04/03/2002. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.- Asian art scholar Laurance P. Roberts, 95, died, reported The New York Times. Roberts has been director of the Brooklyn Museum and the American Acade...

04/17/2002. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.- Chinese art historian Wilma Cannon Fairbank, 92, died. She studied fine arts at Radcliffe College. Before traveling to Beijing in 1932 she was an apprentice to t...

05/01/2002. BEIJING, CHINA.- Noted Chinese art scholar, Hans van Dijk, died in Beijing. He was 56 years old. He died of complications related to excessive bleeding in the stomach. Mr. van Dijk studied design in his native Holland and came to China in 198...

07/30/2008. NEW YORK.- The Studio Museum in Harlem is proud to present The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar, our first-ever solo exhibition of the work of Kehinde Wiley, a former artist in residence (2001–02). The exhibition features ten new painti...

12/09/2008. WASHINGTON, DC.- The winner of the eighth biennial competition of the Shimada Prize for an outstanding publication on the history of East Asian art will be presented to Patricia Berger, Thursday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m., at the Freer's Meyer Auditoriu...

01/28/2010. TORONTO.- The launch of the 2010-2012 Canadian national tour of The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army was announced this morning at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). At the event, a...

06/27/2010. TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) hosts the Canadian premiere of The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army from June 26, 2010. Prior to its embarking on a Canadian national tou...

12/14/2013. The Ashmolean Museum has acquired one of the greatest private collections of modern and contemporary Chinese art in the world and the single greatest private collection of this type in the west. ...

02/13/2015. Christie's announces the landmark five-day auction series devoted to the collection of the celebrated American scholar, dealer and collector Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, running March 17 to 21 at C...

05/15/2015. Lark Mason has been designated the new Chairman of Asia Week New York—the collaboration of over 40 top-tier international Asian art specialists, five major auction houses, and numerous museums and Asian cultural institutions. “I am hon...

07/11/2016. To the Catholic Church, French missionary Auguste Chapdelaine is a saint, martyred for his faith 160 years ago in China. To Communist Party officials, he is a devilish rapist, bandit and spy. The finishing touches are being put to a new museum in ...

02/24/2017. Zurich Asia will hold its Hong Kong auction on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 March 2017 at Harbour Plaza North Point Hotel, offering 2,800 lots of philatelic treasures, banknotes and coins. There wi...

05/28/2019. As the Korean War raged eight of Pyongyang's young heroes -- all members of the North's new elite, destined for a life of privilege and power -- left for Moscow to study at a prestigious film school. They never returned. Scattered to the corners o...

09/28/2019. The eastern city of Nanjing contains vestiges of China's past that represent an inconvenient truth for the government today: the Chinese world has not always revolved around the Communists and Beijing. China is preparing for grand celebrations nex...

05/05/2024. Robert B. Oxnam, an eminent China scholar who learned through psychotherapy that his years of erratic behavior could be explained by the torment of having multiple personalities, died April 18 at his home in Greenport, New York, on the North Fork of ...