Gu Kaizhi (c. 345-405), was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu province and is believed to be the founder of traditional Chinese painting. By 366, he had become a government officer and was later promoted to royal ...

Recently, in September 2026, the "Art Connects Hearts, Charm of Jiangsu" series of sketching, exhibition and exchange activities visited Nantong, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Wuxi and Suzhou. Supported by the ...

Chinese literati painting is a traditional style which uses a scroll as a canvas and combines the expressions of Chinese poetry, water and ink painting, and calligraphy. What’s special about it is the ...

Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The Song of Wandering Aengus Poem by William Butler Yeats" (1999), ink on paper. Installation view of Summoning Memories: Art ...

How does a culture steeped in ancient tradition grapple with the onset of accelerated modernity? Yang Yongliang is a Shanghainese artist who attempts to fuse traditional Chinese culture with ...

Works amassed by America's Gilded Age tycoons are returning to Chinese hands as wealthy collectors reshape a centuries-old art trade Christie's auctioneer Rupert Banner leans forward with practised ...

A 700-year-old Chinese painting sold Thursday for nearly $40 million after a marathon 75-minute bidding war — the “longest in living memory.” The 6.6-feet scroll, titled “Five Drunken Princes ...

ONE day in January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo ...

The world’s rarest Chinese painting, by poet and artist Su Shi (1037-1101), will lead Christie’s fall sale in Hong Kong, the auction house announced on Thursday. The painting, Wood and Rock, which ...

In the Confucian ideology that pervaded traditional Chinese society for more than two thousand years, women did not determine the course of their own lives. In most regards, they were subservient to ...