A tenmoku "oil spot" Jian tea bowl dating from the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) sold for more than $11.7 million at auction Thursday, setting a new world record for a Jian kiln item, during Christie's Asian Art Week in New York.
Chinese and Singaporean artists are presenting a show featuring sustainability in Shanghai Dayuntang Art Museum through Sept 25.
Contemporary artist Jiang Pengyi's current solo exhibition in Shanghai shows his latest development in concept photography. Titled Grace, it is held at Shanghart Gallery's two different spaces through Oct 23.
Zhao Bandi, a Chinese contemporary artist whose several works aroused debates, staged a performance art-style party titled Chopin Underwater in a countryside villa in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, on Sept 12.
Fram Kitagawa believes that fine art is not independent of ordinary people's lives. In 1994, the 70-year-old Japanese exhibition curator changed Tachikawa, an abandoned military area on the outskirts of Tokyo, into an experimental art zone.
Many people take Beijing's metropolitan status for granted.
George Wong, who does not know how many artworks he owns, says donating them to public institutions and creating spaces to show them is his life's mission. Deng Zhangyu reports.
A string of classic theatrical shows was performed at the University of the South Pacific on September 13.
Storks deliver babies. Sounds fantastic? Warner Bros' upcoming animated movie Storks is a new twist on the mythologic concept of storks delivering babies.
IQiyi, one of China's biggest video-streaming websites, recently signed strategic cooperation agreement with Skyworth, the nation's major TV manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
The 12 Girls Band toured in Japan from Sept 8 to 13 to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The women gave a total of five performances in Tokyo, Nagoya and Kyoto.
A series of photos presenting China's Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, are a hit online.