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The latest news, analysis and opinion on Chinese artists. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
‘I control my body’: Tattoos as an act of empowerment in China
Tattoos

Video | ‘1,000 Girls’ documents women’s motivations for getting tattooed

Asian diaspora

5 Chinese R&B albums to listen to right now, from Kun to Ozi

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Books and literature

Why a book on how to be a better writer changed this artist’s life

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Venice Biennale 2022: the 7 most interesting highlights from Asian pavilions

From China, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and more, here are seven of the most interesting Asian pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2022.

Artist Kim Yun-chul in front of his “Chroma V”, suspended in the middle of the South Korean pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022. Photo: Enid Tsui
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China dissident Ai Weiwei makes operatic debut with ‘Turandot’ in Rome

Production of dark Puccini opera includes bloodshed, despotism, new geopolitical focus, with Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv conducting.

M+ museum of visual culture

Zao Wou-ki’s stepdaughter donates works by Chinese painter to M+ museum

The painter, who lived much of his life in Paris, is known for his large abstract canvases, but most of the works donated by Sin-May Roy Zao are prints, and show another side to Zao’s work, an M+ curator says.

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LA was desert for contemporary art, Chinese migrant felt. She’s changing it

Arriving from Shanghai, Lu Yiwei found Los Angeles’ contemporary art scene lacking. Now she’s opened a gallery. May Xue, veteran of contemporary art institutions in Beijing and Hong Kong, opened an art space too.

“Natural Women”, a recent exhibition in Los Angeles of the work of four female artists, was curated by gallery founder Lu Yiwei, one of two women from China to open art spaces in the city recently. Photo: Yiwei Gallery
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How investment in art sets Hangzhou apart from other cities in China

Shanghai may be known as China’s cultural capital, but Hangzhou’s expanding art infrastructure and laid-back ethos have created a vibrant scene.

M+ museum of visual culture

‘There is still hope’ in Hong Kong, Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang says

The first major Chinese artist to tour M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of visual culture, Zhang, 63, gives it a positive review and reaffirms his intention to move his home and studio to the city.

Contemporary Chinese Artists

Review | New thinking about the Chinese contemporary art at M+ collected by Uli Sigg

Comprehensive, unwieldy and chaotic, the catalogue of the vast Sigg Collection details the works held at M+ while trying to avoid presenting them as a canon of contemporary Chinese art.

Yin Xiuzhen’s 2001 work “Portable City: Beijing” from the Uli Sigg collection of Chinese contemporary art catalogued in a 500-page book edited by Pi Li. Photo: M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong/Yin Xiuzhen.
Fashion

How millennial Chinese designers are infiltrating world fashion

Worn by Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Blackpink’s Lisa, and tapped to work with brands like Fitbit, Onitsuka Tiger and Vacheron Constantin, it’s clear the fashion world has a new breed of talent to reckon with

Models present creations by designer Jiang Jia during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, in September 2021. Photo: Xinhua
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Contemporary paper-cut artists put a new spin on the Chinese folk art

Paper cutting has been practised on China for more than 1,000 years, but not like this – a show of 90 works by seven Chinese contemporary artists in Hong Kong puts a new spin on the folk art.

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Review | Trousers as a symbol of Western imperialism’s spread, and other whimsies

A collection of essays by British cultural historian David Elliott about contemporary Asian art is as eclectic as it is erudite. Full of historical titbits, it is more a work to dip into than to consume at one sitting.

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Artist Angela Su to represent Hong Kong at 2022 Venice Biennale

‘It is a deep honour to represent Hong Kong’ at the Venice Biennale in 2022, says Angela Su, the first female artist in Hong Kong to have a solo exhibition at the international event.

Angela Su is the first female artist in Hong Kong to have a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale. She will represent the city at the event in 2022. Photo: Nora Tam
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Art exhibitions address the changing face of Hong Kong today

Three contrasting art exhibitions attempt to confront and make sense of the major issues facing Hong Kong today.

Yim Sui-fong’s Avatar (2021), Hong Kong, March 10, 2021 at WMA Space exhibition called “Can’t touch this!”. 10MAR21


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Poop sculptures and dog treat models: meet Chinese artist-provocateur Liu Wei

The contemporary artist isn’t only about outlandish artworks designed to shock – especially after Covid-19’s ‘social stagnation’ prompted him to reflect

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Art from before the machine age: a show of Marvel and DC Comics sketches

‘Pages of Power’ in Hong Kong features hand-drawn art by Pat Lee, a comic-book artist who has created illustrations for Marvel and DC Comics titles such as Batman, Superman, The X-Men and Transformers.

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‘Always a rebel and an independent thinker’: artist Huang Xiaopeng

Friends and fans devastated by death of nonconformist Chinese artist Huang Xiaopeng in Berlin at age 60.

Artist Huang Xiaopeng Photo: courtesy of Lukas Tam Wai-ping
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