On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul held a ceremony returning two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China, following an agreement reached in early January. Attendees included Kansong Art...
Researchers from the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology reported new findings about a famous bronze kneeling figure excavated at China’s Sanxingdui site in Sichuan...
Hyperallergic reviewed Michael Asher, a small survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, arguing that the late conceptual artist (died 2012) treated the museum itself as his medium. The...
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Ai Weiwei opened a large-scale exhibition titled Button Up! at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester on 3 July, presenting more than two decades of work alongside new commissions, many...
Skulptur Projekte Münster, the decennial public art exhibition, announced the first five artists for its next edition opening in June 2027, including Hew Locke and Oscar Murillo. The announcement was...
Hyperallergic published an opinion piece criticizing former Art Basel global director Marc Spiegler’s New York Times guest essay, “Art Galleries Are Not Okay,” arguing that it frames the gallery...
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Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart is presenting Cao Fei’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, titled Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future, featuring films and installations such as Whose Utopia...
Ai Weiwei will reenact his 2011 detention in his first durational endurance performance, Sewing a Button, staged over 24 hours beginning at 5 p.m. on July 3 at Manchester’s Aviva Studios, home of...
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Artist Shuang Li, born in 1990 in China and now based in Berlin and Geneva, presents her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe at Kunsthalle Basel. Titled Alliance, the show centers on a new...
ARTnews highlighted “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” a monographic exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago featuring over 100 works by New York artist Martin Wong, including 11 never-before-exhibited...
Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a renewed five-year partnership with Chanel as the museum prepares for a long closure through 2030 during a renovation estimated at over $500 million. Chanel and the...
The Frick Collection in New York announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton to sponsor exhibitions, research, and public programming, including free-admission First Fridays. Louis Vuitton...
ARTnews’s “Venice Diary Day 3” highlights offsite works during the Venice Biennale, focusing on Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan’s animated video Screen Melancholy (2026) at the offsite Taiwan Pavilion in...
Ai Weiwei will reenact his 81-day detention by China’s Ministry of Public Security in a 24-hour performance titled “Sewing a Button” at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester, England....
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The US-Israel war on Iran has disrupted art shipping routes and driven up transport costs, particularly affecting Asia-based supply chains, according to art logistics professionals. Brent Crude...
A report cited by the Guardian says London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) removed content from exhibition catalogues at the request of Chinese censors, raising concerns about foreign influence on...
In an Artnet Q&A published April 8, 2026, Kong Lingyi outlines her plans as the new CEO of Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art following Philip Tinari’s departure shortly before the Lunar New...
The Human Rights Foundation filed an April petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention seeking a finding that Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen’s detention is arbitrary under...
China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration has ordered a nationwide, item-by-item audit of every state-owned museum collection following a scandal at the Nanjing Museum, according to the South...
ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the...
ARTnews criticizes US cultural politics while reviewing “The Great Camouflage,” a contemporary-art exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai that runs through April 26 (year not specified in...
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Artist Shahzia Sikander’s new hand-drawn animated film, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles, is being screened on the digital façade of Hong Kong’s M+ museum through 21 June. The work uses the historical shift in...
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Since Hong Kong’s 1997 handover to China, authorities have promoted “integration” across the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which includes Hong Kong, Macao, and nine Guangdong cities such as Guangzhou and...
Fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, are converting a landmark building in New York’s Chinatown into a new arts venue called Wang Contemporary, aimed at supporting Asian...
ARTnews reported that a Belgian museum holding colonial-era records related to the Congo is facing a request for access from a minerals company seeking historical documentation. The article centers...
ARTnews reported that investigators found decades-long mismanagement and corruption at China’s Nanjing Museum. The investigation described systemic governance and financial problems spanning many...