China Opens the Stage Curtains

A Western-style theater scene is booming in China as part of a national drive to bring modern theater to smaller cities.

Opinion: Dangerous Arts

Salman Rushdie argues that governments of the free world must make sure artists, like Ai Weiwei, who courageously stand up against authoritarianism are safe.

Puppet Masters Try to Bring Art Out of the Shadows

Feeling spurned, the owners and curators of a Beijing shadow puppet museum want to take their collection to the United States.

Putting the Chinese in ‘Made in China’

The graphic artist Liu Zhizhi is in the forefront of a new generation of designers who are trying to define a visual language for contemporary China.

China Police Confine Prominent Artist

The artist Ai Weiwei was placed under house arrest on Friday in Beijing.

Pierced Fans, Stiff Cadres and Hip Rock

A shift in official sentiment has led to an explosion of music festivals across China.

Hollywood Hopes To Cash In On Chinese Remakes

"Musical Youth" doesn't have quite the same ring as "High School Musical." But that was the title of the Chinese version of the hit U.S. film, and it signaled a new stage in Hollywood's attempts to get in on the fastest-growing film market in the world.

Beijing Opera, a Historical Treasure in Fragile Condition

Fans of the Beijing Opera Academy of China fear that it could fall victim to modernization as the economy surges, but the government is helping support the art form.

Reviving ‘The Peony Pavilion’ With Modern Shading

A Chinese opera troupe’s condensed version of “The Peony Pavilion,” staged in a Shanghai garden, tries to breathe new life into a traditional art form in danger of disappearing.

For 13th Time, Critic of China’s Government Is Barred From Leaving Country

Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, was detained as he prepared to fly to a literary festival in Germany, activists said.

Chinese Team Searches Museums for Art Treasures

A delegation scoured the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week for objects looted in 1860 from a palace in Beijing.

China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced

Ai Weiwei is perhaps China’s most famous living artist and its most vociferous domestic critic, titles of a sort the committed iconoclast disdains.

Chinese Art Prices Show Signs of Stabilizing

After its initial collapse, as the economic crisis struck, saleroom demand for Chinese contemporary paintings is starting, selectively, to recover.

Tiananmen Square Scars Soldier Turned Artist

Chen Guang, an artist and a former soldier who helped clear Tiananmen Square in 1989, has defied officials to describe his experiences there.

Showing the Glimmer of Humanity Amid the Atrocities of War

Lu Chuan has received death threats following the release of his new film about the occupation of Nanjing that offers a sympathetic treatment of a Japanese soldier.

Band Says Beijing Canceled Concert Over Tibet

The rock band Oasis said that China canceled the band’s upcoming concerts in China because a band member appeared at a Free Tibet concert in 1997.

Twist in Sale of Relics Has China Winking

The bidder for two prized Chinese sculptures surfaced, saying it was his patriotic duty to refuse to pay the $40 million winning bid.

China Fails to Halt the Sale of Looted Relics at a Paris Auction

Anonymous bidders bought two bronze animal heads from the 18th century that had been in the collection of the French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.