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 […]

Chinese collectors, there’s a new record to beat. The “Red Cliff Handscroll,” the most famous work by Ming Dynasty artist Qiu Ying, was sold in Beijing Tuesday for $10.7 million USD, a new record for the sale of a Chinese painting. The record bid came from an unnamed private collector from the mainland, […]

After weeks of discreet construction, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art opened its doors Monday in Beijing’s rejuvenated Dashanzi art district. As Beijing has become the focal point of the global art scene in recent years, the Ullens Center, or UCCA will be ground zero for some of the world’s most sought after exhibits. […]