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Gems from Swiss patron's mammoth collection of contemporary Chinese art on show at SongEun

When the young Swiss businessman Uli Sigg first made his trip to China in 1979, a year after Deng Xiaoping's promulgation of the Open Door Policy, he quickly realized that he was only allowed a peek into a very small fragment of Chinese reality.

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What I Buy and Why: New York Collector Larry Warsh on His Early Eye for Basquiat, and the Octogenarian Artist He's Coveting Now

We caught up with New York collector for his views on Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and his new passion: Chinese photography.

Lu-yang , Shaanxi , China , New-york , United-states , Brooklyn , Washington , South-africa , Song-dong , Guangdong , Chinese , American

WikiLeaks Is Showing Classified Government Cables in an Art Exhibition Raising Awareness About Threats to Free Speech

Ai Weiwei, Dread Scott, and Vivienne Westwood are among the big names featured in a new show detailing the impact of Julian Assange's case on free speech.

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Zuzanna Ciolek, Director of UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles, on Underrated Artists and Overrated Luxuries

Zuzanna Ciolek, Director of the UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles, tells Artnet News about the things she values most, art and beyond.

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Art Industry News: LVMH Helped the Musée d'Orsay Buy a $47 Million Impressionist Masterpiece + Other Stories

Plus, designer Paul Smith will curate a blockbuster Picasso exhibition and London's Vagina Museum needs a new home.

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What's Behind China's Recent Internet Crackdown?

Last weekend, Charles Xue Manzi, a Chinese American multi-millionaire investor and opinion leader on one of China’s most popular microblogs, appeared in handcuffs in an interview aired on China Central Television (CCTV). Xue is just the most visible blogger to be snared by a new Chinese Communist Party dragnet that threatens to charge with defamation any netizen whose

Beijing , China , Wenzhou , Zhejiang , Chongqing , United-states , Tiananmen , Chinese , American , Wang-gongchuan , Pan-shiyi , Bo-xilai

'What I'm Always Doing Is Escaping, Escaping, Escaping'

Liu Xia, widow of Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and died while in Chinese custody in 2017, has opened up to the public for the first time since she began a life of exile in Germany nearly a year ago. On May 4, in a dialogue with the well-known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, she spoke candidly of exile, memory, history, and art. The event accompanied the opening

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'I'm Quite Cynical': Why Chinese Artist-Activist Ai Weiwei Thinks the Country's Widespread Protests Won't Last

But artists who have ties with the region, including those from mainland China and Hong Kong who are living in exile, remain hopeful.

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Art Industry News: Are There Really Hidden Rooms in King Tut's Tomb? Scholars Remain Divided + Other Stories

Plus, new fears about the looting of art in Ukraine and workers at the the Columbus Museum of Art vote to unionize.

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