London’s Chinese Visual Festival
London’s annual Chinese Visual Festival has announced its fifth cycle, running from 7 to 22 May 2015, highlighting new strides in Chinese art including cinema and experimental video from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan as well as Singapore. Festival events will take place at King’s College London, British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank, Bertha DocHouse and Chelsea College of Arts. This year’s highlights include events featuring...
Qianlong flask set to return home after record sale
A rare Chinese vase is set to return to China after it was sold to a Hong Kong buyer for GBP 1,482,500. The so-called dragon moon flask, said to have been made for the Qianlong emperor and hidden for a century, was sold at Bonhams auction house in London 7 November 2013 for GBP 1,482,500, one of the highest prices achieved for any object in this year’s Asian Art Week auction sales. It was bought by a Hong Kong buyer and so it is...