CNN

Chinese propaganda slogans turn London street art wall into a protest site against Beijing

A graffiti wall in London’s bustling street art hub of Brick Lane has become an unlikely canvas for protest messages against China’s authoritarian rule, after it was whitewashed and painted over with ...
The Economist

Chinese art students scrawled Communist graffiti in London’s Brick Lane

IN THE WINTER of 1978, two years after the death of the Communist leader Mao Zedong, Chinese intellectuals began pasting political posters on a wall near Beijing’s Forbidden City. Chinese authorities ...
The New York Times

Uli Sigg Wants to Help Chinese People ‘View Their Own Art.’ Simple, Right?

Over three decades, Sigg, a Swiss businessman and former diplomat, amassed thousands of contemporary Chinese works. Ai Weiwei calls him “my maker.” The Swiss art collector Uli Sigg at his home, near ...
The New York Times

China Institute Gallery Turns a Setback Into an ‘Urgent’ Contemporary Showcase

A last-minute cancellation led the nonprofit to pull together a timely new exhibition of contemporary Chinese works in just a few months. By Shivani Vora This article is part of the Fine Arts & ...