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 ...

Professor of Art History Emeritus Wen Fong, one of the world’s most renowned scholars in Chinese art history, left an indelible legacy both within the University and beyond. He died of leukemia on Oct ...

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 ...

When Prof. Wu Hung lived in the Forbidden City as a young scholar in the 1970s, he felt the constant presence of history. The palatial compound was quiet and empty after visiting hours, and Wu could ...

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 ...

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.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is kicking of at an exhibit to celebrate the Lunar New Year on Feb. 10. CATHY WURZER: Well friends, this Saturday marks the first day of the Lunar New Year. According ...