China Art Now
Exhibition Archives : Museums
see also links to museum permanent collections
Between Past and Future Victoria & Albert Museum webpage (Smart Gallery exhibition)
China: 5,000 Years Guggenheim Museum, 1998Chinese Oil Painting Museum (virtual)
inside out: New Chinese Art New York Asia Gallery. "First major exhibition to present the dynamic new art being produced by artists in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by selected artists who emigrated to the West in the late 1980s."
Shanghai Biennale (archived: 2000, 2002, 2004; home page URL for 2006 Biennale at bottom of page)
Taipei Biennial 2006 (archived: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Twentieth-Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition Organized by the Ministry of Culture, PRC, Bureau of Art, China Oil Painting Society and China National Museum of Fine Art
Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution created by China News Digest
Image Archives: Library and Academic Institutions
Asian art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project IDEAS project (search collections)
Beijing 1988 IDEAS Project (search collections)
Beijing in Images Project Directors Wen-hsin Yeh, Christian Henriot
China Art Current Hsing-yuan Tsao, University of British Columbia
China Posters Online University of Westminster
Chinese Torture/Supplis Chinois: Iconographic, Historic, and Literary Approaches of an Exotic Representation Jérôme Bourgon, Institut d'Asie Orientale, ISH Lyon
Cities/Buildings Image Archive University of Washington, Meredith L. Clausen's archive of architectural images from all over the world, including Burma, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet.
Cultural Revolution Anti-Confucius Poster translated by Ken Brashier, Reed College
Cultural Revolution Photographs Curated by Thomas Hahn, Cornell University
Cultural Revolution images: "'Serve the People': Daily Life in China During the Cultural Revolution (1972). Professor William A. Joseph,Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
Gamble Photo Collection, Duke University. Approximately 5,000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932.
Historical Photographs of China Collaborative project of scholars at the University of Bristol, University of London, and the Institut d'Asie Orientale
Holmes Welch Collection of Military/Wartime Photographs University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Literature in Line: Lianhuanhua Picture Stories from China curated by Kuiyi Shen and Julia Andrews
Maps of Shanghai Christian Henriot, editor
Rent Collection Courtyard Reed Media Center (digital reproduction of a China Reconstructs 1967 supplement)
"To read too many books is harmful" (Mao Zedong). Books in Chinese Propaganda Posters: Objects of Veneration, Subjects of Destruction. Curated by Stefan Landsberger and Hanno E Lecher, Institute of Chinese Studies, Leiden University
Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time Christian Henriot, editor
Women's Magazines from the Republican Period University of Heidelberg
Image Databases: Nonprofit Organizations and Other Fun Sites
88 MOCCA Museum of Contemporary Chinese Art on the Web in addition to images, an excellent source on special exhibitions, events, news, and resources
1989 Tiananmen Protests Long Bow Group
Century Online: Chinese Art Networks A largescale professional contemporary art network
China Art Blog in Chinese
Chinese Pop Posters Olivier Laude, Atlas Magazine, Winter 1996
Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages WWW compiled by Stefan Landsberger
Chinese Taipei Film Archive (CFTA) Taiwan
The Da Zha Lan Project Beijing
Freewaves Film, Media, and Video Art Festivals (features work of Cui Xiuwen, Chuang Wen-yo, Jiang Zhi, Liu Wei, Pan Hsin-Ping, Qiu Zhijie, Wang Jianwei, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhou Xiaohu, and others)
Graphic Art from Communist China
The Long March "project [aiming] to take both contemporary Chinese & international art to ... those people who live in communities along the route of Mao Zedong's historic Long March"
Hutong to Highrise Write up Your Alley. Site documents the changes occurring in Beijing by using the photovoice research technique.
