Editorial Archive
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On June 20, 2026, Dataland opened in downtown Los Angeles, inside the Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA, directly across from Walt Disney Concert Hall, in the thick of the city's cultural corridor.
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Wei Jia, born in the 1970s, occupies a singular place among his generation of Chinese artists. Trained in lithography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he returned to his hometown of Chengdu after graduating in 1999 and has taught in the printmaking department at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute ever since.
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The artist Xie Molin was born in Wenzhou in 1979. Unlike most painters, he does not paint with his own hands. He built a machine and treats it as his hand instead — moving it along the X, Y and Z axes, fitted with different serrated blades, to explore the open-ended possibilities among pigment, space, pattern and visual language.
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Cai Yaling is an artist born in the 1980s and the mother of two children. For eleven years, giving voice to women has been the guiding thread of her work, drawn from her own unfiltered experience as an ordinary woman — a body of work built around the most private, the most painful passages in a woman's life. It comes almost by instinct: she has burned 408 sticks of incense to render the pain of childbirth
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The Jing'an International Sculpture Project is China's first sustained experiment in public art. Since its debut in 2010, it has run for nearly fourteen years, witnessing the country's public art scene grow from nothing, through a halting, difficult start, to the accelerated pace it enjoys today.
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Tao Hui, Sunset in Tehran, 2014. Tao Hui, an artist born in 1987 in rural Chongqing, likes to say that his path into art bears little resemblance to that of colleagues who grew up steeped in the art world from childhood.
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Zao Wou-Ki is the highest-valued Chinese-born artist in the world. In 2018, a single canvas of his sold for HK$510 million, setting a record for Asian oil painting at auction that still stands. He is celebrated as a leading figure of Western lyrical abstraction, yet the substance of his work never stopped being Chinese. His paintings hang in more than 150 major museums worldwide, and no history of modern art can leave his name out. Last year, 2023, marked the tenth anniversary of his death
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In the past year, everyone seemed to sense a changing of the guard in the contemporary art market: artists born in the 1990s now account for a much larger share of secondary-market sales, chased by collectors closer to their own age, and museums and galleries alike have been filling their walls with new names born after 1995. At the start of 2024 I sat down with eight artists who share that birth decade and a foot in both China and the West to talk about their work, their sense of who they are, and where they think they're headed.
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The artist Shen Yuan was born in 1959 into a family of artists and became one of the leading figures among the Chinese avant-garde who settled in France, one of the first generation of Chinese women artists to win an international reputation. In the 1990s, she and her husband, the artist Huang Yong Ping, also an artist, arrived in France, and the barriers of language and the rupture of culture became a wellspring of inspiration for her.
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The British artist Philip Colbert, known to nearly everyone as "Mr. Lobster," is a leading figure of New Pop art, and carries the affectionate nickname "Andy Warhol's godson" within the art world.
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Tobias Rehberger, installation view of "I Am Me – Unless I Pretend to Be Her," Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2022. Born in 1966, Tobias Rehberger is one of the most important German artists working today, yet he is unusually down-to-earth. As he told us in an interview, "I'm an artist who lives in Frank
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The British sculptor Antony Gormley is one of the most influential artists working today. For nearly forty years he has made sculptures of the human body and works for public space, winning prizes that include the Turner, showing in major museums and institutions around the world, and receiving a knighthood from the former Queen of England. Five years after his last visit, he returned to China this past April with Living Time, his exhibition at TAG Art Museum in Qingdao — the most comprehensive and most ambitious presentation of his work Asia has yet seen.
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Anicka Yi is, without much argument, one of the most closely watched artists in the world today. Born in Seoul in 1971, she moved to the United States with her family at the age of two. She first "bombarded" people's sense of what contemporary art could be with pungent smells, deep-fried tempura flowers, and moldering colonies of bacteria in 2011, at Green Gallery in Milwaukee.
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Chang Shana is the daughter of Chang Shuhong, known as the guardian spirit of Dunhuang; she was Lin Huiyin's most devoted student; and she designed New China's first state gift. In the public imagination she has never stopped being the "Dunhuang girl." In 2025, at ninety-four, she still lives among the colleagues of her studio and keeps working on projects tied to Dunhuang culture. Last year she and her team designed pieces for the Spring Festival Gala stage
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With the 2024 Paris Olympics approaching, plenty of travelers are already planning to watch the Games, take a holiday, and see some art in France. Beyond the Louvre, the Pompidou, the Orsay, and the Orangerie — the institutions everyone has already worn out their shoes visiting — where else might you go? We picked seven lesser-known but genuinely striking art destinations worth the detour.
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Wu Shan, Treading on Grass, 2022. The artist Wu Shan was born in Hangzhou in 1960, the son of a painter and a music teacher; for him, art has always felt like something close to a calling. He took up calligraphy as a child, then painting, and it seemed only natural that he would go on to graduate from the oil painting department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, now the China Academy of Art.
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For two decades, Zhou Dawei has been one of the most consequential figures in Chinese contemporary art — a co-founder of the ART021 fair and the nonprofit Cc Foundation. This November, from a private collection of nearly a thousand works, he chose just over ninety pieces, the ones he felt came closest to defining his own taste, and opened them to the public for the first time.
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If there is one place in Asia that comes fully alive every March, it is Art Basel Hong Kong. Within three hours of the doors opening on March 25th, fairgoers had already spotted Chilam Cheung and Anita Yuen, Lin Chi-ling, Yang Caiyu, Feng Tang, Yuan Hong, Zhang Zetian, Uli Sigg, Zhang Han — the roll call went on. But the real news this year was the fair itself: after more than five years in the making, a new sector called Echoes made its debut, a structural response to where mid-career artists and mid-size galleries now stand in the ecosystem.
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Mention the Yuanmingyuan and most people picture its European-style ruins and the looted zodiac animal heads that scattered into foreign collections over the years. Few know that this royal residence, considered on par with the Forbidden City itself, was in fact 98 percent Chinese in its architecture and gardens — the working home, for five generations of Qing emperors, of governance, family life, and the festivals of the court calendar.