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.
The 8th Chinese Culture and Arts Festival took place on July 25, 2026, at the north plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery downtown, co-hosted by the Federation of Chinese Community Associations in Canada and the Sichuan Association of Canada, according to China News Service. Free and open to the public, the event sounded a note […]
The second phase of the “Baoding and the Forbidden City: Qing Imperial Craft Heritage Series” opened on August 1, 2026 at the Ancient Lotus Pond in Baoding, Hebei Province. Titled “Jinghua Yuxiu” (Imperial Embroidery of the Capital), the weaving-and-embroidery art exhibition runs through August 31 at the Hanyu Xuan hall inside Lianchi Academy. The exhibition […]
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 Bai embroidery. The gallery is free to all visitors. On opening day, Zhao walked visitors […]
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 the Harbin Museum, the ceremony marked the first permanent display window for the eight imperial […]
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 Shaanxi, in partnership with the Han Yangling Museum, opens “Han Yun Liufang” (汉韵流芳) — “Han […]
The T-shaped silk painting that has anchored the summer at China Art Museum in Shanghai is going home, and the museum has turned its final two evenings into a Hanfu night. On August 15 and 16, the “Qianjin Zhijia” (千金之家, “A Home of a Thousand Gold”) exhibition on the lifestyle aesthetics of the Mawangdui Han […]
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 Under Emperor Li Shimin” — opened in the first-floor temporary gallery of the Huizhou Museum […]
The hard part of “Duobaolianping” (多宝联屏) was never the carving or the weaving — it was the seam, the place where a three-dimensional cloisonné wall vase has to sit on a flat Yunjin brocade surface without either side crushing the other. On August 13, 2026, the work’s global launch at the Beijing Arts and Crafts […]
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 national batch of intangible cultural heritage. The occasion is the subject of a dedicated gallery […]
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 hundred recent works of Jing embroidery (京绣) and runs through October 22. The Palace Embroidery […]
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