The painting hanging at the entrance of the Cantor Arts Center’s remarkable new exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” is an oddly compelling ...

For the downright dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, world-famous film director Zhang Yimou utilized the form of a basic painting scroll as the quintessential backdrop for his ...

"Singing Bird," by Marian Bingham ’91. Ink on paper, c. 1964-1967. The Chinese ink art of contemporary American artist Marian “Bing” Bingham ’91, which showcases her unique journey of studying and ...

Chinese history paints its way into the Stanley Museum with a fresh, new exhibit honoring the different forms of one of the oldest living art mediums, the calligraphy brush. “Brushwork describes the ...

NEW YORK — It’s hard to break from the past. Even under the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which sought to smash the “Four Olds” of customs, culture, habits and ideas, the tradition of calligraphy was ...

The Dutch-born, London-based art dealer Michael Goedhuis, who has an extensive background in finance, has played a pivotal role in the contemporary Chinese painting market. His latest curatorial ...

The pursuit of beauty has been a timeless thread weaving throughout human history. China's distinct aesthetics are not only embodied in every aspect of Chinese life, but also increasingly bringing ...

We speak of "modernity" as if it had the same meaning wherever it occurred. But modernity in China has implications and milestones very different from those it has in the West, where the concept ...

A typical Chinese water-ink painting that depicts "Talks between Master and Disciple" by artist Shen Qin is now on display at the "New Ink Art in China 1978-2018" exhibition at Beijing Minsheng Art ...

A decade ago, Lisa Chiba, an American living in Hong Kong, received a gift from her husband that would change her perspective on art forever: a Chinese ink painting by Lui Shou-kwan. “I was just ...