A 700-year-old Chinese painting sold Thursday for nearly $40 million after a marathon 75-minute bidding war — the “longest in living memory.” The 6.6-feet scroll, titled “Five Drunken Princes ...

The Hepworth Wakefield acquired this rare stringed wood carving by Barbara Hepworth after a £3.8m public fundraising appeal ...

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has been chosen as Africa’s official home for one of China’s most significant cultural ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. Visiting Stanford Art Gallery’s new exhibition “Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting” could ...

A centuries-old calligraphy album that was once part of the Chinese emperor's royal collection and found in a Canadian ...

Summoning Memories features artists of Chinese descent who negotiate the long legacy of Chinese calligraphy and ink painting through alternative approaches. Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The ...

Having trained under the guidance of Shen Shijia, a legend in the field, Yu has dedicated his life to perfecting the art of Chinese landscape painting. Opinions expressed by Digital Journal ...

Late modern ink artist Huang Binhong (1865-1955) is known for creating a highly expressive style in landscape painting, using ...

What happens when you combine traditional Chinese ink landscape painting with the playful creativity of Lego toys? That very fusion forms the basis of artist Zhang Xiaoli’s spiritual and artistic ...

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, ...

In the Confucian ideology that pervaded traditional Chinese society for more than two thousand years, women did not determine the course of their own lives. In most regards, they were subservient to ...

Some 60 celebrated landscapes are part of a rehang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don’t pass them by: They are demanding to the eye and mind alike. By Holland Cotter It always feels like early ...