Wallace Chan’s sculpture & jewellery take us to other worlds in Shanghai
12 August 2026 • Tabish Khan
Wallace Chan’s most ambitious exhibition to date opens in China.
Tag: China
Rising in the East? Chinese Abstraction
30 October 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
The western profile and marketability of contemporary Asian art has risen sharply in recent years, principally through the Japanese Gutai (‘concrete’) and Mona-ha (‘school of things’) and the Korean Dansaekhwa (‘monochrome painting’) schools, with their distinctive titles
Takashi Murakami is having his first solo show in mainland China
5 November 2018 • Mark Westall
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is having his first solo show in mainland China at Perrotin which will feature several new works created for the show that encompasses many of the themes and characters that have come to define his career.
LAST CHANCE : Ai Weiwei at Royal Academy of Arts
11 December 2015 • Lee Sharrock
Although no stranger to blockbuster exhibitions, the Royal Academy’s current Ai Weiwei solo exhibition has proved so popular that the galleries will be opening round the clock for the final weekend. What can you expect?
Ai Weiwei says internet is like a modern church after flood of Lego offers
26 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Chinese artist thanks online community for offering to donate toy bricks for artwork following Lego’s refusal to supply them
Anish Kapoor is right to be livid about China stealing his big Bean sculpture
14 August 2015 • Mark Westall
A city in Zinjiang has a new public artwork that’s suspiciously similar to Kapoor’s Bean in Chicago – and the sculptor is incensed, though this is just the latest act of copycat culture in China. Are people in the west too precious about intellectual property rights?
UK denies Ai Weiwei full business visa based on disputed ‘criminal’ history
30 July 2015 • Mark Westall
British embassy officials say celebrated Chinese artist failed to declare his record on application – but supporters say he was never actually charged with a crime
Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, by Barnaby Martin – review
6 April 2013 • Mark Westall
This account, based on illicit interviews, reveals an artist weakened by incarceration, but a figurehead still for China’s vital cultural movement
Ai Weiwei to release heavy metal album
11 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Chinese artist has written nine rock-tinged tracks for music debut hot on the heels of Gangnam-style video
Ai Weiwei ordered to switch off studio webcams
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Chinese activist and artist turns off live feed from cameras he installed in his home, after authorities object
Ai Weiwei: ‘Younger people can be more hurt. I have my own beliefs’
19 December 2011 • Mark Westall
When the artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei was arrested by the Chinese government in April and held in secret for 81 days, he became an international cause célèbre
Artist Ai Weiwei released on bail by Chinese police
23 June 2011 • Mark Westall
Ai tells the Guardian that he is in good health and back with his family after more than two months in detention
Ai Weiwei in ‘good physical health but mentally conflicted’
17 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Chinese authorities allow wife, Lu Qing, to visit artist and activist who had not been seen since arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April
The Schirn Kunsthalle will Show the Chinese Sculptural Group “Rent Collection Courtyard”
28 July 2009 • Mark Westall
Rent Collection Courtyard, 1974–1978 (original 1965), Test the Quantity of the Grains (Detail) In conjunction with China’s appearance as Guest… Read More
This is War! Robert Capa at Work on View at Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
8 July 2009 • Mark Westall
The exhibition This is War! Robert Capa at work is a travelling project that up to now has been seen in New York and London, among other cities.
ShContemporary 08 – THE Asian Art Fair returns to the Shanghai Exhibition Center September 10th-13th
9 September 2008 • Mark Westall
ShContemporary 08 -After a successful debut in 2007, ShContemporary returns to the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center from September 10th –… Read More