Category Art

Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in Greater China, or by Chinese artists. The painting, calligraphy, architecture, pottery, sculpture, bronzes, jade carving, and other fine or decorative art forms produced in ancient China.

40 Suzhou Craft Outfits Walk a Desert Runway at Dunhuang

An exhibition built around Suzhou craftsmanship opened on September 5 beside the Crescent Moon Spring under the Mingsha Mountain dunes in Dunhuang, Gansu, and runs through September 7. The 2026 “Hundred Artisans: Bound for Dunhuang” program, guided by the publicity…

Pankou: Shanghai Show Revives the Frog-Button Craft

Shanghai’s Zhangyuan Art Museum (张渊艺术馆) in Minhang District set out to answer one question with its current exhibition: what happens to a craft once it leaves the seam of a garment? The result, “Kou Jian: Worlds Between Fingertips — a…

Yanjing Bada Museum Welcomes Jing Embroidery’s Spirit Show

On August 22, “The Spirit of Jing Embroidery” (京绣里的精气神), a teacher-student exhibition of Li-family Jing embroidery by fifth-generation inheritor Liu Xiaoyan (刘晓燕), opened at the Yanjing Bada Museum (北京燕京八绝博物馆) in Beijing’s Shijingshan District (石景山区). The show presents close to a…

Gu Embroidery’s 20th Anniversary Show Lands in Songjiang

When an international invitational exhibition makes its first stop in Songjiang (松江), it arrives with a local reason for being there: this year marks twenty years since Gu embroidery (顾绣), the district’s signature needle art, was listed in the first…

27 First-Class Relics in Huizhou’s Zhenguan Tang Exhibition

Moving 95 relics across roughly 3,000 kilometers, through four provinces and five museums, is the part of an exhibition that no visitor ever sees. The public part began on August 13, 2026, when “Zhenguan Tianxia” (贞观天下) — “The Tang World…

Han Dynasty Women’s Fashion Show at Weinan Museum

Two thousand years before “beauty routine” entered any dictionary, Han-dynasty women had already standardized one: a light pink base, rouge pressed onto the cheekbones, eyebrows drawn in one of several named styles. On August 15, 2026, the Weinan Museum in…

Yanjing Bada Exhibition Center Opens at Harbin Museum

On August 8, 2026, the launch ceremony for the Yanjing Bada (Eight Imperial Crafts of Beijing) Harbin Exhibition Center, themed “Jingyun Gongyi, Huiju Longjiang” (京韵宫艺 汇耀龙江), was held at the Harbin Museum. Co-hosted by the Beijing Yanjing Bada Museum and…

Dali Bai Embroidery Gallery Opens in Shuanglang

On August 10, 2026, an intangible heritage gallery of Bai embroidery opened in Shuanglang (双廊), a lakeside town on the shore of Erhai Lake in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, built by Zhao Tian’e (赵天鹅), a municipal-level inheritor of…

Explore the Shunde Lunjiao Xiangyunsha Creative Park

A century-old silkworm breeding station has been reborn as a cultural landmark for the Greater Bay Area. On June 26, the Guangdong Silk Textile · Lunjiao Xiangyunsha Cultural and Creative Park officially reopened at its historic site in Lunjiao, Shunde,…