The painting hanging at the entrance of the Cantor Arts Center’s remarkable new exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” is an oddly compelling ...

For the downright dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, world-famous film director Zhang Yimou utilized the form of a basic painting scroll as the quintessential backdrop for his ...

Feng Yuan believes Chinese ink art still has its distinctive value and should win a wider audience. Zou Hong / China Daily An ink painting by Feng Yuan features women farmers. As China's influence ...

Qiu Zhijje, “30 Letters to Qiu Jiawa” (2009) (Image copyright the artist, and via the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first full-on foray into the world of contemporary ...

NEW YORK — It’s hard to break from the past. Even under the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which sought to smash the “Four Olds” of customs, culture, habits and ideas, the tradition of calligraphy was ...

Chinese ink landscape paintings have rarely been about depicting landscapes. Realistic depictions of craggy mountain ranges with jutted peaks or numinous landscapes shrouded with mist are always ...

Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The Song of Wandering Aengus Poem by William Butler Yeats" (1999), ink on paper. Installation view of Summoning Memories: Art ...

We speak of "modernity" as if it had the same meaning wherever it occurred. But modernity in China has implications and milestones very different from those it has in the West, where the concept ...

The pursuit of beauty has been a timeless thread weaving throughout human history. China's distinct aesthetics are not only embodied in every aspect of Chinese life, but also increasingly bringing ...

The latest Chinese ink artwork created by an artificial intelligence robot is on display in London. Made by Hong Kong artist and inventor Victor Wong, the robot artist, which has been named Gemini, ...