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Ming Dynasty Master Qiu Ying’s ‘Spring Morning in the Han Palace’ — A Masterpiece of Chinese Court Painting

Qiu Ying: a professional painter who rose from poverty to the top of Chinese art Qiu Ying (c. 1494–1552), courtesy name Shifu and sobriquet Shizhou, was born in Taicang, Jiangsu pr...

A Tang spring that survived an emperor’s flight

A visitor standing before The Court Lady Guoguo’s Spring Outing does not first see history. They see movement. There is no palace. No riverbank. No flowering tree. No painted sprin...

Four decades of Chinese art, 67 works and a show that defies easy categorisation

Auckland Art Gallery’s Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now 永远的明天：中国艺术进行时 invites you into the lived experience of modern China. Running until August, Auckland Art Galler...

Chinese art exhibition reflects transformative modern times

Visitors can soak up one of the largest collections of Chinese contemporary artworks to ever be displayed in Auckland through until late August.

Facts About Chinese History That Make it the Craziest Civilization

Fei Tian College MFA Graduation Exhibition Blends Technical Excellence With Human Stories

The 2026 Fine Arts Exhibition at Fei Tian College opened this week at the college’s newly renovated Function Hall in Middletown, presenting a collection of oil paintings and graphi...

Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China

Gao Zhen is being retroactively punished for 15 year-old-works, in a case that has alarmed rights groups.

Blooming good: Monet, maestros shine as garden art bridges East and West

Two famed water lily paintings by French Impressionist master Claude Monet will go on display in Hong Kong from Friday in a free exhibition highlighting cultural exchange between E...

Order, character and time preserved in China’s classical furniture

The first time one truly stands before a Ming-style horseshoe-back armchair, a quiet misperception arises. It does not feel like an antique. It feels like a piece of modern design...

‘Stamp boy’: sealing passion of China emperor criticised for harming artistic integrity

As one of the most frequently portrayed Chinese emperors in modern costume dramas, Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong is also renowned for his obsessive habit of impressing seals onto h...

Asia-Pacific Community: Cultures bridged through ink, brush at China-Malaysia arts show

KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Beneath the quiet grace of brush and ink, a striking cross-cultural dialogue unfolds in Kuala Lumpur: Chinese seal script curls elegantly alongsid...

In a time of war, Chinese museums are a safe haven for ancient treasures of Iran

From glimmering floral-patterned glassware to the vivid colours of intricately designed Persian carpets, artefacts from Iran have captivated visitors to a museum in northern China,...

At the Met, “Infinite Artistry” Reframes Japanese Ceramics as a Living Philosophy

From Neolithic fire vessels to gold-repaired tea bowls, the exhibition traces an unbroken thread between ancient clay and contemporary life.

Taiwan defies Beijing with its art

Fei Tian College MFA Graduation Exhibition Blends Technical Excellence With Human Stories

The 2026 Fine Arts Exhibition at Fei Tian College opened this week at the college’s newly renovated Function Hall in Middletown, presenting a collection of oil paintings and graphi...

The Way of Tea: How It Became More Than Just a Drink in Ancient China and Japan

From the tea banquets of ancient China to the minimalist ceremonies of Japan, the 'Way of Tea' has evolved into far more than a cultural tradition

Artist Zhao Li Turns Painting Into A Performance Of Color, Flowers, And Emotional Intensity

Zhao Li is a Chinese artist and illustrator. Public bio snippets point to a background in fine art studies in Xi’an and Torino, which fits a practice grounded in both academic trai...

A Trip Through China (1917) | Blair University Archives

Step into a vanished world. A Trip Through China is a rare surviving fragment of Benjamin Brodsky’s ambitious ten-reel travelogue, filmed across China in the mid-1910s and original...

Eat idol’s poems: inside the wild, ancient history of Chinese fan culture

China’s fandom culture predates today’s pop idols and live-streaming celebrities by millennia. In ancient times, fame was cultivated in the streets, restaurants, and poetry circles...