A 16th century watercolor of King Henry VIII's "lost" palace, one of the earliest and most detailed depictions known to exist, is expected to fetch up to 1.2 million pounds ($1.9 million) at auction.
Chinese collectors with deep pockets are increasingly looking at Impressionist and Modern Art.
After two decades as a hit singer on the mainland, Ding Wu, the vocalist of rock band, Tang Dynasty, has decided to return to his roots.
Less than two years after a precipitous fall, the art market is flexing its muscles again, emboldened by recent auction records and an influx of determined international collectors rich with cash.
Many handicrafts are disappearing even though they are part of the country's intangible cultural heritage, but help is at hand. Zhang Zixuan reports.
Exhibits Song Yige paintings Multitudes of contradictions are abound in this selection of paintings by artist Song Yige.
Life is one never-ending rehearsal at this year's Shanghai Biennial, which puts the creative process under the microscope, Zhang Kun reports.
A rare two-stone ring set a new world record price per carat for a blue diamond at auction when it was sold in a jewels sale that exceeded $50 million, Christie's said on Thursday.
More than 120 works, including two huge canvases commissioned for the exhibition, are included in a retrospective of legendary American artist John Baldessari at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The New York hotel that inspired creative talent from Sir Arthur Clarke to Sid Vicious is up for sale.
More than a century after he visited Madrid's Prado museum seeking inspiration, Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir's work is being shown at the prestigious gallery.
The legend of the Titanic lands in London next month with an exhibition featuring 14 new artifacts from the sunken transatlantic liner and video footage from the site of the wreck.