Some recent restrictions placed on historical books, museum exhibits, and academic discourse have brought renewed attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to rewrite history, control the historical narrative, and...
A museum in Philadelphia has been forced to remove the remains of several mummies originating in Xinjiang from an exhibit, at the behest of Chinese officials. AP reports: The artifacts were part of “Secrets of the Silk...
The Times of India reports that the Chinese government has returned two Buddhist relics to the Beijing Yunju Temple for display. The relics, believed to be from the body of the Sakyamuni, have been kept in an underground vault...
Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, writes on Chinese contemporary artist Qiu Zhijie (邱志傑). Qiu is known for incorporating video and traditional Chinese media in his artwork. From the...
An exhibition of John ‘China’ Thomson’s photographs will go public for the first time next week. From Telegraph: Taken between 1870 and 1871 by the Scottish photographer John “China” Thomson, the...
The New York Times reports on the Chinese government’s refusal to provide artwork for an Asia Society show on art in the revolutionary period: The Chinese Ministry of Culture had originally agreed to allow the society to...
An exhibition at Peking University reveals the true colors of family snapshots, from China Daily: The exhibition features photographs of former staff that worked with, or fought battles with, Chinese leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi, and cultural icons.In addition there are poignant photos from the family albums of […]
Chinese officials have threatened to sue after a German museum has acknowledged that terracotta soldiers in an exhibition are fakes. From Spiegel Online: What does it mean to be “authentic”? How is that different from “original”? And can a fake also be authentic? Such semantic hair-splitting is at the heart of a museum scandal about […]
From AFP: A German museum has issued a warning that eight statues in its crowd-pulling exhibition on China’s legendary “Terracotta Army” may be fake after an art dealer instigated a police probe into their provenance. “The exhibition continues but we have put up three notices at the entrance warning visitors that the pieces may not […]
The New York Times reviews the new exhibit at the Metropolitan, “Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang“: The collection, acquired by the Met in 2005, is unostentatious, with some 40 examples of painting and calligraphy, all but two dating from the 20th century. Although it has fine things, it is not […]
The Los Angeles Times writes about Ai Weiwei’s video installation, “Beijing: Chang’an Boulevard,” which is going to make its U.S. premiere at Morono Kiang Gallery in LA: Traveling the entire length of this major east-west artery in Beijing, the artist stopped at 50-meter intervals (about 164 feet) to record minute-long takes on digital video. Each […]
Holland Cotter of the New York Times writes about several exhibits by contemporary Chinese artists slated to open in coming months: So far New Yorkers may wonder what all the fuss is about. Apart from a few major big-bang events, like “Inside Out: New Chinese Art” at the Asia Society and P.S. 1 in 1998 […]
BBC made a follow-up report on Terracotta army’s exhibition in UK and said that” the exhibition, The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, looks set to become one of the most successful the museum has ever staged.” Nearly 100,000 tickets have already been sold for the six-month exhibition – and it still does not open for […]
From BBC News: At a new exhibition in Beijing, there are some handy hints for officials wanting to stay on the straight and narrow. Pictures of clinking wine glasses and a pair of shapely female legs shod in red, high-heeled shoes warn of experiences that ought to be avoided. The exhibition has been organised to […]
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