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 ...

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 ...

Qiu Zhijje, “30 Letters to Qiu Jiawa” (2009) (Image copyright the artist, and via the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first full-on foray into the world of contemporary ...

Chinese ink artists are profoundly relevant to contemporary Chinese society, yet until recently have been largely neglected by curators and critics alike. Gallerist Michael Goedhuis, who has been ...

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 ...

Curated by Ethan Cohen, a New York-based gallerist who has specialized in contemporary Chinese art since 1987, the show examines how traditional Chinese ink practices are being reinterpreted through ...

One of the Western world’s finest collections of Chinese ink drawings created in the last 20 years is currently on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and the collectors live right down the ...

Artist Hong Wai's exhibition 'No Way To Be Good' pays homage to the late Cantopop diva and to Hong Kong's 'golden age' of ...

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 ...

Among the luminaries I met was Li Duo, a master of freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting, whose artistry transcends mere technique to become a meditation on nature’s elegance. Born in Beijing in ...