A new print ad for French automaker Citroen has been pulled from several Spanish newspapers amidst complaints from Chinese netizens over the artsy portrayal of Chairman Mao. As you can see in the image, Citroen modifies the famous likeness of Mao that looms over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, adding a scowl to his face, […]

The Stir Art Gallery in Shanghai’s Luwan district opens a photo exhibition Tuesday entitled “The Other Side of Reality” featuring the works of 23-year-old Jiangxi photographer Yan De Xiu. The obscured photos straddle the line between camera and computer as well as the line between reality and the photographic reality. Stir wrote of […]

Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body responsible for nominating and selecting the winning films for the Academy Awards, announced the short list of 15 films competing for the Oscar for Best Documentary. If you’re not familiar with the AMPAS, this is the academy referred to in 99% of all Oscar […]

When Vanity Fair is not taking pictures of nude pregnant actresses for its cover, the magazine can at times put forth a captivating feature. In the December issue, on newsstands now, art writer Barbara Pollack presents a comprehensive view of the Chinese art scene, the conditions that created it and the monster it has […]

If you wake up Tuesday morning in Shanghai and something is amiss, perhaps the air has a tinge of the Can Can fragrance and off in the distance you can hear faint utterances of “that’s hot,” it may be because there’s a certain heiress in town. Fresh off a stint in jail, Paris Hilton arrives […]

The Fat Ladies Are Singing in China
If you’ve ever channel surfed in mainland China, you know that 23 of the 40 available channels are devoted to Chinese women in headdresses singing in pitches so high that you’re thankful your television screen doesn’t shatter. This would be the Peking opera and there’s a lot of […]

A Beijing moviegoer has filed suit against China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for censoring the sex out of Ang Lee’s latest film Lust, Caution. Dong Yanbin, a graduate student at China University of Political Science and Law, claimed the missing 30 minutes of footage cut by Lee to adhere to China’s […]

In 2005, Chinese author/actress/weirdo Niki Yan wrote the autobiographical novel “My Love for You, Tom Cruise — A Desperate Chinese Girl’s Confession,” chronicling her journey from a poor Chinese village to America four years earlier. While the tale of a young Chinese girl escaping poverty in a small village and realizing her dream has […]

The Shanghai Art Fair, the city’s biggest contemporary art festival for foreign art collectors, is no longer all about the Benjamins. Opening Thursday at the ShanghaiMart, the Shanghai Art Fair has changed its slogan so that the art world doesn’t perceive the event as being only about money. Even though this event, like […]

If you were arguably the most renowned artist within, arguably, the most provocative art movement the East has ever seen, where would you go to showcase your work? Take a few seconds. Well if you said Queens, home of the Mets, 50 Cent and the phrase “youz guys,” you are correct. Yue […]