Past informs present, even an antique art object or the landscape of a long-defunct academy, Xin Conan-Wu would like her students to remember. This idea pervades her research and even more so her ...

Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Paintings have become a reliable crowd-puller at public events in Tianjin. Visitors queue to ...

Paintings from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) portray traditional court maids, finches, bright clouds, distant peaks, and cloudy mountains. Paintings during this period included nearly all genres, with ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

Near the end of China's Song Dynasty around 1119, Emperor Huizong painted a parakeet perched on an apricot tree in his garden, depicting its layered feathers and bright eyes and the flowers' ...

Xu Daoning, Chinese (ca. 970–1052). / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Nature has provided a source of inspiration for Chinese poets and painters for thousands of years. An exhibition at the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has loaned several of its Chinese landscape paintings to China’s Shanghai Museum for an exhibition that’s been drawing huge crowds.

“I was born to create with a Chinese mind. At the same time, I was born in the Information Age, where technology grows fast, and new media and photography are handy tools for me,”Yongliang said via ...

Past informs present, even an antique art object or the landscape of a long-defunct academy, Xin Conan-Wu would like her students to remember. This idea pervades her research and even more so her ...