The painting hanging at the entrance of the Cantor Arts Center’s remarkable new exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” is an oddly compelling ...

I love the late Don Hong-Oai’s photography. His style, the perfect composition, the texture… everything in his work fools the mind into thinking you are looking at a delicate ink illustration. Photo ...

Qiu Zhijje, “30 Letters to Qiu Jiawa” (2009) (Image copyright the artist, and via the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first full-on foray into the world of contemporary ...

For the downright dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, world-famous film director Zhang Yimou utilized the form of a basic painting scroll as the quintessential backdrop for his ...

Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The Song of Wandering Aengus Poem by William Butler Yeats" (1999), ink on paper. Installation view of Summoning Memories: Art ...

“The Journey of Ink: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings from the Musée Cernuschi” will be held at the Bund One Art Museum in Shanghai until Jan. 4. During his lifetime, Henri Cernuschi ...

128 x 31.5 cm (50 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.) framed : 168 x 46 cm (66 x 18 1/8 in.) ...

The Chinese tradition of “ink art” stretches far beyond brush-and-ink painting, to embrace a set of aesthetic principles centered on renewal and reinterpretation of the past. Today, while numerous ...

What do you think of when you think of traditional Chinese ink painting? To start with, ink on paper and silk. Then, century upon century of graceful, languid calligraphy and dreamy landscapes and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Art is coming to life at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. Traditional Japanese and Chinese ink drawings are getting digitally animated and projected onto walls and monitors.