Art Review
Chinese Bronzes Blur the Line Between Original and Copy
An exhibition champions 12th-to-19th-century bronzes dismissed as copies, yet struggles with its own definitions of originality.
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Memories Remade With Charcoal and Ash
Artist Dan Jian makes the point that landscapes and memory are one and the same.
Announcement
Wrightwood 659 and the Smart Museum Exhibit Contemporary Chinese Art on a Monumental Scale
The Chicago institutions have collaborated to present The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, on view at both venues through May 3, 2020.
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An Exhibition Makes a Bold, Yet Confusing Case for a New Category of Chinese Art
Framing a multigenerational and diverse group of artworks under the blanket term “Material Art” may confound more than it clarifies.
News
A Postmortem on Trump's Proposed Chinese Art Tariff
Art dealers and economists weigh in on why Chinese art narrowly evaded a new 10% tariff on Chinese goods.
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The Turbulent History of Global Chinese Art
The Guggenheim Museum’s Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents the conceptual and performance practices that brought Chinese artists into the discourse of global contemporary art.
In Brief
Chinese Authorities Smash Fake Terracotta Warriors Attraction
Government agents in the Lintong District raided a facility where copies of emperor Qin Shi Huang's famous earthen funerary guards were being passed off as the genuine article.
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The Legacy of the Lost Jade Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sometime in the mid-20th century, one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's most ornate galleries disappeared.
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China’s Young Postmodern, Post-Mao Artists
LOS ANGELES — Jin Shan was 12 when the student-led Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 rocked China, eliciting a brutal and unprecedented military response.
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Eastern Glamour Meets Western Couture
With Chinese Fashion Week rapidly becoming a formidable competitor to Paris and Milan, and figures like Peng Liyuan reaching Carla Bruni levels of icondom (minus the fur bikini), Eastern fashion is dominating conversations of style and commerce. To capitalize on this emerging popularity, The Museum
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Destroying Boundaries With Experimental Musician Feng Hao
BEIJING — Feng Hao speaks with a firm and straightforward attitude. He does not like long sentences, nor does he enjoy the elliptic dialectic typical of Chinese speech. He listens carefully to my questions and takes his time before answering them. Then he resumes his thoughts in a short statement th
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Guggenheim Expands Chinese Art Engagement With New Curator and Commissions
The Guggenheim just announced that with the help of the Robert H. N. Ho Foundation, the museum will greatly expand its engagement with Chinese art and artists.