Contemporary and Italian art sales in London last week largely underlined the sense that stability was gradually returning to a market that saw values soar in 2007 and 2008 before tumbling dramatically in 2009.
Monet managed in the photograph what he exalted in paint: the effervescent pleasure of seeing and the inevitable disappearance of that pleasure.Reality, with its mess and noise, fails to live up to what Monet painted.
A major exhibition in London brings together works by Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, best known as Canaletto, and some of his biggest rivals who fought for artistic and commercial supremacy.
Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has filled the cavernous Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern gallery with over 100 million handmade porcelain sunflower seeds which visitors are invited to walk over.
The modern kitchen began to take shape sometime around 1900.
Li Yansheng changes strokes to paint miners' grim reality, Zhang Kun reports.
Artists from some 90 countries and regions mull the future of mankind at the 4th Beijing International Art Biennale. Zhu Linyong reports
A newly re-opened art gallery in Sydney focusing on contemporary Chinese art and a bilingual introduction to Australia's prominent fine art institutions and works will help deepen ties in the art scenes of China and Australia.
The World of Kublai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, running until Jan 2, is wowing visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA), New York.
Laurie Anderson sees a new online trend in the art world that has galleries and museums in a tailspin: the power of the Web to distribute art.
A three-day fair at an upscale hotel is showcasing the work of contemporary Peruvian artists to a growing legion of middle class art collectors and enthusiasts with money to spend.
Peter Lindbergh is one of the world's best known fashion photographers yet glamour and fashion are secondary to people and places in the largest exhibition of his work, now open in Berlin.
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