| General |
| Art of China Homepage |
Images of art, crafts, & scenery;
audio clips of music; food recipes; the Chinese zodiac |
| The Art
of the Horse in Chinese History |
"the first exhibition ever to explore
the role of the horse in ... Chinese history & culture," hosted
by the International Museum of the Horse |
| Art Scene
China |
A commercial contemporary Chinese art gallery |
| Arts
of Asia: China |
From the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection:
artistic production throughout China's past; curator's discussion
of some collection highlights; browseable & searchable database;
suggested readings; maps; study guide |
| Beijing
Wenbo Information Net: Relics & Museums |
Beijing Administrative Bureau of Cultural Relics'
guide to museums, historic sites, exhibitions, auctions, & treasures
of Beijing |
 Century
Online: Chinese Art Networks |
(in Chinese & English) "a large-scale
professional art network in China, integrating media information,
artistic display, artistic education, artistic forum, e-commerce
and other on-line services ... the history and current status of
the Chinese arts throughout the whole world" |
| China: 5,000
Years: the Modern Section |
Electronic exhibition: "Innovations in Chinese
Painting (1850-1950)"; "The Modernist Generations (1920-1950)"; "Art
for New China (1950-1980)"; Transformations of Tradition (1980-The
Present)" |
| China
Avant-Garde: Chinese Contemporary Art |
A commercial site with online galleries |
| ChinaArtsWeb.com |
(in Chinese) A comprehensive site providing
news of the Chinese art world & promoting the awareness of artists
in the fine & performing arts & appreciation & sales
of their works |
| Chinese
Art and Architecture: An Annotated List of Recent Works in Western
Languages |
From Smithsonian Institution, categorized list
with introduction |
| Chinese Art
News Net |
(in Chinese) Chinese art news; artists; columns;
art institutions; sources & studies; publications; the art market |
 Defining
Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China |
A Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition: "sculptures,
lacquers, metalwork, ceramics, textiles, and ivories created in the
imperial workshops during the reign of the Yongle emperor (r. 1403-1424)" |
| Dunhuang
Art through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie |
"English translation of selected writings
of Prof. Duan Wenjie, Director of the Dunhuang Academy who has given
a chronological study of the contents inside the Mogao caves" |
| Eternal
China: Splendors from the First Dynasties |
Exhibition of sculptural objects from the Qin & Han
dynasties |
| From
Heaven & Earth: Chinese Jade in Context |
From the Huntington Archive, an online exhibition
featuring 177 images with explanatory text, & essays on the craft
of jade making & on the culture & society of China from ancient
times through the 10th century |
| Inside
Out -- New Chinese Art |
A Time Asia Photo Essay (10/24/2000) |
| The
Long March Project |
"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" |
| Monks
and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu
and Ningxia, 4th-7th Century |
Asia Society exhibition: heavenly horses; nomad
rulers; Buddhism & China; Buddhist cave temples; Bodhisattvas;
monks; merchants & currencies; the Tang Dynasty; the Silk Road |
| New
Chinese Art - Inside Out |
Asia Society's online exhibition presenting "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," with chronologies, artist biographies & bibliography |
| ShanghaiART |
"The first gallery for contemporary art in Shanghai," with
capsule biographies of artists & images of their work |
| Sinophilia: Art |
A history of Chinese art; various topics |
| Taoism & the
Arts of China |
An NEH-funded exhibition at the Art Institute
of Chicago |
| Treasures
from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan |
Exhibition of artifacts from burial pits dated
around 1200 B.C. at Sanxingdui, & from Sichuan sites of the Western
Zhou & Eastern Han dynasties |
| Yishu
- Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art |
Tables of content with some articles available
online |
| Yuanmingyuan
Artists' Village |
(in Chinese) History of the artists' colony
at Fuyuanming, Beijing before they were driven away by police in
1995; independent artists & exhibitions |
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