News
Ai Weiwei Slams US for "Complicity" in China's Arrest of Two Canadian Citizens
The artist called the United States a "willing partner" in China's "monstrous regime."
China
In Brief
Why China's Infamous "Copycat" Town Now Invests in Original Artworks
Economic changes have forced the 8,000 painters and 1,200 galleries in the Shenzhen village of Dafen — who were once responsible for 75% of the world's oil painting reproductions — to rebrand. But can skill overcome the town's reputation as a home of imposter impressionists?
News
Artwork Interrogating the Ethics of Technology Pulled from China's Guangzhou Triennial
Four artists' works were flagged by government censors for their experimental projects about artificial intelligence, genome modification, and bioethics.
Art
In Shanghai, a Future of Endless Museum Photo-Ops
With Wavelength: Reset at the Powerlong Museum, Qibao, once regarded as drab wilderness, has become the place in Shanghai to be seen.
News
Christie’s Expects $51M for One of China’s ‘Da Vinci’ Scrolls, But Provenance Questions Remain
Centuries before Wester Europe coined the term, "renaissance man," artist Su Shi moonlighted as a pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman for the Song Dynasty.
Film
The Banality of Capitalism in China
There are moments of friendship and warmth in Wang Bing's documentary Bitter Money but the primary sense a viewer gets is that being on the bottom rung of capitalism in China consists mainly of boredom.
In Brief
Without Warning, Chinese Authorities Demolish Ai Weiwei's Beijing Studio
“Farewell,” Ai wrote on Instagram. “Today, they started to demolish my studio 'Zuo You' in Beijing with no precaution. Which I have as my main studio since 2006. It is a[n] East German style socialist factory building."
Books
A Photographer Follows the Urban Migration of China's Rural Trees
In Forest, photographer Yan Wang Preston documents the big business of relocating mature rural trees to the new urban centers of China.
Art
A Smog-Eating Bike May Soon Cruise Beijing’s Streets
Studio Roosegaarde is teaming with the Chinese bike-sharing program Ofo to bring bicycles that inhale smog to Beijing.
Art
From a Jade Burial Suit to Terracotta Warriors, a Blockbuster Display of China's Ancient Treasures
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Age of Empires features over 160 archaeological finds, mostly from shrines and royal tombs from the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Books
The Aviation Aspirations of Chinese Farmers
Xiaoxiao Xu photographed and interviewed men in rural Chinese villages who have huge dreams of flight.
Art
An Unlikely East-West Collaboration in 1830s Portraits of Tumor Patients
Guangzhou, then called Canton by Westerners, was the only Chinese port open to foreign trading until the Opium Wars of the 19th century, and it became a rare hub of direct interactions between the two cultures. One of these resulted in a surprisingly moving series of paintings portraying bodies disf