Lisa Movius

Guangzhou and Shenzhen flex their biennial muscles

Major exhibitions open in south China, showing there is more to Pearl River Delta than vast factories

For world-class Art Deco, visit Shanghai

Chinese city is first in Asia to host global congress

Arles photo festival comes to south China

Photographer Rong Rong brings touch of Provence to home province of Fuijan

Prisoner of Cultural Revolution receives posthumous celebration

Mu Xin Art Museum honours artist and poet whose work bridged Chinese and Western cultures

Art021’s expansion into Shanghai Exhibition Centre makes it the biggest fair in the city

With varying reports on sales, dealers’ biggest complaint is that the collector base has stayed static while competition has grown

Is it plagiarism or is it ‘shanzhai’?

Yayoi Kusama and Random International are latest victims of China’s copycats

Sebastião Salgado’s perseverance pays off in Shanghai

Natural history museum is more receptive than city’s art spaces

Marketable names like Picasso still reign at Christie’s $11m Shanghai sales

But a new edition of the auction house’s First Open series with emerging Chinese artists also did well

Palace Museum puts 2,500 on blacklist for ticket scalping and unlicensed tours

But without adequate camera surveillance, the site’s historic objects are still at risk of vandalism

Poly Auction withdraws work after artist disputes its authenticity

Geng Jianyi says the recreation of his early painting Hairdressing 2 is not by him

Performance extravaganza 15 Rooms opens in Shanghai

Event’s first iteration in Asia includes five Chinese artists but no female nudity

Chinese artist Zhang Dali on censorship and finding freedom in the provinces

The artist known for his controversial graffiti, paintings and sculptures has his first retrospective in Wuhan

More Dabuzishan artefacts returned to China

At handover, the French dealer and collector Christian Deydier says he hopes all the objects taken from ancient tombs will “return home and be united”

Shanghai Art Week events find strength in numbers

Standout works include an installation by Ai Weiwei, one of the first at a Chinese fair since the government lifted a ban on his art

Shanghai art week launches with West Bund openings

The leading gallery ShanghArt has moved into the emerging arts district, along with artists and private collectors

Shanghai welcomes largest Rain Room so far

Installation is a hit at Yuz Museum but Random International surprised to discover imitation already open

Shanghai art fairs join forces for art week

But city's first international fair, SH Contemporary, isn’t back this year

New museum on Silk Road breaks the Chinese mould

Islam is the focus of north-west China’s first contemporary art institution

China discovers its self-taught artists

Alternative art festival launched in Beijing draws on pioneering work of Nanjing Outsider Art Centre

China relaxes de facto ban on showing Ai Weiwei’s art

Artist surprised after four exhibitions are allowed to open in Beijing—but international travel is still off-limits

International photography centre joins Shanghai’s museum mile

Globetrotting photojournalist launches photography centre in the West Bund Cultural Corridor

For better or for worse, Art Beijing’s tenth edition is more Chinese than ever

While the fair was criticised for being too local and aimed at a general public, exhibitors said the quality of the organisation and the collectors was much improved

China hosts first photography biennial

Event helps to establish Chongqing as a major Chinese centre of art