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Interview with Chinese sculptor Jiao XIngtao. China Design Now exhibition at the V&A London. Mao Badges at the British Museum. Artist, Forger, Collector, Zhang Daqian’s work on show at the MFA, Boston. Chinese Whispers traces the history of Chinoiserie from 1650 60 1930 at Brighton Museum, UK. National treasures from Yakushi-ji Temple, Nara, Japan at Tokyo National Museum. New York March Asia Week auction reviews. Auction previews Singapore. Brussels Oriental Art Fair preview. Gallery Shows: Xu Bing, London; Gao Xingjian, Hong Kong, Xue Song; New York. Museum reviews: Aurel Stein, Hong Kong; Chen Shaoxiong & Qiu Anxiong, Manchester; Yellow Moutain, Washington; Chinese woodblcok prints, Chicago.
THE ENIGMATIC 20th-century Chinese painter, Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) could paint at will and in complete mastery all the great Chinese stylistic genres. His prodigious talent was matched by an unrelenting passion and enormous self-discipline. Although Zhang studied Chinese painting by… Continue reading