’s Muslim-majority regions coincide with cultural exchange with Qatar

Lisa Movius
30 April 2011

Booming Chinese economy boosts art market

But emphasis is still on traditional works, with less understanding of contemporary art

Zhao Li
1 November 1994

Chinese art is finally brought to the Western world's attention

Johnson Chang is promoting the avant-garde

Iain Robertson
25 April 2019

Ai Weiwei denies his porcelain works borrow from Lebanese artist's prize-winning vases

Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis

Aimee Dawson
20 January 2021

'A win for internationalism': what a Biden presidency will mean for the Chinese art world

Donald Trump's trade war and 'cold war mentality' led to uncertainty and a fractured relationship

Lisa Movius
6 November 2019

'We are the opposite of Starbucks': Pompidou chief on the challenges of setting up a Shanghai satellite

The French museum's president on censorship threats and settling the costs of the new project

Gareth Harris and Lisa Movius
8 April 2022

China's Russia problem: will more international exhibitions be cancelled due to the countries' close ties?

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

Lisa Movius
1 February 2014

Most Chinese paintings in the V&A are fake

Artist-forgers have fooled Chinese collectors for centuries, as museums in the West are now discovering

Martin Bailey
30 April 2008

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

Jason Edward Kaufman
25 June 2021

JingArt fair returns to Beijing—with a new crop of young collectors

The fair was cancelled last year due to Covid-19 but this year was bigger than ever before, at 43 galleries

Lisa Movius
1 December 2005

Success in China for Christie's following inaugural sale of modern and contemporary art

Auction report; 3rd November 2005

Georgina Adam
11 August 2020

National Museum of China exhibition commemorates country's fight against Covid-19

Open-submission show of professional and amateur art celebrates medical workers with propaganda posters and Socialist Realist statues

Lisa Movius
1 September 2020

European museums defend their partnerships in China

As China faces growing criticism over its detention of Uyghers and crackdown in Hong Kong, Tate, V&A and the Pompidou explain why it is important to continue working in the country

Statements from Tate, V&A and Centre Centre Pompidou
30 October 2015

Hong Kong debut for M+ museum’s founding collection

Exhibition from the Sigg Collection of Chinese contemporary art coincides with show in Switzerland

Javier Pes
18 November 2016

Beijing museum says Anselm Kiefer exhibition will go ahead despite artist’s protest

German artist has called for show to be cancelled because he says he never gave his consent

Lisa Movius
21 March 2022

Budi Tek, art collector, museum founder and tireless champion of Chinese art, has died aged 65

Tributes pour in for the Indonesian-Chinese businessman who founded the Yuz Museum Shanghai in 2014

Lisa Movius
20 May 2015

Pompidou outposts to pop-up across China?

The new president of the Paris museum was in China last week to discuss joint projects with Chinese officials

Gareth Harris
23 March 2016

Why China's tradition of copying is becoming a creative force

There's more to so-called "shanzhai" than slavish imitation

Lisa Movius
1 December 1997

Collector interview: Yonfan offers a tribute to the Princess of Wales from Hong Kong to Paris

Photographer and film director Yonfan has given eight Chinese paintings to the Musée Guimet in Paris

Emmanuel Fessy
1 March 1999

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

Iain Robertson
24 May 2022

Chinese Museum in Vancouver aims to rewrite Canada’s racist history

The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art

Hadani Ditmars
1 December 2012

With new party leaders in China, observers wonder whether censorship or liberalisation is on the agenda

Is this change in China a cause for celebration?

Chris Gill
30 April 2006

Beijing's Art District to get its first Kunsthalle

Backed by businessman-collector Guy Ullens

The Art Newspaper
23 February 2016

Hong Kong gets first major view of Uli Sigg’s collection for the M+ museum

Exhibition’s opening night was packed with luminaries from the Chinese art world

Alexandra Seno
26 December 2023

Tariffs on art are worsening frayed China-US relations, deepening ongoing trade war

Insiders say import taxes are strangling much-needed cultural interchange

Lisa Movius
4 February 2016

Heritage lost: how two art and design exhibitions frame southern China’s transformation

Lisa Movius on the Guangzhou Triennial, Asia Biennial and Shenzhen Urban Biennale

