The National Museum of Asian Art is presenting “Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings,” the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Anyang, the capital of ancient China’s Shang ...
From elegant porcelain vessels enjoyed by the living to charming pottery statuettes created to serve the dead, this exhibition showcases artifacts dating to China’s prehistoric beginnings through its ...
Gongbi paintings often explore themes of nature, mythology, or daily life scenes. Common subjects include flowers, birds, ...
The Art Institute of Chicago is selling — “deaccessioning,” in museum terms — more than 300 Chinese artworks through a Christie’s auction in New York in September. “The selection represents a broad ...
The Chinese art tradition is guided by specific aesthetic principles, philosophical values and historic lineage. In this series, the Post introduces basic approaches to appreciating Chinese art and ...
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third century B.C.E.) from its collection and formally transferred them to the ...
A shipwreck loaded with Tang dynasty (618-907) ceramics buried off Indonesia; an ancient Chinese sailing boat replica built upon inspiration from Ming dynasty navigator Zheng He; a painting of busy ...
With 1 billion people estimated to be living in Chinese cities in 2050, China is seeing hundreds of thousands of its rural villages abandoned. In a bid to bring renewed life to one of its 102 ...