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 ...

"Singing Bird," by Marian Bingham ’91. Ink on paper, c. 1964-1967. The Chinese ink art of contemporary American artist Marian “Bing” Bingham ’91, which showcases her unique journey of studying and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What happens when you combine traditional Chinese ink landscape painting with the playful creativity of Lego toys? That very fusion forms the basis of artist Zhang Xiaoli’s spiritual and artistic ...

One of the Western world’s finest collections of Chinese ink drawings created in the last 20 years is currently on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and the collectors live right down the ...

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, ...

Chinese ink painting, a centuries-old art using ink and brushwork, has influenced and inspired global art. For Chen Hongyi, director of the Minsheng Art Museum and Minsheng Calligraphy Museum, ink ...