Throughout the history of Western art, certain concepts have remained durable. Style. Iconography. Representation. Even when these categories are being inverted or rejected, they remain at the ...

In recognition of a career spent helping to create the field of contemporary Chinese art history in higher education, Prof. Wu Hung will receive one of the highest academic honors from the world’s ...

A General History of Chinese Art comprises six volumes with a total of nine parts spanning from the Prehistoric Era until the 3rd year of Xuantong during the Qing Dynasty (1911). The work provides a ...

"425 illustrations, 323 in color." In this first systematic introduction to contemporary Chinese art, Wu Hung provides an accessible, focused and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese ...

As Su Shi's "Wood and Rock" goes to auction, we are reminded that the discussion of genuine and fake paintings is ever-present in Chinese art history. From a technical perspective, the label “fake” is ...

Wang Guangyi, “Mao Zedong: Red Grid No. 2” (1988), oil on canvas, 59 x 51.18 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) A specter is haunting the Guggenheim — the ...

On loan from the Princeton University Art Museum, the document is an important early example of running script, in which rapidly brushed Chinese characters virtually unfurl into one another with a ...

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 ...

Located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art maintains a mission around fostering and promoting the research into and audience awareness of Chinese art—both historical and contemporary.