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General Art-Related Sources On-line

  • Absolutely Arts: World Wide Arts Resources [The largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios, online since 1995]
  • Artintern.net [Comprehensive listing site for all kinds of exhibition news, reviews, etc.]
  • ArtAsiaPacific [Established in 1993, ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. ]
  • Art Scene China [Art Scene China is one of the premier Chinese art galleries in China, with two venues in Shanghai and one space in Beijing. The Gallery specializes in Chinese contemporary art by both emerging and well-established Chinese artists.]
  • Asian Art [the on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts in Asian]
  • Asia Art Archive [To collect, preserve and make information on contemporary Asian art easily accessible in order to facilitate understanding, research and writing in the field. Acknowledging its position as more than a static collection of material waiting to be discovered, AAA endeavours to be pro-active in instigating dialogue and critical thinking through the regular initiation of educational and public programs, and in introducing as wide an audience as possible to this rich resource.]
  • Asian Art News
  • Atron.net [Comprehensive listing site for all kinds of exhibition news, reviews, and auctions.]
  • BizArt [BizArt is a company based in Shanghai that specializes in organising and promoting art events. BizArt also conceives and organises its own art events to bring Chinese and western contemporary art together and present these cultural events to a wider audience within and outside China. Contains galleries of the work of some 50 artists]
  • Century Art History Study (Shiji yishu shi yanjiu)
  • Century Online: Chinese Art Networks [features a large-scale professional art network in China, integrating media information, artistic display, artistic education, artistic forum, e-commerce and other on-line services. By means of an abundance of pictures, it presents the history and current status of the Chinese arts throughout the whole world in both English and Chinese. The international Internet channel has provided a worldwide information exchange platform for the Chinese arts.]
  • China, 5000 Years (Modern Section) (Guggenheim Exhibition, NY, 1998)
  • China Art Archives and Warehouse (Beijing)
  • China Art Current: A Virtual Museum [The Virtual Museum for Contemporary Art from China is an archive that documents important artists, art activities, and art works from contemporary China. University of British Columbia]
  • China Avant-garde
  • China Window – Art Gallery
  • Chinese and Japanese Art History Virtual Library (ed. Nixi Cura)
  • Chinese Art News (Taiwan)
  • The Chinese Arts Network (UK)
  • Chinese Folk Art (commercial site)
  • Chinese Type Bookshop (books on China’s contemporary art and culture; sells books at discount prices)
  • Connect-arte (image archive of contemporary Chinese artists)
  • Contemporary Art: Chinese Type (journal of contemporary Chinese art; perhaps the best Chinese art website)
  • eChinaArt.com (has a good online gallery, as well as links to many sites)
  • hiart magazine (in Chinese) [The most popular among dozens of contemporary Chinese art magazines in publication. Thick with ads and lighthearted in tone.]
  • Inside Out: New Chinese Art (Asia Society exhibition, NY, 1998)
  • Leap: The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China (LEAP is the bilingual art magazine of contemporary China. Published six times a year in Chinese and English, it presents a winning mix of contemporary art coverage and cultural commentary from the cutting edge of the Chinese art scene. . . Edited in Beijing, printed in Guangzhou, and governmentally supported by the Anhui Federation of Literary and Arts Circles, LEAP is published by the Modern Media Group, China’s leading producer of lifestyle and fashion magazines with titles including Modern Weekly, The Outlook Magazine, and Life.)
  • The Long March–A Walking Visual Display (This project is organized by the Long March Foundation, New York, with the cooperation of local cultural institutions along the route of China’s historical Long March. Its aim is to take both contemporary Chinese and international art to a sector of the Chinese public that is rarely, perhaps never, exposed to such work. In this respect, this is the first such project in China’s history).
  • Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990. Asia Arts Archive, Hong Kong.
  • Miao Miao Miao (Wonderfully Absurd Temple–avantgarde art)
  • Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi
  • National Tsing-Hua University Arts Center (Hsinchu, Taiwan) [Established as one of the first university arts center among Taiwan’s higher education institutions, NTHU’s Arts Center has played an important role in promoting the art works of promising young Taiwan artists. The center’s web page has included more than 90 art exhibitions information and other data on Taiwan’s public art and perfoming arts]
  • New Chinese Art.com [center for contemporary Chinese art]
  • New Cyber-Chinatown [Tokyo e-journal on contemporary art, with samples and profiles of artists]
  • One Moon (Yi yue; Beijing)
  • The Orientation.com [Online gallery of Chinese art]
  • Para/Site Art Space [Hong Kong art scene]
  • The Periphery [This blog aims to serve as a venue for discussing contemporary art events that take place outside of the major art centers of China. Even though contemporary Chinese art is more aesthetically and theoretically diverse than ever before, the boundaries of “contemporary Chinese art” remain limited to a few centers of production and exhibition, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore. Artists working outside of these centers and those who do not participate in a Western-recognized system of galleries, museums and other exhibition spaces have been left out of the discussion. This blog presents a more inclusive definition of contemporary art, and sheds light on aspects of the Chinese art world that are typically opaque to outside observers.]
  • RedBox Review [consolidates the world of contemporary Chinese art as we see it from Beijing. Our blog features book reviews, critical conversations, event and exhibition listings, and relevant news about Chinese art and design that we see, hear and read about on the ground.]
  • Red Mansion Foundation [a not-for-profit organisation that promotes artistic exchange between China and Great Britain through exhibitions, publications, the Building Bridges exchange programme and the Red Mansion Art Prize.]
  • Sinopop [news from Beijing’s art world, reviews, pop culture, and anything that contributes to a broader and better understanding of visual culture and art from Mainland China. Sinopop is maintained by Lee Ambrozy.]
  • Taiwan Art and Culture (Yen Chuan-ying)
  • Twentieth Century Chinese Art Bibliography (Britta Erikson, Stanford University)
  • Twentiteth-Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition (Bureau of Art of the Ministry of Culture, PRC: Chinese Oil Painting Society; National Museum of Fine Art)
  • Universes in Universe, In Art Data: China (general site with information of exhibitions, etc)
  • Xu Beihong Retrospective (Macau, June/July 2000)
  • Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
  • Yishu Zhongguo [ArtChina]
  • Yishu Zhongguo wang (Art China net) [general arts site]
  • Zhongguo banhua guan (China prints gallery). [“Chinese Prints Gallery is established by Taiwan Hoke International Art Collection. It lies beside the beautiful West Lake of Hangzhou. We meet a group of friends interested in woodblock printings, trying to popularize Chinese prints.”]

