Chinese art
We must salvage what remains of the past: Interview with Johnson Chang
The guru of avant-garde Chinese art in the Eighties and early Nineties talks now of a return to tradition
There has been a softening in the middle-range of the art market
Percentage rates are down in many areas for the first half of the season
Guggenheim's China exhibition: everything but the kitchen sink
This mega-show spanning five millennia focuses on “diversity rather than unity”, insists its organiser Sherman Lee, but does it risk homogenising Chinese art into a timeline?
Collector interview: Yonfan offers a tribute to the Princess of Wales from Hong Kong to Paris
Photographer and film director Yonfan has given eight Chinese paintings to the Musée Guimet in Paris
Collector profile: David Tang, the Jay Gatsby of Hong Kong?
David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style
Major Hong Kong collector, T.T. Tsui to sell his outstanding collection
His motivations to sell remain unclear
A growing and buoyant Chinese art market suggests “No one should underestimate the strength of the Chinese diaspora”
1996 saw high prices and new records with the Chinese determining the shape and make up of future sales
Shanghai is taking to meishu, for the first time an art scene is emerging in China’s most commercial city
With the Shanghai Museum expanding this month, a modern art museum planned for two years hence and a dozen serious commercial galleries likely in 1997
This year’s top discoveries, as published in the State Cultural Relics Bureau’s weekly newspaper, plus the top ten projects of the past five years
The red-letter roll call of recent Chinese archaeology
Chinese privatise their auction scene
Rapid advances as new companies model their catalogues and conditions of sale on Western models
As economic development lays bare China's archaeological heritage, the government struggles to keep up with protecting the past
The Three Gorges dam and a number of smuggling stories highlight the difficulty of preserving the country's heritage
Singapore’s new art auction market has an impressive turnover of more than $10 million after only five sales
A ten-fold increase in turnover on 1993
Taiwan round-up: Belgian Expressionists, Warhol and a new museum in Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts opens a year ahead of schedule
A gallery with a new vision of Chinese art opens at the V&A this month
Daring to say “This is rare and beautiful” in new V&A Chinese gallery