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Art history at a mouse click How many art historians does it take to write a timeline of art history? At least 100 if the project is taking place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ......(Continue Reading) The wild, wild East: the first-ever Guangzhou Triennial and the fourth Shanghai Biennale, in their concurrent runs, caught the energy of the entrepreneurial China today, with its bustling commercial districts and its antic, independent young artists, must be a tough place for the October crowd to visit. For nowhere is there a clearer demonstration of t...(Continue Reading)The Water Mill and Northern Song imperial patronage of art, commerce, and science - China The Chinese painting of architectural subjects--buildings, boats, wheeled vehicles, and other mechanical apparatuses--is called jiehua. (1) The term ......(Continue Reading)China's other cultural revolution: history and Chinese art - includes related material on expatriate Chinese artists in New York The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's 'A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China' is large-scale exhibit documents the ......(Continue Reading)The enigmatic art of Sanxingdui: bronze trees and masks evoke the spirit worlds of a lost civilization in China The Red Basin, which falls mostly within southwestern China's Sichuan Province, is an isolated land of plenty. Since antiquity, its fertile soil, mild ......(Continue Reading)
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