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Galleries and Art Museums

  • 798 Art Space [Beijing avant-garde art space]
  • Art Beatus (Vancouver gallery specializing in contemporary Chinese art)
  • Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
  • Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery (London, England; gallery devoted to contemporary mainland artists)
  • Chinese Oil Painting (Virtual) Museum [has biographies of artists, as well as paintings displayed]
  • Courtyard Gallery (Beijing) [artists include: Aniwar / Cai Jin / Chen Wenbo / Chen Wenji / Chen Xuhai / Feng Jiali / Gao Bo / Guo Wei / He Jinwei / Hong Hao / Jiang Hai / Li Jin / Liu Jianhua / Liu Liguo / Liu Xiaodong / Liu Ye / Lois Conner / Qiu Zhijie / Wang Jianwei / Xia Xing / Xu Hongmin / Yang Mian / Yu Gao / Zhang Dali / Zhang Lei / Zhan Wang / Zhao Gang / Zhuang Hui]
  • Contemporary Chinese Art Gallery (Japan)
  • Ethan Cohen Gallery (HK gallery devoted to contemporary Chinese art)
  • Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangdong meishu guan)
  • Guangzhou Museum of Art (Guangzhou yishu bowuguan)
  • Hanart TZ Gallery (Han ya hsuan) (HK gallery specialising in contemporary Chinese art; run by T. Z. Chang)
  • Minsheng Art Musuem (Shanghai)
  • Nanjing Drug Art Museum (Nanjing yao yishu guan)
  • National Museum of Fine Arts (Zhongguo meishu guan; Beijing)
  • One-Space [founded in 1998, is an independent, non-profit making contemporary visual art organization and art venue founded by a collective of Hong Kong artworkers. It aims to promote the critical dissemination of contemporary visual arts practices and affiliated artforms through 1a space programme drawn from Hong Kong and international arena]
  • Para-Site Art Space [non-profit art organization in the centre of Hong Kong. We produce, exhibit and communicate local and international contemporary art. Our main activities include presenting an ambitious year programme comprising 10 exhibitions, publications of catalogues and PS magazine, Hong Kong’s only bilingual visual arts publication. To compliment our year programme, seminars, talks and workshops are regularly organised. We also manage another exhibition space – Para/Site Central, the smallest exhibition venue in Hong Kong, which is generously hosted by Hanart TZ Gallery in Central.]
  • Red Gate Gallery (Beijing gallery specialising in contemporary Chinese art; excellent site)
  • Saatchi Gallery–New Art from China [London based gallery]
  • Schoeni Gallery (Hong Kong)
  • ShanghART (Contemporary Chinese art gallery in Shanghai run by the Swiss Lorenz Helbling)
  • Shanghai Museum (Shanghai bowuguan)
  • Shangyuan Art Museum (Shangyuan yishu guan) [cooperative gallery that shows the work of young artists; Shangyuan is an artists’ colony southwest of Beijing]
  • Universalstudios-Beijing
  • Videotage [Videotage (literally merging the two concepts of “Video” and “Montage”) is a non-profit interdisciplinary artist collective, which focuses on the development of video and new media art in Hong Kong. Founded in 1985, Videotage began as a facilitator for collaborative time-based projects. In a small shared office with two chairs and table, Videotage’s support to artists came in the form of labour and equipment for production and post-production, and the exchange of ideas. Videotage has since expanded to include publications, education, exhibitions and screenings.]
  • Wan Fung Art Gallery (specializing in contemporary Chinese art)

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Individual Artists’ Websites