Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin has returned to Washington to remove a controversial inscription from his memorial to Martin Luther King. Lei remarked that the monument has not been stained by air pollution since its unveiling two...
Two ancient bronze animal head sculptures looted from the Summer Palace during the Second Opium War were returned to China in accordance with the offer businessman François-Henri Pinault made during his visit to the country...
The twelve bronze zodiac animal heads cast by Jesuits for the emperor Qianlong have become a potent symbol of China’s humiliation by predatory Western imperialists during the 19th Century. The heads are widely held to have...
Two zodiac sculptures stolen from the Old Summer Palace by British and French troops in 1860 will return to China later this year. The animal heads, cast in the mid-18th Century, inspired a set of replicas by artist Ai Weiwei...
Though the official dedication of Washington’s new memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. was postponed today as Hurricane Irene blew up the east coast, the memorial had already been opened to the public on Monday. The event...
Video: Trailer for Imaginary Enemy From YouTube, a preview of a documentary about sculptor Liao Yibai: Chinese sculpture artist Liao Yibai is preparing work for his first solo show in the US. His work tells the story of how he...
From IPS: In a society that dictates how a woman should look — hourglass figure and shiny, long hair — Chinese artist Xiang Jing dares to turn stereotypes on their head and disturb those who view her fibreglass...
Reuters and CNS all reported on the female terracotta warrior sculptures by Norwegian artist Marian Heyerdahl, who had her exhibition in Beijing’s 798 Art District. Heyerdahl made her works by duplicating the original terracotta warriors from Qin Shi Huangdi’s mausoleum in their original scale. From last September Heyerdahl lived in Xi’an Lintong to closely observe […]
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