The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

China’s once-booming private museum sector is facing a reckoning. Amid a slowing economy, real estate turmoil, and a lack of systemic support for cultural institutions, some of the country’s most ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition In late 2010, an anonymous Chinese buyer snapped up a plundered 18th century Chinese imperial porcelain vase valued at $1.3 million for a ...

Since 1987, the China Art Festival has offered a window into emerging trends in the Chinese art world. The talk of this year’s expo — held last month in Shanghai — was wenchuang, inventive culturally ...

The “market”—it is always the market—has largely blindsided, if not prejudiced, the art consuming public about contemporary Chinese art. It is as demanding, diverse and rich as Western art by any ...

China’s collectors may not bail out the sinking art market this season. Though global auction houses have depended on newly wealthy Chinese collectors to bid up trophy artworks no matter how the ...

The growing influence of corporations in the museum sector raises concerns about cultural quality even as China’s burgeoning art scene grows by leaps and bounds. The exterior of UCCA Clay, a new ...

In the past, China was better known for producing 75 percent of the world’s art knockoffs than for its own creative innovation. Today, that is changing, as Chinese artists are reviving what they call ...

When can a museum exhibition be defined by what is absent, rather than what is present? When it’s “Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Just ...

Planners today struggle to properly apply operational art in large scale war — and they don’t fully realize why. It takes something like firsthand ...