The German art shipper who was jailed for 100 days by Chinese authorities on suspicion of art smuggling has left China, although the legal proceedings against him are still ongoing. Nils Jennrich, the Beijing-based general manager of Integrated Fine... As the Art Basel Hong Kong fair opens its doors to invited guests, there is no doubt that, culturally speaking, the Hong Kong we see today is very different from the place that fair impresario Tim Etchells visited, for the first time, in 2006.... Christie?s broke the record for the highest amount raised in one auction last week when its contemporary and Modern sale in New York raised $495m. Big-ticket items included Roy Lichtenstein?s Woman with Flowered Hat, 1963, (detail, below) bought for... Thirteen collectors and artists from Hong Kong have donated 280 works in a variety of media to M+, Hong Kong?s planned museum of visual culture. The collector Alan Lau has donated a performance piece, Guards Kissing, 2002, by Tino Sehgal.... Although China is one of the leading art markets in the world, collecting there is still largely domestic. In one of the most in-depth reports conducted recently, the European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf) Art Market Report 2013, the economist Clare... The project to transform the former Central Police Station into a cultural hub for Hong Kong by 2015 has a new vision for its contemporary art programme. A call has gone out for candidates to organise the programme. Charles Saumarez Smith, the... One of the art world’s most distinguished and colourful characters has been caught on canvas. The Spanish artist Daniel Quintero has painted Sir Norman Rosenthal, the art historian and curator who made his mark as Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal... Thomas Fuesser, a Shanghai-based, German-born photographer, provides an intimate perspective of how making art unfolds in China, a process that is usually inaccessible, in Short Cuts: Artists in China. All photos © Thomas Fuesser... The director of Hanart TZ Gallery, Johnson Chang (Chang Tsong-Zung), provides an insider?s guide to the city and its art scene 1. My favourite place to relax in Hong Kong is? There is no worse enemy for relaxing than a hot and... The Beijing-based artist Cao Fei first emerged on the stage of Chinese contemporary art in around 2000 with a visual vocabulary based on international youth culture filtering into the rapidly growing cities of the Pearl River Delta. Her approach was...