In an excerpt from his Mellon Lectures, art historian Wu Hung explains how Enlightenment ideas underpin—and complicate—the long history of Chinese art. A view of the terracotta army in the mausoleum ...

Nearly 100 contemporary drawings from the collection of China's Central Academy of Fine Arts, the most prestigious art school in Beijing, are on view through Dec. 2 in the Ben Shahn Hall galleries at ...

Over the past decade, the Chinese art market has seen tremendous growth, expanding to a size where it has made a significant impact on the global art auction landscape. In fact, the Chinese art market ...

"Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art," a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, will open Saturday, March 7, and run through Sunday, June 7. "Outside In" features a ...

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 ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

"425 illustrations, 323 in color." In this first systematic introduction to contemporary Chinese art, Wu Hung provides an accessible, focused and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese ...

Along with black cats and witches on broomsticks, bats are among the spooky symbols that we commonly associate with Halloween. In the Western world, the toothy chiropteran has long represented a dark, ...

Though many welcomed China’s reopening after three years of pandemic restrictions, art trader Chiang Lim-che’s disappointment was palpable – not over the relaxing of protocols, but at the muted, ...