ONE day in January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo ...

Kuiyi Shen, who has a doctorate in art history, adored art since his childhood in China. Fitted in a Neptune-blue shirt and charcoal blazer, he stepped into the Harn Museum of Art at the University of ...

Wei Zhike, “Views of Nanjing in the four seasons (detail)” (1635), ink and color on silk (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise stated) The Art of the Chinese Album, the ...

Chinese ink landscape paintings have rarely been about depicting landscapes. Realistic depictions of craggy mountain ranges with jutted peaks or numinous landscapes shrouded with mist are always ...

Zhang Daqian may not be a household name in the West, but in China – and the global art market at large – he is on par with the likes of Warhol and Monet. A master of classical Chinese painting who ...

A rare 18th-century scroll has become one of the most expensive Chinese artworks ever to sell at auction. The 61-foot-long artwork fetched 414 million yuan (almost $65 million) when it went under the ...

We’re approaching the end of the year and here at Hyperallergic we’d like to provide you with retrospective looks at 2010 as well as some suggestions for how to make 2011 even better for your online ...

The Chinese artwork that vanished somewhere on its way from Beijing finally made it to a Clear Lake gallery nearly a month late and with little explanation from the shipping company. "It could've ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Auction house Christie's expects to sell HK$ 1.5 ($193 million) worth of predominantly Chinese artwork during its spring sales in Hong Kong, buoyed by recent positive art sales ...

In the wake of the industry-rocking pandemic and threats of a recession looming, the market for Chinese art in 2021 was surprisingly robust, according to the tenth annual Global Chinese Art Auction ...

Get the Report in English: Get the report in Chinese: Art sales fared better than expected in 2020, despite fears of a major market contraction, according to the ninth edition of the Global Chinese ...