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The International Awards for Art Criticism Ltd. (IAAC) launches the fourth edition of their Awards this month (IAAC 4) and will announce their new competition rules, awards system and members of its international jury at a press conference to be held at the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum on 2 June 2017. >> Read more

It is too early to decide if I am destroying the tradition of ink painting. —Zheng Chongbin >> Read more

The Westerners are skilled in geometry, and consequently there is no the slightest mistake in their way of rendering light and shade [yang-yin] and distance (near and far). When they paint houses on a wall people are tempted to walk into them . . . Students of painting may well take over one or two points from them to make their own paintings more attractive to the eye. >> Read more

(中文) 2015年，被业界称为“中国当代水墨发展关键性一年”，也是繁荣、衰落、转折、调整、重生的一年，在这样的大背景之下，我们有必要全面、系统、务实的对其做一个阶段性的梳理； >> Read more

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Greater China Research Grant offers the grantee a one-year fellowship to conduct research on contemporary art from China, >> Read more

Much as the Beijing winter has been very mild this year, overall, the art of the past year has also felt rather milder and more sentimental from previous years. Let us then explore the production and exhibition of this “old” contemporary art in the contemporary Chinese art world. >> Read more

A personal account of the changes and conflicts that took place within the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts following Deng Xiaoping's reforms of 1978. >> Read more