This week at Sotheby’s, the auctions of Chinese Art brought a combined total of $43,687,377 million – comfortably exceeding the high estimate for the three sales of $31.3 million. The top lot of...
Read More →Courtesy of the Armory ShowA painting by the artist Xu Zhen, whose works were co-opted for the graphic identity of this year’s Armory Show. The Armory Show anchors what has held on as a...
Read More →As the Armory Show drew to a close on Sunday, visitors compared notes about the highs and lows of this year’s fair, and particularly about “Armory Focus: China,” the exhibition of contemporary Chinese work curated by Philip...
Read More →Be it auction records, international museums initiatives, prominent collectors’ efforts, or biennale and art fairs’ focus, 2013 was a tremendous year for Chinese contemporary art. And 2014 will be equally so, if not...
Read More →In September, artnet’s Jessica Zhang sat down with Philip Tinari, director of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in the 798 Art District in Beijing. Jessica Zhang: First of all, congratulations on becoming...
Read More →Ink Art is the Met’s first major Chinese contemporary art. The exhibition examines the creative output of a selection of artists from the 1980s to the present “who have fundamentally altered inherited Chinese tradition...
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