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Beijing art world starts shutting down again amid new coronavirus cluster
M Woods among private museums closing as China reports 137 new infections in wholesale food market
NewsArt market
Gallery Weekend Beijing draws a local crowd to a city cautiously reawakening
Event was postponed from March due to coronavirus and, while China is still closed to international visitors, mainland collectors were eager to attend and spend
PreviewExhibitions
An eerie pre-pandemic vision of the future emerges in Beijing
UCCA's Meditations in an Emergency exhibition was hastily put together after the coronavirus lockdown through plans into disarray
NewsMuseums & Heritage
X-appeal: millennial collectors open private museum in Beijing
Founded by Michael Xufu Huang and Theresa Tse, the X Museum opens in the Chinese capital this weekend after Covid-19 delay
NewsMuseums & Heritage
China’s Giacometti and Picasso museum delayed by coronavirus
Launch of Beijing venue combining works by both artists is postponed—and some loans in doubt
NewsArt market
Gallery Weekend Beijing will go ahead—but who will go?
While Chinese capital starts to relax restrictions, uncertainty over domestic travel arrangements may impact on event
NewsChina
Beijing reopens Forbidden City in time for May Day holiday
State museums in the Chinese capital will reopen with crowd control measures for "golden week" of travel
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Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art to reflect on our post-Covid world when it re-opens in May
Opening exhibition "grew directly out of this unprecedented situation,” says the museum's director Philip Tinari
AnalysisChina
How Chinese museums are coping with coronavirus: an in-depth report
As museums remain on lockdown in China, we reveal the full extent of the crisis for both state and private institutions and their innovative short-term solutions
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Beijing officials deny permit for show of Chinese-American artist amid political tensions
Exhibition of Hung Liu at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art has been censored by the government at the last minute
NewsChina
Museum dedicated to Picasso and Giacometti to launch in Beijing
Paris-based institutions Musée National Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti will open space in 798 district next June
NewsCensorship
Feminist exhibition in China suddenly axed following alleged governmental pressure
Show in Shanghai cancelled after being deemed "too sensitive" to run during 70th anniversary of country's founding
ArchivePrivate Museums
The Ullens Centre for the Arts will be the first private museum for Chinese and contemporary art in Beijing
...and this is where a Belgian collector will put his art on show
NewsChina
Two Beijing art districts abruptly evicted to make way for demolition
Police in riot gear escort hundreds of artists working in area studios from the premises
FeaturePhotography
Remembering Tiananmen Square in a new age of censorship
It's been 30 years since the event that saw thousands of protestors clamour for democracy in Beijing
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New York architect Annabelle Selldorf to lead design of visitors centre in Beijing’s Forbidden City
When restoration is complete, the public will have access to Qianlong Garden complex for the first time
BlogIn the frame
Give a cat a home at M Woods: museum kitties looking for purr-fect parents
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'The model in China is constantly evolving': Ullens Center director on his plans to turn it into a foundation
Western-style model could be a turning point for the country’s fast-proliferating private museums
NewsArt market
Qi Baishi paintings set new $141m record for Chinese artist
Set of 12 ink panels by traditional master sell to Chinese buyer at Poly Auction Beijing for RMB931.5m
ArchivePrivate Museums
Shanghai: City of millionaires is driving China’s museum boom
At least three major art institutions opened last year and a similar number are expected to open in 2013
ArchiveBeijing
China gets its first contemporary art museum
The opening of the Ullens Center will transform the local scene and the West’s understanding of what’s happening in China
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Rubells team up with Beijing’s Ullens Center
Collaborative show will open in December 2013
ArchiveUllens Center for Contemporary Art
Ullens makes U-turn to refocus on Asian space
After seeming to grow cool on his Chinese venture, the collector is now staging numerous shows and branching into Indian art
ArchiveChina
Private museums bloom in Shanghai
Individuals and corporations are sharing their traditional and contemporary art collections with the public
ArchiveArt fairs
CIGE Beijing is still local and still finding its way
Loyal collectors and galleries keep contemporary show on the map
ArchiveLaw
Collector and dealer Zhang Rui arrested
No access to lawyers, claims source
ArchiveNews
Warhol’s famous athlete portraits stolen from collector Richard Weisman's home
A $1m reward is being offered
ArchiveArt market
Is China ready to recover from the collapse in prices that saw the disappearance of scores of galleries in the first months of this year?
Despite state subsidies and heavy promotion, not everyone is feeling the benefit
ArchiveUllens Center for Contemporary Art
Ullens buys Tayou at Venice Biennale
The collectors add work by Pascale Marthine Tayou to their extensive collection
ArchiveJ.M.W. Turner
Tate Turners on tour: 'J.M.W. Turner' to be exhibited at Beijing's National Art Museum
Having travelled the US and Russia, the Turner exhibition will head to China
ArchiveHuang Yong Ping
“I always insist that the artist must be given carte blanche”: Interview with Huang Yong Ping
The artist discusses his work, politics, censorship, “fake art” and the Beijing Olympics
ArchiveCollectors
Meet China’s top collector of contemporary art
Guan Yi tells us about his plans to open a museum and sculpture park on a 16.5-acre plot of land in Beijing
ArchiveExhibitions
Andy Warhol’s $28m “Athletes” in Chinese capital for the Games
The series will go on show at the Faurscho gallery in Beijing
ArchiveNational Museum of China
New media exhibition as the "the coming of age show" for the National Museum of China
The country’s first major survey of new media took place in June—with a little help from MoMA, Tate, and several others
ArchiveUllens Center for Contemporary Art
Conveyor belt of directors continues as the world wonders, what is going on at the Ullens Center in Beijing?
Since it opened last November, four out of five senior curators and directors have left and one has apparently been redeployed
ArchiveChina
Contemporary art chosen for new US embassy chosen “to connect” to China
The new embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others
ArchiveChina
Increased talks of creating private museums in China
Amidst struggling contemporary art scene
ArchiveCollectors
Collector sells £15m Turner collection to buy Chinese contemporary art
Baron Ullens is acquiring new works for his Beijing gallery
ArchiveBeijing
Beijing's Art District to get its first Kunsthalle
Backed by businessman-collector Guy Ullens
ArchiveImports and Exports
China and Italy team up to fight illicit trade
The joint effort will use satellite technology to help protect archaeological sites
ArchiveArt market
Success in China for Christie's following inaugural sale of modern and contemporary art
Auction report; 3rd November 2005
ArchiveCollectors
The eccentric Korean art collector and supermarket mogul C.I. Kim is to open a new branch of his Arario Gallery in Beijing
Arario Beijing claims to be “the world’s largest gallery”
ArchiveChina
The great Chinese gold rush: Chinese art scene continues to blossom
Tate’s director of collections has visited China twice this year and MoMA trustees are also on their way
ArchiveArt market
A tour of the Shanghai and Beijing galleries
China’s economy may be faltering, but the Shanghai and Beijing contemporary art markets have expanded significantly since the Asian economic crisis last year
ArchiveConservation & Preservation
Terracotta warriors attacked by mould
Tourism is causing a conservation nightmare
ArchiveArt market
A brief guide to Chinese contemporary art
China is in the news more and more as its economy booms and Hong Kong gets handed back this summer; Chinese art is beginning to penetrate Western consciousness
ArchiveExhibitions
"China: cradle of knowledge" officially opens in Birmingham 25 February
Astonishing science and technology show from Peking