Miao Miao Miao "Wonderfully Absurd Temple Chinese Avant-Garde Web Art"
Morning Sun A film and website about the Cultural Revolution, Longbow Group
Pop! The First Male Pregnancy Lee Mingwei
Zi-art.com (in Chinese) public performance art site
Zuni Icosahedron (in Chinese & English) "an independent cultural collective... developing new frontiers for the cultural scene in Hong Kong and abroad"
Contemporary Art Galleries in China
10 Chancery Lane Gallery Hong Kong
798 Factory/Dashanzi Art District Beijing
798 Space Beijing
Alisan Fine Arts Hong Kong
Amelia Johnson Gallery Hong Kong
Arario Gallery Beijing
Art Beatus Hong Kong, Vancouver BC
Art Seasons Singapore, Beijing, Jakarta
Art Scene China Shanghai
Art Scene Warehouse Shanghai
Aura Gallery Beijing
Beijing Art Galleries links to 52 galleries in Beijing on AsiaXPAT site
Beijing Commune Beijing
Chester Chu Gallery Hong Kong
China Art Archives and Warehouse Beijing
China Avant-Garde Online commercial gallery based in Beijing and New York
China Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing
Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery Beijing, London, New York
Contrasts Gallery Shanghai
Courtyard Gallery Beijing
Ethan Cohen Gallery Hong Kong
Galleria Continua Beijing
Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne, Beijing
Grotto Fine Art Hong Kong
Guangzhou Art Galleries links to 13 galleries in Guangzhou on AsiaXPAT site
Hanart TZ Gallery Hong Kong
Hosane Auction House Shanghai
Imagine Gallery Beijing
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery Hong Kong
L.A. Gallery Beijing
Marella Gallery Beijing
New Chinese Art chinese contemporary art
Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong
pékin fine arts BeijingPickled Art Center Beijing
Platform China Beijing
Plum Blossoms Hong Kong
Red Gate Gallery Beijing
Schoeni Art Gallery Hong Kong
Shanghai Art Galleries links to 71 galleries in Shanghai on AsiaXPAT site
ShanghArt Shanghai
Shine Art Space Shanghai
SLY Art Taipei
Taipei Artist Village
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), BeijingWan Fung Art Gallery Beijing
White Space at 798 Beijing
Videotage, Hong Kong
Zee Stone Gallery Hong Kong
Artist home pages
Wei Dong (Goedhuis gallery page, Chinese Contemporary)
Blogs about Contemporary Chinese Art and Culture
The China Beat: How Blogging the East is Read
Studio BBQ: A Personal Blog on Arts and Beyond Leung Chi Wo, Hong Kong
Studio bibliotheque Michael Lee Hong-hwee, Hong Kong
Lee Kit Lee Kit, Hong Kong
Samantha Culp Samantha Culp, Hong Kong
Ou Ning's Blog Ou Ning, Beijing
Shanghai Art Chase A classroom blog, on contemporary art and new media in relation to China, with focus on Shanghai. Managed by NYU in Shanghai Contemporary Art & New Media Class Students. Instructor: Defne Ayas
Widener in Chongqing M. Colette Plum, Professor
Bibliography and Online Journals
Asia Reference a resource of the Asia Society
Asian Arts E-journal An online journal for the study and exhibition of Asian art. In addition to full text articles and images of numerous works, this site gives information on associations, galleries and exhibitions relevant to Asian art.
Bibliography of Chinese Architecture Tang Center, Princeton
Bibliography of Chinese Cinema Tang Center, Princeton
Bibliography of Contemporary Chinese Art compiled by Britta Erickson
Bibliography of Japanese History to 1912 compiled by Peter Kornicki
Bibliography of Photo Albums and Materials Related to Photography in China and Tibet Before 1949 compiled by Thomas Hahn, Cornell University
chinese-art.com archive of articles, images from past issues
Chinese Art and Architecture An annotated bibliography of recent Western-language publications created at the Freer-Sackler Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Chinese Folk Art Information Service System From Southeast University (Nanjing), a comprehensive introduction to the genres of & research on Chinese folk arts; index of the Journal of Chinese Folk Arts & Crafts
Chinese Torture/Supplis Chinois: Iconographic, Historic, and Literary Approaches of an Exotic Representation Jérôme Bourgon, Institut d'Asie Orientale, ISH Lyon
CulturE-ASEF Information System for the Asia-Europe Cultural Exhcange [sic]
E-Journal On Hong Kong Cultural and Social Studies
East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources Robert Y. Eng, University of Redlands
Grove Dictionary of Art Contemporary Asian Art
Hong Kong Cultural Information Net (in Chinese & English) Performing venues; cultural programs; museums; libraries; arts groups/practitioners; online booking; cultural information; highlights of cultural cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong & Macau
Modern and Contemporary Asian Art (PDF format) bibliography compiled by John Clark
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center contains, among other things, an image archive of 20th-century Chinese culture and bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern Chinese literature, film, art, and culture
Researching Histories of Art in the Tokyo Area compiled by Lisa Claypool, 1998-99
Sinoflicker Commercial resource on Chinese cinema