Famous Chinese Artists Are Embracing NFTs. Can Crypto-Natives Catch Up?
In the Chinese NFT world, reputation and connections prove just as important as in the offline traditional art scene
In the Chinese NFT world, reputation and connections prove just as important as in the offline traditional art scene
Regulations and low quality in the Chinese digital scene has led the brightest of the nation’s crypto-artists to pin their hopes on international mar…
With millions of followers, Zhao Xiaoli is China’s most popular artist on Douyin—so why do art critics not rate her work?
An online art exhibition calls attention to the infamous “chained woman” case in eastern China, despite repeated censorship
Beyond a glitzy career in fashion photography, Li Xiaoliang points his lens at gritty Chinese realities and faded Western illusions
Pretending to be a socialite to get by on a zero-yuan budget in China’s capital
Artist Liang Shaoji talks to TWOC about using the symbolism of silk to lay bare Earth’s evolution
One migrant worker’s journey from reproducing Van Goghs in an “art factory” to painting on the streets of Amsterdam
Painter Pan Dehai talks with TWOC about the ’85 New Wave movement and the reception of his cute but satiric political works
How will China save its vanishing local operas?
Contemporary art battles to find a place to grow in the face of regulations and rising property prices
Hyundai Motorstudio’s “AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence,” explores how technology changes loneliness, lust, and love