Lisa Movius
31 August 2010

MoMA and Asian Art Archive explore the evolution of Chinese contemporary art

Many key documents now translated

Helen Stoilas
26 April 2016

Long Museum founders to open third space in just four years

Chinese collectors Wang Wei and Liu Yiqian look beyond Shanghai to vast but lesser-known city of Chongqing

Lisa Movius
9 September 2021

Winner of 25th Deutsche Börse prize announced

Chinese artist Cao Fei's Serpentine exhibition Blueprints recognised as prophesying the effects of the pandemic

Tom Seymour
29 September 2023

A deep dive into the history of China’s art market

From the devastation of the Cultural Revolution to the transformation of the contemporary art scene

Georgina Adam
27 April 2016

Shanghai museum dedicated to 20th-century artist reopens in new venue

Liu Haisu Art Museum will also showcase work by emerging artists

Lisa Movius
1 March 2005

Embarrassment of riches for Asian art collectors at Asia Week, New York

Exhibitions, lectures and auctions span the centuries and the continents

Heather Russell
8 September 2022

Uffizi loan of self-portraits to the Bund One Art Museum opens ten-exhibition series in Shanghai

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

James Imam
28 February 2019

Ai Weiwei show brings out tensions between Canada and China

Survey at Gardiner Museum ranges from artist’s broken Han Dynasty urn to zodiac signs

Joobin Bekhrad
30 April 2012

Private museums bloom in Shanghai

Individuals and corporations are sharing their traditional and contemporary art collections with the public

Lisa Movius
14 July 2017

China's artists defy censorship ban to mourn Liu Xiaobo

Dissident activist and Nobel laureate was last sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 and died in custody

By Lisa Movius
1 February 2022

Badiucao launches NFT collection to protest against China's human rights record on eve of Beijing Winter Olympics

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

Gareth Harris
29 March 2018

Taiwan rises as China reins in foreign spending

Tighter capital and credit regulations have curtailed Chinese art buying

Anny Shaw
14 October 2019

Badiucao: meet the Chinese artist illustrating the Hong Kong protests

China’s ‘artful dissident’ has attracted worldwide attention through his drawings of protests, but he is still little-known in the art world

Vivienne Chow
1 November 1999

A tour of the Shanghai and Beijing galleries

China’s economy may be faltering, but the Shanghai and Beijing contemporary art markets have expanded significantly since the Asian economic crisis last year

Iain Robertson
8 December 2020

Artist sues Los Angeles and the Chinese American Museum for junking his work

Lawsuit demands that court issue an injunction to prevent future dismantling of works of art without artists’ supervision

Nancy Kenney
24 November 2021

How China's museums are cosying up to commercial galleries for big-ticket exhibitions

Dealers are eagerly filling curatorial gaps in new museums with shows for their artists, but does the market hold too much sway?

Lisa Movius
19 August 2015

Made in China? Not originally

Two recent plagiarism cases throw light on the country's lax stance on copying

Ermanno Rivetti
14 October 2007

Chinese buyers thin on the ground at first Shanghai art fair: ShContemporary in review

Nevertheless, dealers predict this will change as excitement surrounds international event

Georgina Adam
12 January 2018

Ink art museum opens in Shanghai suburb

Baolong Art Museum is backed by the collector Xu Jiankang

Lisa Movius
12 December 2017

China lifts ban on Korean art

Embargo was enforced after South Korea installed air-defence system amid tensions with North Korea

Lisa Movius. with additional reporting by Melanie Gerlis
2 December 2020

Consulates provide new safe haven for political art in China

Artists tackling contentious issues have found an unlikely home in the form of foreign diplomatic services such as the Goethe-Institut and consular residences

Lisa Movius
17 July 2016

Long Museum Chongqing tackles Cultural Revolution with rare show of paintings

Decade of terror remains a highly sensitive subject in China, but that may now be changing

Lisa Movius
16 March 2016

Cai Guo-Qiang lights up Doha show with alternative look at Chinese art

Artist hopes to refocus critical discussions onto the work itself with an exhibition featuring 15 of his compatriots at Qatar Museums

Pac Pobric
1 December 2012

Long Museum opened by Chinese power couple in Shanghai

The museum, which will house traditional and Modern Chinese art, opens 18 December

Lisa Movius
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