China
Cai Guo-Qiang returns to China with a (virtual) bang in major new show at Beijing's Forbidden City Palace Museum
The Chinese artist has gone back to the mainland after a long stint in the US—but publicity for his retrospective appears muted
Consulates provide new safe haven for political art in China
Artists tackling contentious issues have found an unlikely home in the form of foreign diplomatic services such as the Goethe-Institut and consular residences
'Dealers are smiling under their masks': Shanghai art week pulls in art-starved collectors
More than 100 art exhibitions and events have taken place in the Chinese city this week and galleries are reporting strong sales
Where art fairs still happen: the Shanghai buzz
Plus, Chila Kumari Singh Burman and the art work that inspired that Biden-Harris video
All eyes on Shanghai as city hosts multiple fairs despite first coronavirus case in months
New Art Tower will be hub of a busy art week alongside Art021 and West Bund Art & Design Fair
Uyghur civilisation in China continues to be erased as part of chilling mission
Australian think tank data reveals that two-thirds of the region’s mosques have been either destroyed or damaged
Chinese interference derails Genghis Khan exhibition in France
Beijing authorities attempted to censor show's narrative amid a hardening of Chinese Communist Party's stance towards Mongol minority
The fairs are back in town: greater China reopens for business
Art021, West Bund Art & Design Fair and Art Taipei among fairs due to open in the region this autumn despite travel restrictions, shipping woes and Covid-19 fears
Ai Weiwei: If you do not question Chinese power, you are complicit with it—that goes for art organisations too
Dissident artist says that European museums in China are betraying their own values
Museums grapple with ethics of China projects
Institutions including the Tate, V&A and Pompidou are forging partnerships with the country despite terrible human rights abuses
European museums defend their partnerships in China
As China faces growing criticism over its detention of Uyghers and crackdown in Hong Kong, Tate, V&A and the Pompidou explain why it is important to continue working in the country
'We cannot build a truly globalised art world without China'
Artistic exchange has been vital to the mutual understanding between China and the West, says Karen Smith, the director of OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Xi’an, China
Undeterred by pandemic and political tumult, Western galleries expand to Greater China
The New York dealer Edward Ressle opens a space in Shanghai, in the footsteps of the UK's Flowers Gallery and France's Villepin ventures in Hong Kong
Shanghai Pride announces suspension of operations shortly after opening exhibition
Move comes amidst increased official scrutiny of civil society in China
In the first partnership of its kind, Phillips and Poly Auction set their sights on Hong Kong
Mutually beneficial collaborations between Western and Chinese auction houses are on the rise
National Museum of China exhibition commemorates country's fight against Covid-19
Open-submission show of professional and amateur art celebrates medical workers with propaganda posters and Socialist Realist statues
Artist Chen Weiming to create a monument to Hong Kong protests in California's Mojave Desert
As US levies toughest sanction yet on China for its destruction of Hong Kong’s relatively free political system, Weiming says he wants to pay tribute to the "people's fight for freedom"
Hong Kong: has the new law 'destroyed' the art scene?
Plus, art historian Alyce Mahon on Leonor Fini’s illustrations. Produced in association with Christie's
Some artists planning to leave Hong Kong in response to new national security law
Concerns over freedom of expression and self-censorship on the rise after introduction of new rules
In memoriam: Chinese dissident photojournalist Li Zhensheng, chronicler of China's Cultural Revolution
Li, who died aged 79, spent his life “striving to bear witness and document history”
Beijing gallery to open near Old Street putting unsung Chinese artists on the London map
Tabula Rasa, which was founded in the 798 art district in 2015, hopes to open in the UK capital this autumn
Beijing art world starts shutting down again amid new coronavirus cluster
M Woods among private museums closing as China reports 137 new infections in wholesale food market
Shanghai fair launches immersive art show—in a shopping mall
With the future of large-scale events and travel still uncertain, the November fairs Art021 and West Bund are exploring "consumer alternatives" in unusual settings
Hong Kong artists abroad launch pro-democracy platform as China's security law looms
Online project documents one year of anti-government protests in the territory and aims to rally support from international art community
An eerie pre-pandemic vision of the future emerges in Beijing
UCCA's Meditations in an Emergency exhibition was hastily put together after the coronavirus lockdown through plans into disarray
Will the loss of Hong Kong’s special trade status and stricter oversight from Beijing end its appeal as Asia’s biggest arts hub?
A new draconian law against protests imposed by Beijing and the end of a more open trade agreement with the US has the city’s arts community worried
X-appeal: millennial collectors open private museum in Beijing
Founded by Michael Xufu Huang and Theresa Tse, the X Museum opens in the Chinese capital this weekend after Covid-19 delay
Christie's and China Guardian Auctions team up for sales and exhibitions series in Shanghai
Collaboration, dubbed 2020+, will take place in late September: Christie's says it is not a reaction to easing of coronavirus lockdown in Chinese city
China’s Giacometti and Picasso museum delayed by coronavirus
Launch of Beijing venue combining works by both artists is postponed—and some loans in doubt
Beijing reopens Forbidden City in time for May Day holiday
State museums in the Chinese capital will reopen with crowd control measures for "golden week" of travel